Baker Illustrated Bible Background Commentary

Increase your understanding and appreciation of God’s Word with Baker’s colorful, one-volume, essential study companion: The Baker Illustrated Bible Background Commentary. We are a people far removed from the times and cultures of the Bible, and this distance can lead to misunderstandings and misinterpretation. However, The Baker Illustrated Bible Background Commentary is a delightful guide for teachers, pastors, and laypersons in the journey of understanding Scripture.

Features:

Cultural Insights: Spans topics from warfare and execution to feasts and fashion, bringing understanding to cultural distinctions that interweave the Bible.

Historical Survey: Highlights important connections of historical events during the Old and New Testaments as well as the Intertestamental Period.

Visually Engaging: Rich, full-color images bring further clarity to written commentary.

Endorsements

“Scott Duvall and Daniel Hays have assembled a first-class team of biblical scholars to explore the important background material related to both the Old Testament and the New. More than merely a survey of dates, times, places, people, and events, as significant as those things may be, The Baker Illustrated Bible Background Commentary provides illumination to challenging and perplexing interpretive issues, guiding readers to fresh understandings of the biblical text… As an added bonus, the book is helpfully and beautifully illustrated. It is a genuine joy to recommend this splendid resource.”
—David S. Dockery, Distinguished Professor of Theology, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary

“Hays and Duvall have done the church a favor in bringing to us the Baker Illustrated Bible Background Commentary. By offering keen theological insight into the text, helpful historical and cultural analysis, and full-color pictures to go along with it, they have given every person desiring to grow in their knowledge of the Bible an invaluable tool to do so.”
—Dr. Jarrett Stephens Teaching Pastor, Prestonwood Baptist Church