Description: When it comes to understanding a passage in the Bible, context is everything. What historical events surround a books composition? What larger literary unit is a given passage part of? What central themes explored by the book touch on the verses in question? If we dont know the answer to questions like these, we are ill-prepared...
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O. Wesley Allen, Jr., is Lois Craddock Perkins Professor of Homiletics at Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University
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"Preachers have needed a book like this for years, and at last here it is! The first element in any preaching process is getting acquainted with the book from which the preacher's text is taken. Now this process can be streamlined each week, allowing the preacher to move more quickly to the particulars of the text at hand. Top scholars have been recruited for this task, and the results are not only useful but inspiring."-John S. McClure, Charles G. Finney Professor of Preaching and Worship, Vanderbilt Divinity School