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A Promise of Hope—A Call to Obedience: A Commentary on the Books of Joel and Malachi is unavailable, but you can change that!

The book of Joel is one of the Old Testament prophetic books, but it also has a clear and close association with lament literature. Graham Ogden takes seriously the book’s lament setting, exegeting it entirely from within that framework. In his commentary on the book of Malachi, Richard Deutsch examines the religious, moral, and social aspects of the early postexilic Jewish community that the...

Joel here uses a standard expression found in several other prophetic books—Hosea, Micah, and Zephaniah. Unlike some, such as Amos, Isaiah, or Ezekiel, there is no mention of the time at which Joel prophesied, so we know nothing more about him than that his father’s name was Pethuel. While the name Joel occurs frequently in the OT (1 Sam. 8:2; 1 Chron. 5:12; 7:3; Ezra 10:43; etc.), Pethuel is not found elsewhere. “Joel” means “Yahweh
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