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Joel: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

Scripture scholar James L. Crenshaw captures the ominous, yet hopeful spirit of Joel’s prophecy in his new translation and commentary. Joel’s prophecy has an unexpectedly familiar ring to it. The biblical book of Joel is relevant to our late-twentieth-century world because it confronts an age when people tolerated almost anything, did not want someone telling them how to live their lives, and...

moves to the significant male representatives in society, older men who have the elevated status of decision-makers and younger men who fill military ranks. Similarly, the reference to male and female slaves isolates a group that may be included in the first (“your sons and daughters”), although they may be foreigners and therefore constitute an additional category outside those already mentioned in the comprehensive expression. In this way, the prophet includes the entire community, making everybody
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