Miscellaneous Short Bible Studies

William Flewelling

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These are bible studies of a limited scale, developed and led by the author with two of the congregations he served. The first congregation was in Mantua OH in the late 1970s, from which the first three bible studies arose: Ruth, Lamentations, and The Infancy Narratives. The second congregation was in New Martinsville WV from 1998 through 2003, these being done is a slightly different style: Psalms of Ascent, Selected Psalms, The Speech of Stephan, Encountering God, Matthew 5 and Matthew 6 & 7. I sought to bring a serious, somewhat scholarly approach to the study of the bible among those congregation members who chose to attend. This revisiting of those studies prove once again their value to me. I hope they prove to be so for you as well.

Sujets

• Bible Study Guides
• Biblical Studies
• Philosophie et théologie
• Religión
• Gospel of Luke
• Religion
• Bible

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• Publié par: AuthorHouse
• Date de parution: 19 mars 2023
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798823004053
• Langue: English

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The Book Of Hebrews: A Bible Study
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The Gospel According To Luke 1:1 Through 9:50: A Bible Study
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all published by AuthorHouse.com
MISCELLANEOUS SHORT BIBLE STUDIES
 
Ruth
Lamentations
The Nativity Narratives
Psalms of Ascent
Selected Psalms
The Speech of Stephan
Encountering God
On Matthew 5
On Matthew 6 & 7
 
 
WILLIAM FLEWELLING
 
 
 
 

 
 
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Published by AuthorHouse 03/17/2023
 
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Contents
Foreword
Notes On Ruth
Notes on Ruth 1:1-6
Notes on Ruth 1:7-22
Notes on Ruth 2
Notes on Ruth 3
Notes on Ruth 4:1-12
Notes on Ruth 4:13-22
Movement With Yahweh in the Book of Ruth
Notes On The Book Of Lamentations
Notes on Lamentations 1:1-22
Notes on Lamentations 2:1-22
Notes on Lamentation 3:1-66
Notes on Lamentations 4
Notes on Lamentations 5
Study Notes On The Birth Of Jesus:
Introduction to the Infancy Narratives
Theology of Luke’s Infancy Narrative
Added Note on Perspective
Theology of Matthew’s Infancy Narrative
Luke’s Genealogy of Jesus
Matthew’s Genealogy of Jesus
Conception of Jesus: Matthew 1:18-25
The Magi: Matthew 2:1-12
Herod and the Flight: Matthew 2:13-23
Annunciation to Zechariah: Luke 1:5-25
The Annunciation to Mary: Luke 1:26-38
Mary’s visit to Elizabeth: Luke 1:39-56
The Birth and Naming of John: Luke 1:57-80
The Birth and Naming of Jesus: Luke 2:1-21
The Presentation in the Temple: Luke 2:22-40
Jesus in the Temple at Twelve: Luke 2:41-52
Psalms Of Ascent:
1    Psalm 120 and 121
2    Psalm 122, 123 and 124
3    Psalm 125 and 126
4    Psalm 127 and 128
5    Psalm 129 and 130
6    Psalm 131, 133 and 134
7    Psalm 132
Selected Psalms
1    Psalms 93 and 95
2    Psalms 96 and 97
3    Psalms 98 and 99
4    Psalms 100 and 101
The Speech Of Stephen
1    Acts 7:2-8 and Acts 7:9-16
2    Acts7:17-22 and Acts 7:23-29
3    Acts 7:30-43
4    Acts 7:44-53 and Acts 7:54-60
Encountering God
1    Isaiah 6:1-13
2    Isaiah 40:1-11
3    Jeremiah 1:4-10
4    Jeremiah 20:7-13
5    Revelation 4
6    Revelation 5
On Matthew 5
Part 1
I: Matthew 5:1-2
II: Matthew 5:3
III: Matthew 5:4
IV: Matthew 5:5
Part 2
V: Matthew 5:6
VI: Matthew 5:7
VII: Matthew 5:8
VIII: Matthew 5:9
Part 3
IX: Matthew 5:10
X: Matthew 5:11-12
XI: Matthew 5:13
XIII: Matthew 5:14-16
Part 4
XIII: Matthew 5:17-20
XIV: Matthew 5:21-26
Part 5
XV: Matthew 5:27-32
XVI: Matthew 5:33-37
Part 6
XVII: Matthew 5:38-42
XVIII: Matthew 5:43-48
On Matthew 6 & 7
Part 1
I: Matthew 6:1-4
II: Matthew 6:5-8
Part 2
III: Matthew 6:9
IV: Matthew 6:10-11
V: Matthew 6:12-13
VI: Matthew 6:14-15
Part 3
VII: Matthew 6:16-21
VIII: Matthew 6:22-24
IX: Matthew 6:25-34
Part 4
X: Matthew 7:1-6
XI: Matthew 7:7-12
Part 5
XII: Matthew 7:13-14
XIII: Matthew 7:15-20
Part 6
XIV: Matthew 7:21-23
XV: Matthew 7:24-27
XVI: Matthew 7:28-29
About the Author
Foreword
Over the years, I developed a series of Bible Studies, most of which have been self-published with AuthorHouse.com. They all began with Mildred Corwin asking me, shortly after I arrived in my first congregation after Seminary, if I did Bible Studies. I said I could, if I could do them my way. She agreed and that led to my starting off with a study of 1 Peter, chosen because I knew almost nothing about it.
Most of the studies over the years have fallen into categories that clumped into volumes like From The Catholic Epistles or From the Minor Prophets, or Letters Pauline and Pastoral in addition to volumes on one book or another. I was left with a few small books and short studies which I call Miscellaneous. These comprise this last collection, brief studies of Ruth and Lamentations and The Nativity Narratives from my years in Mantua, Ohio and then a series of short studies on a variety of themes. These comprise this volume and are listed on the Title Page and in the Table of Contents.
Revisiting these studies has been particularly pleasing to me. So much of what I have learned and developed over the last half century is grounded in this series – covering short books from the Old Testament and parts of the Psalter, segments from Acts and a series aimed at Encountering God.
These studies and the other sets of books, loosely classed as Inn-by-the-Bye Stories, Devotional materials, Directions of a Pastoral Lifetime, Poetry, represent the way I have invested my life, so far as that can be contained. I have not pursued sermons nor leaflets nor newsletter essays among the more comprehensive of the categories left. I have represented little of correspondence or of liturgical work. But what is available does underline the developments that undergird the pastoral life I have lived, that which was public in ways this material was not, and reversed the situation – that which is public now was relatively obscure then; that which was public then is left as tacit now.
I hope you find these studies in this volume of interest. The rest is in support and left as what I found developed on the basis of this work.
William Flewelling
Notes On Ruth
[Prepared and Presented in the Spring of 1980]
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Bibliographic Refere nces:
BDB = Brown, Francis, Driver S. R., and Briggs, Charles A., A Hebrew and English Lexicon of The Old Testament, Oxford University Press, London. 1972.
Campbell, Edward E., Ruth: A New Translation with Commentary, The Anchor Bible, Doubleday and Co., Inc., GardenCity, N. J., 1975.
GKC = Gesenius’ Hebrew Grammar, edited and enlarged by E. Kautzsch, Second English Edition, revised by A.E. Cowley, Oxford University Press, London, 1974.
MT = Massoretic Text: Biblia Hebraica, edited by Rudolf Kittle, Wütemburgische Bibleanstalt Stuttgart, 1971 was used.
Sasson, Jack M., Ruth: A New Translation with a Philological Commentary and a Formalist-Folklorist Interpretation, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1979.
Sakenfeld, Katherine Doob, The Meaning of Hesed in the Hebrew Bible: A New Inquiry, Harvard Semitic Monographs, No. 17, Scholars Press for The Harvard Semitic Museum, Missoula, MT, 1978.
TDNT = Theological Dictionary of the New Testament, ed. by Gerhard Kittle and Gerhard Friedrich, nine volumes plu