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The Book of the Twelve: Hosea–Malachi, 2 vols. (Smyth & Helwys Bible Commentary | SHBC) is unavailable, but you can change that!

This commentary focuses on the books of Hosea through Malachi, focusing on their contents in light of the Minor Prophets as a whole. Over the last thirty years, biblical scholars have explored the implications of an ancient Jewish and Christian tradition that referred to the Minor Prophets as “the Twelve.” Scholarly work on the Book of the Twelve in the last quarter century has focused on...

God’s Compassion on Creation Rüdiger Lux points out that the question with which Jonah ends makes a profound statement about the nature of YHWH’s compassion and justice. He says, God does not base compassion on a human act of piety (confession) or goodness (repentance); nor on religion or morality. God’s grace and compassion are the grace of creation (Schöpfungsgnade), born from God’s uncoerced devotion to God’s creatures. Rüdiger Lux, Jona: Prophet zwischen ‘Verweigerung’ und ‘Gehorsam’ (Forschungen
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