Engaging the Old Testament: How to Read Biblical Narrative, Poetry, and Prophecy Well

Dominick Hernández
Associate Professor of Old Testament and Director of Talbot en Español
Baker Academic, April 2023

This introductory textbook invites students into the depths and riches of the Old Testament and shows the Old Testament’s relevance for Christian readers. Rising Latino evangelical Old Testament scholar Dominick Hernández demonstrates how to read Old Testament texts well and put the ancient written word into practice in our day and age. Hernández shows that four core commitments put readers on the right trajectory for reading and applying the Old Testament to their lives: (1) reading humbly, (2) reading successively, (3) reading entirely and (4) reading deliberately. Students will learn how to become better readers of the text and how to read select Old Testament passages well, paying attention to how the biblical authors used rhetorical techniques to provoke readers to action.

Understanding the New Testament Use of the Old Testament: Forms, Features, Framings, and Functions

Doug Huffman
Professor of New Testament and Dean of Academic Programs
Baker Academic, October 2024

This up-to-date introduction to the study of the New Testament’s use of the Old Testament surveys the current state of the discipline, summarizes the scholarly conversation, illuminates the New Testament writers’ respect for Old Testament contexts, proposes advances in classification and terminology, and provides resources for further work in the feld. New Testament scholar Douglas Hufman suggests a way beyond the impasse concerning the terminology used by scholars in the discipline. He offers a new approach to identifying and interpreting Old Testament quotations, allusions, and echoes by exploring not just the forms but also the features, framings, and functions of the New Testament use of the Old Testament.

Taking Persons Seriously: Where Philosophy and Bioethics Intersect

Scott Rae, Editor and Contributor
Dean of Faculty and Professor of Christian Ethics
Mihretu Guta, Editor and Contributor
M.A. ‘09, M.A.’10, Adjunct Professor of Philosophy
Pickwick Publications, June 2024

Biomedical sciences and technological breakthroughs are taking a leading role in shaping the sorts of questions that give rise to ethical problems. For example, is it ethical to keep terminally ill patients alive on dialysis machines or artificial ventilators? Is it ethical to take someone’s vital organs upon death and transplant them into another person’s body without any prior consent from the deceased person? Reproductive techniques also raise complicated ethical issues involving in vitro fertilization, contraceptives, prenatal testing, abortions and genetic enhancements. This book approaches such complex bioethical questions by engaging in ground-level debates about the ontology of persons. This is a nonnegotiable first step in taking steps forward in seeking a plausible solution(s) for the complex ethical problems in bioethics.

Revering God: How to Marvel at Your Maker

Thaddeus Williams
M.A. ‘01, Associate Professor of Theology
Zondervan, September 2024

The chief reason we exist is to glorify and enjoy God. But for many, God remains a vague cloud of cosmic kindness, a super-sized projection of ourselves into the sky, or an impossible-to-please killjoy. Who is God, really? Who is this being we should thank for our next breath? Written in the great tradition of classic discipleship works like A. W. Tozer’s The Pursuit of God, J.I. Packer’s Knowing God, and R.C. Sproul’s The Holiness of God, this discipleship guide stands out as our generation’s invitation to good theology that yields profound, reverent, God-centered living. Williams invites you to live a more theologically robust and biblical life as you learn how art, cinema, music, philosophy, psychology, apologetics, church history and most importantly Scripture, can deepen your understanding and enjoyment of God.