Rebecca Idestrom, Author at Word by Word

Author - Rebecca Idestrom

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Rebecca G. S. Idestrom is Professor of Old Testament at Tyndale Seminary of Tyndale University in Toronto, where she has been teaching full time since 2001. Before coming to Tyndale, she taught at Summit Pacific College (formerly Western Pentecostal Bible College) in Abbotsford, BC (1996–2001). She completed her PhD in Old Testament at Sheffield University in 1996. Rebecca is an award-winning author. Her most recent book, Show Me Your Glory: The Glory of God in the Old Testament (Pickwick, 2023), won the 2025 Book of Excellence Award from The Foundation for Pentecostal Scholarship. In addition, Rebecca has authored commentaries on Habakkuk and Zephaniah in The Book of the Twelve, edited by John Christopher Thomas (Brill, 2020). She also published her doctoral dissertation, entitled From Biblical Theology to Biblical Criticism: Old Testament Scholarship at Uppsala University, 1866–1922 (Almqvist & Wiksell, 2000). Originally from Sweden, Rebecca’s family moved to Canada when she was nine years old. She is also musical and enjoys singing.

We Christians talk a lot about God’s glory. We sing worship songs about it, and we desire to give the Lord all the honor and glory in our lives. But what does the word glory actually mean? How does Scripture define it, and what does the Bible mean...

Author - Rebecca Idestrom

What Is the Glory of God? The Meaning of Glory in Scripture