Hard Sayings
of the
Bible Walter C. Kaiser Jr. Peter H. Davids F.F. Bruce Manfred T. Brauch
InterVarsity Press Downers Grove, Illinois
One-volume edition copyright 1996 by Walter C. Kaiser Jr., Peter H. Davids, F. F. Bruce and Manfred T. Brauch. This one-volume edition comprises five separate volumes from the Hard Sayings series, all reedited for this volume, along with new material created exclusively for this edition: The Hard Sayings of Jesus, copyright 1983 by F. F. Bruce, and reprinted here with permission of Edward England Books and Hodder & Stoughton, Ltd., England; Hard Sayings of the Old Testament, copyright 1988 by Walter C. Kaiser Jr.; Hard Sayings of Paul, copyright 1989 by Manfred T. Brauch; More Hard Sayings of the New Testament, copyright 1991 by Peter H. Davids; More Hard Sayings of the Old Testament, copyright 1992 by Walter C. Kaiser Jr. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without written permission from InterVarsity Press, P.O. Box 1400, Downers Grove, IL 60515. InterVarsity Press® is the book-publishing division of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship® , a student movement active on campus at hundreds of universities, colleges and schools of nursing in the United States of America, and a member movement of the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students. For information about local and regional activities, write Public Relations Dept., InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, 6400 Schroeder Rd., P.O. Box 7895, Madison, WI 53707-7895. All Scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®. NIV®. Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan Publishing House. All rights reserved.