ESV Expository Commentary: Ezra-Job

Designed to help the church understand and apply the overarching storyline of the Bible, the ESV Expository Commentary is broadly accessible, theologically enriching, and pastorally wise. It features clear, crisp, and Christ-centered exposition and application from a team of respected pastor-theologians. With exegetically sound, broadly reformed, biblical-theological, passage-by-passage commentary, this volume was written to help pastors and Bible readers around the world understand the riches of God's Word.

 

• Exegetically Sound: Self-consciously submissive to the flow of thought and lines of reasoning in the biblical text
• Robustly Biblical-Theological: Reading the Bible as diverse yet bearing an overarching unity, narrating a single storyline of redemption culminating in Christ
• Globally Aware: Aimed as much as possible at a global audience, with the goal of providing a biblical and theologically responsible resource for Bible students around the world
• Broadly Reformed: Standing in the historical stream of the Reformation, affirming that salvation is by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone, taught in Scripture alone, for God’s glory alone
• Doctrinally Conversant: Fluent in theological discourse; drawing appropriate brief connections to matters of historical or current theological importance
• Pastorally Useful: Transparently and reverently “sitting under the text”; avoiding lengthy grammatical/syntactical discussions
• Application Minded: Building brief but consistent bridges into contemporary living in both Western and non-Western contexts
• Efficient in Expression: Economical in its use of words; not a word-by-word analysis but a crisply moving exposition

Contributors:

W. Brian Aucker (Ezra, Nehemiah)
Eric Ortlund (Esther)
Douglas Sean O'Donnell (Job)