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Now for the first time, Craig Keeners Bible Background Commentary: New Testament provides the fruit of ten years of scholarly labor in a single volume arranged in convenient verse-by-verse format, covering the entire New Testament.

This great resource will enrich your Bible study with cultural background for the New Testament previously only found in academic libraries.

Enrich your Bible study with cultural background for the New Testament

This unique commentary gives you the crucial cultural background you need for responsible and richer Bible study. You will have easy access to the most relevant cultural, social and historical background for reading the New Testament the way its first readers would have read it. Its single focus on cultural context makes it an excellent complement to the other commentaries in your PC Study Bible library. Some passages of the Bible are just more difficult to understand than others. Because of what they ask us to do. Because they challenge our preconceived notions. Or simply due to cultural differences from when the Bible was written. Whatever the reason, Hard Sayings of the Bible can help! Unravel perplexing Scripture passages


Hard Sayings of the Bible gives you understandable explanations for over 500 of the most troublesome passages in the Bible. It resolves a wide variety of Bible difficulties, ranging from discrepancies about dates and numbers to questions about Gods justice. You get trustworthy historical, cultural and linguistic background that sheds light on what each passage meant in biblical times. Each article upholds the inerrancy of the Scriptures without explaining away the passage in question. And helps you to understand how the information is relevant for you today.



Have a ready answer for the tough questions about God and the Bible

Hard Sayings also addresses common questions believers and non-believers raise about the Bible. In 12 introductory articles, it helps you to understand the following issues for yourself and feel confident to explain them to others: How do we know who wrote the Bible? Can we believe in Bible miracles? Why does God seem so angry in the Old Testament and loving in the New? Are many Old Testament numbers wrong? Why Bible genealogies do not always match up? Do the dates of the Old Testament kings fit secular history? Does archaeology support Bible history? When the prophets say, The word of the Lord came to me, what do they mean? Are Old Testament prophecies really accurate? Why doesnt the New Testament always quote the Old Testament accurately? Are the New Testament accounts of demons true? Why are there four different Gospels?



Features

Introductions for every book in the New Testament

A glossary of cultural terms and important historical figures

Introductory essays on the importance of cultural background and the uses of this unique commentary

Several key maps and charts