Christian Biblical Reference Books

Psalms, Volume 2 , which is part of the NIV Application Commentary Series, helps readers learn how the message of the Psalms can have the same powe...

Psalms contain the praises of GodÂ’s people. This is the people of IsraelÂ’s creed. But more than that, they display historical accounts which demo...

James M Hamilton provides a fresh translation and interpretation of the Psalms with this first volume that introduces the Psalms and covers Psalms ...

The Psalms are a carefully arranged collage of history, prophecy, and praise James M Hamilton provides a fresh translation and interpretation of th...

Why the 17:18 series? In Deuteronomy 17, Moses is leaving final instructions concerning the future of Israel. As a prophet of God, Moses foretells...

The Cornerstone Biblical Commentary series provides students, pastors, and laypeople with up-to-date, accessible evangelical scholarship on the Old...

For George A. F. Knight, reading the Psalms is a "glorious and exciting experience." Writing in this spirit, he captures the beauty of these timele...

In presenting the last half of the Psalter, George A. F. Knight discusses the meaning of the Psalms in the Old Testament, their application in the ...

Whether you're a serious Bible student probing through Psalm 19 or a first-time reader inspired by the promise of Psalm 23, this first volume on th...

I have always thought of the psalms as the deepest and most spiritual portion of the Word of God."--James Montgomery Boice Covering Psalms 42-106,...

The psalms themselves speak so powerfully to the hurts, fears, disappointments, faith, hope, and spiritual aspirations of God's people."--James Mon...

The Boice Commentary series combines careful scholarship and clear communication in a verse-by-verse and section by section reading of various bibl...

Purity, Community, and Ritual in Early Christian Literature investigates the meaning of purity, purification, defilement, and disgust for Christian...

Ideal for pastors and professors, this book explains how to apply Scripture to daily life. It identifies four categories of application and shows h...

Estimated to date back to the very early Jesus movement, the lost Gospel known as Q offers a distinct and remarkable picture of Jesus and his signi...

The stories and contributions of the apostles provide an important entrée into church history. However, the legends of the apostles after the New T...

Questions and Rhetoric in the Greek New Testament is a helpful and thorough examination of questions in the Greek New Testament, seen from the stan...

A quick, concise, and easy-to-read book of answers! The Psalmist declares in Psalm 11:3, “If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous...

This volume contains seven Aramaic manuscripts of a Jewish pseudepigraphic tradition from the Second Temple period that ascribes to Enoch, the bibl...

"The Dead Sea Scrolls are undoubtedly the most important discovery found in Israel in the field of the Bible and history of Judaism and Christianit...

Rabbinic literature is a complex and interwoven body of texts whose importance is extensive: it is, of course, central to studying Judaism; its tex...

In an age where the Bible has been stripped of its sacredness and functional biblical illiteracy reigns, this book makes the case that we must work...

The book of Revelation is not primarily about predicting the future or recognizing end-time signs in the morning news but instead prepares Christ’s...

Explore what it means for the global church today to embrace the missional practices modeled by early believers in the New Testament. As the church...

Focuses on the key issues and lessons from Scripture. Includes conversational discussion starters and suggested questions for leading a Bible study...

Read / Mark / Learn is a small group Bible study series that is designed to equip people to study God's Word for themselves - and in studying it, k...

Divides the group Bible study on Romans into 23 passages and includes conversational discussion starters and suggested questions for the leader.

The Bible is the most extraordinary book you’ll ever read; it’s how God speaks directly to us and how his Spirit works to change us. But it can see...

Reading through the Bible in a year is one of the most popular New Year's resolutions for believers-but like other resolutions, the success rate is...

Intertextuality (the reading of one text in terms of another) is a diverse practice. It is a central and prevalent subject in poststructuralist lit...

Narrator, characters, action, hero, quest, plot, time and space, entrances and exits--these are the essential components of all narrative literatur...

A companion to Reading Biblical Narrative, this volume provides an authoritative introduction and overview to biblical poetry. Fokkelman describes ...

Christian apocrypha has suffered neglect. Living just outside the Christian canon, apocryphal Christian works have been judged deficient, secret, a...

Employing such disciplines as historical criticism, literary criticism, narrative theology, and hermeneutics, Reading Daniel as a Text in Theologic...

In this original interpretation of the story of Esther, Kenneth Craig offers to interpreters a new context for reading this often undervalued and m...

Today's evangelical community faces a multitude of questions about the creation of the cosmos and the beginning of human history and-quite naturall...

What does it mean to be a good reader of Genesis 1-11? What does it mean to take these ancient stories seriously and how does that relate to taking...

Following the proven model established in Reading Romans in Context, Reading Mark in Context, and Reading Revelation in Context, this book brings t...

Perfect for students, Reading Isaiah is a practical and nontechnical literary introduction to the book of Isaiah as a poem. Peter Quinn-Miscall tra...

Martin Luther's writings can be a bit intimidating. Readers can become overwhelmed with the thought of reading his works on their own. Reading Isai...

The book of Jeremiah is often presented as one of the most difficult texts in the Bible, yet it is also a text that speaks with immediacy and power...

This excellent book shows how literary criticism illuminates the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles, reclaiming them as Biblical narrative...