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Scholarly and accessible, this volume covers five biblical books and is a comprehensive and succinct commentary that guides users to the text’s core meaning. With enhanced ease-of-use features, specialized discussion of key words and concepts, and each commentator’s point-of-view on the text’s implications for life, it is a vital resource for every preacher, teacher, and student of the Bible.

Levirate marriage is one of many aspects of ancient Near Eastern culture that is foreign to modern Westerners, although a form of it is practiced today. Tony Sauder served the Mennonite Central Committee in a village in Chad from 1990–94. In an unpublished letter, he notes that once a woman is married in Chad, she has left her own family and entered her husband’s. If he dies, she cannot return to her family of birth but is dependant on her new kin and often
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