FORTHCOMING TITLE, ETA DECEMBER 2024
A guide for reading and understanding difficult New Testament verses.
While the core message of the New Testament is clear, we often encounter puzzling, alarming, or confusing sections when we get into the details. In this second volume of Navigating Tough Texts, Murray J. Harris concisely considers more than eighty tricky passages in the New Testament. He shows how these texts offer insights with implications for theology, apologetics, mission, and the Christian life.
Navigating Tough Texts, Volume 2 is a sure guide for pastors, students, and curious Christians who want to be better readers of the tough passages in the Bible.
200 pages
With precision, acumen, and sound judgment, Murray J. Harris brings a lifetime of study and devotion to bear on the meaning of notoriously gnarly verses. Students, pastors, and all other serious Bible readers will benefit from his limpid explanations and careful verdicts. This book not only furnishes helpful solutions to interpretive conundrums—it also models sound and creative strategies for dealing with any puzzling biblical text.
—Robert W. Yarbrough, professor of New Testament, Covenant Theological Seminary, St. Louis, MO
When lost at sea, there’s nothing like having a seasoned sailor as your companion. For Bible readers stymied by passages that have posed and continue to pose either doctrinal or ethical difficulties, Murray Harris provides a steady helping hand at the exegetical helm. The very selection of which problem passages to treat in this second collection reflects his wise judgment, as does the manner in which he reads with Trinitarian faith, making this book a helpful guide that will help beginning and even more advanced readers from suffering interpretive shipwreck.
—Kevin J. Vanhoozer, research professor of systematic theology, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
Navigating Tough Texts, Volume 2: A Guide to Problem Passages in the New Testament is in the following collections:
