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This is the sort of thing that happens more often than not as one gets older. That’s the only excuse I can come up with for having posted the incorrect endorsement for Jason DeRouchie’s new book, How to Understand and Apply the Old Testament: Twelve Steps from Exegesis to Theology (Presbyterian & Reformed, 2017). Or maybe it was just late at night, following a long and exhausting day. In any case, the endorsement that was posted earlier today was actually for Jason’s superb book, What the Old Testament Authors Really Cared About: A Survey of Jesus’ Bible (Kregel, 2013). But hey, why not take advantage of my mistake and get this volume too? Trust me, what I wrote back in 2013 about Jason’s edited survey of the OT remains true. It’s an excellent resource. Continue reading . . . 

This is the sort of thing that happens more often than not as one gets older. That’s the only excuse I can come up with for having posted the incorrect endorsement for Jason DeRouchie’s new book, How to Understand and Apply the Old Testament: Twelve Steps from Exegesis to Theology (Presbyterian & Reformed, 2017). Or maybe it was just late at night, following a long and exhausting day. In any case, the endorsement that was posted earlier today was actually for Jason’s superb book, What the Old Testament Authors Really Cared About: A Survey of Jesus’ Bible (Kregel, 2013). But hey, why not take advantage of my mistake and get this volume too? Trust me, what I wrote back in 2013 about Jason’s edited survey of the OT remains true. It’s an excellent resource.

OK, now back to my error. Here is the endorsement I wrote for Jason’s new book, How to Understand and Apply the Old Testament.

“If there is a deficiency in the contemporary evangelical pulpit, it is the absence of consistent expositional preaching of the Old Testament Scriptures. Many pastors either have lost touch with the biblical Hebrew they learned in seminary or are intimidated by the demands placed on those who would venture into the interpretation of complex Old Testament texts. If that is you, or perhaps someone you know, rejoice with me to see the publication of DeRouchie’s excellent treatment of the twelve steps essential for movement from exegesis to sound and substantive pastoral theology. The church has long awaited and greatly needed this volume. I highly recommend it.”

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