Christopher Wright opens our eyes to see and understand the message of Ezekiel. Ezekiel's vision of the glory of God—its departure and return—is set first within Israel's history and then in the culmination of God's promises in Christ. Embedded in the pattern of the strange and the wonderful is a word that still speaks to God's people today.
It is out of the unspeakable pain of the destruction of Jerusalem that Lamentations speaks, through poetry of astonishing beauty and intricacy. In this BST volume, Christopher Wright argues that the book of Lamentations offers deep challenge and deep rewards that come with wrestling with the massive theological issues that permeate it.
In this BST volume, Christopher Wright shows that Jeremiah is a book about the victory of God's love and grace. Jeremiah's portrait of the future is one that is fulfilled in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus the Messiah, and ultimately in God's dwelling with his with his redeemed people forever in the new creation.
In this BST volume, Barry Webb showcases the outstanding brilliance of style, poetic power, and foretaste of the gospel that the book of Isaiah offers. With accessible insight, he shows how the threads of the Old Testament come together in Isaiah, training our ears and hearts to resonate with its great biblical-theological themes.
In this BST volume, Tom Gledhill explores the unique biblical interlude of Song of Songs. He incorporates themes raised by the Song, such as human nature, mortality, and social and cultural conditioning, while staying focused on the text as an extended love poem, both beautiful and mysterious.
With imagination and clarity, Derek Kidner introduces the book of Ecclesiastes, an unusual book that nevertheless speaks powerfully to each generation. In this BST volume, Kidner reveals how the Preacher faces the fear that God is distant and nothing has meaning, and leads us to finally encounter the God who was present all along.
Proverbs' instruction in the art of living has been long tried and long proven. This BST commentary wonderfully illuminates the ancient cultural and religious background and brings the wisdom of Proverbs in conversation with the wisdom of God now more fully displayed in Christ, clarifying the place of Proverbs in the pattern of God's word.
Michael Wilcock has written a travel guide to the Psalms. In this second volume of the BST commentaries on the Psalms, Wilcock explores the complexities of faith–the conflicts, burdens, mysteries, and suffierings of life. In these laments and praises, hymns and liturgies, the Bible continues to speak clearly today.
In this first BST volume on the Psalms, Michael Wilcock has written a travel guide to the Psalms. He invites us through the gateway of Psalms 1 and 2 into all the complexities of faith—the conflicts, burdens, mysteries, and sufferings of life. In these laments and praises, hymns and liturgies, the Bible continues to speak clearly today.
Over the course of his career, early Christian theologian Didymus the Blind wrote numerous theological treatises and exegetical works. This ACT volume presents Didymus's lectures on portions of the Psalms as they were originally presented to his students, allowing us to learn at Didymus's feet and find comfort in the Word of God.