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The Bible in Its Ancient Context: 23 Fresh Insights is unavailable, but you can change that!

God can reveal himself to us as we read his Word, no matter how much knowledge and experience we have when we open its pages. Bible study is a different matter. Few of us have the knowledge of the ancient world, its history and culture, to get the most from our reading. The Bible in Its Ancient Context is a hand-curated collection of articles published in Bible Study Magazine from 2008 to 2014....

The narrator simply says, “They offered strange fire before Yahweh, which he had not commanded them” (Lev 10:1). After two chapters of meticulous obedience, this last statement—“which he had not commanded them”—is jarring.