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Myers, Jacob Martin was born on October 25, 1904 in near York, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Harvey Allen, Senior and Sarah Annie (Seiffert) Myers.
("II Chronicles" (Volume 13 in the acclaimed "Anchor Bible...)
"II Chronicles" (Volume 13 in the acclaimed "Anchor Bible Commentary" series) is a crucial book for historians of the biblical period and for students of the Bible. Like "I Chronicles", it has been both over- and undervalued. In recent years it has, certainly, suffered undue neglect.However, "II Chronicles" is to be neither accepted as a faithful narrative of the period of biblical history from Solomon to Cyrus nor dismissed as an imaginative re-creation of that history. It must be taken as an important clue to the biblical process, for here we find the Bible quoting itself - sometimes directly, sometimes in paraphrase.Jacob M. Myers has set before himself the enormous task of organizing and correlating the evidence to be found in "II Chronicles" (as well as in "I Chronicles", "Ezra", and "Nehemiah" - for which he is also the editor and translator). Meticulously, he analyzes important aspects of the Chronicler and his work - his method of composition, his conviction that to rebuild the nation of Israel one had to restore and strengthen her traditional religion, his significant post-Exilic perspective. The book also examines the vast literature on "Chronicles" to find what it yields toward a better understanding of the Chronicler and a fuller appreciation of his work. The appendices in the book provide a list of the parallels and paraphrases that relate "Chronicles" to other books of the Bible, and genealogical charts summarize the family histories to be found in "Chronicles".
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(I Chronicles (Volume 12 in the acclaimed Anchor Bible ser...)
I Chronicles (Volume 12 in the acclaimed Anchor Bible series) is a book closely related to three other books of the so-called Chronicler's History--II Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. I Chronicles begins with the famous genealogical lists (from Adam to David), continues with an account of David's reign, in which the chronicler emphasizes David's efforts to restore the religion of Israel, and concludes with the accession of Solomon to the throne of Judah. A crucial book for historians of the biblical period and for students of the Bible, I Chronicles is to be neither accepted as a faithful narrative of the Davidic period nor dismissed as a fanciful, imaginative re-creation of that history.  It must be taken as an important clue to the biblical process.  For here we find the Bible quoting itself--sometimes directly, sometimes in paraphrase. Professor Myers meticulously analyzes important aspects of the Chronicler and his work--his method of composition, his conviction that to rebuild the nation of Israel one had to restore and strengthen her traditional religion, his significantly post-Exilic perspective.  The book also examines the vast literature on Chronicles to find what it yields toward a better understanding of the Chronicler and a fuller appreciation of his work.  Finally, it compares--in exhaustive detail--I Chronicles with the other books in the Bible to which it is parallel.  The volume Professor Myers has produced is no less than a definitive treatment of the subject.
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Ezra and Nememiah (Volume 14 in the acclaimed Anchor Bible series) continue the spiritual history of Jerusalem begun in II Chronicles ; they relate the retum of the Jewish people to their home from exile in Babylonia and the revitalization of the Jewish religion.  Two remarkable personalities--with strikingly different approaches to the same objective--played dominant roles in this rebuilding of a nation.  Ezra, the learned, pious, scribal priest, known among his contemporaries as "the second Moses," was the architect of spiritual reform.  Nehemiah, the forceful, shrewd, resourceful administrator, was the master international politician. The importance of Ezra and Nememiah is, however, not only historical.  With I and II Chronicles, believed to be written by the same author, Ezra and Nememiah comprise of an exceedingly complex jigsaw puzzle of parallels, direct quotes, and retellings, in some cases, of the same stories--all of which is, perhaps, more absorbing for the scholar than for the layman.  But a study of Ezra and Nememiah--and the conclusions to which it leads--is crucial to an understanding of who wrote which portions of the Bible, how and when they came to be written, and what that understanding tells us ultimately about how the Bible, bit by bit over a period of almost a thousand years, came into being.
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Myers, Jacob Martin was born on October 25, 1904 in near York, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Harvey Allen, Senior and Sarah Annie (Seiffert) Myers.
AB, Gettysburg College, 1927. Bachelor of Divinity, Lutheran Theological Seminary, Gettysburg, 1930. School of Theology and Ministry, Lutheran Theological Seminary, Gettysburg, 1931.
S.T.D., Temple University, 1937. Doctor of Philosophy, Johns Hopkins, 1946. Little D. (honorary), Gettysburg College, 1967.
Honorary Doctor of Divinity, Susquehanna University, 1977.
Ordained to ministry, Lutheran Church, 1930; pastor, Grace Parish, Gettysburg, 1930-1950; supply pastor, Dillsburg (Pennsylvania) Parish, 1950-1951; member of faculty, Lutheran Theological Seminary, from 1937; professor, head O.T. department, Lutheran Theological Seminary, from 1942. Holman lecturer on Augsburg Confession Gettysburg Seminary, 1959. Guest professor O.T. Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, 1965-1966, 67-68.
(Ezra and Nememiah (Volume 14 in the acclaimed Anchor Bibl...)
(I Chronicles (Volume 12 in the acclaimed Anchor Bible ser...)
("II Chronicles" (Volume 13 in the acclaimed "Anchor Bible...)
( II Chronicles (Volume 13 in the acclaimed Anchor Bible ...)
(Doubleday; 1965; 1st Edition; Hardcover; Very Good+ with ...)
(*** Please Read This *** Library markings - No marks on t...)
(*** Please Read This *** Library markings - No marks on t...)
(Very good 2 VOLUME SET of hardcovers of with DJ's. Pages ...)
(The Anchor Bible I Chronicles, by Jacob M. Myers. Hardcop...)
(Doubleday (1966) Hardcover, 252 pages.)
(Grace And Torah, by Myers, J.M.)
(Missing jacket, else VG)
Member Society Biblical Literature and Exegesis, British Society O.T. Study (associate), American Institute Archaeology, American Oriental Society, American Academy Religion, Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Mary Helen Kimmel, June 26, 1926. 1 child, Helen Elizabeth.