{"id":418,"date":"2025-11-18T23:47:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T23:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/104.193.40.20\/greggfriend-wp\/?p=418"},"modified":"2026-02-08T23:47:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T23:47:39","slug":"a-new-favorite-biblical-hebrew-old-testament-scholar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greggfriend.com\/?p=418","title":{"rendered":"A New Favorite Biblical Hebrew Old Testament Scholar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"288\" height=\"445\" src=\"http:\/\/104.193.40.20\/greggfriend-wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-87.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-419\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greggfriend.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-87.png 288w, https:\/\/greggfriend.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-87-194x300.png 194w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 288px) 100vw, 288px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Near the beginning of the year, I started a daily devotional called, <em>Every Day for Everyone: 365 Devotions from Genesis to Revelation<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>by John Goldingay and N.T. Wright. I am still working through this daily devotional for the year. As I finished the Old Testament readings by John Goldingay, I was so struck by how he understood and could explain the Old Testament. I decided that I wanted to better understand the book of Isaiah and so I picked up this book, <em>Isaiah for Everyone (Old Testament for Everyone)<\/em>, by John Goldingay. I would highly recommend this book and I plan to study more of the Old Testament from this Biblical Hebrew Old Testament Scholar John Goldingay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Near the beginning of the year, I started a daily devotional called, Every Day for Everyone: 365 Devotions from Genesis to Revelation by John Goldingay and N.T. Wright. I am still working through this daily devotional for the year. As I finished the Old Testament readings by John Goldingay, I was so struck by how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":419,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greggfriend.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greggfriend.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greggfriend.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greggfriend.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greggfriend.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/greggfriend.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":420,"href":"https:\/\/greggfriend.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions\/420"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greggfriend.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greggfriend.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greggfriend.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greggfriend.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}