Commentary on Luke 2:1-20
Luke’s infancy narrative sets the humble birth of Jesus against the backdrop of a mighty [...]
Narrative Lectionary
Commentary on Malachi 3:1-7; 4:1-2, 5
The opening affirmation of the book of Malachi should be [...]
Commentary on Daniel 3:1-30
No Other God — that assertion is at the core of this chapter as it [...]
Commentary on Jeremiah 18:1-11
The call of Jeremiah used six verbs to characterize his [...]
Commentary on 2 Kings 22:1—23:3
In the eighteenth year of King Josiah, the king sent [...]
Commentary on Isaiah 1:10-20; 2:1-4
A single stop in the book of Isaiah should not [...]
Commentary on Hosea 6:1-6; 11:1-9
However one seeks to wrestle a word of good news [...]
Commentary on 1 Kings 19:1-18
This Old Testament reading ranks among the most famous of Old Testament texts. Elijah’s flight [...]
Commentary on 1 Kings 5:1-5, 12-13; 8:1-6, 27-30
It was common in the ancient Near East for kings [...]
Commentary on 1 Samuel 16:1-13; Psalm 51:1-10
1The name David occurs more often than any other human [...]