Jeremy Thompson Catholic PhD in Biblical Languages, Programmer, Runner

HERE is a link to Von Rad’s commentary on Genesis at Google Books.  The commentary is in the Old Testament library series.  The entire introduction of the commentary is available in the limited preview format.  The entire commentary is not available, but the introduction might be valuable to you either for personal use or to decide whether or not to purchase the text.

HERE is a link to a free copy of the Creation story from the Bible Experience audio Bible.  The Bible Experience has a cast of celebrity readers and is currently one of the best selling audio Bibles available.  It is made available through Audible.com.

HERE is a link to a free introduction to Genesis by Dr. Murray L. Newman a retired professor of Old Testament.  It is a 16 page introduction to the book as a whole.  It is in the Bible Briefs series made available by Virginia Theological Seminary.

I am officially making this the “Month of Free Stuff” on my blog.  I’m going to do my best to link a number of free resources each day this month in order to try to boost my BiblioBlog ranking.  I started at #35, but I know that I can do much, much better than that.  So, today I’m going to start with some free resources on the Book of Genesis, though I have already linked to one free book today.

Make sure to subscribe to my RSS feed to stay up to date on all the free stuff.

This month ChristianAudio.com has Just Courage by Gary A. Haugen for free.  Here is the description of the book from their website:

International Justice Mission president Haugen has found that “the pathway out of a nearly comatose state of boredom, ineffectiveness and triviality lies in the struggle for justice.” This book describes how to break out of a ho-hum Christian life and see God’s powerful and mysterious ways at work.

You can also see a video of the author HERE.  Make sure to get your free copy.  Sometimes they get overloaded with traffic on the first day of the month, but keep trying.

Today’s Old Testament reading is from Haggai.  And, when I am reading and studying a passage one of my favorite things to do is go over to Google Books and see what Commentaries I can read for free in limited previews.  Sometimes I can view really good commentaries for passages that I am studying, though sometimes I come up empty.  Today is one of those days I came up with some decent stuff.  The introductions from both Wolff’s and Petersen’s commentaries on Haggai are in tact in the limited previews and you can read them for free.  You can also read Vierhoef’s historical background section.

Some of the actual commentary is available for the limited previews of these texts as well.  I’ve found that with Google Books I can a lot of times piece together a lot of good information, especially if I’m in a bind.  Ah the pleasures of looking for free stuff.

Related Posts:

Haggai 1.2 – The Historical Context

I’m adding some topical pages to the site for those who might want to browse in that manner.  Just getting started with it, but I hope it is a help to some users.  So far, I’ve got a few links up on these pages The Old Testament (General), Books About the Old Testament, The Books of the Old Testament.  Some really cool stuff on the books about the Old Testament page.  Still a ton to be added, so keep checking back.

HERE is a link to a free New Testament audio Bible download that is good only for the month of September 2009.  It is available from ChristianAudio.com and is the God’s Word translation of the New Testament.  The title of the audio Bible is the GOD’S WORD Heard! New Testament.  Don’t miss out on this offer while it lasts.