Outline: The New American Commentary is for those who have been seeking a commentary that honors the Scriptures, represents the finest in contemporary evangelical scholarship, and lends itself to the practical work of preaching and teaching. This series serves as a minister's friend and a student's guide. The New American Commentary assumes the inerrancy of Scripture, focuses on the intrinsic t…
Outline: Despite its relative brevity, Paul's letter to the Galatians raises a number of foundational theological issues, and it has played a vital role in shaping Christian brought and practice over the centuries. In this placement NICNT volume on Galatians, David deSilva provides a coherent account of the letter as a piece of strategically crafted communication that addresses both the immedia…
Outline: The New American Commentary is for those who have been seeking a commentary that honors the Scriptures, represents the finest in contemporary evangelical scholarship, and lends itself to the practical work of preaching and teaching. This series serves as a minister's friend and a student's guide. The New American Commentary assumes the inerrancy of Scripture, focuses on the intrinsic t…
Outline: The New American Commentary is for those who have been seeking a commentary that honors the Scriptures, represents the finest in contemporary evangelical scholarship, and lends itself to the practical work of preaching and teaching. This series serves as a minister's friend and a student's guide. The New American Commentary assumes the inerrancy of Scripture, focuses on the intrinsic t…
Outline: The New American Commentary is for those who have been seeking a commentary that honors the Scriptures, represents the finest in contemporary evangelical scholarship, and lends itself to the practical work of preaching and teaching. This series serves as a minister's friend and a student's guide. The New American Commentary assumes the inerrancy of Scripture, focuses on the intrinsic t…
Outline: The Eerdmans Classic Biblical Commentaries series collects the best and most trusted Eerdmans commentaries from years gone by in a format that will make them available to readers for years to come. Some of the ECBC volumes were originally published in major commentary series, others as freestanding books. Some were first published decades ago, others more recently. Though written over …
Outline: A new commentary for today's world, The Story of God Bible Commentary explains and illuminates each passage of Scripture in light of the Bible's grand story. The first commentary series to do so, SGBC offers a clear and compelling exposition of biblical texts, guiding everyday readers in how to creatively and faithfully live out the Bible in their own contexts. In story-centric approac…
Outline: Designed for the pastor and Bible teacher, the Zondervan Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament brings together commentary features gathered together in one volume. Written by notable evangelical scholars, such volume treats the literary context and structure of the passage in the original Greek, and each author provides an original translation based on the literary structure. The …
Outline: Designed for the pastor and Bible teacher, the Zondervan Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament brings together commentary features rarely gathered together in one volume. Written by notable evangelical scholars, each volume treats the literary context and structure of the passage in the original Greek, and each author provides an original translation based on the literary structur…
Outline: The Question that Paul set before the ancient church in Corinth - Do you not recognize that Jesus Christ is in and among you? (2 Cor 13: 5) - remains a critical question for the church today. This commentary by Mark Seifrid offers a unified reading of 2 Corinthians, which has often been regarded as a composite of excerpts and fragments, as Seifrid seeks to hear Paul's message afreash a…
Outline: In keeping with the Pillar New Testament Commentary's distinctive character, this volume by James R. Edwards on Luke gives special attention to the Third Gospel's vocabulary and historical setting, its narrative purpose and unique themes, and its theological significance for the church and believers today. Though Luke is often thought to have a primarily Gentile focus, Edwards counterb…
Outline: Filling a notable fap in scholarship on 2 Peter and Jude, Peter Davids artfully unpacks these two neglected but fascinating epistles that deal with the confrontation between the Greco-Roman world and the burgeoning first-century Jesus communities. Davids firmly grasps the overall structure of these oft-maligned epistles and presents a strong case for 2 Peter and Jude as coherent, consi…
Outline: Scripture testifies that in the work of Jesus Christ the power of Satan, sin, and death has been broken. Yet on and on the ages roll, and wars rage, humans destroy one another and themselves, and natural evils such as earthquakes and tsunamis occur. We seem to suffer what J. H. Bavinck calls "the great delay", still awaiting Christ's final victory. In this illuminating survey of the bo…
Outline: The book of Daniel is both familiar and unfamiliar to many Christians. The stories of the fiery furnace and Daniel in the lion's den are the staples of children's Bible story books and Sunday scholl classes. Yet the latter chapters of Daniel's vision are more unfamilir and daunting to most believers, who may have been exposed to a variety of end-times speculations constructed from an a…
Outline: Blessed through God's anointing, King David binds together a broken nation and gives his people victory - until, distracted, he is overcome by sin. The sword of God's judgment then falls on David and his house, but even as David is humbled, he returns penitently to the Lord. Richard Phillip's expository commentary carries us with David up to the heights and down to the depths, noting t…
Outline: The New American Commentary is for those who have been seeking a commentary that honors the Scriptures, represents the finest in contemporary evangelical scholarship, and lends itself to the practical work of preaching and teaching. This series serves as a minister's friend and a student's guide. The New American Commentary assumes the inerrancy of Scripture, focuses on the intrinsic t…
Outline: Many Christians around the world today face severe persecution, while others daily feel the weight of coultural pressure against them. The apostle Peter speaks to this as he reminds us that Christians are aliens and exiles in an often-hostile empire. Yet we are simultaneously the chosen of God, equipped by Jesus's work for us and in us to live faithfully in our dual identity. In this e…
Outline: Paul urges Philemon to challenge social barriers and establish new realities of conduct and fellowship. His letter is nevertheless a disturbing text that has been used to justify slavery. Though brief, the letter to Philemon requires and rewards close scrutiny. In this commentary Scot McKnight carefully analyzes the text of Philemon and brings its entanglement with ancient Roman slaver…
Outline: The books of Ezra and Nehemiah tell a vital story of a community revived and restored by God's grace through gifted individuals, preparing the way for the Messiah to come. Ezra, a priest, and Nehemiah, a governor, both prioritized the Word of God and the practice of prayer - commitments that are just as vital for the renewal of the church today. In his practical and devotional exposito…
Outline: The New American Commentary is for those who have been seeking a commentary that honors the Scriptures, represents the finest in contemporary evangelical scholarship, and lends itself to the practical work of preaching and teaching. This series serves as a minister's friend and a student's guide. The New American Commentary assumes the inerrancy of Scripture, focuses on the intrinsic t…
Outline: To the people of Judah, distressed by changing political realities, it seemed that God had lost control of the situation. Zephaniah warned of imminent judgment and pointed to hope close at hand: God is both Judge and a Refuge from judgment. Haggai declared that God's struggling people needed to reorder their priorities and invest in building the Lord's house so that God's renewed prese…
Outline: Ecclesiastes raises questions that haunt everyone to some degrees. We live in a busy world, but does our busyness have a purpose? Or will the tyranny of time render all our labor pointless? If our efforts are doomed by death, how are we supposed to live in the meantime? Douglas O'Donnell turns to Ecclesiastes to show us that lives of seeming futility "under the sun" become filled with …
Outline: Anthony Thiselton's lengthy New International Greek Testament Commentary volume The First Epistle to the Corithians (2000) has become a standard work on 1 Corinthians. In this "shorter" commentary Thiselton draws on his excellent exegesis from that volume but combines it afresh with keen practical and pastoral application for readers at all levels. Thiselton delves deeply into the cont…
Outline: John the apostle left a rich legacy in his three letters. Seeking to lead his readers to a deeper assurance of fath, John argued that we can know with confidence that we possess eternal life if we examine our theological, moral, and social beliefs and behaviors. Pastor-scholar Douglas Sean O'Donnell illustrates and applies three essential questions from John that we must ask ourselves …
Outline: The Bible is both a divine and a human book. It is the inspired word of God for his people. whether in biblical times or for the church today. It is also a fully human book, written by different people in a variety of cultural settings. Knowledge of biblical language and society is essential if the meaning of the human writer is to be grasped fully. The Apollos Old Testament Commentary…
Outline: The New American Commentary is for those who have been seeking a commentary that honors the Scriptures, represents the finest in contemporary evangelical scholarship, and lends itself to the practical work of preaching and teaching. This series serves as a minister's friend and a student's guide. The New American Commentary assumes the inerrancy of Scripture, focuses on the intrinsic t…
Outline: Seeking to bridge the existing gap between biblical studies and systematic theology, this distinctive series offers section-by-section exegesis of the Old Testament texts in close conversation with theological concerns. Written by respected scholars, the THOTC volumes aim to help pastors, teachers, and students engage in deliberately theological interpretation of Scripture. In this com…
Outline: Paul's Letter to the Romans may well be the most influential book in Christian history. In this Romans commentary Colin Kruse shows how Paul expounds the gospel against the background of God's sovereign action as creator, judge, and redeemer of the world. Valuable "additional notes" on important theological themes and difficult texts - such as Paul's discussion of same-sex relationship…
Outline : Designed for the pastor and Bible teacher, the Zondervan Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament brings together commentary features rarely gathered together in one volume. Written by notable evangelical scholars, each volume treats the literary context and structure of the passage in the original Greek, and each author provides an original translation based on the literary structu…
Outline: 1 & 2 Kings, the second volume in the Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible, is the first Old Testament commentary in the series. It follows Jaroslav Pelikan's volume on Acts, winner of a 2006 Catholic Press Association Award. This commentary, like each in the series, is designed to serve the church - through aid in preaching, teaching, study groups, and so forth - and demonstrate…
Outline: In this addition to the Baker Commentary on the Old Testament Wisdom and Psalms series, Tremper Longman combines a careful exegetical reading of the book of Job with keen theological insights. The series is tailored to the distinctives of poetry and Wisdom literature, featuring emphasis on the message of the biblical book; special attention to poetic structure and literary devices; inc…
Outline : Designed for the pastor and Bible teacher, the Zondervan Exegetical Commentary on the Old Testament brings together commentary features rarely gathered together in one volume. With careful discourse analysis and interpretation of the Hebrew text, the authors trace the flow of argument in each Old Testament book, showing that how a biblical author says something is just as important as…
Outline : In his epistle to the Colossians, Paul responds to challenges posted by various religious currents in first-century Asia Minor by pointing the church to the sufficiency of Christ's work and his lordship over believers' lives. Through this christological lens, Paul critiques the religious practices that fail to conform to the true gospel, and he presents an alternative way of living th…
Outline: The Gospel of John has long been recognized and beloved for its theological depth as one of the most robustly doctrinal books in Scripture. Examining the narrative both exegetically and theologically, Edward W. Klink III helps readers of the Fourth Gospel to be attentive to the theological intentions and categories it applies to the person and work of Jesus Christ - the unique Son whom…
Outline: Over twenty-five years in the making, this much-anticipated commentary promises to be the standard stury of Proverbs for years to come. Written by eminent Old Testament scholar Bruce Waltke, this two-volume work is unquestionably the most comprehensive commentary on Proverbs available. Grounded in the new literary criticism that has so strengthened biblical interpretation of late, Wal…
Outline: Over twenty-five years in the making, this much-anticipated commentary promises to be the standard stury of Proverbs for years to come. Written by eminent Old Testament scholar Bruce Waltke, this two-volume work is unquestionably the most comprehensive commentary on Proverbs available. Grounded in the new literary criticism that has so strengthened biblical interpretation of late, Wal…
Outline: The second of John Oswalt's two-part study of Isaiah for the NICOT series, this commentary provides exegetical and theological exposition for scholars, pastors, and students who seek to know the perennial meaning of the text in contemporary terms. Though Oswalt's main introduction to Isaiah is found in his commentary on chapters 1-39, this second volume opens with an important discuss…
Outline: For hundreds of years Christendom has been blessed with Bible commentaries written by great men of God highly respected for their godly walk and their insight into spiritual truth. The Crossway Classic Commentary Series, carefully adapted for maximum understanding and usefulness, presents the very best work on individual Bible books for today's believers. While other parts of Script…
Outline: Each volume in the Understanding the Bible Commentary Series breaks down the barriers between the ancient and modern worlds so that the power and meaning of the biblical texts become transparent to contemporary readers. They present a careful section-by-section exposition of the biblical books with key terms and phrases highlighted and all Greek transliterated. Notes at the close of…
Outline: Does God help those who help themselves? That may seem to be the message of the Books of Esther and Ruth. Some think that Ruth's attractiveness won over Naomi and Boaz, or that Esther's bold faithfulness saved her people. But a closer reading shows an embittered Naomi to have abondened the Promised Land and God's people, and Esther to have become thoroughly assimilated to the cultu…
Outline: The Teach the Text Commentary Series gives pastors the best of biblical scholarship and presents the information needed to move seamlessly from the meaning of the text to its effective communication. By keeping the discussion in each carefully selected preaching unit to six pages of focused commentary, the volumes allow pastors to quickly grasp the most important information. Each u…
Outline: The Teach the Text Commentary Series gives pastors the best of biblical scholarship and presents the information needed to move seamlessly from the meaning of the text to its effective communication. By providing focused commentary on each psalm, this volume allows pastors to quickly grasp the most important information. Each unit of the commentary includes the big idea and key theme…