NSBT 10: Five Festal Garments

Christian Reflections on the Song of Songs, Ruth, Lamentations,
Ecclesiastes and Esther.
These five Old Testament books,
traditionally known simply as The Scrolls, are among the most neglected parts
of the Christian Bible. Each raises particular difficulties with regard to how
it relates to the rest of Scripture, and the manner in which it should be
understood and used as the Word of God for us today. In Judaism, these books
were adopted as lectionary readings for five of the major festivals - but no
comparable solution has emerged in Christianity. Webb explores Christian
interpretation of these problematic writings.  Each book is allowed
to set its own agenda, and is then examined in relation to the wider Old
Testament context and to the New Testament gospel with its basic structure of
promise and fulfilment. In this way, Webb offers fresh and illuminating
perspectives on these 'festival garments' of love, kindness, suffering,
vexation and deliverance. (= 0830826106 / 9780830826100)
'This volume
will not only help thinking Christians understand their Bibles better, and
therefore the God of the Bible, but (I cheerfully predict) it will form the
substance of not a few sermons delivered by preachers who for the first time
dare to expound the Five Scrolls.' - D.A. Carson
Series: New Studies
in Biblical Theology (vol. 10).
Recommended € 21,90