Lorinda Hoover

Today I wanted to look at what the help files said about Zones.  And I discovered that most of the graphics (screen shots etc) in that section had been replaced with big white boxes with a tiny blu...

Micah 7:18 (NRSVue) Who is a God like you, pardoning iniquity… He does not retain his anger forever because he delights in showing steadfast love. “Steadfast love” is clearly a translation of ...

accord://read/Jewish_SB-2#9526following Jonah in the MinhΩah service of Yom Kippur, and also in the Minḥah service of Tishʿah beʾav[Adele Berlin and Marc Zvi Brettler, eds. The Jewish Study Bible:...

accord://read/Interpretation-Decalogue#757But there is a further implicit pointer to the true prophetic word, one that is inferred from what happens then in Jeremiah 26, when the priests and prophe...

accord://read/Wisdom_Commentary-16#31280Part way through the “excursus” on Women and Land Seizure in Micah, the text suddenly disappears from the grey box and instead appears in a narrow club to th...

Feasting on the Word Year B, Proper 23>Amos>Exegetical Perspective accord://read/Feasting-Year_B#19821he mentions the wealthy having a “winter house,” a “summer house,” and “houses of ivory” in __A...

Isaiah 58:5 (NRSVue) Is such the fast that I choose, a day to humble oneself? Is it to bow down the head like a bulrush and to lie in sackcloth and ashes? Will you call this a fast, a day...

In both Exod 21:7–8 and Ruth 3:9 the term ʾmh is used. Thus, when Boaz called Ruth “my daughter” in 3:10–11,Jeremiah Unterman, AYBD, s.v. “REDEMPTION,” 5:651. [accord://read/Anchor#95215]the verse ...

accord://read/Anchor#95184As you can see in the screen shot above, the transliteration of the two Hebrew roots are not in the same font.  gʾl is clearly in Accordance's transliteration font, while ...

(Lev 25:25 ff.), or the freeing of an Israelite slave who sold himself in time of poverty (25:48ff.). Such purchase and restitution was the duty of the next of kin. Secondly, but associated with th...