Richard Lischer
— Duke Divinity School
"Rein Bos has produced a rare book on preaching from the Old Testament. Brimming with wisdom, Christian spirituality, and his evident love for the very texture of God's Word, this work is nothing less than a tour de force."
Ronald J. Allen
— Christian Theological Seminary
"Preachers are often puzzled by what to say about the Old Testament. In this comprehensive volume, Dutch scholar Rein Bos offers a pastoral, clear introduction to issues related to Christian preaching from the Torah, Prophets, and Writings. He first surveys leading ways that the church has made theological sense of the First Testament through allegory, typology, promise and fulfillment, and more. Bos puts the ingredients for a new model on the table in dialogue with such things as the biblical theology movement and the literal sense of the text, and leads us to a four-voice choir: attending to the Jewish sense of the text (sensus Israeliticus), the Christological sense, the ecclesiological sense, and the eschatological sense."
Lucy Lind Hogan
— Wesley Theological Seminary
"Rein Bos offers preachers an important model for thoughtfully and faithfully reading the Old Testament. After an excellent review of traditional approaches, Bos proposes a highly accessible hermeneutic for the twenty-first century. Preachers, theologians, and biblical scholars will find this to be an invaluable addendum for their exegetical and theological analyses of texts. Arguing that hermeneutics is not an antiquated approach, Bos reminds us that we all have a hermeneutical understanding. What he seeks to do in We Have Heard That God Is with You is to help us make that hermeneutic explicit and responsible for the age in which we live."
