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Preaching and Teaching from the Old Testament: A Guide for the Church is unavailable, but you can change that!

Developed out of tried and tested teaching material, Kaiser exhibits a straightforward and accessible writing style. The opening chapters deal with the value, problem, and task of preaching from the Old Testament. Kaiser then provides a practical focus by examining preaching and teaching from the texts of various genres (proverbs, prophecy, Torah, etc.). A final chapter examines the relevance of...

1. through a character’s own actions and his or her interactions with other characters, 2. through a character’s own speeches, 3. through the speeches of other characters about a specific character, and 4. through the narrator’s specific comments about a character.7 While the Old Testament rarely describes its characters, it prefers to give the briefest physical, gentilic, or professional designations. For instance, Saul is “a head taller than any of the others” (1 Sam. 9:2), while others may
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