ZIBBC is built around the contention that interpretation
of an ancient text like the Hebrew Bible / Old Testament “requires us to fill
in the gaps,” that is, to identify insofar as possible the shared assumptions
that made full-orbed communication possible between the text’s authors and
readers within a specific cultural and temporal-spatial framework about which
the text itself give partial, not exhaustive clues. The best means to the end
of making such identifications is comparative research of the kind that takes a
long hard look at specific cultural elements, concepts, and text corpora
attested in or referred to in the OT and the wider world of the ancient Near
East.
The team of scholars responsible for ZIBBC
are “confessionally orthodox” evangelicals with doctorates from Cambridge (4); Hebrew
Union College (3), Yale (2); Brandeis (2); Liverpool (2); University of
California at Los Angeles (2); University of California at Berkeley (1); Oxford
(1); London (1); Dropsie (1); Harvard (1); Chicago (1); Johns Hopkins (1); Duke
(1); Arizona (1); Baylor (1); Stellenbosch (1); Strasbourg (1); Michigan (1); Fuller
(1); and New Orleans Baptist (1).
Book by book:
Genesis John
H. Walton
Exodus Bruce Wells
Leviticus Roy E. Gane
Numbers R. Dennis Cole
Deuteronomy Eugene E. Carpenter
Joshua Richard S.
Hess
Judges Daniel I.
Block
Ruth Dale W.
Manor
1 & 2 Samuel V. Philips
Long
1 Kings John M.
Monson
2 Kings Iain Provan
1 Chronicles Simon Sherwin
2 Chronicles Frederick J.
Mabie
Ezra/Nehemiah Edwin M. Yamauchi
Esther Anthony
Tomasino
Isaiah David W.
Baker
Jeremiah Steven M.
Voth
Lamentations Paul Ferris Jr.
Ezekiel Daniel
Bodi
Daniel Ernest C.
Lucas
Job Izak
Cornelius
Psalms John W.
Hilber
Proverbs Tremper
Longman III
Ecclesiastes/
Song of Songs Duane Garrett
Hosea J. Glen
Taylor
Joel/
Zephaniah Mark W.
Chavalas
Amos Philip S.
Johnston
Obadiah/
Nahum Alan
R. Millard
Jonah John H.
Walton
Micah Daniel
M. Master
Habakkuk Victor H.
Matthews
Haggai/ Kenneth
Hoglund
Zechariah Kenneth
Hoglund and
John
H. Walton
Malachi Andrew E.
Hill
The lavishly illustrated ZIBBC is unthinkable
without the immense number of photographs made available through commons.wikimedia.org
and selected for it. Other online resources ZIBBC depended on: Tim Bulkeley (ebibletools.com/israel), Todd Bolen (bibleplaces.com), and Zev Radovan (biblelandpictures.com).
For more discussion of ZIBBC, go here.
Zondervan Illustrated Bible Backgrounds Commentary
A Review Series
Reading Genesis as if Moses wrote it in the Late Bronze Age
The ZIBBC: An Overview
Genre Identifications in the ZIBBC Part One
Genre Identifications in the ZIBBC Part Two
Genre Identifications in the ZIBBC Part Three
Genre Identifications in the ZIBBC Part Four
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