Is all background in this commentary equally helpful for understanding Bible?
Not all background in this commentary is equally helpful for understanding the Bible. Some background is almost self-evident, especially where ancient culture and modern readers’ culture overlap. Likewise, not all sources are of equal merit for our IVP Bible Background Commentary: New Testament 18 purposes.
Why read the Baker illustrated Bible background commentary?
So while many Bible commentaries explain the theological meaning of the text, The Baker Illustrated Bible Background Commentary provides fascinating cultural and historical insights into God's Word.
What is in the commentary of the Old Testament?
This unique commentary provides historical, social and cultural background for each passage of the Old Testament. From Genesis through Malachi, this single volume gathers and condenses an abundance of specialized knowledge, and includes a glossary, maps and charts, and expanded explanations of significant background issues.
What is the IVP Bible background commentary?
IVP Bible Background Commentary: New Testament 28 cultures are more attuned to the Bible that God chose to give the world than we in the West are. Much of the Bible is historical narrative (i.e., true stories), and much of it is letter or prophecy directed to specific situations.
The Ivp Bible Background Commentary New Testament
Craig S. Keener presents fascinating, wonderfully useful information on the historical and cultural backgrounds of nearly every verse in the New Testament.
The Ivp Bible Background Commentary Old Testament
This unique commentary provides historical, social and cultural background for each passage of the Old Testament. From Genesis through Malachi, this single volume gathers and condenses an abundance of specialized knowledge, and includes a glossary, maps and charts, and expanded explanations of significant background issues.
Paul Women And Wives
Paul's letters stand at the center of the dispute over women, the church, and the home, with each side championing passages from the Apostle. Now, in a challenging new attempt to wrestle with these thorny texts, Craig Keener delves as deeply into the world of Paul and the apostles as anyone thus far.
The Historical Jesus Of The Gospels
The earliest substantive sources available for historical Jesus research are in the Gospels themselves; when interpreted in their early Jewish setting, their picture of Jesus is more coherent and plausible than are the competing theories offered by many modern scholars. So argues Craig Keener in The Historical Jesus of the Gospels.
Impossible Love
Gripping True Story of War and Romance, Hope and Miracles When the odds are impossible, love goes to work. In this thrilling true-life story, readers follow the path of friendship that grows into a romance that spans continents and survives devastating hardship. Craig Keener, a respected white scholar, was cautious after a broken relationship.
The New Testament In Its Literary Environment
A study of the relationship between the New Testament writings and other literature of late antiquity. This comprehensive introduction identifies and describes the major literary genres and forms found in the New Testament and Early Christian non-canonical literature.
The Ivp New Testament Commentary Series
Pastors with a passion for sound exposition and scholars with a heart for pastoral leadership have joined forces to produce this exciting commentary series, now in paper and with all new covers! Each volume, informed by the best of up-to-date evangelical scholarship, presents passage-by-passage commentary based on the NIV along with background information on authorship, setting, theme and various interpretive issues.
What river is beyond the rivers of Cush?
Beyond the rivers of Cush (3:10). This likely refers to the White Nile and the Blue Nile, the two main tributaries of the Nile River that were associated with the empire of Cush (cf. Isa 18:1–2), which lay to the south of Egypt (see the article “The Cushites”).
Who was Zephaniah prophesied to?
Introduction. Zephaniah, a contemporary with Jeremiah in his early years (and perhaps Nahum and Habakkuk), prophesied during the days of King Josiah of Judah (640–609 BC), prior to the destruction of Jerusalem by the Babylonians (586 BC). His preaching probably aided with Josiah’s reforms around 622 BC (2 Kings 23:4–20; 2 Chron. 34:8–35:19). See the introduc-tion in the commentary on Jeremiah.
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Free John commentaries
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Free Romans commentaries
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Free James commentaries
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