2009 Preaching Survey of the Year's Best Books for Preachers

James K. Bruckner has written the volume Exodus in the "New International Biblical Commentary" published by Hendrickson Publishers. R. Alan Cole, also of Moore Theological College in Sydney, has written a new edition of Exodus in the "Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries" series (InterVarsity Press). This series, long admired and much used by evangelical preachers, will continue to be useful for many decades to come. In the same series, Debra Reid has produced the volume Esther.

Duane A. Garrett of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary has written a most helpful book, Amos: A Handbook on the Hebrew Text (Baylor University Press). Garrett's careful and expert study of the Hebrew text will be of great benefit to preachers who are most committed

to exegesis.

Preachers will also welcome the revised edition of The Expositor's Bible Commentary (Zondervan). The first volume, covering Genesis through Leviticus, has just been released, edited by Tremper Longman III, and David E. Garland. This volume, as its predecessor, deserves a designated space on the preacher's bookshelf. Preachers looking for help in understanding the Pentateuch will find assistance in Leviticus: A Mentor Commentary by Robert I. Vasholz (Mentor). Vasholz, who teaches at Covenant Theological Seminary in St. Louis, is determined to present a Christian understanding of Leviticus that is relevant for the church today.

Preachers will also find considerable assistance and rich theological material in Leviticus in the "Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible" (Brazos Press). This new commentary series offers an explicitly theological interpretation of the Bible. The author, Ephraim Radner, who teaches at Wycliffe College at the University of Toronto, is well known as a theologian. With this volume, he makes a serious contribution to biblical scholarship as well.