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A Review of the Readers Hebrew and Greek Bible
In 2008, Brown, Smith, Goodrich, Lukaszewski published a very helpful volume titled A Reader's Hebrew and Greek Bible (Zondervan). DeRouchie's review of this biblical text for The Southern Baptist Journal of Theology identifies the benefits of such a volume for...
The Blessing-Commission, The Promised Offspring, and The Toledot Structure of Genesis
In this essay, DeRouchie shapes a biblical theology of Genesis through discourse analysis and a close eye to content. Beginning with the observation that the ten toledot that shape the structure of the book are distinguished by whether they lack or include a...
A Sermon on Deuteronomy 6:6–9
CONTEXTS FOR LOVING YAHWEH OUR ONE GOD: A SERMON ON DEUTERONOMY 6:6–9 Jason S. DeRouchie, Ph.D. /Associate Professor of Old Testament / Bethlehem College and Seminary Delivered at Northwestern College (MN), March 18, 2010 Introduction Tuesday we looked at the focus of...
A Life Centered on Torah
Dr. DeRouchie writes, "The priest/scribe Ezra was a man whose life provided a model of godly leadership to a people in desperate need of hearing God’s Word and seeing God’s will lived out in practical ways. You have learned that the Infinitive Construct with the...
A Modern Grammar for Biblical Hebrew
Drs. Duane Garrett and Jason DeRouchie have partnered together to produce one of the most linguistically developed and pedagogically rich beginning grammars for biblical Hebrew on the market: A Modern Grammar for Biblical Hebrew. This text is a wonderful resource for...
Circumcision in the Hebrew Bible
In this essay, DeRouchie explores the biblical meaning of circumcision and evaluates how the translators of the official Targums handled metaphorical circumcision language. This essay was originally published in the Bulletin for Biblical Research 14.2 (2004) 175–203....
A Sermon on Deuteronomy 6:5
In this sermon, Dr. DeRouchie unpacks for us what it means to love the Lord our God with everything. Read: A Sermon on Deut 6:5
The Profit of Employing the Biblical Languages
In 1524, six years after posting his “Ninety-five Theses,” Martin Luther (1483–1546), father of the Protestant Reformation, charged his contemporaries: Let us be sure of this: we will not long preserve the gospel without the languages. The languages are the sheath in...
A Sermon on Deuteronomy 6:4
Introduction I invite you to open your Bible’s to Deuteronomy 6:4–5, the passage Jesus pointed to as “the most important” commandment (Mark 12:29–30). “Hear, O Israel: Yahweh our God, Yahweh is one. And you shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all...
Yahweh is Your Keeper–A Sermon on Psalm 121
BIG IDEA: Yahweh is your Keeper/Protector MAIN VERSE: 121:5 – “YHWH is your keeper; YHWH is your shade on your right hand.” Read: Ps 121--YAHWEH IS YOUR KEEPER Listen: Ps 121--YAHWEH IS YOUR KEEPER
About Jason S. DeRouchie
Dr. Jason DeRouchie (PhD, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) is a churchman and a passionate teacher driven to exalt Jesus from the Old Testament and to help Christians better grasp why the initial three-fourths of the Bible matters for Christians. He is Research Professor of Old Testament and Biblical Theology and Rich and Judy Hastings Endowed Chair of Old Testament Studies at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Kansas City, Missouri. He also serves as Content Developer and Global Trainer with Hands to the Plow Ministries and as a pastor of Sovereign Joy Baptist Church in the northland of Kansas City, MO.