Old Testament Continued Exile and Restoration - 9780809195886

Year Three - Old Testament Continued: Exile and Restoration - reflects on the central Jewish experience of the loss and then the restoration of their promised land. Beginning with the great prophets before the exile, discover the roots of the tension between God's ways and humankind's ways that eventually led to exile. Then examine how the crisis of the exile provoked the exilic prophets to reconstruct the covenant relationship with God. Finally, examine how the post-exilic prophets, historians, and psalmists created a new way of life based on a renewed zeal for God's Word and God's Law.