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For many cultures throughout history, honor and shame have been foundational concepts for understanding and evaluating reality. In this study of th...

Most literary works have one primary voice, a discourse that expresses an author’s dominant culture and ideology. The whole Bible, however, should ...

What is the relationship between the Church and Israel? And how does that influence our understanding of the Old Testament?In Heirs of Promise, P. ...

For more than twenty years, Victor Hamilton's handbook has been introducing students to the Pentateuch. In this substantially revised second editio...

In different ways, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam all trace their beginnings to Abraham. His wives, Hagar and Sarah, though also pivotal in the s...

A fascinating insight into the rival religious communities of the early Christian church.These apocryphal texts open a window to understanding the ...

Christians who open the Old Testament expecting to find promises of a royal Messiah on every page often end up perplexed. Where is the Messiah and ...

Appropriately Genesis has been termed 'the seed plot of the Bible,' for in it we have, in germ form, almost all of the great doctrines which are af...

This is a book for people who teach the Bible—for people who seek to interpret and apply the Scriptures with confidence. Do you want to remind your...

This accessibly written textbook has been a popular introduction to the Pentateuch for over twenty-five years. It identifies the major themes of th...

In this clearly written introduction to the latter half of the New Testament, Lewis Donelson begins by asking, if we read this text in this way, wh...

This series brings to a wide audience important new discoveries concerning relationships of women and men in the Bible, ancient Israel, early Judai...

This workbook accompanies Mark L. Strauss's Four Portraits, One Jesus. Following the textbook's structure, it offers readings from the Gospels, act...

The doctrines of grace are not a sixteenth-century invention. They are God’s doctrines, revealed in His Word, rooted in eternity past, and accompli...

What do we do with a God who sanctions violence? Old Testament violence proves one of the most troubling topics in the Bible. Too often, the expla...

Five Views on the Exodus looks at competing views on the historicity, chronology, and theological implications of the exodus. The biblical account ...

During the reigns of Saul and David as recorded in First and Second Samuel, the people of Israel experience fear, disappointment, heartache, and be...

The books of Samuel present a drama in which the principal players are the God of Israel, the prophet Samuel, and the first kings of Israel, Saul a...

This book explores the intended meaning, as well as the implications and applications, of the three parables in Luke 15 (The Good Shepherd and the ...

Finding Hagar probes the relentless pursuit by the Living God of a fugitive woman who falls outside the line of his chosen people. This pursuit ens...

This book is the result of a collaborative effort on the part of a group of outstanding theologians, historians, and biblical scholars within the A...

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...

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

The book of Romans is rich in doctrinal truth. In Expository Outlines and Observations on Romans Rob Ventura mines these truths and offers quick, a...

In several noticeable respects Hebrews differs from all the other Epistles of the New Testament. The name of the writer is omitted, there is no ope...

The theme in our studies in Hebrews is, the super-abounding excellence of Christianity over Judaism. The sum and substance, the center and circumfe...

Christians usually focus on what Jesus  has  done (his life, death and resurrection) and what he  will  do (his second coming and eternal reign). W...

The city of Ephesus was the site of the most significant church planting movement in the early church, with 40 percent of the New Testament texts r...

An exposition of the biblical theology of worship. Deploying impressive exegetical gifts across the significant biblical data, Peterson sees worshi...

Heaven. Do you look forward to it? Or do you secretly worry that somehow life there might not be quite as good as life here? It was not this way...