Perhaps more clearly than any other part of the biblical canon, the Psalms are human words directed to God. Yet, through the Holy Spirit, these honest, sometimes brutal words return to us as the Word of God. Their agonies and exaltations reflect more than the human condition in which they were created.

This user-friendly commentary series helps any reader navigate the Bible’s sometimes-difficult terrain. Each of the 36 volumes breaks down the barriers between the ancient and modern worlds, revealing the power and meaning of the biblical texts to contemporary readers.

The NIV Application Commentary (NIVAC) series shows you how to bring the Word’s ancient message into our contemporary context. It explains what the Bible meant and how it speaks so powerfully today. It treats all the elements of traditional exegesis, and its authors bridge the gap between the Bible’s world and the world of today, between the original context and the contemporary context by focusing on both the timely and the timeless aspects of the text. The NIV Application Commentary discusses the Bible in a way that engages contemporary life and culture.

Job delves into questions as old as humanity and as contemporary as today’s headlines. How does God’s justice work? How are we to understand suffering? More importantly, how are we to respond to it? Through careful analysis and explanation of Job’s dialogue, Wilson sheds light on its core message: a call to faithfully persevere by entrusting the answers to God.

This collection includes the current volumes covering the Wisdom Books from the NIV Application Commentary, helping readers with the vital task of bringing the ancient message of the Bible into a contemporary context. It gives preachers and teachers the tools, ideas, and insights they need to communicate God’s Word with the same powerful impact it had when it was first written. The NIV Application Commentary helps you communicate and apply biblical text effectively in today's context. This unique, award-winning commentary is the ideal resource for today's preachers, teachers, and serious students of the Bible, giving them the tools, ideas, and insights they need to communicate God's Word with the same powerful impact it had when it was first written.

This user-friendly commentary series helps any reader navigate the Bible’s sometimes-difficult terrain. Each of the 18 volumes breaks down the barriers between the ancient and modern worlds, revealing the power and meaning of the biblical texts to contemporary readers.

How can you apply what you learned about Creation, the fall of man, or the nation of Israel to our present day needs? How can you take a message originally spoken in Hebrew and communicate it clearly in our own language? How can you take the eternal truths originally spoken in a different time and culture and apply them to the similar-yet-different needs of our culture? These Old Testament volumes of the NIV Application Commentary show readers how to bring an ancient message into our postmodern context. It explains not only what the Bible meant, but also how it speaks powerfully today.

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.

Containing some of the best Zondervan works, this is a comprehensive library of premier Evangelical Christian biblical research. Resources included in this collection provide readers with a wide array of content from Greek and Hebrew textbook to biblical interpretation, hermeneutics and bible study, from commentaries, biblical exegesis, theology, and church history, to pastoral ministry, life application, and devotional material. You will benefit from the scholarly and practical guidance from authors including Douglas Moo, D.A. Carson, John Walton, Tremper Longman, III, and Walter Kaiser, and some of its most-respected series, including Word Biblical Commentary, NIV Application Commentary, Expositor’s Bible Commentary, and the Counterpoints series. With this collection you will have an immense Bible reference library to engage with key scholars, doctrines, and events of the Christian faith.

This user-friendly commentary series helps any reader navigate the Bible’s sometimes-difficult terrain. This three volume collection includes the resources covering the Wisdom, Poetry, and Psalms volumes and breaks down the barriers between the ancient and modern worlds, revealing the power and meaning of the biblical texts to contemporary readers.The contributors tackle interpretation using the full range of critical methodologies and practices—yet they do so as people of faith who hold the text in the highest regard. They present a careful section-by-section exposition of the biblical books with highlighted key terms and phrases and transliterated Hebrew words. Notes at the close of each chapter provide additional textual and technical comments for those who want to dig deeper. A bibliography, as well as Scripture and subject indexes, is also included.The Understanding the Bible Commentary Series offers pastors, students, and laypeople commitment to accessibility without...

This far reaching collection includes many of the premiere resources available for biblical study, theology, ministry, history, and more. These resources from Baker Publishing Group feature stand alone volumes as well as dedicated series, with contributions from leading scholars such as Douglas Moo, D.A. Carson, Darrell Bock, Peter Leithart, Thomas Schreiner, and many more. With these resources from trusted guides you will discover new and challenging insights as you dig even deeper in your studies.