John Goldingay

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Tremper Longman knows what the questions are that people ask and what the questions are they need to ask about Genesis. He is skilled at providing answers that make sense and that take people forward in their understanding of this vital but argued about and often misunderstood part of the Scriptures. He is good at making complicated questions as intelligible as they can be, and he takes scholarly questions seriously without losing track of the reason why people are reading the Scriptures. Further, he is good at providing answers to questions in a way that encourages readers to do their own reading and thinking. It's therefore excellent that he has brought out this new edition of his valuable introduction, which takes into account key scholarly works of the last twenty years. A whole new generation of readers can profit from it!”

Imprecations in the Psalms

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Who hasn’t wondered about why the imprecatory psalms are in the Bible? . . . Were the people who prayed them self-righteous or deluded? Were they unaware of the call to love one’s enemies? Did they think they could simply say anything because they were suffering? Did they lack any idea of enemies turning to God? Jenkins shows that the answer to all these questions is no!”

Interpreting the Prophets

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Happy are the students who take Aaron Chalmers's classes! He has assimilated a vast and complex range of materials from the Old Testament and its world, and from the scholarly world, and out of them has formulated a coherent and intelligible account of the Prophets for his readers. And it all serves a passion to help people read the Prophets for themselves.”

Introduction to Biblical Interpretation

Theology

“As you would expect and even hope, this book on biblical interpretation by a couple of Pentecostal scholars is not your traditional kind of introduction to the topic. It’s personal. It’s passionate. It’s prayerful. It’s pneumatic. It’s practical. But it does the traditional things as well. It talks about inspiration and history, and it is wide-ranging and broad-minded. It will build people up so they can get the most out of the Bible.”

Isaiah

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Readers of a commentary on Isaiah may hope that it will help them grasp the book of Isaiah as a whole, the way different parts relate to different contexts, the theological significance of these different parts, how Isaiah looks when read in light of the New Testament, what we might learn from modern study of it, and the actual meaning of individual chapters. McConville gives sensible and illuminating answers to all these questions.”

Judgment and Salvation

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“The Scriptures often refer to the Genesis flood as a great catastrophe and a great act of judgment. But in this book Dustin Burlet offers his readers hope by looking at the other side of the story. God didn’t totally destroy the world. He preserved it and set his creation purpose going again. And the story is shaped so as to persuade its readers to accept such a hopeful worldview. So readers of Genesis and readers of Burlet’s book, be encouraged!”

Justice for the Poor?

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Every time I read something by Walter Houston, it makes me think. He lets no one get away with sloppy arguments, he respects no sacred cows, and his arguments are always rigorous and critical. Never does he forget the reason he is studying the Old Testament. He keeps in focus the question of what it has to say about justice and righteousness and his commitment to helping the reader see what it says.”

My Salvation Is Close at Hand

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Benjamin Giffone is inclined to think that the last part of the book of Isaiah (maybe the least-read part) is especially significant for our age. It’s a day when the people of God are down-sized and down-hearted. We need God to encourage us and challenge us, and that’s what God does for the people of God in Isaiah 56–66. So read Benjamin Giffone’s exposition of these chapters!”

Old Testament Ethics for the People of God

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“Chris Wright has been one of the most significant writers on Old Testament ethics over recent decades. In a unique way he combines commitment to listening openly to the Old Testament as Scripture, reflectiveness over questions of method, and clarity as a writer. It is excellent that he has been able to stand back and rework so much of his important work into this definitive volume.”

Old Testament Theology

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Anyone who appreciates Walter Moberly's writing will appreciate this new work: urbane, focused, careful, learned, nuanced, fearless, independent, rejoicing to look closely at a few trees in the conviction that they will throw light on the nature of the forest, and conservative in the best possible way. When Professor Moberly dives down promising rabbit holes, you never know where they will lead, but you know that the exploration will be engaging, intriguing, and well worth the admission price.”

Old Testament Wisdom Literature

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Be not misled: this is much more than a theological introduction to the Old Testament wisdom books. It is a wide-ranging survey of their significance against their ancient Middle Eastern background and in the context of modern study. It stresses and explicates their poetic nature, and it makes illuminating links with modern and postmodern thinking.”

Praying Curses

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“"What do we do with the imprecatory psalms? Did they get into the Bible by mistake? Do they simply belong to the situation before Jesus came? Are they just a way of getting things off our chest? Is there any sense in which Christians can pray them or preach them? This is a wonderful survey of the interpretive possibilities, written with theological insight and practical wisdom.”

Problems in Biblical Theology

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“"These essays take up Rolf Knierim's concern with some ultimate questions in Old Testament study: How do we understand texts? and What kind of significance does the Old Testament have for the world today? The contributors offer creative theological studies of particular parts of the Old Testament. No one interested in the theological significance of the Old Testament will want to ignore this book.”

Prostitutes and Polygamists

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“A pastor once said he needed only three Sunday school classes in his church: one on sex, one on the end times, and one on whether there will be sex in the end times. David Lamb here covers all the bases on the subject of sex in the Old Testament, in a sensible, down-to-earth, well-informed way. He writes as a biblical scholar who knows about real life, and he shows he can bring the Bible and our own sexual lives together. His book would be a great textbook for at least one of those classes.”

Psalms 101–150

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“What an extraordinary study! Abraham Kuruvilla has applied himself with resolution and enthusiasm to all 150 psalms, and here he shares the results with us. He thus takes us through the entire Psalter with careful and suggestive outlines of the Psalms for preachers, and with judicious comments on their theological significance. It will be wonderful if pastors make them a resource for preaching. Indeed, any student of the Psalms will learn from them.”

Reading Daniel as a Text in Theological Hermeneutics

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“A noteworthy student of Daniel once wearily commented that it is hard to say anything new about Daniel. Aaron Hebbard claims to have done so, and he soon persuaded me that he has. Anyone interested in Daniel or in hermeneutics (whether or not they like that word prefaced by the word 'theological') will be intrigued by this book.”

Remember Their Sin No More?

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“One hears it said that forgiveness is just a New Testament idea: the Old Testament God is too wrathful to forgive people and the Israelites are too vengeful to forgive anyone! How excellent it therefore is to have this study of key passages in the Old Testament that talk about God's forgiveness and about people forgiving each other (without oversimplifying what the Old Testament does have to say).”

Risking Truth

“author of Introduction to the Psalms In the Old Testament and in the New, real prayer involves real courage. It involves facing facts and owning them. It involves the risk of facing God with them and considering replacing old familiar convictions with new ones. It involves thinking about God in new ways. It is easier not to do any of that, but in this book Scott Ellington shows how the risk is worthwhile.”