The Books 2. - My strength and my song

Those who are just getting to know the Book of Books, as well as those who already know it well, can take the text of the Bible in their hands in a special form. Instead of the verse and chapter numbering and shorter sections of traditional editions, the books of the Holy Scriptures can be read in larger chapters, so that we can read the understandable, precise and modern Hungarian text of the new translation of the Bible (RÚF 2014) at our own pace, in our own order, and in larger contexts. The chapter titles of the larger units, as well as the short, content-based introductions that can be read before each book, help to make understanding easier. Each volume of the four-part series is like a "big novel" that together outlines God's "great story". This begins with creation, and through the history of Israel, Jesus Christ, and then the church, it reaches the wonderful vision of the new creation, in which God gives a new heaven and a new earth to the man who returns to him. The second volume, entitled My Strength and My Song, contains the other historical books of the Bible from the first book of Samuel to the book of Esther, in which we reach the story of Israel settling down and choosing a king for itself, to the Babylonian captivity and the return from there, to the rebuilding of the country. In addition, we can read poetry and wisdom literature from the book of Job through the Psalms to the Song of Songs in this volume.