What is a systematic theology? Many different definitions have been given, but for the purposes of this book the following definition will be used: Systematic theology is any study that answers the question, "What does the whole Bible teach us today?" about any given topic. View this video on What is Systematic Theology by the author. This defi… Read more…
"In the Old Testament we read God’s word as it was spoken to his people Israel. Today, thousands of years later, we hear in these thirty-nine books his inspired and authoritative message for us." All of the New International Commentary on the Old Testament writers and editors share these convictions. These words capture the mission of this visionary ser… Read more…
Comprehensive and accessible, the New International Commentary on the New Testament is one of the most highly regarded resources of current scholarship. Prepared by world-renowned authorities, it reflects exacting study of the original Greek and offers careful exegesis with preachers and teachers concerns in mind. Critical comments are footnoted; grammatical… Read more…
Buy the standard, scholarly lexicons for both Greek and Hebrew together and save! Olive Tree’s electronic editions of these texts provide even more features by turning cross-references to other words, and references to scripture into hyperlinks. Users of BibleReader 5 can also take advantage of the “look up” feature with the resource, enabling you … Read more…
The Zondervan Encyclopedia of the Bible has been a classic Bible study resource for more than thirty years. Now thoroughly revised, this new five-volume edition provides up-to-date entries based on the latest scholarship. Beautiful full-color pictures supplement the text, which includes new articles in addition to thorough updates and improvements of existin… Read more…
The Word Biblical Commentary (WBC)delivers the best in biblical scholarship, from the leading scholars of our day who share a commitment to Scripture as divine revelation. This series emphasizes a thorough analysis of textual, linguistic, structural, and theological evidence. The result is judicious and balanced insight into the meanings of the text in the f… Read more…
Touch a word in the BHS text and instantly view morphology and parsing information, along with links to the related entry in the BDB Lexicon. This package gives you access to three critical resources, linked for a seamless study experience: This mobile version of the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia text of the Hebrew scriptures is the Michigan-C… Read more…
This one-stop reference book on the vital relationship between Scripture and ethics offers helpful orientation and perspective for students, pastors, and scholars. Written to respond to the movement among biblical scholars and ethicists to recover the Bible for moral formation, it is the best reference work available on the intersection of these two fields. … Read more…
Basics of Biblical Greek Grammar is a general introduction to New Testament Greek, mixing the best of both traditional and modern language learning methods. Students are taught all of the common vocabulary and grammatical forms occurring in the New Testament in a manner requiring far less rote memorization than most other approaches. Memorization of vocabu… Read more…
Eugene Merrill's An Historical Survey Of The Old Testament, second edition, offers an introductory-level overview that uses the historical structure of the Old Testament as its basic framework and presents a conservative response to many critical issues. In this second edition certain sections are rewritten in light of fresh discovery and new insights. Th… Read more…
The Illustrated Bible Backgrounds Commentary of the Old Testament series brings to life the world of the Old Testament through informative entries and full-color photos and graphics. Here readers find the premier commentary set for connecting with the historical and cultural context of the Old Testament. Many today find the Old Testament a closed book. Th… Read more…
The Illustrated Bible Backgrounds Commentary of the New Testament helps readers understand the historical and cultural background of the books of the New Testament. Discover: How the springs at Hierapolis help us understand why Jesus described the church at Laodicea as “lukewarm”. The background and circumstances of certificates of divorce in Judaism… Read more…
The Pillar New Testament Commentary, designed for serious readers of the Bible, seeks above all to make clear the meaning of the text of Scripture as we have it. The scholars of the PNTC volumes interact with the most important, informed contemporary debate yet avoid undue technical detail. Their ideal is a blend of rigorous exegesis and exposition, schola… Read more…
The New Interpreter's® Dictionary of the Bible (NIDB), complete 5-volume set, is the definitive starting point for research on any topic, place or person in the Bible, with emphasis on the crucial theological concepts. Based on the NRSV. Unparalleled quality of information Written by 900 scholars, experts in their fields, from 40 nations and a variety o… Read more…
Michael Horton’s highly anticipated The Christian Faith represents his magnum opus and will be viewed as one of—if not the—most important systematic theologies since Louis Berkhof wrote his in 1932. A prolific, award-winning author and theologian, Professor Horton views this volume as “doctrine that can be preached, experienced, and lived, as well as… Read more…
The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (or ISBE) contains nearly 10,000 articles covering every person and place in the Bible, all terms of theological importance, and all terms having to do with the history, transmission, and study of the biblical text. These articles have been written by hundreds of contributors from many specialized fields of rese… Read more…
Now in the 4th edition, this widely-used guide to the New Testament covers everything from the cultural and historical background of the New Testament to the textual and historical criticisms of interpretations of the books of the New Testament itself. Useful for the beginner in New Testament studies as well as for the lifelong scholar of New Testament lite… Read more…
If you are interested in studying the Old Testament this second edition of An Introduction to the Old Testament, by Tremper Longman III and Raymond Dillard is the place to start. This edition is unique from other introductions to the Old Testament as it integrates and interacts with recent developments in Old Testament scholarship, offering a solid understan… Read more…
Explore the Sinai wilderness with Israel during the 40 years after the exodus, find your way with Paul across the Mediterranean Sea on his journey from Corinth to Ephesus, and track the events that led to the dissolution of Solomon's kingdom with the illustrative and detailed HarperCollins Atlas of Bible History! With over 100 vibrantly-colored maps, city p… Read more…
Readers of the New Testament often encounter quotes or allusions to the Old Testament that may be unfamiliar or obscure. In The Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament, G. K. Beale and D. A. Carson have brought together a distinguished team of scholars to isolate, catalog, and comment on both the obvious Old Testament quotations and the more… Read more…
A collection of more than twenty-five years worth of rich exegetical and deep theological work, this new edition contains twenty-five essays addressing textual criticism studies, theological implications, and New Testament exegetical matters. Students, pastors, and professors will find this new volume essential in their pursuit of New Testament studies and … Read more…
The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament (HALOT) is widely regarded as the standard scholarly reference on the language of the Old Testament. With articles on every Hebrew and Aramaic word, the complete vocabulary of the Hebrew Bible is arranged alphabetically (rather than by root), making navigation faster and easier. The Hebrew and Aramaic ent… Read more…
This accessible handbook, A Handbook of New Testament Exegesis, provides a one-stop guide to the New Testament exegetical method. Seasoned New Testament scholar Craig Blomberg and his former research assistant Jennifer Foutz Markley offer both a broad overview of the exegetical process and a step-by-step approach to studying the New Testament in depth, helpi… Read more…
Containing all five volumes in one of the most acclaimed hermeneutic achievements in biblical exegesis, the New International Dictionary of Old Testament Theology & Exegesis is a category of academic scholarship all on its own. Comprising of a lexicon of Old Testament Hebrew (with references to their New Testament Greek counterparts), several indexes of the… Read more…
The Pillar New Testament Commentary: The Gospel According to John is a solid evangelical commentary on John's Gospel, a respected Scripture expositor makes clear the flow of the text, engages a small but representative part of the massive secondary literature on John, shows how the Fourth Gospel contributes to biblical and systematic theology, and offers a c… Read more…
The New International Greek Testament Commentary Series, based on the UBS Greek New Testament, engages in deep exegetical and interpretational study of the New Testament on a verse-by-verse level, providing readers with detailed textual commentary and scholarly research. An enticing series for any reader of the Greek New Testament at any level of comprehens… Read more…
The Word Biblical Commentary series provides an exceptional resource for the professional theologian and instructor, the seminary or university student, the working minister, and everyone concerned with building theological understanding from a solid base of biblical scholarship. Dr. Watts has revisited this work he produced almost twenty years ago, with … Read more…
Dr. Watts has revisited this work he produced almost twenty years ago, updating it in light of current scholarship. He continues to hold to the unity of Isaiah, rather than ascribing it to two or three composers or schools, even though the work ranges over three crucial centuries of Israel's history. In this second WBC volume on Isaiah, he continues to fo… Read more…
This is Volume 44 of the Word Biblical Commentary series, covering the books of Colossians and Philemon. The Word Biblical Commentary delivers the best in biblical scholarship, from the leading scholars of our day who share a commitment to Scripture as divine revelation. This series emphasizes a thorough analysis of textual, linguistic, structural, and th… Read more…
After an extensive process of revision, the new edition of the Novum Testamentum Graece (NA28) is now available! The NA28 set a new standard among Greek New Testament editions with its revisions and improvements. The Catholic Epistles have been modified in more than 30 places to bring them into alignment with the Editio Critica Maior. With these revisions… Read more…
After an extensive process of revision, the new edition of the Novum Testamentum Graece (NA28) is now available! The NA28 set a new standard among Greek New Testament editions with its revisions and improvements. The Catholic Epistles have been modified in more than 30 places to bring them into alignment with the Editio Critica Maior. The Mounce Parsing… Read more…
After an extensive process of revision, the new edition of the Novum Testamentum Graece (NA28) is now available! The NA28 set a new standard among Greek New Testament editions with its revisions and improvements. The Catholic Epistles have been modified in more than 30 places to bring them into alignment with the Editio Critica Maior. The structure of the… Read more…
After an extensive process of revision, the new edition of the Novum Testamentum Graece (NA28) is now available! The NA28 set a new standard among Greek New Testament editions with its revisions and improvements. The Catholic Epistles have been modified in more than 30 places to bring them into alignment with the Editio Critica Maior. The structure of the… Read more…
This is Volume 47A of the Word Biblical Commentary series, covering chapters 1-8 of the book of Hebrews. The Word Biblical Commentary delivers the best in biblical scholarship, from the leading scholars of our day who share a commitment to Scripture as divine revelation. This series emphasizes a thorough analysis of textual, linguistic, structural, and th… Read more…
This monumental reference work, complete in ten volumes, is the authorized and unabridged translation of the famous Theologisches Wörterbuch zum Neuen Testament, known commonly as "Kittel" and considered by many scholars to be the best New Testament Dictionary ever compiled. Mediating between ordinary lexicography and the specific task of exposition, TDNT t… Read more…
In this newly revised and expanded edition, Grant Osborne provides seminary students and working pastors with the full set of tools they need to move from sound exegesis to the development of biblical and systematic theologies and to the preparation of sound, biblical sermons. Osborne contends that hermeneutics is a spiral from text to context--a movement… Read more…
The New American Commentary collects the best in contemporary evangelical scholarship in a series that examines the entire Bible in depth. The New American Commentary – New Testament Set currently offers 15 volumes of commentary on the New Testament. The volumes of this set are also available individually - see below for links to the individual titles. … Read more…
The New American Commentary collects the best in contemporary evangelical scholarship in a series that examines the entire Bible in depth. The New American Commentary – Old Testament Set currently offers 23 volumes of commentary on the Old Testament. The volumes of this set are also available individually - see below for links to the individual titles. … Read more…
A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature 3d ed. is generally regarded as the best lexicon of New Testament Greek currently available in English. It is sometimes referred to as the Bauer-Danker Lexicon or simply abbreviated as BDAG. It contains entries for all words occurring in the Greek New Testament as well as mos… Read more…
. . . the definitive statement of dispensational theology.—Walter Elwell Lewis Sperry Chafer defined systematic theology as "the collecting, systematically arranging, comparing, exhibiting and defending of all facts concerning God and His works from any and every source." He outlines the topics he feels should be included in a comprehensive and u… Read more…