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A Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Joshua is unavailable, but you can change that!

Lange’s Commentary on the Holy Scriptures has served as a standard reference for more than a century. The subtitle “Critical, Doctrinal, and Homiletical” aptly describes the three-pronged approach to the biblical text. This translated version of the German text is often considered by many to be superior to the original.

word should have these two radically different significations is, if not exactly impossible, yet in this case improbable, since the year of jubilee (שׁנה היובל) was announced, as Fürst himself says, by the שׁוֹפַר הִיּוֹבֵל, and from this evidently had its name, as Winer (Realw. s. v. “Jubeljahr”), Oehler (Realencyk. x. p. 131) take for granted, after the example of older interpreters, especially Groddeck, De verisim. voc.יובלsignif., Danz. 1758. On this supposition the question arises, whence the
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