A Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Jonah (Biblia.com)

A Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Jonah 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.

the ancient boundaries.—C. E.] of the kingdom of Israel; and was consequently an early contemporary of the prophet Amos. In the relations of the book to the history of the times, there is nothing to contradict the opinion that this was the period of Jonah’s ministry [Wirkungszeit]. Assyria, which, according to the statement of Herodotus, ruled Hither Asia five hundred and twenty years, was then a powerful empire; and as Jeroboam’s reign falls within the last century of the Assyrian dominion, Nineveh

Page 2

Buy this book at Logos.com