Iain Provan

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“A wonderful introduction, both textual and visual, to the Old Testament as Holy Scripture that is rooted in the realities of ancient time and space. Highly recommended!”

A Survey of the Old Testament Workbook

Discipleship & Christian Education

“A wonderful introduction, both textual and visual, to the Old Testament as Holy Scripture that is rooted in the realities of ancient time and space. Highly recommended!”

Ancient Israel's History

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“An excellent resource for those interested in taking seriously all the evidence, both biblical and extrabiblical, bearing on the history of ancient Israel and in thinking carefully about how to weigh that evidence and integrate it into a coherent account.”

Approaching Job

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“A stimulating and moving companion to the book of Job that does not so much 'explain' it as draw its readers deeply into it and provoke our constant re-engagement with it. I highly recommend this book.”

Circles and the Cross

Science & Faith

“This is a wonderful, beautifully written book about ‘Life, the Universe, and Everything’ (as the fictional Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy once called it). As Loren Wilkinson himself opines (quoting Lewis), ‘“Everything” is a subject on which there is not much to be said.’ In this book he manages nevertheless to say a considerable amount about it—discourse that is rich, suggestive, and inspiring, providing a substantial outline of a Christocentric Theory of Everything.”

Demons and Spirits in Biblical Theology

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“In Demons and Spirits in Biblical Theology, the authors develop in a new direction the long-term Waltonian program that is designed to make us better Bible-readers by helping us to read Scripture in its ancient contexts. Readers may not agree with every conclusion that arises from their important distinction between reference and affirmation in the Bible. They should, however, recognize the utility of the method in helping us to ensure that, on the matter of demons and spirits, we are people of biblical faith rather than (in reality) polytheists or practical atheists. I warmly commend this book to all who need help in thinking this matter through.”

Foundations

Bible Studies & Devotionals

“If our ‘need today is neither for a therapeutic church nor for a political church but for a confessing church, one that will boldly confess the claims of Christ in the face of the heresies and heterodoxies of our age’ (Donald Bloesch), then we also need a new Reformation in which we recommit to catechesis in pursuit of deep and broad biblical and theological literacy. Matt Crocker offers us in this book a highly readable resource for ordinary Christian folk in pursuit of this goal.”

Praying the Language of Enmity in the Psalter

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“This excellent study helpfully focuses our attention on a long-neglected theme in the book of Psalms, by way of careful examination of both well-known and less well-known texts. Pushing beyond standard form-critical categories, Persaud presents these psalms to the reader as important resources for the Church in its ongoing struggle in prayer with recalcitrant moral evil.”

Proverbs

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“The commentary, written in accessible style, wrestles incisively with the text, delighting the reader with (among other things) many memorable and quotable turns of phrase. I warmly commend this commentary!”

Proverbs

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Waltke and De Silva’s abridged and updated version of Waltke’s 2004 commentary on Proverbs, which is designed to make the original more accessible to students and pastors (among others), will be widely welcomed. It is especially useful in its consideration of the wider context within which each unit of text is located and in its inclusion of a subject index that relates the various proverbs to larger topics. I commend this work most warmly to a new generation of readers.”

Recovering People

Counseling, Grief & Mental Health

“An insightful, warm-hearted, moving, but also appropriately demanding set of reflections on addiction—a comprehensive study of what addiction is, and what we can and should do about it. I warmly recommend this book, not least as a model of how to help people think in a distinctively Christian way about human personhood and its inevitable social and political entailments.”

Spiritual Complaint

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“[This is] an intriguing and helpful exploration of the biblical traditions of lament and penitential prayer, and their relevance to contemporary church and society. The context of the Christchurch earthquakes gives the book a particular poignancy.”

The Book of Zechariah

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“This fine exposition of Zechariah represents a most welcome addition to commentary on this book. Mark Boda has a great eye both for the detail of the text and for its intertextuality.”

The Lost World of Adam and Eve

Science & Faith

“This excellent volume on reading Genesis 2 and 3 will be enormously helpful to Bible-readers who wish to take seriously both Scripture and contemporary scientific perspectives on such matters as human origins. Building on previous work, Walton plots an orthodox Christian path through some challenging territory, writing in a highly accessible manner and making great use of example. His extensive knowledge of the ancient Near Eastern world constantly illuminates the text. The reader will not only gain deep insight into the opening chapters of Genesis, but (more generally) will also be helped to think well about what it means to read any ancient text competently.”