septuagint exegetical commentary celebrating

books:

Genesis: The Covenant Comes to Life (Bringing the Bible to Life)
John H. Walton, Janet Nygren, ...

Zondervan, 2008

A series of Bible study guides following the format and content of the NIV Application Commentaries Series.

Hebrews: Running the Race Before Us (Bringing the Bible to Life)

Zondervan, 2008

A series of Bible study guides following the format and content of the NIV Application Commentaries Series.

Esther (NIV Application Commentary)

4 reviews
Karen H. Jobes

Hodder & Stoughton Religious, 1999

INDISPENSABLE
While preparing to teach an adult Sunday school class on Esther, I bought this book sight-unseen through Amazon (though I had a notion it would be worthwhile, since the publisher is Zondervan and the author went to Westminster Theological Seminary). Now that my study on Esther is finished, I can't think of another tool I relied on more heavily than this one (except for the Bible, of course!); I ...

Ephesians: Living the Faith (Bringing the Bible to Life)

2 reviews
Klyne Snodgrass, Karen Lee-Thorp, ...

Zondervan, 2008

Great Help!
As a minister, I decided to preach through the book of Ephesians. Because I tend to preach with a more exegetical style, I was very interested in having a commentary that examined the history of the text and gave practical use for today. This commentary accomplished all of this and more. Yes, there were times when I felt that Snodgrass's application was perhaps not for what I was looking. ...

Invitation to the Septuagint

7 reviews
Karen H. Jobes, Moisés Silva

Baker Academic, 2005

Excellent
An excellent introduction to the Septuagint, it tells you most of the things you may have wanted to know about the Septuagint, but didn't know where to ask. Discusses the differences between the Hebrew and Greek bibles. The style is very scholarly, the author is not interested in pushing one viewpoint or another, only to present all the current thinking and research in a way that the reader can ...

Esther: God Fulfills a Promise (Bringing the Bible to Life)
Karen H. Jobes, Janet Nygren

Zondervan, 2008

A series of Bible study guides following the format and content of the NIV Application Commentaries Series.

1 Peter (Baker Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament)

3 reviews
Karen H. Jobes

Baker Academic, 2005

I wish I could put 6 stars!!!!
Karen Jobes (Ph.D. Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia) currently is Gerald F. Hawthorne professor of Greek and New Testament in Wheaton College. When she wrote this commentary, she was still in Westmont College in Santa Barbara as associate professor of New Testament. She has proven her ability as competent exegete and expositor by writing a commentary on Esther for NIVAC series. ...