Rebind Scholar

John Goldingay

PhD (University of Nottingham), DD (Lambeth), Senior Professor of Old Testament and David Allan Hubbard Professor Emeritus of Old Testament, Fuller Theological Seminary

John Goldingay is David Allan Hubbard Professor Emeritus of Old Testament at Fuller Theological Seminary and an internationally respected Old Testament scholar. His Old Testament for Everyone series walks general readers through the whole Hebrew Bible, and he has also written the Jeremiah and Lamentations volumes in the New International Commentary on the Old Testament.

“So the story of Hagar and Ishmael gets its fresh start. God is with Ishmael. He is the first person about whom that is said; it will recur as a promise for Isaac (Genesis 26:24), but it is first said of the boy who does not count in terms of the great purpose …”

Genesis for Everyone: Part 2 Chapters 17–50 · Read in context →

“The people who pray this poem don’t know, but for later readers like us, its fivefold reference to there being no comforter offers paradoxical reassurance. During the decades when the poem is being used in Jerusalem, Yahweh will give the order, “Comfort, comfo…”

Lamentations and Ezekiel for everyone · Read in context →