Gary Edward Schnittjer

A People Heeds Not Scripture

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Something is amiss in the book of Judges. Jillian Ross investigates what’s going on and helps readers learn to carry out such an investigation. Ross reveals the recurring subtle web of allusions to the Torah in Judges and draws out the deep irony that a people who heeds not Scripture is a people who are in conflict against the Torah-shaped narrative in which they are set. This book provides a discerning evaluation of allusions in Judges that will greatly benefit readers.”

Dictionary of the New Testament Use of the Old Testament

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“This is it! After a long parade of hermeneutical views, complicated how-tos, and scholarly interpretations, readers still do not have what they actually need. The Dictionary of the New Testament Use of the Old Testament fills the void by speaking to an array of interpretive problems, theological themes, and biblical writings—even the much-neglected Old Testament. This dictionary puts resources into the hands of students and ministers of the Word so they can study the New Testament use of Scripture for themselves. It is easy to be effusive about this outstanding book.”

Loving God and Neighbor

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“George and Derek Campbell argue that the Ten Commandments in Deuteronomy 5 and the many laws in Deuteronomy 6‒26 are a gift from God. The gift of Deuteronomy explains what it means to love God and to love others. Every chapter ends with questions for individuals and then questions for teachers and preachers. Interpreting the Bible by the Bible in Loving God and Neighbor is teaching me things I need to learn.”

Mere Christian Hermeneutics

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“This book is what we need now. Before the turn of the century many of us struggled with the meaning of meaning, and Kevin Vanhoozer’s Is There a Meaning in This Text? helped us find a way through everything that was going on. Mere Christian Hermeneutics by Vanhoozer goes further and emphasizes the outcomes of Scripture study in terms of righteousness and loving and serving the Lord. The idea that there is such a thing as mere Christian hermeneutics—a shared interpretive perspective of all Christians everywhere from the resurrection to the second coming—needs attention. Vanhoozer helps readers grapple with the dynamics of and variations within this shared perspective by showing how frames of reference and reading cultures shift interpretation. Every student and every pastor needs to read Mere Christian Hermeneutics. I know how much it already has helped me.”

The Prophet and the Sage

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Despite longtime acknowledgment of the overlapping theological interests of Job and Habakkuk, detailed textual study has been lacking. Brian Koning identifies a convincing exegetical intervention involving Habakkuk 1 and Job 19. Koning’s evaluation of this interpretive allusion is valuable irrespective of one’s view of the dating of Job. Many thanks to Koning for helping us consider an exegetical relationship between Job and Habakkuk that illumines their theological outlooks.”