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03 June 2016

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THE commentaries in the series The Bible Speaks Today now in­­clude The Message of Malachi by Peter Adam (IVP, £9.99 (£9); 978-1-84474-622-4) and The Message of Women: Creation, grace and gender by Derek and Dianne Tidball (IVP, £12.99 (£11.70); 978-1-84474-595-1).

In the Two Horizons NT Com­mentary series is 1 & 2 Timothy and Titus by Robert Wall with Richard Steele (Eerdmans, £18.99 (£17.10); 978-0-8028-2562-9).

Straight to the Heart of Psalms by Phil Moore offers “60 bite-sized insights” (Monarch, £8.99 (£8.10); 978-0-85721-428-7).

God is For Us by Simon Ponsonby is a set of 52 studies on Romans (Monarch, £12.99 (£11.70); 978-08572-1687-8).

Global Voices: Reading the Bible in the majority world, edited by Craig Keener and Daniel Carroll, con­tains essays on hermeneutics from various cultures (Hendrickson, £12.99 (£11.70); 978-1-6197-0009-3).

Extracts from Tom Wright’s For Everyone series are drawn together in New Testament Wisdom for Everyone (SPCK, £8.99 (£8.10); 978-0-281-06937-8). John Goldingay is the commentator in Job for Every­one (SPCK, £9.99 (£9); 978-0-281-06137-2).

Lissa Wray Beal’s commentary on 1 and 2 Kings uses her own translation, in the Apollos OT Commentary series (Apollos, £32.99 (£29.70); 978-1-78359-031-5).

David Nienhuis and Robert Wall argue that the Catholic Epistles should be seen together as a whole, in Reading the Epistles of James, Peter, John and Jude as Scripture (Eerdmans, £21.99 (£19.70); 978-0-8028-6591-5).

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