JOHN GOLDINGAY uses personal anecdotes and his own theological
study in Psalms for Everyone: Part 1. This volume
covers Psalms 1 to 72, and seeks to help readers to apply the
lessons of the Psalms to their lives (SPCK, £9.99 (£9);
978-0-281-06133-4).
Deanna A. Thompson tackles Deuteronomy, and
considers the implications of the three speeches of Moses to the
people of Israel in the course of their wilderness peregrinations
(WJK Press, £27.99 (£25.20); 978-0-664-23343-3).
In The Pentateuch, Walter J. Houston, a URC
minister, seeks to introduce the books to students with limited
experience in biblical studies. He provides further guides to study
and to personal reading (SCM Press, £30 (£27);
978-0-334-04385-0).
Ecclesiastes is the subject of Richard P.
Belcher's commentary, in which he set out ways in which scholars
have understood the book, together with his own exegetical
interpretation, with homiletical implications (Evangelical Press,
£19.99 (£18); 978-0852-34985-4).
Dale Ralph Davis, a former elder at Woodland Presbyterian
Church, Hattiesburg, USA, explores The Message of
Daniel in the series The Bible Speaks Today (IVP, £9.99
(£9); 978-1-84474-801-3). In the same series, Chris Green,
a lecturer in preaching and church-planting at Oak Hill, considers
The Message of the Church, as he seeks to find out
what the Bible is saying to Churches and their pastors in today's
world (IVP, £12.99 (£11.70); 978-1-84474-878-5).
Sin, repentance, assurance, law, love, and the missionary call
are some of the 50 themes explored in The Bible
Student. Peter Sammons, the editor, explains that this is
a modern reworking of a 1930s manual Every Man a Bible
Student, which evolved from the Ruanda Mission (Glory to Glory
Publications, www.glorytoglory.co.uk, £8.99;
978-0-9567831-6-5).
Jordan Scheetz explains his own theory, which he then applies to
a specific biblical book in The Concept of Canonical
Intertextuality and the Book of Daniel. Before laying out
his ideas, he looks at the work of others in this area (James
Clarke & Co., £15; 978-0-227-68020-9).
Cover to Cover Complete is an edition of the
NIV Bible, which divides the text into daily chunks. The editors,
Selwyn Hughes and Trevor Partridge, have arranged the material in
what they believe to be chronological order. The idea is that
readers will manage to read the whole OT and NT in a year, and
understand the events of scripture as they happened (CWR, £24.99
(£22.50); 978-1-85345-804-0).
Anne Le Tissier has taken 32 names and titles for Jesus and
written a devotionally based Bible study on each. The material was
originally published as articles in the magazine Woman
Alive. Each ends with a "taking it further" section, offering
questions for reflection, a prayer and/or suggested Bible passages
to read. Jesus: Name above all names is published
by BRF (£8.99 (£8.10); 978-0-85746-085-1).
Cephas Tushima argues against the long-standing tradition that
David was a hero, and shows how instead he acted unjustly and
villainously against the house of Saul, whose power he usurped.
The Fate of Saul's Progeny in the Reign of David
is a revised copy of his Ph.D. thesis (James Clarke & Co.,
£25.50; 978-0-227-68036-0).
The Straight to the Heart of . . . series is a
collection of books aimed at helping readers to understand the
books of the Bible and their message more fully. In 60 "bite-sized
insights", Phil Moore guides non-specialists through the Gospel of
John with a devotional bent (978-0-85721-253-5)
and the books of 1 and 2 Samuel
(978-0-85721-252-8). Published by Monarch, each costs £8.99
(£8.10).
The books in the Insights series contain extracts from the
writing of William Barclay on particular subjects. They are short
(around 80 pages), small-sized paperbacks. Forgiveness:
What the Bible tells us about Christian forgiveness has a
foreword by Margaret Forrester (Saint Andrew Press, £7.99
(£7.20); 978-0-7152-0934-9).
The A. W. Tozer Bible has a somewhat misleading
name, since it is an edition of the King James Version, enlarged
with the addition of short pieces from the writings of Tozer,
either directly related to the Bible passage on the same page, or a
more general reflection (Hendrickson, £25.99 (£23.40);
978-1-59856-722-9).