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What Is Biblical Meditation?
The art and practice of meditation as defined by the Scriptures plays an important part in the development of the individual believer. Meditation is presented in Scripture as an act of worship involving divine communion. It results in such spiritual renewal and refreshment that the believer is thereby prepared to enter into the demands of life and the world as they are spread before all men. Rather than being an avenue of escape through which the individual is swallowed up, absorbed, or mingled with the divine in some unspecified mystical process, the meditation in Scripture, seen through careful definition of the objects, results, and the methods of the practice, is a spiritual exercise that preserves the identity, dignity, and value of the reflective worshiper. This essay will (1) define a biblical concept of meditation, (2) identify the biblical objects of meditation, (3) classify the types of meditation, and (4) comment on the significance of biblical meditation. . .
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Walter Kaiser
ProfessorWalter C. Kaiser Jr., is distinguished professor emeritus of Old Testament and president emeritus of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. He earned a Bachelor of Arts from Wheaton and a Masters and a Doctorate of Philosophy from Brandeis University. While pursuing graduate studies at Brandeis, Kaiser became professor and chairman of the Old Testament department at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. He served as academic dean, vice president and professor of Old Testament and Semitic languages at Trinity, and professor of Old Testament theology at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, where he subsequently served as president. Dr. Kaiser has written over forty books, including Toward an Exegetical Theology: Biblical Exegesis for Preaching and Teaching, The Messiah in the Old Testament and The Promise-Plan of God.

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Walter Kaiser
ProfessorWalter C. Kaiser Jr., is distinguished professor emeritus of Old Testament and president emeritus of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. He earned a Bachelor of Arts from Wheaton and a Masters and a Doctorate of Philosophy from Brandeis University. While pursuing graduate studies at Brandeis, Kaiser became professor and chairman of the Old Testament department at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. He served as academic dean, vice president and professor of Old Testament and Semitic languages at Trinity, and professor of Old Testament theology at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, where he subsequently served as president. Dr. Kaiser has written over forty books, including Toward an Exegetical Theology: Biblical Exegesis for Preaching and Teaching, The Messiah in the Old Testament and The Promise-Plan of God.
