Resources to Help Your Understanding of the Old Testament

This past Sunday morning, I preached a sermon titled "Christ, the Christian, and the Old Testament" from Matthew 5:17-18. In that sermon, I encouraged our congregation to make a renewed commitment to a more regular reading of the Old Testament and to see all the ways it's fulfilled in Jesus Christ.

As a follow-up and as an effort to assist in that task, I thought I would recommend a few resources that I have found helpful for developing a better understanding of the Old Testament and for seeing its fulfillment in Christ. The first two books are great reference works that provide a book-by-book survey of the Old Testament. The Demptser volume is a theology of the Hebrew Bible. And the others are all brief paperbacks oriented toward helping us understand the Old Testament as ultimately fulfilled in and through Jesus.

• An Introduction to the Old Testament, Tremper Longman III and Raymond Dillard

• Old Testament Theology, Paul House

• Dominion and Dynasty, Stephen Dempster 

• Gospel and Kingdom, Graeme Goldsworthy 

• The Scriptures Testify About Me, D.A. Carson

• The Unfolding Mystery, Edmund Clowney 

• What Is Biblical Theology?, Jim Hamilton

• God's Big Picture, Vaughan Roberts