Halford E. Luccock

Preaching Values in the Old Testament - in the Modern Translations Halford E. Luccock

This richly suggestive, usable book brings 140 Old Testament texts - carefully selected from twentieth-century translations by James Moffatt and J. W. Powis Smith. These are, says Dr. Luccock, examples which offer a new, significant idea or fresh insight which does not appear so readily in the more familiar language of the King James Version. With each text there are a few concise paragraphs of comment - brief starting points for original thought and full-length sermons - illustrating the possible ways in which these fresh, gripping, and vivid renderings of the Old Testament in the daily speech of our time can present new insight into truth. The texts are chosen from the Poetry, the Wisdom Literature, and the Prophets - the books of the Old Testament in which modern translations make their largest contributions in fresh interpretation.