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.
In their own words
“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 →
Works quoted on this site
Passages discussed
- The Book of 1 Chronicles: An Introduction
- The Book of 1 Samuel: An Introduction
- The Book of 2 Peter: An Introduction
- The Book of 2 Samuel: An Introduction
- The Book of Ecclesiastes: An Introduction
- The Book of Ezra: An Introduction
- The Book of Hosea: An Introduction
- The Book of Jeremiah: An Introduction
- The Book of Job: An Introduction
- The Book of Joshua: An Introduction
- The Book of Judges: An Introduction
- The Book of Lamentations: An Introduction
- The Book of Leviticus: An Introduction
- The Book of Nehemiah: An Introduction
- The Book of Numbers: An Introduction
- 1 Corinthians 10 — Commentary and Meaning
- 1 Corinthians 4 — Commentary and Meaning
- 1 John 5 — Commentary and Meaning
- 1 Samuel 3 — Commentary and Meaning
- 1 Samuel 8 — Commentary and Meaning
- 2 Corinthians 12 — Commentary and Meaning
- 2 Kings 6 — Commentary and Meaning
- 2 Peter 2 — Commentary and Meaning
- 2 Peter 3 — Commentary and Meaning
- 2 Samuel 24 — Commentary and Meaning
- 2 Samuel 7 — Commentary and Meaning
- Daniel 1 — Commentary and Meaning
- Deuteronomy 31 — Commentary and Meaning
- Deuteronomy 5 — Commentary and Meaning
- Ecclesiastes 4 — Commentary and Meaning