A Primer of Biblical Hebrew Poetry by David Mark Emanuel is an essential language resource for understanding Hebrew poetry in the Hebrew Bible. The textbook describes with examples the range of poetic techniques employed by the biblical poets–encompassing all poetic texts in the Hebrew Bible, including the psalms, wisdom and prophetic literature, and poetic lines embedded within Hebrew prose.

The book is organized into five main sections, beginning with a robust introduction on the idea of Hebrew poetry and where it is dispersed throughout the Hebrew Bible. Three primary chapters follow, addressing Masoretic, lexical, and morphological features, structural poetics, and specific Hebrew poetics. The book concludes with a summary chapter and two helpful appendices.

In Paul for the World, New Testament scholar Nijay K. Gupta offers a compelling vision of Pauline theology rooted in everyday Christian living. He shows how Paul’s teaching
● speaks to real-life concerns like friendship, work, culture, mental health, money, and justice;
● brings ethics, spiritual formation, and discipleship together; and
● inspires us to live meaningfully in a weary, imperfect world.
Accessible and hopeful, this book calls Christians to move beyond escapist spirituality and embrace Paul’s life-affirming theology–a vision that transforms every dimension of life with resurrection-rooted purpose.

An African Introduction to the New Testament, written by a wide array of scholars from across Africa, is the first of its kind to engage every book in the New Testament from the African context. Each of the chapters offers a thematic engagement of the book in light of sociocultural and religious heritage.
This introductory book provides readers with a glimpse of how African Christians read the New Testament text in their contexts by fleshing out themes that connect with African cultures. This volume is a valuable resource for anyone interested in African voices in biblical interpretation, as it provides an introductory platform for delving deeper into every book of the New Testament.

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, God has fulfilled all his redemptive promises for Jews, Gentiles, and the world. He further argues that Paul’s gospel has at least three dimensions: vertical, horizontal, and cosmic.

The Africa Bible Commentary was the first of its kind—a one-volume commentary on the whole Bible produced by African scholars to meet the needs of African pastors, students, and lay leaders. Now, in this revised and updated edition, the Africa Bible Commentary continues to shine powerful and relevant insights into the biblical text. Bringing together over one hundred scholars from across the continent, this extraordinary work raises the bar set by its predecessor.

With new and extensively revised commentaries across the Old and New Testament, in addition to over 120 articles, this second edition reflects on some of the most pertinent issues facing Christians in Africa today. There is a global need for biblical teaching that is grounded in the true and written word of God, and the authors of this work expertly blend biblical interpretation with a contextual understanding of African realities. Containing thorough exegesis and explanations of the whole Bible as seen through the eyes of African scholars, this bold and faithful commentary will equip pastors and teachers across the continent, along with Christians in every culture who have much to learn from them.

The doctrine of providence is often too abstract, complex, or detached from real-life situations for introductory students. Drawing on years of experience in the classroom and the church, Adamson Co offers an introductory guide that uses the creation motif of the Bible to highlight the importance of providence for the Christian life. Co begins with a brief introduction to providence to give students the “state of the question.” He then explores the classical theme of the seventh and eighth days of creation as a helpful way to understand providence. He sets providence and human existence within the metanarrative of the Bible while explicating the doctrine in an overview fashion. Co demonstrates how the seventh and eighth days of creation bring clarity to traditional issues raised in systematic theology, such as preservation, governance, and concurrence; the problem of evil; and divine sovereignty and human free will. Providence in the Story of Scripture challenges readers to live out a life of partnership with God in his providence and shows how the blessed hope of the Christian faith is God’s life-transforming providence for today.

Jesus’s brother James sends hope to followers of Christ scattered in different places, beset with troubles and discouragement. He inspires them to persevere through the present to enjoy God’s blessing and honor in the eternal future.
With compassion and candor, Daniel K. Eng presents a robust defense of God’s goodness and righteousness shown in the epistle of James. Grappling with the trials and tests we face today, he teaches us how the teachings of James are a guide to how to live with our eyes on eternity.

Scholars have viewed Jesus’s statement “I have completed the work you called me to do” as a proleptic reference to his work on the cross–that he speaks of it as fully accomplished, for it has been decreed so. Thus, the completed work looks forward to Jesus’s cry of “Tetelestai!” from the cross when the work of redemption is done. But what if this is not the best reading of the completed work and the verbal use in John 17:4? What if reading it correctly will reveal something greater about the work of redemption, the glory of the Father, how to read the Fourth Gospel, and how to understand verbal use in the Greek New Testament?

David deSilva uses archaeological findings to explore places that provide important windows into Jesus’s religious, political, and cultural environment. This visually compelling and beautifully designed book contains over 250 full-color photographs of sites and artifacts. The author focuses on the fruits of archaeology pertaining to sites associated with Jesus’s travels and ministry and their connections with specific Gospel texts. This book helps readers visualize the early first-century environment of Jesus, his opponents, and his followers.

The books of Habakkuk and Zephaniah are God’s word to his people Israel at the lowest point in their history – the time of the Babylonian captivity. In the horizon, the looming national disaster is not simply contrasted with the prophetic hope of deliverance; rather the brightest light that shines is the display of God’s unchanging faithfulness, power, and holiness – the foundations for divine action for the well-being of the remnant of Judah. They show us the faith of the righteous among the rebels and the ruins. These two powerful books show us how we ought to live in such times, demonstrate that faith without faithfulness is an infantile fantasy. Yet behind these struggles of God’s people is a God who is determined to be their righteousness.

The history of African American Christianity is one of the determined faith of a people driven to pursue spiritual and social uplift for themselves and others to God’s glory. Yet stories of faithful Black Christians have often been forgotten or minimized. The dynamic witness of the Black church in the United States is an essential part of Christian history that must be heard and dependably retold.
Swing Low establishes a theological framework grounded in the Orthodox Christianity that marked the African American Christian witness and traces its development from the 1700s to the 21st century.

A book with the same goal of providing an introductory survey like this one was published in 1999 with the title The Face of Old Testament Studies. The idea behind our volume was to offer a new, up-to-date volume to show how the Old Testament research has developed and grown since that time