This widely acclaimed textbook, newly expanded and redesigned, helps readers better understand the Old Testament (and the God it reveals) by exploring the literary, historical, and theological issues behind it and behind each of its books. Helpful maps, photos, timelines, and charts now in full color.
A revised, updated, and expanded edition of a very popular tool for pastors, teachers, and students for the study of the Old Testament.The book includes 42 new charts, and revisions to another 18. Inside, a new design promotes ease of understanding. Subjects cover historical, literary, archaeological, and theological aspects of the Old Testament.
This unique, easy-to-use reference guide quickly provides context for reading God's Word. Each book of the Bible is presented on a colorful two-page spread, helping readers understand the biblical story and its significance. It can also be used as a companion to The Bible in 90 Days curriculum.
Edited by John H. Walton, Victor H. Matthews and Mark Chavalas, this unique commentary joins the IVPBBC: New Testament in giving historical, social and cultural background for each Old Testament passage from Genesis to Malachi.
This series of laminated sheets enables students and pastors to see critical material at a glance and serves them well as they review for tests, for comprehensive exams, and for later on in life.
Noted scholar John Walton follows the three-tiered NIV Application Commentary format (Original Meaning, Bridging Contexts, and Contemporary Significance) to reveal how this first book of the Bible applies to us today.
Covenant is a supplementary textbook that explains the covenant primarily as a vehicle of God's self-revelation to mankind and thereby forges a middle ground between covenant theology and dispensationalism.
In this astute mix of cultural critique and biblical studies, John H. Walton presents and defends twenty propositions supporting a literary and theological understanding of Genesis 1 within the context of the ancient Near Eastern world and unpacks its implications for our modern scientific understanding of origins.
Ecclesiastes/Song of Songs, which is part of the NIV Application Commentary Series, helps readers learn how the message of Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs can have the same powerful impact today that they did when they were first written.
This unique commentary gives historical, social, and cultural background for each passage of Genesis through Deuteronomy. It gathers and condenses an abundance of specialized knowledge to enrich your study of these books.
This book surveys within the various literary genres (cosmologies, personal archives and epics, hymns, and prayers) parallels between the Bible and Ancient Near Eastern literature.
John H. Walton and Victor H. Matthews provide an accessible passage-by-passage commentary on the archaeological and cultural background of the first five books of the Bible.
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