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Hard

Sayings

of the

Bible

Walter C. Kaiser Jr.

Peter H. Davids

F.F. Bruce

Manfred T. Brauch

InterVarsity Press

Downers Grove, Illinois

Bruce and Manfred T. Brauch. This one-volume edition comprises five separate

volumes from the Hard Sayings series, all reedited for this volume, along with new

material created exclusively for this edition: The Hard Sayings of Jesus, copyright

1983 by F. F. Bruce, and reprinted here with permission of Edward England Books

and Hodder & Stoughton, Ltd., England; Hard Sayings of the Old Testament,

C. Kaiser Jr.

written permission from InterVarsity Press, P.O. Box 1400, Downers Grove, IL

60515.

InterVarsity Press® is the book-publishing division of InterVarsity Christian

Fellowship ® , a student movement active on campus at hundreds of universities,

colleges and schools of nursing in the United States of America, and a member

movement of the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students. For information

about local and regional activities, write Public Relations Dept., InterVarsity

Christian Fellowship, 6400 Schroeder Rd., P.O. Box 7895, Madison, WI 53707-7895.

All Scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from the HOLY

International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan Publishing House. All

rights reserved.

ISBN 0-8308-1423-X

Printed in the United States of America

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Hard sayings of the bible/Walter C. Kaiser, Jr … [et al.].

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN 0-8308-1423-X

1. Bible-Criticism, interpretation, etc. 2. Bible-Evidences, authority, etc. I. Kaiser,

Walter C.

BS511.2.H36 1996

220.6-dc20 96-28488

CIP

Publisher’s Preface

How to Use This Book

General Introduction

1 How Do We Know Who Wrote the Bible?

2 Can We Believe in Bible Miracles?

3 Why Does God Seem So Angry in the Old Testament & Loving in the New?

4 Why Don’t Bible Genealogies Always Match Up?

5 Aren’t Many Old Testament Numbers Wrong?

6 Do the Dates of the Old Testament Kings Fit Secular History?

7 Does Archaeology Support Bible History?

8 When the Prophets Say, “The Word of the Lord Came to Me,” What Do They

Mean?

9 Are Old Testament Prophecies Really Accurate?

10 Why Doesn’t the New Testament Always Quote the Old Testament Accurately?

11 Are the New Testament Accounts of Demons True?

12 Why Are There Four Different Gospels?

Genesis

Exodus

Leviticus

Numbers

Deuteronomy

Joshua

Judges

Ruth

1 Samuel

2 Samuel

1 Kings

2 Kings

1 Chronicles

2 Chronicles

Ezra

Nehemiah

Esther

Job

Psalms

Proverbs

Ecclesiastes

Song of Songs

Isaiah

Jeremiah

Lamentations

Ezekiel

Daniel

Hosea

Joel

Amos

Jonah

Micah

Nahum

Habakkuk

Haggai

Zechariah

Malachi

Matthew

Mark

Luke

John

Acts

Romans

1 Corinthians

2 Corinthians

Galatians

Ephesians

Philippians

Colossians

1 Thessalonians

2 Thessalonians

1–2 Timothy

Titus, Philemon

Hebrews

James

1 Peter

2 Peter

1 John

2 John

3 John

Jude

Revelation

Publisher’s Preface

With over a quarter million copies in print, the Hard Sayings series has proved itself

among readers as a helpful guide to Bible difficulties. The series was launched with the

publication of F. F. Bruce’s The Hard Sayings of Jesus in 1983, with subsequent

volumes appearing in 1988, 1989, 1991 and 1992. Those volumes included Hard

Sayings of the Old Testament and More Hard Sayings of the Old Testament, by

Walter C. Kaiser Jr., and Hard Sayings of Paul and More Hard Sayings of the New

Testament, by Manfred T. Brauch and Peter H. Davids, respectively. This edition

combines the five earlier versions with new material from Walter Kaiser and Peter

Davids. Over one hundred new verses have been added to the list of texts explained, as

well as a dozen introductory articles addressing common questions that recur

throughout the Bible. The result is that all of the Old Testament texts have been

addressed by Walter Kaiser; F. F. Bruce’s work is confined to the Synoptic Gospels,

with one addition to the Gospel of John; Manfred Brauch’s work is confined to Paul’s

epistles; and Peter Davids’s contribution ranges throughout the whole of the New

Testament. The general introduction that follows distills the key introductory remarks

from the various authors of the separate pieces.

The authors share the conviction that the Bible is God’s inspired and authoritative

word to the church, but careful readers will observe that they do not all agree on the

best solutions to certain Bible difficulties. This is as it should be. If everyone agreed on

the best solutions to these questions, they wouldn’t be hard sayings.

What F. F. Bruce wrote in his introduction to The Hard Sayings of Jesus can likely be

said of nearly all the difficult texts in this collection: they may be hard for two different

reasons. First are those that, because of differences in culture and time, are hard to

understand without having their social and historical backgrounds explained. Second

are those that are all too easily understood but that challenge the ways we think and

act. As Mark Twain reportedly once remarked, it wasn’t the parts of the Bible that he

didn’t understand that bothered him but those parts that were perfectly clear.

This volume is published with the hope that the former kinds of difficulties may have

some helpful light shined on them. We hope, however, in the name of explanation,

never to blunt the force of latter kinds of difficulties, where God’s Word confronts us

to change and conform us into the image of Jesus Christ.

How to Use This Book

Following the general introduction and a group of twelve introductory essays

addressing common questions from throughout the Bible, the hard sayings of the Bible

are organized canonically by chapter and verse, running from Genesis to Revelation.

Cross-references point readers to comments on other Bible passages or to introductory

essays which touch on the same or similar issues. Thus in the comment on Genesis

2:17 on the death of Adam and Eve, readers are referred to the discussion on Romans

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