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Bulletin for Biblical Research, Volume 9 is unavailable, but you can change that!

Theological journals are a tremendous resource for biblical studies. However, anyone who has searched for copies of theological journals knows that they are difficult to find and impossible to buy. Even if you are fortunate enough to have a library of journals in print form, they take up lots of shelf space. With the print editions, finding a topic or Scripture reference can be difficult. The...

any longer, God’s dove, God’s poor cry out to him: “Have regard for your covenant” (Ps 74:20). Second Esdras uses the dove image in similar fashion. In the second vision (5:21–6:34), the seer complains that God has delivered Israel over into the hands of its enemies. He characterizes Israel using symbols derived from the OT. He likens Israel to a tree, a lily, a river, a city. Then he writes (5:26): “from all birds that have been created you have named for yourself one dove, and from all the flocks
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