By Peter Bloomfield
Evangelical Press. 190 pages. £7.00
ISBN 0 85234 509 7
This is the fourth book in the new series of publications by Evangelical Press called The Guide, a series covering individual books of the Bible as well as topics such as Christian comfort. What is groundbreaking is the linking of each book with its own website so that readers may ask questions which will be duly answered.
Peter Bloomfield, an Australian pastor, has written an extremely readable commentary, in an easy and sometimes conversational style. It is an excellent book for the church bookstall since many who may be put off by more conventional verse-by-verse commentaries will find themselves comfortable with it and greatly helped by it. The text is well broken up so that it is easy on the eye, and much thought has gone into presentation. There is a very contemporary feel about the whole book. Church fellowships with Home Bible Study groups will find the questions for discussion at the end of each chapter a helpful asset.
