Volumes in the Word Biblical Commentary series provide a comprehensive treatment of the biblical text and balanced insight into the meanings of the text within the framework of biblical theology. The Word Biblical Commentary series 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 framework of biblical theology. These widely acclaimed commentaries serve as exceptional resources 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.

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 theological evidence. The result is judicious and balanced insight into the meanings of the text in the framework of biblical theology. These widely acclaimed commentaries serve as exceptional resources 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. Contributors—all of whom rank among the leading Christian scholars of the English-speaking world—write authoritatively on the portions of Scripture in which they specialize. This collection also includes an enviable scholar’s array of Bible translations and Greek and Hebrew resources for in-depth research.

This collection of contemporary academic studies provides unique insights into Paul’s thought and theology. Important Pauline scholars like James D.G. Dunn, Heikki Räisänen, Seyoon Kim, and C. Marvin Pate deal in-depth with Paul’s key passages, influences, as well as his views on Judaism and the Law. The books in this collection are indispensable for serious research into Pauline literature.

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 theological evidence. The result is judicious and balanced insight into the meanings of the text in the framework of biblical theology. These widely acclaimed commentaries serve as exceptional resources 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. This collection includes the current editions of the available New Testament commentaries.

In answer to Pauline scholarship that tends to explain the origin of Paul’s gospel in Palestinian Judaism, Hellenistic Judaism, mystery cults, or Gnosticism, Seyoon Kim here argues that the origin lies in Paul’s own testimony that he received the gospel from the revelation of Jesus Christ on the Damascus road. “Only when this insistence of Paul is taken seriously,” says Kim, “can we really understand Paul and his theology.”

Published in honor of Dr. Ellis for his eightieth birthday and for his contributions to biblical scholarship, this book contains 21 articles written by internationally renowned New Testament scholars. In each article, the writer shares his/her keen insights on a cutting-edge issue in the study of the New Testament which has been central to Dr. Ellis’ research and writings. The topics discussed in the book are diverse, ranging from New Testament history, text, and exegesis to theology and ethics. A number of articles are devoted to investigating how the Old Testament is used in the New Testament, an area to which Dr. Ellis has made the most significant contributions; a few articles are focused on exegetical or hermeneutical issues or authorship issues, and other articles deal with various theological issues including the “New Perspective” on Paul.

Critical studies of the two ‘test cases’ for James D.G. Dunn’s ‘New Perspective on Paul,’ Paul’s Damascus experience and Galatians 3:10–14, reaffirm the Reformation interpretation of Paul’s doctrine of justification and confirm that Paul obtained that doctrine from his Damascus experience. The discovery that Isaiah 42 influenced Paul’s interpretation of his apostolic call helps explain how Paul developed his antithesis between the Spirit and the flesh/law and why he insists on the impossibility of justification by works of the law. Contrary to the assumption of the ‘New Perspective School,’ Seyoon Kim’s studies issue a call to take Paul seriously as an important witness to his contemporary Judaism. The distinctive Pauline doctrine of Christ as the image of God and as the last Adam is revisited in the light of the growing interest in the apocalyptic-mystical background of Paul. The author also explicates how Paul uses the Jesus tradition in the light of the Damascus experience to...

This collection of Zondervan commentaries includes the volumes from Word Biblical Commentaries (WBC), NIV Application Commentary (NIVAC), Expositor’s Bible Commentary (EBC), Zondervan Exegetical Commentaries (ZECOT/ZECNT), and the Story of God Bible Commentaries (SGBC), as well as highly regarded stand-alone volumes. Authors include Gordon Wenham, John Walton, Doug Moo, Bruce Waltke, John Salhamer, D.A. Carson, William Hendricksen, James D.G. Dunn, among others. With these resources, you will receive multiple quality commentaries on every book of the bible to assist the studies of everyone from student to ministers, from laypeople to scholars.

The Zondervan Commentary Collection includes all the Zondervan Academic commentaries from 2023. Including volumes from the Zondervan Exegetical, Story of God, and Word Biblical Commentary series, this collection features the best and latest reference tools for books including Galatians, Philippians, Leviticus, and more.