Old Testament Bible Commentaries

FOR YOU ARE WITH ME: Eight Blessings Resulting from God’s Presence, A Study of Psalm 23 is based on the core passage of Psalm 23 which is “For you ...

What does the Bible say about ecology? As people face huge ecological challenges-including growing hurricanes, floods, forest fires, and plastic po...

Most scholars studying the first five books of the Bible either attempt to dissect it into various pre-pentateuchal documents or, at the very least...

Abraham Heschel is a seminal name in religious studies and the author of Man Is Not Alone and God in Search of Man. When The Prophets was first pub...

What’s the best way to learn a new language? By approaching it not as a series of facts to memorize but as something alive, with a personality you ...

"The flood continued forty days on the earth; and the waters increased, and bore up the ark, and it rose high above the earth . . . and the ark flo...

This ninth volume in the Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible offers a theological exegesis of Numbers. This commentary, like each in the ser...

In this updated edition of the popular textbook An Introduction to the Old Testament, Walter Brueggemann and Tod Linafelt introduce the reader to t...

Second volume of this long-awaited translation of one of Saint Augustines

The Psalms and Wisdom Literature is one of six textbooks covering the Old and New Testaments, all written by authors who have extensive experience ...

This book is intended to provide a quick introductory overview of the Tiberian Masoretic tradition of the Hebrew Bible and its background. It was t...

Our handling of what we call biblical law veers between controversy and neglect.On the one hand, controversy arises when Old Testament laws seem ei...

This volume in the Belief series provides a new and interesting theological interpretation of Genesis through the themes of liberation and the conc...

In this 40th anniversary edition of the classic text from one of the most influential biblical scholars of our time, Walter Brueggemann, offers a t...

Sessions with Ezra & Nehemiah is a ten-session study unit designed to explore the story and theological themes associated with the Israelites' ...

The New American Commentary series is an exceptionally acclaimed resource for ministers and Bible students who want to understand and expound the S...

The Knowing the Bible series is a resource designed to help Bible readers better understand and apply God's Word. These 12-week studies lead partic...

The Prophets is one of a series of six textbooks covering the Old and New Testaments, all written by authors who have extensive experience of teach...

Jeremiah ’s poignant lament over Judah ’s social and religious disintegration reflects God ’s own pathos-laden yearning for his disobedient covenan...

The Abingdon Old Testament Commentaries provide compact, critical commentaries on the books of the Old Testament for the use of theological student...

In the pages of the Hebrew Bible, ancient Israel gave witness to its encounter with a profound and uncontrollable reality experienced through relat...

In this addition to the acclaimed Old Testament Library, this book looks at what is arguably the Old Testament's most important theological book. C...

This volume of essays draws together specialists in the field to explain, illustrate and analyze religious diversity in Ancient Israel. Our underst...