Bric-a-brac

What is the typical pattern used to depict the call of an individual in Scripture?  For example, Jeremiah’s call follows this pattern.

When scholars talk about a 2nd or 3rd Isaiah, who are theses authors thought to be disciples of?

How would you classify the story of Ruth?

a) “A pretty story with a nice moral lesson.”

b) “A story of how God uses women, and how men should respond to the Holy Spirit’s work in women.”

How would our worship today be different if we did not have the book of Proverbs?

What are some of the implications of the phrase: “Psalm of David”?

Why was Nehemiah, the cup-bearer to King Artaxerxes, afraid to answer the King when he asked Nehemiah what was troubling him?  The text words the Kings question like this: “Why is your face sad, since you are not sick?  This can only be a sadness of the heart.”

What event at the end of Chronicles sets it apart from Kings?  How does this event affect the tone of Chronicles in comparison to the tone of Kings?