Several readers complain that I’ve gotten “punchy” during Isaiah. OK, I confess: I’m having a hard time with this book. The poetry is dense, the metaphors elusive, the history obscure, the themes ...

This wondrous prophecy sets forth Jesus Christ and his saving work with a clarity that is equaled by few books of the Old Testament. Hence Isaiah has rightly become known as the “evangelical” prophet.

This extraordinary volume is among the first in a new series of commentaries from Eerdmans that invites attention to the history of church interpretation of the Bible in precritical modes. The editor ...

This is French artist James Tissot’s depiction of the prophet Isaiah during the period in which he wrote the book named for him Tissot lived from 1836-1902. (Courtesy Photo) Written in the Eighth ...

What if the Nativity story was set in a house, during a family gathering? The visitors being night shift workers and ...

In his teaching, Jesus often quoted the Jewish Scriptures; after his death, his followers turned to them for clues to the meaning of his life and message. Biblical scholar Mark Hamilton discusses the ...

With the arrival of Assyrian king Tiglath-pileser III upon the scene of history, a new stage in human defiance of God set in. It was a resurgence of the spirit of Babel. Men sought for a universal ...