Presuppositions of Biblical Counseling: What Historical Biblical Counselors Really Believe, by Lou Priolo. Conway, AR: Grace and Truth Books, 2023. 138 pp. $12.49. Loneliness: Connecting with God and Others, by Lou Priolo. Phillipsburg, NJ: P&R Publishing, 2023,...
Review of How to Be a Pastor: Wisdom from the Past for Pastors in the Present
How to Be a Pastor: Wisdom from the Past for Pastors in the Present, edited by Ran Van Neste and Justin Wainscott. Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2024. xx + 70 pp. $15.00. Theodore Cuyler may be an unfamiliar name to most, but he was no...
Review of Pastoral Identity: True Shepherds in the Household of Faith
Pastoral Identity: True Shepherds in the Household of Faith, by Douglas D. Webster. Grand Rapids: Kregel, 2023. 186 pp. $19.99. Douglas Webster (PhD, University of St. Michael’s College; BA and MA, Wheaton College) is Professor of...
Review of Preparing Sermons from the Page to the Pulpit: Exegesis to Exposition in Seven Steps
Preparing Sermons from the Page to the Pulpit: Exegesis to Exposition in Seven Steps, by Wayne Baxter. Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2023. xii + 185 pp. $22.99. Wayne Baxter encourages preachers to do all they can to furnish their flock...
Review of Christianity and Modern Medicine: Foundations for Bioethics
Christianity and Modern Medicine: Foundations for Bioethics, by Mark Wesley Foreman and Lindsay C. Leonard. Grand Rapids: Kregel Academic, 2022. 384 pp. $29.99. This volume is co-authored by the father-daughter duo of a bioethicist...
Review of Arminian Baptists: A Biographical History of Free Will Baptists
Arminian Baptists: A Biographical History of Free Will Baptists, edited by David Lytle and Charles Cook. Nashville: Randall House, 2022. viii + 466 pp. $27.99. In their edited book, David Lytle and Charles Cook, have assembled a stellar...
Review of Baptist Political Theology
Baptist Political Theology, edited by Thomas S. Kidd, Paul D. Miller, and Andrew T. Walker. Brentwood, TN: B&H, 2023. 774 pp. $59.99. To establish one’s right to be called a Baptist, one must appeal not merely to Scripture but also...
Review of The Baptism Debate
The Baptism Debate, by Peter Goeman. Raleigh, NC: Sojourner Press, 2023. xii + 230 pp. $21.99. Peter Goeman is Professor of Old Testament and Biblical Languages at Shepherds Theological Seminary and serves as a minister at Shepherd’s...
Review of Dispensational Hermeneutics
Dispensational Hermeneutics: Interpretation Principles that Guide Dispensationalism’s Understanding of the Bible’s Storyline, by Michael J. Vlach. Cary, NC: Theological Studies Press, 2023. 111 pp. $29.95. Michael J. Vlach (PhD,...
Review of Covenantal and Dispensational Theologies: Four Views on the Continuity of Scripture
Covenantal and Dispensational Theologies: Four Views on the Continuity of Scripture, edited by Brent E. Parker and Richard J. Lucas. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2022. ix + 266 pp. $21.99. The editors of this volume are Brent...
Review of Discovering Dispensationalism
Discovering Dispensationalism: Tracing the Development of Dispensational Thought from the First to the Twenty-First Century, edited by Cory M. Marsh and James I. Fazio. El Cajon, CA: SCS Press, 2023. x + 386 pp. $29.95. ...
Review of God’s Israel and the Israel of God
God’s Israel and the Israel of God: Paul and Supersessionism, edited by Michael F. Bird and Scot McKnight. Bellingham, WA: Lexham Academic, 2023. 188 pp. $29.99. Reactions to the Israel-Hamas War which Hamas cruelly provoked on October...
Review of 40 Questions about the Apostle Paul
40 Questions about the Apostle Paul, by Miguel G. Echevarría and Benjamin P. Laird. Grand Rapids: Kregel Academic, 2023. 320 pp. $24.99. “Why write another book about the apostle Paul” (11)? The authors join to ask this question from...
Review of Biblical Theology: A Canonical, Thematic, and Ethical Approach
Biblical Theology: A Canonical, Thematic, and Ethical Approach, by Andreas J. Köstenberger and Greg Goswell. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2023. 1,016 pages. $64.99. Greg Goswell is Academic Dean and Old Testament lecturer at Christ College in...
Review of New Testament Theology
New Testament Theology, by Eckhard J. Schnabel. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2023. 1,224 pp. $69.99. Eckhard Schnabel (PhD, The University of Aberdeen) is the Mary French Rockefeller Distinguished Professor of New Testament at Gordon...
Review of Five Views on the New Testament Canon
Five Views on the New Testament Canon, editedby Stanley E. Porter and Benjamin P. Laird. Grand Rapids: Kregel Academic, 2022. 280 pp. $24.99. When I took my first teaching post nearly thirty years ago, I was assigned to teach New...
Review of Canon Formation: Tracing the Role of Sub-Collections in the Biblical Canon
Canon Formation: Tracing the Role of Sub-Collections in the Biblical Canon, editedby W. Edward Glenny and Darian R. Lockett. London: T&T Clark, 2024. xix + 348 pp. $108.00. Christians have always recognized the various groupings of...
Review of The Apocalypse of John Among Its Critics: Questions & Controversies
The Apocalypse of John Among Its Critics: Questions & Controversies, edited by Alexander E. Stewart and Alan S. Bandy. Studies in Scripture and Biblical Theology. Bellingham, WA: Lexham, 2023. 287 pp. $34.99. Ever since the apostle...
Revelation through Old Testament Eyes
Revelation through Old Testament Eyes, by Tremper Longman III. Grand Rapids: Kregel Academic, 2022. 368 pp. $29.99. Tremper Longman needs no introduction to anyone even slightly familiar with evangelical Old Testament scholarship. During...
Review of 1 Peter, Volume 1: Chapters 1–2 and 1 Peter, Volume 2: Chapters 3–5
1 Peter, Volume 1: Chapters 1–2 and 1 Peter, Volume 2: Chapters 3–5, by Travis B. Williams and David G. Horrell. International Critical Commentary. London: T&T Clark, 2023. 853 pp. + 816 pp. $198.00. Travis B. Williams and David G....
Review of 1 Peter: A Commentary for Biblical Preaching and Teaching
1 Peter: A Commentary for Biblical Preaching and Teaching, by Timothy E. Miller and Bryan Murawski. Kerux Commentaries. Grand Rapids: Kre-gel, 2022. 296 pp. $32.99. Kregel’s Kerux series carves a niche in the world of commentaries by offering a selection designed...
Review of 40 Questions About Bible Translation
40 Questions About Bible Translation, by Mark L. Strauss. Grand Rapids: Kregel Academic, 2023. 352 pp. $24.99. NIV translator Mark L. Strauss uses Kregel Academic’s 40 Questions format to excellent effect as he answers 40...
Contextualization and the Old Testament: Between Asian and Western Perspectives
Contextualization and the Old Testament: Between Asian and Western Perspectives, by Jerry Hwang. Carlisle, UK: Langham Global Library, 2022. 264 pp. $24.00. At a recent academic conference, a seasoned Old Testament scholar opined that most of the future...
Review of Gratitude: Why Giving Thanks is the Key to Our Well Being,
Gratitude: Why Giving Thanks is the Key to Our Well Being, by Cornelius Plantinga. Grand Rapids: Brazos Press, 2024. 176 pp. $22.99. The author, Cornelius Plantinga (PhD, Princeton Theological Seminary) is president emeritus of Calvin Theological Seminary. He is the...
Review of Biblical Aramaic for Biblical Interpreters A Parallel Hebrew-Aramaic Handbook
Dave Deuel on Biblical Aramaic for Biblical Interpreters A Parallel Hebrew-Aramaic Handbook DBSJ 29 2024Download Biblical Aramaic for Biblical Interpreters: A Parallel Hebrew-Aramaic Handbook, by Scott N. Callaham. Wilmore, KY: GlossaHouse, 2021. xv + 249 pp. $35.99....
Review of Autism Spectrum Disorder: Meeting Challenges with Hope
Dave Deuel on Autism Spectrum Disorder DBSJ 29 2024Download Autism Spectrum Disorder: Meeting Challenges with Hope, by Michael R. Emlet. Greensboro, NC: New Growth Press, 2023. 23 pp. $5.00. Michael Emlet (MDiv, MD) practiced as a family physician for over ten years...
Review of Three in One: Analogies for the Trinity
Brett Williams on Three in One Analogies for the Trinity DBSJ 29 2024Download Three in One: Analogies for the Trinity, by William David Spencer. Grand Rapids: Kregel Academic, 2022. 242 pp. $15.99. William Spencer is a Presbyterian minister who serves as the...
Review of The Reformed Lord’s Supper Form
Andre Gazal on The Reformed Lord's Supper Form DBSJ 29 2024Download The Reformed Lord’s Supper Form: A Commentary, by Bastiaan Wielenga. Edited by H. David Shuringa and translated by David J. Engelsma. Jenison, MI: Reformed Free Publishing Association, 2023. xii + 426...
Review of A Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon
Dustin Burlet on A Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic LexiconDownload A Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon, by Frank Matheus. Wilmore, KY: GlossaHouse, 2020. x + 388 pp. $29.99. There is a dearth of up-to-date, inexpensive, and user-friendly lexicons for biblical Aramaic....