Lutheran Book Review

Merkle, Benjamin L. and Robert L. Plummer. Foreword by William D. Mounce.   Greek for Life: Strategies for Learning, Retaining, and Reviving New Testament Greek . Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2017. 152 Pages. Paper. $22.99.  http://bakerpublishinggroup.com/books/greek-for-life/355110 Howell, Adam, J., Benjamin L. Merkle, and Robert L. Plummer. Foreword by Miles V. Van Pelt.  Hebrew for Life: Strategies for Learning, Retaining, and Reviving Biblical Hebrew . Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2020. 224 Pages. Paper. $22.99.  http://bakerpublishinggroup.com/books/hebrew-for-life/397290 Irons, Charles Lee.  A Syntax Guide for Readers of the Greek New Testament . Grand Rapids: Kregel, 2016. 629 Pages. $41.99.  https://www.kregel.com/biblical-studies/a-syntax-guide-for-readers-of-the-greek-new-testament/ Comfort, Philip Wesley.  A Commentary on the Manuscripts and Text of the New Testament . Grand Rapids: Kregel, 2015. 443 Pages. $34.99.  https://www.kregel.com/biblical-languages/a-commentary-o

Dekker, Cees, Corien Oranje, and Gijsbert Van Den Brink. Translated by Harold Cook. Afterword by Deborah Haarsma.  Dawn: A Proton's Tale of All that Came to Be.  Downers Grove: IVP Academic, 2022. 192 Pages. Paper. $22.00.   https://www.ivpress.com/dawn I don't remember reading "fourteen billion years ago" in the initial publicity materials for this novel. If I missed it, that's on me. Honestly, that's all I would have needed to see in order to not request a review copy.  This is an adventure that began almost fourteen billion years ago, one that so often threatened to fail. It's truly a miracle I'm still here. Despite everything, I wouldn't have wanted to miss one second of it. And the best is yet to come. With the help of an extraordinary narrator, you're invited to discover the wonder and drama of the history of the cosmos. In this story we follow the journey of one proton who comes into existence at the beginning of creation and makes it al