Resources & Reviews

Here is everything I have reviewed, with categories almost in alphabetical order.

  • Theology
  • Bibles
  • Biblical Languages 
  • Biblical Theology
  • Children’s Books
  • Commentaries
  • Course Lectures
  • Devotionals
  • Dictionaries
  • General Reading
  • Upcoming Reviews

Many of the books listed here are great, but I’ve tried to highlight some key books. Books in blue bold are the ones I think would help you better understand the Bible to begin with. I have enjoyed most of the books I have reviewed, but some are better to start with than others..

Reviews for books in gray italics are upcoming.

Theology

Bibles

Biblical Languages

Biblical Theology

Children’s Books 

General

Theology

Commentaries 

Genesis

Exodus

  • Exodus (AOTC) T. D. Alexander
  • Exodus (NAC)  Douglas Stuart
  • Exodus (SGBC) Christopher Wright

Leviticus

Numbers

Deuteronomy

Joshua

  • Joshua (EBTC) David Firth

Judges/Ruth

  • Judges/Ruth (NAC) Daniel Block
  • Ruth (Guide to Reading Biblical Hebrew) — Adam Howell

Samuel

Kings

Chronicles

Ezra-Nehemiah

Psalms

Proverbs

Job

  • Proverbs (AOTC) Paul Overland
  • Job (EBTC) — Barry Webb

Jeremiah

The Minor Prophets/the Twelve

Hosea

  • Hosea (NICOT)  J. Andrew Dearman
  • Hosea (ZECOT) Jerry Hwang
  • Hosea (AOTC) Joshua Moon

Joel

  • Joel (ZECOT) — David Barker

Obadiah

Jonah

  • Jonah (ZECOT)  Kevin Youngblood

Nahum

  • Nahum (ZECOT) — Daniel Timmer

Habakkuk

Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi

Matthew

Mark

Luke

  • Luke (PNTC) James Edwards

John

  • John (BECNT)  Andreas Köstenberger
  • John (CFP) William Cook
  • John: Verse by Verse (NTC) Grant Osborne
  • John (NTL) Marianne Thompson
  • John (ZECNT) Edward Klink III
  • John (ZIBBC) Craig Keener

Acts

Romans

First Corinthians

Second Corinthians

Ephesians

Galatians

Philippians

Colossians

1 & 2 Thessalonians

The Pastoral Letters

Hebrews

James

1-2 Peter, Jude

1,2,3 John

Revelation

Course Lectures 

Devotionals

  • Anger (31-Day Devotionals For Life) Bob Jones
  • Contentment (31-Day Devotionals For Life) Megan Hill
  • Doubt (31-Day Devotionals For Life) Elyse Fitzpatrick
  • Fearing Others (31-Day Devotionals For Life)  Zach Schlegel
  • Be Thou My Vision, A Liturgy for Daily Worship Jonathan Gibson

Dictionaries

General Reading

Upcoming 

Sooner

10Publishing
  • Oh, The Treasures You’ll Know! — Dan Olson and Craig MacIntosh
  • The Friends and the Traveller — Sam Brewster
The Good Book Co.
  • 2 Corinthians For You — Gary Millar
Lexham Press
  • God’s Israel and the Israel of God — Michael Bird/Scot McKnight
  • Preparing Sermons from the Page to the Pulpit — Wayne Baxter
Zondervan 
  • Really Very Crunchy — Emily Morrow

Later

Children’s

Sooner
  • Nordic Tales illustrated by Ulla Thynell
  • Sophie and the Heidelberg Cat Wilson/Garcia
Later
  • Food Anatomy — Julia Rothman
  • Land of AND Kate Mullaly
  • Land of OR Kate Mullaly
  • Ocean Anatomy — Julia Rothman
  • Wildlife Anatomy — Julia Rothman

Beyond

Languages

Lexham Press
  • Biblical Greek Made Simple Danny Zacharias
  • Learning Biblical Hebrew Grammar  Kutz/Josberger
  • Learning Biblical Hebrew Workbook  Kutz/Josberger

Theology

B&H Academic
  • The Gospel for Disordered Lives — Robert Jones & Kristin Kellen
  • Acts (CSC) — Patrick Schreiner
  • Salvation (Theology for the People of God) — Thomas Schreiner, Christopher Morgan
  • Systematic Theology, vol. 1 — Stephen Wellum
Baker Academic
  • Abraham’s Silence J. Richard Middleton
  • The Gospel of John David Ford
  • How Scripture Interprets Scripture Michael Graves
Cambridge University Press
  • Paul and the Resurrection of Israel — Jason Staples
  • Acts (NCBC) — Craig Keener
Eerdmans Publishing 
  • Hebrews (PNTC) — Sigurd Grindheim
Fontes Press
  • Discourse Analysis of the NT Writings ed. Todd Scacewater
The Good Book Co.
  • Raising Confident Kids in a Confusing World — Ed Drew
IVP Academic
Complimentary
  • Approaching the Study of Theology — Anthony Thiselton
  • Called by Triune Grace — Jonathan Hoglund
  • Christianity at the Crossroads — Michael Kruger
  • Delivered From the Elements of the World — Peter Leithart
  • The Gospel of the Son of God — David Bauer
  • The Lost World of the Torah — John Walton
  • The Messianic Vision of the Pentateuch — Kevin Chen
  • Reading Romans with Eastern Eyes — Jackson Wu
  • Theology and the Mirror of Scripture — Vanhoozer/Treier
  • Understanding Postmodernism — Kelly/Dew
  • But What About God’s Wrath? — Kinghorn/Travis
  • What Does the Bible Say About Suffering? — Brian Gregg
Requested
  • Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels, 2nd ed. — eds. Green, Brown, and Perrin
  • The Return of the Kingdom — Stephen Dempster
  • The Story Retold — Beale and Gladd
  • Retrieving Augustine’s Doctrine of Creation — Gavin Ortlund
  • Stewards of Eden — Sandra Richter
Kregel Academic
  • Matthew Through Old Testament Eyes — David Capes
Lexham Press
Complimentary
  • The Basics of Faith — Carl Henry
  • The Bedrock of Christianity — Justin Bass
  • A Commentary on the New Testament from the Talmud & Midrash — Strack & Billerbeck
  • Discontinuity to Continuity — Benjamin Merkle
  • God of All Comfort Scott Harrower
  • In Season and Out — David deSilva
  • Jeremiah: Walking the Ancient Pathways — Walter Kaiser
  • Journeys of the Apostle Paul — ed. David Bomar
  • The Logic of the Body — Lapine
  • Myth and Meaning in Jordan Peterson — ed. Ron Dart
  • The Progressive Mystery — Myk Habets
  • Raised on the Third Day — Beck & Licona
Requested
  • The Arrival of the King – The Shape and Story of Psalms 15-24 — Carissa Quinn
  • Galatians (EBTC) — Matthew Harmon
  • The Lord Jesus Christ — Brandon Crowe
  • Matthew (EBTC) — Charles Quarles
Regent College Press
  • Obeying the Truth — John M. G. Barclay
Union Publishing
  • One — Clive Bowsher
Wipf & Stock
  • The Theological Intentions of Mark’s Literary Devices — Dean Deppe
Zondervan Academic
  • 1, 2, 3 John (SGBC) Constantine Campbell
  • Bridging the Testaments — George Athas
  • Galatians (SGBC) — Nijay Gupta
  • Philippians (ZECNT) — George Guthrie
  • The New Testament in Antiquity, 2nd ed. — Burge/Green

3 comments

  1. Hi James,

    Great blog. Thanks for your review of Representing Christ. Have you seen biblical training.org. If not, it looks like the kind of resource you would appreciate.

    Grace,

    Hank Voss

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    1. Hi Hank,

      Yes, I have seen it and have used it a bit, but it hasn’t crossed my mind to even put it on here. Thanks for the reminder and for your book. I look forward to more from you in the future.

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