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  • Luke (ZECNT)

    David E. Garland, Luke (ZECNT). Grand Rapids: Zondervan Academic, December, 2011. 1040 pp. Hardcover, $49.99. Buy it: Amazon | Westminster Read an excerpt Visit the publisher’s page Thanks to Zondervan Academic for the review copy! David Garland is Dean and The William B. Hinson Professor of Christian Scriptures at George W. Truett Seminary, Baylor University. He’s a graduate of SBTS (Ph.D) and is no stranger to commentary writing.…

  • Risky Gospel: Abandon Fear and Build Something Awesome

    Owen Strachan, Risky Gospel: Abandon Fear and Build Something Awesome. Nashville, Thomas Nelson, November, 2013. 240 pp. Paperback, $15.99. Buy it: Amazon Visit the publisher’s page Thanks to Thomas Nelson for the review copy! Owen Strachan is executive director of the Council on Biblical Manhood & Womanhood and assistant professor of Christian Theology and Church History at Boyce College in Louisville,…

  • A Theology of Luke and Acts: God’s Promised Program, Realized For All Nations

    Darrell L. Bock, A Theology of Luke and Acts: God’s Promised Program, Realized For All Nations, Biblical Theology of The New Testament. Grand Rapids: Zondervan Academic, June, 2012. 496 pp. Hardcover, $39.99. Buy it: Amazon | Westminster Read an excerpt Visit the publisher’s page Thanks to Zondervan Academic for the review copy! Darrell Bock is research professor of New Testament studies at Dallas Theological Seminary, and an all around…

  • Galatians (ZECNT)

    Thomas R. Schreiner, Galatians (ZECNT). Grand Rapids: Zondervan Academic November, 2010. 432 pp. Hardcover, $34.99. Buy it: Amazon | Westminster Read an excerpt Visit the publisher’s page Thanks to Zondervan Academic for the review copy! Thomas Schreiner is James Buchanan Harrison Professor of New Testament and associate dean of Scripture and interpretation at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He is rather prolific on the writing front, having…

  • Colossians & Philemon (ZECNT)

    David W. Pao, Colossians & Philemon (ZECNT). Grand Rapids: Zondervan Academic, October, 2012. 464 pp. Hardcover, $36.99. Buy it: Amazon | Westminster Read an excerpt Visit the publisher’s page Thanks to Zondervan Academic for the review copy! David Pao is professor of New Testament and Chair of the New Testament Department at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. He has authored several books, notably, Thanksgiving: An Investigation of a Pauline…

  • 1 & 2 Thessalonians (ZECNT)

    Gary Shogren, 1 and 2 Thessalonians (ZECNT). Grand Rapids: Zondervan Academic, November, 2012. 384 pp. Hardcover, $32.99. Buy it: Amazon | Westminster Read an excerpt Visit the publisher’s page Thanks to Zondervan Academic for the review copy! Gary Shogren has been teaching at ESEPA Bible College and Seminary in San Jose, Costa Rica since 1998. He’s written extensively on everything from a guide to counseling drug addicts, to a Spanish…

  • Horizons In Hermeneutics and The Future of Biblical Interpretation

    Stanley E. Porter & Matthew R. Malcolm, Horizons In Hermeneutics: A Festschrift In Honor of Anthony C. Thiselton, Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, April 2013. 317 pp. Paperback, $40.00 Buy it: Amazon Visit the publisher’s page Thanks to Eerdmans for the review copy! If you wondering what a “festschrift” is, it is a fancy German word for a collection essays presented to a scholar usually…

  • The Great Christmas Book Preview

    Well, it’s that time of year. Time to the all important gift choices for the book lover in your life. Conveniently, it also time for me to consolidate my review shelf and go ahead and preview several titles that I know I won’t get time to engage in detail. I mentioned this a while back,…

  • The New Calvinism Considered: A Personal and Pastoral Assessment

    Jeremy Walker is a pastor at Maidenbower Baptist Church, Crawley, England. He has written a couple of other books, and is a contributor at Reformation21 and The Wanderer. In this particular book, The New Calvinism Considered: A Personal and Pastoral Assessment, he is tackling a tricky subject to define, much less assess. Admitting that a final…

  • In The Beginning…We Misunderstood: Interpreting Genesis 1 in Its Original Context

    One of the most interesting times I had in seminary was in Hebrew class. I had two great teachers, one of whom has his own grammar you should check out; the other proved to be very influential in how I understood Old Testament backgrounds (among other things). One of his research interests was the Egyptian background…