The NIV Study Bible

The Five Books of Moses

Genesis

Genesis in Its Cultural Setting

What Is the Meaning of the Divine Name Yahweh?

The Biblical Account of Creation

Creation in the Bible and the Ancient Near East

“Suitable Helper”

Lifespan Before the Flood

Slavery and the Bible

The Abrahamic Covenant

Exodus

The Location of Mount Sinai

“I AM WHO I AM”

Manna: “What Is It?”

Writing in Ancient Israel

The Mosaic (Sinaitic) Covenant

Leviticus

The Day of Atonement

Slavery in Ancient Israel

Numbers

Numbers in Numbers

Moses’ Cushite Wife

Change and the Mind of God

Deuteronomy

The LORD Is One

The Name of God

The Deuteronomistic History

The Historical Books of the Old Testament

Joshua

The Conquest, War, and Genocide

“The Sun Stood Still”

Judges

Judges as Role Models

Ruth

Ruth the Moabite

Guardian–Redeemer

1 Samuel

The LORD Almighty

Hannah’s Prayer

2 Samuel

The Davidic Covenant

2 Kings

Hezekiah’s Tunnel and Water Projects

1 Chronicles

The Chronicler’s Positive Portrayal of David and Solomon

2 Chronicles

Asa as a Model of Covenant Faithfulness and Unfaithfulness

Hezekiah and Covenant Faithfulness

Manasseh and Covenant Unfaithfulness

Josiah as a Model of Covenant Faithfulness

Nehemiah

The Murashu Texts and the Elephantine Papyri

Esther

Mordecai as a Historical Figure

The Books of Poetry

Wisdom Literature

Job

Job as a Historical Figure

Behemoth and Leviathan

Psalms

Do the Psalms Speak of Christ?

Imprecatory Psalms

Ḥesed: God’s Unfailing Love

The Israelite View of Death

God as Shepherd

Does the Psalmist Promise Prosperity?

“A Priest . . . in the Order of Melchizedek”

Proverbs

Rewards, Not Promises

Ecclesiastes

No Upright Women?

Song of Songs

Intimacy in the Song of Songs

The Prophets

Isaiah

Woes in the Bible

“Remnant” in the Prophets

The Servant Songs of Isaiah

Jeremiah

Does the LORD Really Deceive?

How Does One Calculate the “70 Years”?

The New Covenant

Lamentations

Lamentations and Acrostics

Ezekiel

Jerusalem as an Adulterous Wife

The King of Tyre and Similarities to Satan’s Fall

Dry Bones and Resurrection in Ezekiel

Ezekiel’s Temple

Daniel

The Book of Daniel in the Hebrew Bible

Daniel’s 70 Weeks

Mysterious Numbers in Daniel and Revelation

The Book of the Twelve, or the Minor Prophets

Joel

The Day of the LORD

Malachi

Divorce in Malachi

Does God Hate Divorce?

Between the Testaments

The Time Between the Testaments

The Gospels and the Early Church

The Synoptic Gospels

Matthew

Typology and Jesus

Could Jesus Have Sinned?

The Temptation of Jesus

The Sermon on the Mount

Christians and Judging Others

Jesus’ Parables

Jesus Builds His Church

“This Is My Body” . . . “This Is My Blood”

Views on Baptism

Mark

The Unforgivable Sin

Mark’s “Sandwich” Structure (Intercalation)

The Resurrection Account in Mark’s Gospel

Luke

Comparing Luke’s and Matthew’s Genealogies

The Parable of the Persistent Traveler

Meals in the Greco-Roman World

John

Jesus as the Word (Logos)

The Legality of Jesus’ Trials

The Letters and Revelation

Romans

Paul the Apostle

Mystery in Scripture

“All Israel Will Be Saved”

1 Corinthians

Paul’s Call for Head Coverings During Worship

God’s Image and Glory in Men and Women

Women Remaining Silent

Early Gnosticism

Ephesians

Heavenly Realms

“In Christ”

Slavery in the Roman World

2 Thessalonians

The “Man of Lawlessness”

The Pastoral Letters

1 Timothy

Will “All People” Be Saved?

Women and Authority in the Church

Hebrews

Can Christians Lose Their Salvation?

The General Letters

James

James on Wealth

Are There Rewards in Heaven?

Prayer and Healing

1 Peter

Household Expectations in the First Century

Christ’s Victorious Ascension

Christians and the Question of Suffering

1 John

Praying and Receiving

Revelation

Violence in Revelation

The Church and the Tribulation

The Trumpets and Bowl Judgments and the Egyptian Plagues

The Thousand Years