Book Review: Israel and the Nations, by F. F. Bruce

INTRODUCTION This article will review the book Israel and the Nations: The History of Israel from the Exodus to the Fall of the Second Temple, by F. F. Bruce (Revised by David F. Payne). This book is a revision of a work originally published in 1963.[1] The author F. F. Bruce (1910-1991) was Professor of…

Concept of Goel: Kinsman-Redeemer

Introduction The word “goel” is defined in Strong’s Hebrew Lexicon as kinsman.[1] However, in ancient Jewish life, the term took on significant additional meaning. The Jewish Encyclopedia states that the concept of goel “was based on the solidarity of the interests”[2] of the individual tribes of the nation of Israel and God. “Any duty which…