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Reading the Old Testament Commentary Series (6 vols.)

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It’s easy to get bogged down in the minutiae of word-by-word, verse-by-verse exegesis—picking over familiar passages in such detail can sometimes render them flat and uninspiring. Worse, in the hands of scholars writing for scholars, even the most profound research can become stupefying and impenetrable. The Reading the Old Testament series helps you rediscover the Hebrew Bible with cutting-edge scholarship—whether you’re a specialist or lay person. Expert authors such as James Crenshaw, Marvin Sweeney, and Mark Biddle focus on the larger literary and thought units of a given book, highlighting how they function in the work as a whole. Utilizing a broad array of reading strategies and critical approaches, these scholars help you become a more competent, more engaged, and more enthusiastic Bible reader.

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For the same cutting-edge scholarship and lively, broad approach, don’t miss the Reading the New Testament Commentary (12 vols.).

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Key Features

  • Focuses on large literary and thought units in Old Testament books
  • Features the scholarship of acclaimed biblical experts
  • Helps readers become more competent, engaged, and enthusiastic Bible readers

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Individual Titles

Reading Deuteronomy: A Literary and Theological Commentary

  • Author: Stephen L. Cook
  • Series: Reading the Old Testament Commentary Series
  • Publisher: Smyth & Helwys
  • Publication Date: 2015
  • Pages: 286

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A lost treasure for large segments of the modern world, the book of Deuteronomy powerfully repays contemporary readers’ attention. Its gripping discourses and vivid stories stir deep longing for God, move readers to a place of intimacy with the divine, and pushes them toward community. This theological interpretation reveals the centrality of Deuteronomy for faith and powerfully counters critical accusations about violence, intolerance, and polytheism in the book.

Stephen L. Cook is professor of Old Testament at Virginia Theological Seminary. He is the author of Conversations with Scripture: 2 Isaiah and is coeditor of The Whirlwind: Essays on Job, Hermeneutics and Theology in Memory of Jane Morse.

Reading Ezekiel: A Literary and Theological Commentary

  • Author: Marvin A. Sweeney
  • Series: Reading the Old Testament Commentary Series
  • Publisher: Smyth & Helwys
  • Publication Date: 2013
  • Pages: 264

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One of the Bible’s most difficult and perplexing books, Ezekiel consists of strange visions and oracles by a Judean priest and prophet exiled to Babylonia in the sixth century BCE. His book envisions Yahweh’s return to a holy temple at the center of a reconstituted Israel—and the world at large. In Ezekiel’s telling, the purge of Jerusalem, the temple, and the people, lead to a glorious new creation—and Yahweh stands at last in the holy center of the created world. As biblical scholar Marvin A. Sweeney writes in his introduction, the book of Ezekiel ultimately represents “a profound attempt to encounter the holy in the profane world, and based on that encounter, to sanctify the world in which we live.”

Marvin A. Sweeney is professor of Hebrew Bible at the Claremont Lincoln University and Claremont School of Theology, and professor of Bible at the Academy for Jewish Religion in California. He is the author of 12 books, including Isaiah 1–39 in The Forms of the Old Testament Literature series, New Visions of Isaiah, and Zephanaiah in the Hermeneia commentary series.

Reading Hosea–Micah: A Literary and Theological Commentary

  • Author: Terence E. Fretheim
  • Series: Reading the Old Testament Commentary Series
  • Publisher: Smyth & Helwys
  • Publication Date: 2013
  • Pages: 224

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Terence E. Fretheim explores themes of indictment, judgment, and salvation in Hosea–Micah. According to Freitheim, the indictment against the people of God in Hosea-Micah focuses on idolatry and the abuse of the poor and needy. The effects of these behaviors are often horrendous in their severity. In his probing commentary, Freitheim reveals that, while God is often the perpetrator of such judgments, the consequences, like fruit, grow out of the deed itself. Issues of indictment and judgment are not finally ends in themselves, but in the service of the salvation of God.

Terence E. Fretheim is Elva B. Lovell Professor of Old Testament at Luther Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota, where he has taught for more than 50 years. He is the author of more than 20 books, including Creation Untamed: The Bible, God, and Natural Disasters and Interpretation: A Bible Commentary for Teaching and Preaching Exodus.

Reading Job: A Literary and Theological Commentary

  • Author: James L. Crenshaw
  • Series: Reading the Old Testament Commentary Series
  • Publisher: Smyth & Helwys
  • Publication Date: 2011
  • Pages: 192

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“Why do bad things happen to good people?” It’s a question that we all struggle with at some point in our lives—and the central issue in the book of Job. James Crenshaw has devoted his life to studying the disturbing matter of God’s sometimes seeming lack of justice. Few individuals read the book of Job and remain unmoved. If they seek answers, they likely will be disappointed. Many find the depiction of God troubling. However, if God were merely to meet our expectations, the Creator would would be nothing more than our own projections into the heavens. Crenshaw says that the ancient poet serves readers best by starkly portraying the brutal reality that life and this world are not fair—and that justice is a human project.

James L. Crenshaw is one of the leading interpreters of wisdom literature and biblical prophecy. He is the author of Old Testament Wisdom: An Introduction, Trembling at the Threshold of a Biblical Text, and The Anchor Yale Bible: Joel.

Reading Judges: A Literary and Theological Commentary

  • Author: Mark E. Biddle
  • Series: Reading the Old Testament Commentary Series
  • Publisher: Smyth & Helwys
  • Publication Date: 2012
  • Pages: 240

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For several decades, biblical scholars have been debating the merits of two contrasting approaches to biblical interpretation: a synchronic approach, which attempts to see the text as a whole, as opposed to a diachronic approach, which asks questions about history and development of the text. Mark E. Biddle’s commentary on Judges draws on historical-critical methods to shed light on this historic period and the role of Judges in Israel’s history. At the same time, Biddle acknowledges that the relevance for modern reader lies in the text as a whole and not in the details of its developmental history. Biddle tackles the kinds of issues (violence, patriarchy, tribalism) that may inhibit our ability to receive this text as inspired Scripture. This volume makes clear that the power of this biblical narrative derives in large part from its unvarnished portrayals of human foibles and failures—and of God’s steadfast commitment to relationship with humankind nonetheless.

Mark E. Biddle is associate professor of Old Testament and Hebrew Bible at the Baptist Theological Seminary in Richmond, Virginia. He is the translator of Theological Lexicon of the Old Testament (3 vols.).

Reading Samuel: A Literary and Theological Commentary

  • Author: Johanna W.H. van Wijk-Bos
  • Editor: Mark E. Biddle
  • Series: Reading the Old Testament Commentary Series
  • Publisher: Smyth & Helwys
  • Publication Date: 2012
  • Pages: 256

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In Johanna W. H. van Wijk-Bos’ masterful interpretation, the book of Samuel comes alive with vivid, human detail. Rediscover ancient Israel in the era of Samuel, Saul, and David. From parental yearning to spousal and sibling relationships, these accounts are far more than simple reconstructions of characters’ lives and circumstances. Wijk-Bos provides an inside look at royal intrigue, military campaigns, occult practices, and the significance of religious objects of veneration.

Johanna W.H. van Wijk-Bos is Dora Pierce Professor of Bible and professor of Old Testament at Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary. She is the author of Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther in the Westminster Bible Companion Series.

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