Books by Peter Enns - Current and Coming
Invitation to Genesis
Abingdon Press 2006
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“In the beginning…” These familiar words open the Book of Genesis and give voice to one of the foundational stories of the entire Old Testament. This short-term DISCIPLE Bible Study is an invitation to see Genesis not simply as a story about the beginning (Creation), but as a book about beginnings. From Adam and Eve to Noah to Abraham, Genesis recounts God’s persistence in “ starting over ” with the chosen people. It is a message both timeless and timely – for God’s people still seek the assurance that God is always working to make right what went wrong “in the beginning.”
Inspiration and Incarnation: Evangelicals and the Problem of the Old Testament
Baker Academic, 2005
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This study is focused on lay evangelical readers and suggests a reconsideration of their notion of Scripture in light of commonly accepted conclusions of biblical scholarship over the past several generation. My concern is to help readers whose faith has been challenged by critical studies, and I suggest that evangelical faith would be well served by moving beyond a predominantly defensive doctrine of Scripture to develop a positive view that seriously engages contemporary critical scholarship. My proposal is to employ an “incarnational” model of Scripture—one that recognizes and affirms both the divine and human aspects of the Bible.
Exodus: The NIV Application Commentary
This commentary is focused on providing Christoltelic readings of Exodus. Exodus itself is a powerful theological statement, and one that reaches its fullest expression in the death and resurrection of Christ, the new Moses.
Exodus Retold: Ancient Exegesis of the Departure from Egypt in Wisdom 10:15-21 and 19:1-9 (Harvard Semitic Museum Monographs 57)
Scholars Press , 1997
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A study in Second Temple hermeneutics focusing on the use of the Exodus traditions in the Wisdom of Solomon. The author of this work (often referred to as Pseudo-Solomon), while commenting on the biblical exodus, shows evidence of being influenced not only by interpretive techniques of the time period, but also interpretive traditions. This study provides a window onto one aspect of the use of Scripture in the Second Temple period, and has implications also for how we understand the NT’s use of the OT.
Poetry and Wisdom (Ibr Bibliographies, No. 3)
This is an annotated bibliography of several hundred secondary sources on biblical wisdom literature and poetry.
Baker Illustrated Bible Dictionary
Co-editor with Tremper Longman III and Mark Strauss; Baker, forthcoming 2009
Three Views on the New Testament’s Use of the Old Testament
Co-written with Walter Kaiser and Darrell Bock; Zondervan, forthcoming 2008
Dictionary of the Old Testament:Wisdom, Poetry, and Writings
Co-editor with Tremper Longman III; IVP, forthcoming 2008
This third Old Testament volume in InterVarsity Press’s celebrated “Black Dictionary” series offers nearly 150 articles covering all the important aspects of Job, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Psalms, Song of Songs, Lamentations, Ruth and Esther. Over ninety contributors, many of them experts in this literature, have contributed to the Dictionary of the Old Testament: Wisdom, Poetry & Writings. This volume maintains the quality of scholarship that students, scholars and pastors have come to expect from this series.
Ecclesiastes: Two Horizons Commentary Series
Eerdmans, forthcoming 2008