For the first time ever, Barbour Publishing offers an entire collection of Bible acrostics-101 brand-new puzzles! Drawn from the breadth and width of the King James Version, these puzzles each feature coded scripture to be solved after unscrambling key words. Covering the people, places, things, and great ideas of scripture, Bible Acrostics is both entertaining and educational, sharing important Bible truths in an enjoyable puzzle package. It's priced right for summertime fun at only $4.97.

Need an easy-to-remember outline for the book of Ephesians? Just remember that Ephesians is about the C H U R C H —Calling of the church —Heavenly position for individuals —Understanding of the mystery —Reasons for spiritual gifts —Help in spiritual warfare The Acrostic Summarized Bible makes Bible learning that easy! A four-word phrase summarizes each chapter of every book in the Bible. The first letter of the phrase forms the descriptive acrostic for each book. For Jonah remember “FISH”; for Mark, “CHRIST THE SERVANT.”

Catechism can be fun! The Acrostic of God is a joy to read and reread, and a wonderful tool to help kids absorb eternal truth about God. By giving children an alphabetical list of the titles and attributes of God written with a rhyming beat, Jonathan Gibson and Timothy Brindle make The Acrostic of God fun to read and easy to memorize.

Will Soli begins his study of Psalm 119 with a quotation in which St. Augustine confesses that when he was writing his commentary on the psalms he "put off the 119th Psalm" not only because of its length, but because "the psalm does not even seem to need an expositor." Soli's study of Psalm 119 illustrates Augustine's further observation that, although so much of the psalm seems to be self-evident, yet there is a depth which is "fathomable by few."

On Biblical Poetry takes a fresh look at the nature of biblical Hebrew poetry beyond its currently best-known feature, parallelism. F.W. Dobbs-Allsopp argues that biblical poetry is in most respects just like any other verse tradition, and therefore biblical poems should be read and interpreted like other poems, using the same critical tools and with the same kinds of guiding assumptions in place. He offers a series of programmatic essays on major facets of biblical verse, each aspiring to alter currently regnant conceptualizations in the field and to show that attention to aspects of prosody--rhythm, lineation, and the like--allied with close reading can yield interesting, valuable, and even pleasurable interpretations. What distinguishes the verse of the Bible, says Dobbs-Allsopp, is its historicity and cultural specificity, those peculiar encrustations and encumbrances that typify all human artifacts. Both the literary and the historical, then, are in view throughout. The concluding essay elaborates a close reading of Psalm 133. This chapter enacts the final movement to the set of literary and historical arguments mounted throughout the volume--an example of the holistic staging which, Dobbs-Allsopp argues, is much needed in the field of Biblical Studies.