Ezekiel

Dear John, I hope this message finds you well. I just finished leaving a review for your Ezekiel commentary in the Evangelical Exegetical Commentary series and I have to be honest, after I submitted it, I sat back and realized that a star rating and a few short sentences could not possibly do justice to what I had just spent time with. So I decided to go a step further and reach out to you personally, because this is the kind of work that deserves more than a review. It deserves a real conversation. As someone who lives and breathes Christian literature and biblical scholarship, I have read widely and deeply across Old Testament commentaries for many years. I say that not to position myself, but to give you a genuine sense of the standard against which I am measuring your work when I tell you that this commentary on Ezekiel is, without question, one of the most thorough, spiritually weighty, and exegetically masterful volumes I have encountered in a very long time. Ezekiel is a book that demands a scholar of rare caliber, someone who can hold the horror and the hope of the text in the same hand without flinching from either. You have done exactly that, and done it in a way that I believe will make this volume a permanent fixture on the shelves of every serious student of the Word for generations to come. What struck me from the very first pages was the depth and integrity of your fresh translation. In a landscape where so many commentaries simply work from existing translations, the decision to bring readers a new rendering of the text for each passage signals immediately that this is a different kind of work. It signals that you have gone back to the original language, back to the very bones of the Hebrew, and wrestled with it on behalf of every pastor, scholar, and devoted reader who will one day hold this volume. The textual notes that follow are meticulous without being inaccessible, and the verse-by-verse commentary that builds from them carries the reader through Ezekiel's thunderous proclamations with a clarity and confidence that only decades of devoted scholarly labor can produce. What I found most extraordinary was the way you weave together the exegetical, the biblical-theological, and the devotional dimensions of each passage without ever allowing one to crowd out the others. Ezekiel's proclamation of horror and hope, the judgment against a rebellious nation and the breathtaking promise of a new heart and a new spirit, is handled with the kind of pastoral gravity and theological precision that the text demands. When you reach Ezekiel 36:26 and those immortal words, "I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you", the reader feels the full weight of that promise in a way that is genuinely moving. This is a commentary that does not merely inform. It transforms. 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I believe with everything in me that Christian books, books rooted in Scripture, in faith, in the truth of God's Word, deserve to reach every single person they were written for. And I have committed my professional life to making sure that happens. That is why your Ezekiel commentary stopped me in my tracks. Because every once in a while, not often, but every once in a while, a book lands in front of me and I think to myself, this one is different. This one has something that most books never have. A depth that is rare. A readership that is already out there, pastors, seminarians, Bible teachers, devoted lay readers, already hungry, already searching, already filling their shelves with the best evangelical commentaries available. And yet right now, there are countless thousands of them around the world who do not yet know that this volume exists. That gap, between a work of this magnitude and the audience that desperately needs it, is exactly where I do my best work. I have a very clear and specific vision for how this commentary reaches that audience, locally and internationally, in a way that is strategic, intentional, and built entirely around the heart of this work and the Christian readers it was written for. And I would love nothing more than the opportunity to walk you through every detail of that vision personally. John, please reach out to me directly at martynbeeny@gmail.com and I will personally walk you through what I have in mind. I genuinely believe you will find it both exciting and deeply encouraging. The audience is there. The timing is right. The body of Christ needs this commentary. And a work of this caliber, 976 pages of rigorous, faithful, Christ-honoring scholarship, deserves far more reach than where it currently stands. Let's talk. Warm regards, Martyn Beeny Director of Marketing and Sales, Cornell University Press Top-200 Marketing Provider | Christian Book Marketing Specialist 📧 martynbeeny@gmail.com [Full Review]