Ten Years after the Second Lebanon War, Hizballah Is Stronger than Ever
The real culprit was thinking that ground war was a thing of the past.
July 26, 2016
The Death of Saul in the Book of Chronicles
Internal parallels.
Weighing in on a dispute between two modern interpreters of Chronicles, Peter Leithart argues that the book deliberately highlights similarities between Saul, the first Israelite king, and the wicked Ahaz, who ruled the kingdom of Judah many generations later. Each was succeeded by an archetypal good king: respectively, David and Hezekiah. And this isn’t the only internal parallel regarding Saul: