This volume is a tribute to Willem A. VanGemeren, a scholar who operates amidst the tension between understanding the Old Testament texts in their original context and their theological witness to Christ and the church. Its conviction is that Christians must read the Old Testament theologically for how it bears witness to Christ.

Andrew Abernethy (PhD, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School) is associate professor of Old Testament at Wheaton College (Illinois). He is the author of Eating in Isaiah: Approaching Food and Drink in Isaiah's Structure and Message, The Book of Isaiah and God's Kingdom, and coeditor of Isaiah and Imperial Context: The Book of Isaiah in Times of Empire.