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Who Is God?: Key Moments of Biblical Revelation

Richard Bauckham is one of the foremost living NT scholars. Although retired, he continues to research and write and is a senior scholar at Ridley Hall in Cambridge, and a visiting professor at St Mellitus College in London. The author of more than 40 volumes (including approximately 30 monographs and essay collections, plus 12 others he has co-written or co-edited), he has also published more than 200 articles in journals, books, and reference works.

In his very latest release, Who Is God? Key Moments of Biblical Revelation (Baker, 2020), Bauckham’s deep reservoir of biblical knowledge everywhere serves the reader but is never intrusive. On the contrary, this short work of just 120 pages (including bibliographic notes, appendices, tables and index) is a model of economy and accessibility. For the trained Bible reader keen to engage more of Bauckham’s learning, this work of honed scholarship is a masterclass in attentive, believing, intertextual reading. For the reader otherwise drawn to this work, perhaps drawn more by title than by its author, a fresh, delightful meditation on God as he makes himself known in Scripture awaits.

Bauckham delivers a short but rich unfolding of God’s revelation from Scripture. He has a way of explaining complex ideas in a simple and understandable way. As an avid student of Old Testament allusions, I was like a kid in a candy store. I may have used all the ink in my pen underlining and writing notes in the margins. The chapters on The Revelation of the Divine Name and The Revelation of the Trinity are my favorite, but that doesn’t mean the others chapters were less rich in content. I will return to this book many times and believe it’s accessible to scholars, pastors, and laypersons. 


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