Christian Biblical Reference Books

Designed for the pastor and Bible teacher, the Zondervan Exegetical Commentary on the Old Testament features today's top Old Testament scholars and...

The Old Testament books of Ezra and Nehemiah offer a timeless message of hope to Christians, reminding us that Jesus came to set us free from our o...

The chequered story of the Kings, lasting nearly five centuries, had ended disastrously in 587 BC with the sack of Jerusalem, the fall of the monar...

Charting the Jews' return from exile to Jerusalem and the beginnings of that rebirth, the books of Ezra and Nehemiah demonstrate the good hand of G...

The checkered story of the kings, lasting nearly five centuries, ended disastrously in 587 BC with the sack of Jerusalem, the fall of the monarchy,...

The chequered story of the Kings, a matter of nearly five centuries, had ended disastrously in 587 B.C. with the sack of Jerusalem, the fall of the...

The books of Ezra and Nehemiah continue the story of God’s people after the exile in Babylon… Ezra and Nehamiah call us back to a renewed obedience...

Bible commentary on Ezra, Nehemiah and Esther.

The Teach the Text Commentary Series gives pastors the best of biblical scholarship and presents the information needed to move seamlessly from the...

Set in the Persian Empire, one of the greatest kingdoms the world has ever known, the stories contained in the books of Ezra and Nehemiah provide t...

The Cornerstone Biblical Commentary series provides up-to-date, evangelical scholarship on the Old and New Testaments. Each volume is designed to e...

One in an ongoing series of esteemed and popular Bible commentary volumes based on the New International Version text.

This is a comprehensive consideration of the books of Ezra, Nehemiah and Esther.

This volume offers a substantive and useful commentary on Ezra-Nehemiah and explores its contemporary significance. Respected Old Testament scholar...

The Word Biblical Commentary delivers the best in biblical scholarship, from the leading scholars of our day who share a commitment to Scripture as...

The Da Vinci Code. Misquoting Jesus. The Jesus Papers. The Gospel of Judas. New portraits of Jesus continue to stir up interest and debate. The mor...

Can the short account of a brief incident from the life of a woman of dubious character say anything to us today "a woman who lived over 3000 years...

At an early age, Daniel was taken from the city of Jerusalem to live the remainder of his days in Babylon. But while living in Babylon, Daniel cont...

The story of the apostle Paul is one of the most fascinating in history. The bitter enemy of Christianity becomes its most powerful and zealous adv...

Known as 'the weeping prophet', Jeremiah was called by God to confront the people of Judah with their enormous sins, call them to repentance and as...

Raised in obscurity, young David would not have featured on a list of candidates for the future king of Israel but God had different ideas! Read, h...

Raised in obscurity, shooting to prominence in the nation of Israel, David became a powerful figure and everyone loved him - well, not quite everyo...

Elijah, the fiery prophet, lived in a time of intense spiritual darkness. People were openly disobeying God's commands, and true worship seemed to ...

The stories from the life of the prophet Elisha are well known his call by Elijah, Naaman's healing from leprosy, the miraculous provision of oil f...

We are no longer in the world in which Ezra lived: we no longer have God revealing his hand at work with canonical authority. However, like Ezra, w...

While not ignoring practical lessons that can be drawn from the life of Joseph, Roger Ellsworth fastens our attention on his place in the drama of ...

In God's plan to save lost sinners, Jesus had to suffer and die. But that meant there had to be people who would bring this about. How did Judas be...

The story of the apostle Paul is one of the most fascinating in history. The bitter enemy of Christianity becomes its most powerful and zealous adv...

To be 'Face2Face' with Samuel means much more than taking a close look at the great prophet, priest and judge of ancient Israel. It means looking b...

Sennacherib was once a name to send a chill down spines, yet today, relatively few have heard of him, and even fewer know much about him. Lord Byro...

Simon Peter is one of Scripture's most fascinating characters. Plucked from obscurity to be a disciple of Jesus of Nazareth, he embarked on a journ...

Many of us today face lives that we would never have chosen for ourselves. We can often feel as if we are helpless victims, suffering pain careless...

Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892) earned the title, ''The Prince of Preachers'' by his untiring pulpit work which produced many thousands of serm...

Lost in Exile, Found in Scripture: A Fresh Look at Psalm 119 In this illuminating commentary on Psalm 119, David VanDrunen offers a fresh perspecti...

Christians the world over are under pressure, facing difficulties and dangers of all kinds. Nehemiah was raised up to lead God’s people at a critic...

Voters today too often default to one side of the political spectrum or the other. Candidates avoid discussing issues, and election outcomes are in...

With typical wit and wisdom Dale Ralph Davis opens up chapters 12-25 of Genesis. These beautiful and insightful expositions guide you through some ...

Conflict is all too common in the church today. But as Frances Taylor Gench reminds us in this book, conflict over scriptural interpretation has be...

Debates about capitalism versus socialism reflect a deep divide in American society, in both the broader culture and the church. While those attrac...

Everything we do, say and think is, in some sense, emotional. We describe ourselves and our experiences in terms of how we feel. In the New Testame...

Faithful to the End provides fresh, classroom-ready introduction to Hebrews through Revelation, emphasizing each of these New Testament book's them...