Journal: Westminster Theological Journal
Volume: WTJ 87:1 (Spring 2025)
Article: Short Notices
Author: Anonymous

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Short Notices

Tremper Longman III and Mark L. Strauss, eds., The Baker Expository Dictionary of Biblical Words. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2023. Pp. 1168. $54.99, cloth.

Longman and Strauss have led a team of biblical scholars to produce a new resource for accessing the meaning of the Bible in its original languages. This Expository Dictionary was developed under the conviction that in order to hear God’s Word rightly “we must understand the meaning of its words” (p. 7). The first portion of the book, and the largest, is a dictionary of English words found in the Bible. The entries are divided into a word’s Old and New Testament uses, and the contributors discuss the meaning of the various Hebrew/Greek words behind the English as they occur in different contexts in the Bible. In addition to providing transliterations for the Hebrew and Greek words, the editors identify their numbers for both Strong’s system as well as the system developed by Goodrick and Kohlenberger III. The final two sections of the book are a Hebrew-English and Greek-English dictionary, organized according to Strong’s numbering. To use this work, readers can begin by either looking up an English word or looking up the Hebrew/Greek word or number to find its common translations as well as the English word for which the Expository Dictionary provides an article on that Hebrew/Greek word. The work is well organized, easy to use, and represents a labor of love for those who want a deeper understanding of the Bible’s words. This resource will probably be most intriguing to Bible interpreters with no knowledge of Hebrew or Greek, or who are starting to learn them.

B. A. F.

Thomas R. Schreiner, Revelation. Baker Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2023. Pp. xxi + 874. $69.99, cloth.

Schreiner’s commentary replaces the commentary in the same series by Grant Osborne (published in 2002). Schreiner argues that Revelation is not a linear account, but is recapitulatory (p. xi). He also argues that John the Apostle is the most likely candidate for the author of Revelation, and it was probably written sometime during the reign of Domitian (AD 81–96), and probably near the end of that reign, around AD 85–95 (pp. 22–23). Schreiner’s millennial view does not follow postmillennialism, historic premillennialism, or amillennialism precisely. Instead, he opts for a view called “new-creation millennialism” (p. xi). Schreiner includes a lengthy excursus at Rev 20 interacting with various millennial views. Readers of this journal may find interesting his

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