Gary Edward Schnittjer

The Bible's most difficult teachings--laws about slavery, patriarchy, and the death penalty--often leave Christians feeling embarrassed or confused. The Verses We Hate challenges readers to confront these passages head-on, offering a fresh perspective that reveals God's fairness and care for the vulnerable. Written for everyday Christians, this book unpacks five of the Bible's most controversial teachings, showing how their ancient context illuminates God's justice and mercy. Whether you've struggled with these verses yourself or want to help others understand them, this accessible guide will equip you to see the Bible in a new light. Stop avoiding the verses that make you uncomfortable. Discover how the teachings you once hated reveal the God you've always wanted to know--kind, just, and deeply compassionate.

Old Testament Use of Old Testament in Parallel Layout presents the connections within the Hebrew Bible in a clear, easy-to-understand, visual format designed for serious study. Featuring the Hebrew (MT) and English (NIV) texts side by side, this work traces how the writers of Scripture draw on other passages across every book of the Old Testament. Volume 1 covers the Torah and Prophets, while Volume 2 focuses on the Writings, offering a comprehensive, book-by-book presentation of Scripture interpreting Scripture. Featuring a dynamic, color-coded layout, Old Testament Use of Old Testament in Parallel Layout enables readers to see shared language, distinct phrasing, and interpretive development at a glance. Blue text highlights parallels; black text marks distinct elements; and red signals interpretive advances, helping readers identify how later texts engage with earlier ones. Instead of guessing how passages might relate, readers can see at a glance what is shared, what is distinct, and how meaning develops between and across texts, allowing them to gain a firmer understanding of major themes, motifs, doctrines, and the unity of God's revelation. Designed for seminary students, pastors, and serious readers of the Bible, this unique reference work removes much of the difficulty from comparative study and places the text itself at the center, equipping readers to explore and understand the Bible's use of the Bible with clarity and depth.

This volume offers a substantive and useful commentary on Ezra-Nehemiahand explores its contemporary significance. Respected Old Testament scholar Gary Edward Schnittjer explains that the Ezra-Nehemiah narrative begins well but ends in disappointment for the returning exiles. From the first verse to the last, this commentary takes seriously the faithfulness of Yahweh as it crashes into the unfaithfulness of God's people. Schnittjer pays special attention to the biblical connections and narrative coherence of Ezra-Nehemiah, opening it up for study, teaching, and preaching. In addition to paragraph-level commentary, all volumes in the Baker Commentary on the Old Testament (BCOT) series feature · a fresh translation of the Hebrew text; · incisive comments based on the author's translation; · linguistic, historical, and canonical insights; · concluding reflections; and · footnotes addressing technical matters. Ezra-Nehemiah is the second volume on the historical books in the BCOT series, following Joshua by John Goldingay. Series editors are David G. Firth (Trinity College, Bristol) and Lissa M. Wray Beal (Wycliffe College, University of Toronto).

How to Study the Bible's Use of the Bible: Seven Hermeneutical Choices for the Old and New Testaments by Gary Edward Schnittjer and Matthew S. Harmon is an essential resource aimed at teaching a hermeneutic for understanding the Bible's use of the Bible. Intended for students of both testaments, the book's innovative approach demonstrates how the Old Testament use of Scripture provides resources for the New Testament authors' use of Scripture. The authors provide students with a clear approach to handling the Bible's use of itself through seven key hermeneutical choices organized into individual chapters. Each chapter introduces a hermeneutical choice and then provides several examples of the Old Testament use of Old Testament and the New Testament use of Old Testament. The plentiful examples model for students the need to ground hermeneutics in biblical evidence and provide insight into understanding why the Bible's use of the Bible is important.

The gospel story begins in Torah. What culminates at Golgotha starts with the rebellion in the garden. The Torah's story can be framed as a question: How will the word of God overcome the human revolution? Torah Story offers a student-friendly introduction to the redemptive narrative housed in the first five books of the Bible. Every main chapter introduces a section of Torah with attention to its basic structure. This is followed by another look at how this portion of Torah connects to the rest of the Christian Bible. The dynamic design includes opportunities in every chapter to make the most of Torah study including:Helps for getting started (focus questions, key terms, outline)An interactive workshop with challenge questions and advanced questionsSuggestions for research projectsNext steps for further studyA refreshingly new approach to the Torah--neither an introduction nor a commentary--Torah Story provides an apprenticeship on the Old Testament's first five books. But it also provides a model of how to read Scripture intertextually with an eye to the New Testament gospels. It leaves no doubt as to the overarching unity of the message and composition of the Pentateuch. The second edition is streamlined and simplified throughout, with updated examples and new sidebars and imagery.

This workbook accompanies Gary Edward Schnittjer's Torah Story. Following the textbook's structure, it offers chapter-by-chapter guided exercises designed to support the students learning experience and enhance their comprehension of the Pentateuch. Working knowledge of the Bible's first five books is essential for every serious student of the Scriptures. Torah Story by Gary Edward Schnittjer emphasizes the content of the text itself, moving beyond debating dates and theories of authorship into understanding how these key books of the Bible help us understand the story of salvation.

SOUTHWESTERN JOURNAL OF THEOLOGY 2021 BOOK OF THE YEAR IN BIBLICAL STUDIESCENTER FOR BIBLICAL STUDIES AT MIDWESTERN SEMINARY 2021 BOOK OF THE YEAR IN OLD TESTAMENTOld Testament Use of Old Testament, by Gary Edward Schnittjer, surveys the hundreds of Old Testament allusions within the Old Testament and provides hermeneutical guidance for interpreting these interrelated scriptures. The handbook takes an easy to navigate book-by-book approach. Schnittjer provides a list of Scripture allusions for each book and follows with an interpretive profile of how that book uses passages from elsewhere in the Old Testament. Specific criteria are applied to each allusion, providing readers with evaluation of the significance of each interpretive allusion. Minor allusions caused by style, figures of speech, and other minor elements are not included. Responsible exegesis requires careful attention to interrelated scriptures, yet there is a host of interpretive difficulties related to Scripture's use of Scripture. Designed for ease-of-use for any serious student of the Bible, Old Testament Use of Old Testament offers a thorough, systematic tool to aid in evaluating scriptural interpretation of Scripture. This dynamic tool equips students of the Bible to:Understand how the Old Testament uses the Old TestamentEasily find the most important Old Testament allusionsGrasp the complexity of Scripture's use of ScriptureEvaluate the significance of interpretive allusionsGain exegetical insight into the study of interrelated Scriptures