Christian Biblical Reference Books

The Old Testament's stories are intriguing, mesmerizing, and provocative not only due to their ancient literary craft but also because of their ong...

Scripture Connections: Old Testament Narrative Books focuses on two larger narratives of the Old Testament: the Narratives of the Rise and Fall of ...

This volume by Old Testament scholar Ronald Clements covers many aspects of research on the forms, structure, and theological message of the prophe...

Old Testament Prophets: The Covenant Conscience of God's People takes readers on a journey through the world of the prophets, beginning with Isaiah...

The prophets of the Old Testament include such well-known characters as Isaiah, Jeremiah, Amos, and Hosea. There are, however, many other prophets,...

The second volume in a series that introduces and translates ancient texts that are affiliated in some way with the Old Testament but are not inclu...

For many believers, studying the Old Testament has often been left in mothballs--a tragedy that shouldn't be allowed to continue. Nathan LeMaster s...

Does the Old Testament Matter for the Believer Today? If all Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for instruction as the book of Second Tim...

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...

Modern readers of the Bible often find the Old Testament difficult and even disturbing. What are we to do with obscure prophecies of long expired n...

This republication of a classic work contains a new introduction by Walter Brueggemann that places Gerhard von Rad's work within the context of Ger...

This republication of a classic work contains a new introduction by Walter Brueggemann that places Gerhard von Rad's work within the context of Ger...

The Old Testament is more than a religious history of the nation of Israel. It is more than a portrait gallery of heroes of the faith. It is even m...

In this work, a part of the Old Testament Library series, Horst Preuss provides a comprehensive analysis of the theology of the Old Testament. He f...

In this work, a part of the Old Testament Library series, Horst Preuss provides a comprehensive analysis of the theology of the Old Testament. He f...

The second edition of Old Testament Today---a full-color textbook---shows college students how the Old Testament uniquely reveals the God of the un...

The title of the book can be pleasantly deceiving. Crenshaw goes well beyond the wisdom tradition found in the biblical books of Ecclesiates, Psalm...

For thirty years, James Crenshaw's Old Testament Wisdom has been the premier introduction to the wisdom books of the Old Testament. That tradition ...

The books of Job, Proverbs and Ecclesiastes are rooted in the order created by the one true God. Their steady gaze penetrates to the very nature of...

This volume offers insights regarding how Old Testament wisdom literature, specifically its proverbs and aphoristic material, was and can be used f...

St Isaac's monastic anthropology had a major influence on all of Byzantine spiritual literature.

The Quartodecimans were early Christians who maintained the tradition derived from Judaism, and observed Pascha at the same time that the Jews obse...

The Old Testament tells a story primarily written to, by, and about people of the land―the promised land and its neighboring territories. Those at ...

None of the Fathers of the early church is better known or loved than St. John Chrysostom, and none of his works is more popular than On the Priest...

What makes a Bible translation faithful? Is one version superior to others? Do we really need more than one translation? How can answering these qu...

Keep Watch and Find Hope The absolute certainty of Christ’s return is proclaimed all through the Bible. God has given us many prophecies about this...

N. T. Wright is widely regarded as the most exciting and influential biblical scholar in the world today. These essays throw a spotlight on his con...

Spend an hour with the bestselling and most influential book ever written. The CSB One-Hour with the Bible features selected scripture portions of ...

The big questions of life require a big story to answer them. The world is full of stories that shape our perspective. And the Bible is the most a...

Discover the True Power of the BallotThe vast majority of Americans feel that our nation is moving in the wrong direction, but we feel powerless to...

Whether or not you see yourself as especially gifted or prepared for your role, you were given to your husband so as to uniquely help him perform t...

A Practical Devotional Guide to What It Means to Be “In Christ” Followers of Jesus refer to themselves primarily as “Christians,” but the New Testa...

What happened on this date in church history? From ancient Rome to the twenty-first century, from peasants to presidents, from missionaries to mart...

This is a literary-critical analysis of the myth of Cain and Abel, masterfully related in Genesis 4 by the Yahwist, probably the greatest storytell...

Opening Israel's Scriptures is a collection of thirty-six essays on the Hebrew Bible, from Genesis to Chronicles, which gives powerful insight into...

Opening Israel's Scriptures is a collection of thirty-six essays on the Hebrew Bible, from Genesis to Chronicles, which gives powerful insight into...

After the Berlin Wall fell, a group of Christian colleges in the U.S. seized the opportunity to begin strategic faculty and student exchanges with ...

The book of 1 Chronicles is often neglected, yet it has so much to teach us—even the genealogies! Along with 2 Chronicles, 1 Chronicles surveys Bib...