Verse by Verse, The Old Testament, Volume 2

by D. Kelly Ogden, Andrew C. Skinner, Ellis T. Rasmussen

Overview

What can the Old Testament teach us about how to live the gospel in our own day? What relationships can we see between our challenges and those face by the children of Israel in ancient times? Why do we need to understand the poetry and promises of Isaiah—and how can we learn to do that?

This volume is the second in a two-volume commentary on the Old Testament, adding to the acclaimed Verse by Verse series by scripture scholars D. Kelly Ogden and Andrew C. Skinner.

Here we learn how to discover our Savior, Jesus Christ, in the scriptures of ancient Israel. Brought to life are the stories of Esther, Job, Daniel, Jonah, and others in ways that connect our lives with theirs. And the authors explore with us the book of Isaiah, enabling us to grasp better than ever the treasures of prophecy and poetry of the great seer who foresaw Jesus Christ, our own day, and the millennial era. We gain insights into the blessings of offering sacrifice and keeping covenants. Quotations from latter-day prophets and apostles enhance these doctrinal discussions to help us liken the scriptures of ancient Israel unto ourselves.

This commentary offers soul-satisfying enrichment to our study of the Old Testament, whose timeless truths testify that the Lord is "the same yesterday, today, and forever."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781629730233
Publisher:	Deseret Book Company
Publication date:	12/01/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	957,188
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

D. Kelly Ogden, a professor of ancient scripture at Brigham Young University, earned a master’s degree in Hebrew language and a Ph.D. in Middle East studies. He has written numerous works on the Holy Land, where he and his family lived for fourteen years, and is the author of the popular books Happy Like Jesus and 8 Mighty Changes. The first associate director of the BYU Jerusalem Center, Brother Ogden was president of the Jerusalem Branch of the Church. He helped prepared the Latter-day Saint editions of the scriptures and served as president of the Chile Santiago East Mission and later as president of the Guatemala Missionary Training Center. He serves as a sealer in the Provo Utah Temple. He and his wife, Marcia Hammond Ogden, have four children and seven grandsons. Andrew C. Skinner, a professor of ancient scripture at Brigham Young University, was dean of Religious Education and the first executive director of BYU’s Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship. Holding master’s degrees in Hebrew Bible and theology and a Ph.D. in history, he is the author of the acclaimed series Gethsemane, Golgotha, and The Garden Tomb. He has taught at the BYU Jerusalem Center and served as its associate director. Brother Skinner, who was a bishop and a member of the general Sunday School board, serves on the Church Correlation Evaluation Committee. He and his wife, Janet Corbridge Skinner, are the parents of six children and grandparents of four. Ellis T. Rasmussen is dean emeritus of Religious Education at Brigham Young University, where he taught for thirty years. In 1957 he undertook doctoral studies in the language and literature of the Old Testament at Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and completed his Ph.D. at BYU in 1967. A member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Brother Rasmussen has served as a missionary, a bishop, a high councilor, a counselor in a stake presidency, a temple ordinance worker, and a patriarch. He and his wife, Oda Fonnesbeck Rasmussen, are the parents of five children.