The preface to the Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible offers two analogies related to the interpretation of scripture. It likens scripture first to a mosaic that arrives disassembled and must ...

Commentaries in Eerdmans’ Illuminations series aim, in part, “to alert the reader to the history of conversation surrounding biblical texts.” In her volume Jonah, Amy Erickson, associate professor of ...

Lexham Press’s new Evangelical Exegetical Commentary series is shaping up to be an attractive contribution to the marketplace. Like Goldilocks’ third bowl, for me they’re pitching it just right: ...

The holiest day in the Jewish calendar is Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, with its theme of repentance. And one of the synagogue readings for Yom Kippur is the Book of Jonah (in Hebrew, sefer Yonah) ...

(RNS) My family recently took a multigenerational cruise to Alaska. The ship was a floating city, built for comfort: restaurants, spas, pools, bars, shopping and someone to clean your room every ...

Dr. Joel C. Gregory is Director of the Kyle Lake Center for Effective Preaching, holder of the George W. Truett Endowed Chair of Preaching and Evangelism at Baylor’s Truett Seminary, and the founder ...