Craig S. Keener

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“David Garland is rightly known as a balanced and judicious commentator. I have found the first edition of his 1 Corinthians commentary to be one of the best available commentaries on that letter, and this up-to-date new edition affirms that verdict even more.”

1-2 Samuel

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“The Story of God Bible Commentary series invites readers to probe how the message of the text relates to our situations today. Engagingly readable, it not only explores the biblical text but offers a range of applications and interesting illustrations.”

1-3 John

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“By attempting to read 1–3 John in a fresh way, uncoerced by (though not uninformed by) scholarly tradition, Yarbrough offers a helpful and often different perspective on the Johannine Epistles, some of the most interpretively complex material in the New Testament. I find especially helpful his illuminating engagement with the history of interpretation, his careful attention to textual questions, and his quite insightful appeal to the language of the Greek version of the Old Testament (the background John and his audience shared).”

1–2 Chronicles

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Engagingly readable, it not only explores the biblical text but offers a range of applications and interesting illustrations.”

A Jesus-Shaped Life

Christian Living

“Like the Master Storyteller, Lisa Harper knows how to draw you in through stories. She talks about theology in a way anybody can relate to. As you would expect if you’ve heard or read Lisa before, this book is like a conversation. But more than that, it’s an invitation into deeper conversation—about, and especially with, God Himself.”

Dr.

A Jew to the Jews

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Rudolph's detailed, carefully argued, and masterful reevaluation of 1 Corinthians 9 invites scholars to reevaluate their understanding of not only one passage but of Paul more generally, both in the letters and Acts. Scholarship in the past half-century has increasingly recognized Paul's Jewishness while often continuing to maintain his distance from Judaism; Rudolph contends for a more consistent approach: Paul continued to be a faithful Jew.”

A Pneumatology of Race in the Gospel of John

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Estrada breaks new ground in Johannine studies with his valuable contribution from the approach of ethnicity research. Along the way Estrada addresses respectfully a range of views in Johannine scholarship and engages a range of backgrounds for the Fourth Gospel. I find particularly fresh and valuable his ethnographic study of material in Aristotle, the Hippocratic corpus, and other ancient sources.”

A Powerful Presence

Church Leadership & Ministry

“In our instant, social media culture it’s become common to criticize or praise churches and ministries without any genuine acquaintance with them. Andy Fitzgerald’s socially and theologically informed work is different. He provides an appreciative but also evaluative exploration of Bethel’s potential contributions to the wider church. In the process, he also invites us to highlight both Word and Spirit, to bring together the best contributions of evangelical and charismatic realities, and to honor God in Christ by the Spirit.”

A Simple Guide to Experience Miracles

Theology

“It’s a privilege to endorse this life-changing book so needed in the church at this time. After Christian philosopher J. P. Moreland provides clear ways to think about unanswered prayer and offers a grid for recognizing special divine action and helping us see how our lives are surrounded by miracles, he takes us on a fascinating tour of God’s works today. I wish I could have read this faith-encouraging book on miracles before writing mine!”

A Skeptic’s Investigation into Jesus

Apologetics

“A brilliant, open-minded agnostic’s search for truth led to this book. . . . Fairly and methodically evaluating evidence, the author first meets head-on popular myths about Christianity and skillfully debunks them. Working from her own special expertise, Hannah then introduces vital questions of mathematical physics often new even to scholars of religion. This work deserves a wide hearing.”

A Theology of Luke and Acts

Theology

“Lukan theology has often been neglected today, with scholars sometimes simply recycling the inadequacies of older works like Conzelmann’s. Bock’s excellent exploration of Luke’s theological approach and themes meets an important need in Lukan theology. A different scholar might want to give more attention to this or that theme, but Bock’s approach to Luke’s themes is consistently balanced and repeatedly shaped by Luke’s own emphases.”

A Theology of Mark's Gospel

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“As usual, David Garland provides an insightful and well-researched reading into the biblical text. In this book, however, he offers an additional benefit: a model for how to write a helpful theology of a narrative work. By exploring Mark thematically and theologically, Garland provides a distinctively new contribution.”

A Week in the Life of a Roman Centurion

Fiction

“Masterfully written and extensively researched, this fast-paced account invites the reader into the first-century world of the Gospels even while intriguing the reader as a good story should. In contrast to some scholars' wooden portrayals of all Jews or Romans or Syrians as the same, in this story, the characters are nuanced and come alive.”

Acts

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

Acts

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

An Asian American Ancient Historian and Biblical Scholar

History & Biography

“Edwin Yamauchi is one of the most precise and influential ancient historians of the past half century, tackling key issues of particular importance. Yet this book is more than his own story: like the true historian that he is, he provides insights at every turn into ancient Near Eastern, biblical, and evangelical scholarship from the same period, offering fascinating, personal anecdotes about scholars with whose works but not personalities most of us are familiar.”

Besorah

Theology

“NT scholars today increasingly recognize the connection between the good news about Jesus and Isaianic promises of the restoration of God’s people who will return to Zion. Paradoxically, however, they often treat this restoration as virtually completed in the church, supplanting the Jewish people. Recognizing the problems with replacement theology, Kinzer and Resnik offer an alternative approach that respects the Torah—and the Messianic Jewish-friendly tenor of Luke-Acts and biblical promises of the coming restoration of the Jewish people.”

Both-And

Christian Living

“I loved reading this book, and how it transcends so much polarization in the church. This book has been urgently needed for a long time. In our pride, we Christians often reject the vision of other parts of the church and divide without hearing one another. This book's straight preaching rightly challenges the church to embrace the whole biblical message and to be the whole people of God.”

Boy Jesus

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“A leading archaeologist and expert on Second Temple Judea offers here a nuanced, wide-ranging, and groundbreaking exploration of the earliest stories of Jesus’s infancy and childhood. Always in a thoroughly informed way, Taylor includes both fresh, sometimes controversial proposals and evidence for more conventional ones. This meticulously argued work will surely generate both debate and well-deserved praise. Everyone will learn from it, and those who disagree on points will necessarily find the study fascinating and worthy of engagement, while finding much worthy of consideration.”

Can a Scientist Believe in Miracles?

Science & Faith

“Scientific thinker Stephen Jay Gould famously declared science and religion to represent non-overlapping magisteria. Here Ian Hutchinson, a top scientific thinker, insightfully explores the limits of science and faith and where their claims intersect. A valuable yet delightfully readable voice at the intersection of philosophy of science and philosophy of religion, offering scientifically and theologically plausible arguments structured around many of today's important questions.”