Feasting on the Word: Preaching the Revised Common Lectionary, Year B, Vol. 2 [Hardcover]

David L. Bartlett (Editor), Barbara Brown Taylor (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 29, 2008

Lent through Eastertide. With this popular new lectionary commentary series, Westminster John Knox Press offers one of the most extensive resources for preaching on the market today. When complete, the twelve volumes of the series will cover all the Sundays in the three-year lectionary cycle, along with movable occasions. For each lectionary text, preachers will find four brief essays one each on the theological, pastoral, exegetical, and homiletical challenges of the text. Preachers might focus on the Gospel text, for instance, by reading all four essays provided for that text, or they might explore connections between the Hebrew Bible, Psalm, Gospel, and Epistle texts by reading the theological essays for each one. Each lectionary year will consist of four volumes, one for the Advent and Christmas season, one for Lent and Easter, and one for each half of Ordinary Time.
In Ordinary Time, the Old Testament lections in Feasting on the Word are from the complementary stream for Year A, split between the complementary and semicontinuous streams for Year B, and from the semicontinuous stream for Year C. Essays on the alternate lections will be available on the Feasting on the Word web site beginning for Year C in May 2010.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Feasting on the Word is a monumental contribution. The editors have gathered an impressive roster of writers and the result is a lively collection of thoughtful and well-written pieces, many of which directly address preachers, offering a bracing blend of admonition, exhortation, and encouragement. Feasting on the Word will richly repay your investment. --The Christian Century, April 2009

About the Author

David L. Bartlett is Professor of New Testament, Columbia Theological Seminary, the author of What s Good about This News? Preaching from the Gospel and Galatians, and coeditor of the Westminster Bible Companion series (Westminster John Knox Press).
Barbara Brown Taylor is a popular preacher and the author of such books as Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith; An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith; and The Seeds of Heaven: Sermons on the Gospel of Matthew (Westminster John Knox Press). She is Adjunct Professor of Christian Spirituality, Columbia Theological Seminary, and Butman Professor of Religion, Piedmont College.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 560 pages
• Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press (September 29, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0664230970
• ISBN-13: 978-0664230975
• Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 7.2 x 2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good Stuff, February 16, 2009

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This review is from: Feasting on the Word: Preaching the Revised Common Lectionary, Year B, Vol. 2 (Hardcover)

Having just finished my training as a lay pastor (PCUSA), I am, for the time being, serving area churches as pulpit supply. I have found Feasting on the Word (both volumes one and two) to be invaluable in preparing a sermon. All the Revised Common Lectionary readings for each Sunday are printed and for each reading there is a theological, a pastoral, an exegetical, and a homiletical short essay --- that is 16 essays for each week --- written by experts in the field. I bought these with the future in mind and am very pleased that they include all the Sundays even the ones that aren't used this year ---- Volume One includes the 7th, 8th, and 9th Sundays in Ordinary Time. These are very helpful and I plan to purchase each volume as it becomes available.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Helpful, January 17, 2009

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This review is from: Feasting on the Word: Preaching the Revised Common Lectionary, Year B, Vol. 2 (Hardcover)

As a pastor from a congregation that uses the lectionary, I find this resource very helpful. For each of the four Scripture passages assigned to each Sunday--Old Testament, Psalms, Gospels and New Testament--there are four articles--exegetical, theological, homolectical and pastoral. That makes a total of 16 different authors available as resource for each Sunday's sermon. Since purchasing this resource, I have come across new insights into familiar texts, which helps in preaching. I'm excited to use the resource more regularly. I can imagine that a few lay people might even enjoy reading some of the essays devotionally in preparation for Sunday.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Great Primary Source for Bi-Vocational Pastors, March 2, 2009

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The Other Bruce "Bruce" (Wildwood, MO) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Feasting on the Word: Preaching the Revised Common Lectionary, Year B, Vol. 2 (Hardcover)

I am a tri-vocational, part-time local pastor in the United Methodist Church. Besides my church and my day job, I also serve as a City Councilman for my city-ward. So I keep a fairly busy schedule. I am something of a book-addict and have literally hundreds of books that I will never live long enough to read, including many commentary sets.

This is by far the best set of books that I have come across for sermon preparation. I especially like the commentaries for the homiletically and pastoral perspectives. They are so good at getting the mind working as to how to most effectively relate specifically to my parishioners the scripture text(s) I am going to use for the week. Even if I am not going to use a particular passage in any way during the week, I still like to read the commentary as there is so much to learn in these volumes.

I have followed the lectionary since beginning my church ministry two years ago, but have veered off for the season of Lent. As someone previously mentioned, there is scripture index in the back of each volume, that I have used; and as luck would have it, the text I needed yesterday for the First Sunday in Lent, was in one of the three volumes already issued. I greatly look forward to receiving each volume as they are issued. The price (especially with the Amazon discount) is money well spent.