Numbers: An Introduction and Commentary (Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries) - Softcover

Peres, Caio; Altmann, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 083084290X ISBN 13: 9780830842902

Publisher: IVP Academic, 2025

Synopsis

Two Scholars Reengage with Numbers in this Tyndale Commentary

The book of Numbers has had something of a renaissance in scholarly engagement in recent years. This Tyndale Old Testament Commentary volume by Peter Altmann and Caio Peres distills that conversation with sensitivity and rigor. With input from two authors from different contexts, it helps to illuminate Numbers for the contemporary reader while seeking to make God’s Word a source of blessing, nourishment, and hope for all.

The Tyndale Old Testament Commentary series is designed to help the reader of the Bible understand what the text says and what it means. The Introduction to each book gives a concise but thorough treatment of its authorship, date, original setting, and purpose. Following a structural Analysis, the Commentary takes the book section by section, drawing out its main themes, and also comments on individual verses and problems of interpretation. Additional Notes provide fuller discussion of particular difficulties.

In the new Old Testament volumes, the commentary on each section of the text is structured under three headings: Context, Comment, and Theology. The goal is to explain the true meaning of the Bible and make its message plain.

About this title

About the Authors

Caio Peres is an independent scholar and missionary in Brazil. He holds an MA in Theology and Religious Studies from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Peter Altmann presently serves as David Allan Hubbard associate professor of Old Testament at Fuller Theological Seminary, California.

Tremper Longman III (PhD, Yale University) is Robert H. Gundry Professor of Biblical Studies at Westmont College in Santa Barbara, California. He is also visiting professor of Old Testament at Seattle School of Theology and Psychology and adjunct of Old Testament at Fuller Theological Seminary. He lectures regularly at Regent College in Vancouver and the Canadian Theological Seminary in Calgary.Longman is the author or coauthor of over twenty books, including How to Read Genesis, How to Read the Psalms, How to Read Proverbs, Literary Approaches to Biblical Interpretation, Old Testament Essentials and coeditor of A Complete Literary Guide to the Bible. He and Dan Allender have coauthored Bold Love, Cry of the Soul, Intimate Allies, The Intimate Mystery and the Intimate Marriage Bible studies.

David G. Firth is Old Testament tutor and head of research at St John's College, Nottingham.

Edition details

• Publisher: IVP Academic
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 083084290X
• ISBN 13: 9780830842902
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 432