Bible Commentaries

The Basic Bible Commentary series is a 29-volume commentary written to enhance Bible study for all students of the Bible. Based on the NRSV and NIV...

Proverbs shape our moral imagination. The  Abingdon Old Testament Commentaries  provide compact, critical commentaries on the books of the Old Test...

Explores how the Book of Leviticus challenges and encourages believers of every generation to live the life that God originally intended for humani...

A basic commentary on Revelation for use in adult personal and classroom study. Revised and updated. Based on the NRSV and NIV Translations. Covers...

In this first volume in the Library of Biblical Theology series, Walter Brueggemann portrays the key components in Israel's encounter with God as r...

The  Global Bible Commentary  invites its users to expand their horizon by reading the Bible with scholars from all over the world and from differe...

Explores Ezekiel--a story of trauma, holiness, and survival The Abingdon Old Testament Commentaries provide compact, critical commentaries on the b...

The  Abingdon Old Testament Commentaries  provide compact, critical commentaries on the books of the Old Testament for the use of theological stude...

* Revised and updated * Based on the NRSV and NIV translations * Covers every book verse by verse * Each volume also contains maps, charts, a pronu...

Like widely differing siblings raised by the same parents, each letter produced by Paul has its own distinguishing character. For the historically ...

The Abingdon Old Testament Commentaries provide compact, critical commentaries on the books of the Old Testament for the use of theological student...

The Abingdon Old Testament Commentaries series offers compact, critical commentaries on all the books of the Old Testament. In addition to providin...

After years of close contact with the Johannine epistles, David Rensberger discusses the numerous puzzles--linguistic, literary, and historical--th...

In this lucid exposition, an acclaimed interpreter shows that the book of Revelation is to be read as a unified work of religious poetry aimed at e...

The commentary demonstrates how to work through the texts of Philippians and Philemon in the light of relevant scholarship but also with the use of...

The Abingdon New Testament Commentaries series provides compact, critical commentaries on the writings of the New Testament. These commentaries are...

In this volume, Smith views the Fourth Gospel within several contexts in order to illuminate its specific purposes and achievements. A growing cons...

Sleeper's lucid exposition of James restores this often neglected work to its rightful place in the Christian canon. Carefully charting the verbal ...

Pfitzner interprets Hebrews as a passionate appeal directed by its author to a community that is in danger of surrendering the distinctiveness of i...

The short letter to the Colossians has played a significant role in the development of Christian thought. Its emphases on salvation as largely real...

In a striking departure from customary readings of the Acts of the Apostles as the story of the growth of the church, Gaventa argues that Luke's se...

* Revised and updated * Based on the NRSV and NIV translations * Covers every book verse by verse * Each volume also contains maps, charts, a pronu...

Identifying the theme of 1 Peter as how the church is to witness responsibly in a non-Christian world, Boring emphasizes the necessity of a sympath...

This commentary highlights both the socio-political context of 1 Corinthians and the clash of significantly different religious viewpoints represen...

"Jouette Bassler's volume on the Pastoral Letters is a model of careful, clearly written cogent interpretation. She gives faithful attention to the...

Mark's genius lies, not in telling a story about Jesus, but in creating conditions under which the reader may experience the peculiar quality of Go...

* Revised and updated * Based on the NRSV and NIV translations * Covers every book verse by verse * Each volume also contains maps, charts, a pronu...

* Revised and updated * Based on the NRSV and NIV translations * Covers every book verse by verse * Each volume also contains maps, charts, a pronu...

Revised and updated * Based on the NRSV and NIV translations * Covers every book verse by verse * Each volume also contains maps, charts, a pronunc...

* Revised and updated * Based on the NRSV and NIV translations * Covers every book verse by verse * Each volume also contains maps, charts, a pronu...

* Revised and updated * Based on the NRSV and NIV translations * Covers every book verse by verse * Each volume also contains maps, charts, a pronu...

* Revised and updated * Based on the NRSV and NIV translations * Covers every book verse by verse * Each volume also contains maps, charts, a pronu...

* Revised and updated * Based on the NRSV and NIV translations * Covers every book verse by verse * Each volume also contains maps, charts, a pronu...

* Revised and updated * Based on the NRSV and NIV translations * Covers every book verse by verse * Each volume also contains maps, charts, a pronu...

*Thorough yet concise commentary *Revised and updated * Based on the NRSV and NIV translations * Covers every book verse by verse * Each volume als...

Clifford differs from other commentators on the Psalms chiefly in his concern with the inner dramatic logic of the Psalms - how they organize the e...

This informative and engaging commentary invites modern readers to "overhear" Paul's letter as if they were present in one of the Galatian house-ch...

In this volume, Pheme Perkins mines the writings from Nag Hammadi and Qumran for illuminating parallels to Ephesians, showing how a first-century a...

From the second century to the present, 2 Corinthians offers its riches grudgingly,if at all; and even then it demands only the most careful and at...

The truth behind the phrase “for me to live is Christ” transforms our responses to present imperfections and future hope. Johnson’s commentary—grou...

Learn how the story of Joseph prefigures the gospel, testifying to God’s electing grace and showing how he redeems and restores broken and dysfunct...

The book of Isaiah is a tale of two cities: the Jerusalem Isaiah knew, and the Jerusalem that he saw. We are introduced to both in the opening five...

Do you enjoy reading other people's correspondence, especially the letters of famous people? This book explores two of the great Apostle Paul's ea...

Is God responsible for natural disasters? Some would say that he punishes us by sending storms and floods. In Joel's time, Judah was suffering the ...

God overrules for good the activities of those who teach false doctrine. In the days of the apostles, for example, we see these activities being ov...

The book of 2 Samuel centers around the reign of Israel’s greatest king, David. Beginning with the record of David’s triumphs, it reaches a climax ...