Christian Biblical Reference Books

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

This set of 4 books offers John MacArthur's commentary on all of I & II Thessalonians, I & II Timothy, and Titus. Join John MacArthur as h...

This book takes you on a thrilling journey through Paul’s life, following his epic travels across the ancient Roman world.

Douglas Campbell has made a name for himself as one of Paul’s most insightful and provocative interpreters. In this short and spirited book Campbel...

In Paul's day, producing and delivering a letter was time-consuming and costly. Informed by historical evidence and features of the biblical texts,...

A sparkling introduction to the key areas of debate in contemporary Pauline studies, with critical assessments of all the major contributions over ...

D. Clint Burnett examines copious evidence—literary, epigraphic, numismatic, and archaeological—to reconstruct Christian engagement with imperial c...

Since the earliest days of the church, scriptural interpreters have noticed similarities between the writings of Paul and John. These similarities ...

Rev. Dr. Timo Laato returns to his arguments around Christology, Paul, and Judaism in this second edition. While the present debate was started in ...

Relying on the results of current Pauline scholarship and a careful exegesis of a variety of New Testament texts, this book offers a thorough inves...

John Howard Schutz's milestone analysis of Paul's authority shaped a generation of thought about Paul. This insightful work continues to be relevan...

This major contribution to Pauline scholarship by a widely-respected New Testament scholar is the culmination of over forty years of teaching on Pa...

A masterly exposition of Paul's thought by one of his leading contemporary interpreters. The summation of a lifetime's study, this landmark book o...

What forces shaped the intellectual world of the Apostle Paul? How familiar was he with the great philosophers of his age, and to what extent was h...

One of the trajectories coming out of Constantine Campbell's award-winning book Paul and Union with Christ is the significance of eschatology for t...

Paul lies at the core of the constant debate about the opposition between Christianity and Judaism both in biblical interpretation and public disco...

In The Smart Guide to the Bible, you'll easily discover insights, even in the passages you once thought were hard to understand.

How did Paul understand time? Standard interpretations are that Paul modified his inherited Jewish apocalyptic sequential two-age temporality. Paul...

Paul and Union with Christ---a thorough exegetical exploration of the Greek phrases Paul used to express the idea of union, or participation, with ...

In this important addition to Pauline scholarship on 1 Corinthians, Dr. Vuyani Stanley Sindo brings fresh insight to how Paul’s use of the “in Chri...

Paul as Pastor demonstrates the critical nature of Paul's pastoral care to his identity and activities. Despite the fact that Paul never identifies...

The apostle Paul was kind of a jerk. He was arrogant and stubborn. He called his opponents derogatory, racist names. He legitimized slavery and si...

This volume does away with the traditional strategy of playing 'Judaism' and 'Hellenism' against each other as a context to understand Paul. This a...

Making use of his true scholar's understanding, yet writing in an approachable and anecdotal style, Tom Wright captures the dauntless power of thes...

Tom Wright has completed a tremendous task: to provide comprehensive guides to all the books of the New Testament, and to furnish them with his own...

Paul In Syria: The Background To Galatians What motivated the apostle Paul from his Damascus road experience through to the end of his life? That ...

Though the apostle Paul wrote letters to many of the churches he founded, none of his extant letters reveal more about him, his missionary activity...

Drawing on recent scholarship on the Pauline tradition within early Christianity, Nicholas Taylor examines Paul's theology of baptism and highlight...

A Messianic Commentary: Paul Presents to the Philippians is a worthy read and an appropriate study for any Messianic Jewish talmid or Christian dis...

If you discovered that pagan scholars influenced Paul s thinking, would this shake your faith? On the contrary! Author Dr. Joseph R. Dodson argues ...

A scholarly examination of Paul’s use of stories and implied stories in his letters

The result of over thirty years of research and lecturing, Paul Through Mediterranean Eyes is a ground-breaking study of Paul's first epistle to th...

If you’re teaching about Paul and James, interested in the faith and works controversy, or feel dissatisfied with pat answers you’ve received in th...

Why does Paul talk so much about slavery and freedom in his letters to the early church? Maybe because he himself had once been enslaved. Discover ...

In this book, Jarvis J. Williams argues that Paul's gospel in Romans is the announcement of good news that by Jesus Christ's death and resurrection...