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Reviewed by Jason Pang Introduction & Overview There are many complex issues revolving around the New Testament use of the Old Testament and major discussion of it can easily be relegated to the world of academia, disconnected…
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Reviewed by Micah McCormick As a church staff member who directs the youth program in my church, I have something of a love-hate relationship with literature on youth and the church. On the one hand, I love the youth in…
Reviewed by E.D. Burns Missiologists have produced many great works analyzing cultural/linguistic phenomena, demographic statistics, and effective methods of cultural engagement. Yet missionary-theologians are a rare find today; and a useful manual produced for practitioners by a missionary-theologian is…
Reviewed by Andreas Köstenberger In this significant work, which represents the culmination of a long-standing hermeneutical project, Craig Bartholomew has produced an interesting compendium on a wide range of topics related to biblical hermeneutics. At the same time, those…
Reviewed by Michael J. Kruger In recent years, scholarly interest in the subject of the biblical canon continues unabated. There seems to be a growing fascination with the origins and authority of the biblical books, both in the academy…
Reviewed by Mark Baker N.T. Wright’s Paul and the Faithfulness of God (PFG) was released in 2013. At almost 1,700 pages, this two-volume work is of planetary size. The gravitational pull of PFG is so strong that it has already…
Reviewed by Samuel D. Ferguson In her recent study on Paul and gender, Cynthia Long Westfall aptly concludes, “A number of issues that face Christianity and the church in contemporary society are embedded in the issue of gender” (315). She’s…
Reviewed by Johnson Pang Introduction The Old Testament is often overlooked in the pastorate. How much more so the prophets! Their ecstatic utterances, symbolic actions, and perplexing visions can lead the frazzled duty-laden pastor toward the lower hanging…
Reviewed by Andrew Spencer Kenneth Briggs has recently attempted a diagnosis of American culture in The Invisible Bestseller: Searching for the Bible in America. The book sets out to explore the growing trend of Biblical illiteracy among the American…
Reviewed by Aimee Byrd This is one of those books that got me making noises while I read it. Like a good meal, where you are just compelled to express “mmm’s,” and comments about the flavors and combinations of food,…
Reviewed by Wyatt Graham David Barshinger has written a comprehensive historical study of Jonathan Edwards’ interpretation of the Psalms. His work aims to correct wrong assumptions about Edwards as an exegete and to exhibit Edwards’ love of the Bible.…
Reviewed by Joshua T. Benadum Joshua, A 12 Week Study by Trent Hunter is an excellent guided study through the Book of Joshua and all its major themes. Hunter brilliantly balances inductive exposition with thematic analysis and always leaves…
Reviewed by Jeff Waddington Thomas Oden has been a prodigious and prolific scholar and author. While Oden is an ordained minister in the United Methodist Church, he has traveled the road from liberalism to a relatively conservative position within the…
Reviewed by Nathan Finn Introduction Jesus prayed for the unity of all believers in his High Priestly Prayer of John 17. And yet, we live in a world where dates such as 1054 and 1517 stand…
Reviewed by Jeremiah Zuo Author Mark J. Boda is Professor of Old Testament at McMaster Divinity College, where he has taught for the past thirteen years. He is the author of nine books, the editor of 17 more,…
A Review and a Response Reviewed by John D. Meade Ellis Brotzman’s first edition of Old Testament Textual Criticism was published in 1994 as a practical entree into the field of textual criticism of the Old Testament. The book…
