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The Modern Preacher and the Ancient Text: Interpreting and Preaching Biblical Literature is unavailable, but you can change that!

A fusion of biblical hermeneutics and homiletics, this thorough and well-researched book offers a holistic contemporary approach to the interpretation and preaching of biblical texts, using scholarly tools and focusing on literary features. Greidanus develops hermeneutical and homiletical principles and then applies them to four specific genres: Hebrew narratives, prophetic literature, the...

to the Thessalonians: “And we also thank God constantly for this, that when you received the word of God which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men but as what it really is, the word of God, which is at work in you believers” (1 Thess 2:13). Paul’s conviction that the preached word of God “is at work in you believers” is similar to the view of the Old Testament prophets that God’s word is God’s deed: God’s word goes out into the world as a powerful force that accomplishes
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