How Long, O Lord?

How Long, O Lord?This clear and accessible treatment of key biblical themes related to human suffering and evil is written by one of the most respected evangelical biblical scholars alive today. Carson brings together a close, careful exposition of key biblical passages with helpful pastoral applications. The second edition has been updated throughout.

He reaches back into the earliest centuries of our era to recover the meanings that early Jewish and Christian writers found in the stories of the six days of creation and of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden

Originally published in various journals and collections

it has become a trusted resource for serious students of the Bible

and is supplemented by robust web-based resources through Baker Academic's Textbook eSources

Christianity Today 2024 Book Award Finalist (Apologetics/Evangelism)

Renowned scholar Gordon Wenham offers Story as Torah

two experienced teachers invite us to read and explore the Psalter and roam widely among its poems

The book follows the course of Bavinck's life in a period of dramatic social change

Highly respected New Testament scholar Craig Keener is known for his meticulous and comprehensive research

and rich tradition with much to offer

"A wonderfully clear and faithful account of biblical theology

This up-to-date introduction to the study of the New Testament's use of the Old Testament surveys the current state of the discipline