The Story of God Bible Commentary Series (2 vols.)
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Overview
Offering a new type of application commentary for today’s context, the Story of God Bible Commentary series explains and illuminates Scripture as God’s story. Each New Testament text is treated as though it were embedded in its canonical and historical setting to discern how to live out the story faithfully and creatively in the twenty-first century. A highly-anticipated commentary series, The Story of God Bible Commentary will cover both the Old and New Testaments in 43 volumes.
- Emphasizes the historical distance between the New Testament and contemporary culture
- Encourages discussion of how the Bible’s story can be lived today
- Examines each book in the context of God’s story
- Title: The Story of God Bible Commentary Series
- Authors: Scot McKnight and Lynn H. Cohick
- Editors: Scot McKnight and Tremper Longman III
- Series: Story of God Bible Commentary
- Series Editor: Scot McKnight
- Publisher: Zondervan
- Volumes: 2
- Pages: 624
Partially includedScot McKnight is currently a professor of New Testament at Northern Seminary in Lombard, Illinois. He earned a B.A. degree from Grand Rapids Baptist College (now Cornerstone University), an M.A. degree from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, and a Ph.D. from the University of Nottingham.
McKnight is a member of the Society Biblical Literature and the Society for New Testament Studies. He has written and edited many award-winning books. He has over 25 books to his name, including Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels, the volumes on Galatians and 1 Peter in the NIV Application Commentary, and A New Vision for Israel: The Teaching of Jesus in National Context. He was also a speaker at the Pastorum Live 2012 Conference.
Tremper Longman III is an Old Testament scholar and award-winning author. He earned degrees from Ohio Wesleyan University, Westminster Theological Seminary, and Yale University. He taught for 18 years at Westminster in Philadelphia before becoming a professor of biblical studies and chair of the religious studies department at Westmont College.
Longman has served as a translator and consultant on many translations of the Bible, including the New Living Translation, the New Century Version, and the Holman Standard Bible. He is the Old Testament editor for the revised Expositor’s Bible Commentary and has authored many books, including Dictionary of Biblical Imagery, Daniel in the NIV Application Commentary, and Introduction to the Old Testament.