Deeper Into the Word

The author of Deeper Into the Word choose 101 subjects from the New Testament to discuss, generally in a few pages each. There is generally a discussion of what each word means and a little word study with many of the ways this word has been translated from the Greek, identifying a number of ways this subject has been used in the Bible. It may also include some background context. This little volume does fill a niche for those wanting to find out a little about a subject but don't have access to multi-volume works, or who haven't taken Greek.

I was initially intrigued by this book, but found it a little preachy at times, not that I disagreed with what the author wrote. Albeit for a book of this size, the discussions of each word are necessarily rather small, I would have liked a little more meat, delving into more of the nuances of the words. I found that sometimes the author throws in a random idea tangentially related to the subject. And at times a little explanation of the Greek source text would significantly help the discussion, for instance in the discussion of plurals under the topic one another, instead of suggesting the reader needs to resort to context to discover meaning. I guess for me, the Bible, concordances, Bible dictionaries, Bible commentaries, and the Internet are all resources I would turn to to investigate the meaning of a text hence this book is of limited value to me.

Book has been provided courtesy of Baker Publishing Group and Graf-Martin Communications, Inc. Available now at your favourite bookseller from Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group.