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40 Questions about Interpreting the Bible, 2nd ed. is unavailable, but you can change that!

A vital Bible resource used in classrooms and churches worldwide now revised and updated. 40 Questions about Interpreting the Bible, now in a revised second edition, probes the most pressing problems encountered by churchgoers and beginning Bible students when they try to read and understand the Bible. Using feedback received from pastors, professors, and Bible teachers, New Testament professor...

Early Christians and Jews often cited Scripture with reference to a book, author, or textual event but with little further specificity. Jesus, for example, in referencing the account of Moses, refers to the text simply with the phrase “at the bush [passage]” (Mark 12:26; Luke 20:37, my translation). As biblical texts came to be copied, read, and commented on, some made various attempts to further subdivide and label them. For example, Eusebius (ca. A.D. 260–340), a prominent historian
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