‘A dream come true for the region’

Draft front cover for the Central and Eastern European Bible Commentary

Since 2005, Langham has spearheaded multiple groundbreaking one-volume bible commentary projects. It started with commentaries for Africa (which is being revised and has had many translations), South Asia, Latin America, the Middle East. Why? Because unlike churches in the West, believers in the Majority World have very few resources written by people in their regions,…

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Langham Scholar and Preaching pioneer mourned

Corneliu Constantineanu, a Langham Scholar and General Editor of the Central Eastern European Bible Commentary, died in Romania from Covid-19 on 17 March 2021. He was latterly Professor of Public Theology at the University of Arad, Romania. Please pray for Corneliu’s wife Ioana and their daughters, Carmen and Anamaria. A draft version of the front…

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Central Eastern European Bible Commentary – please pray

Langham Literature is supporting the completion of another one-volume Bible commentary, this time for Central and Eastern Europe. The resource, written by indigenous Scholars for Central and Eastern European believers, is expected to take several years to complete. And the total cost will be hundreds of thousands of pounds. The project’s coordinator Katharina Penner recently…

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‘Leviticus is very relevant for Central and Eastern Europe’s societal problems’

The Central Eastern European Bible Commentary is another landmark Langham Literature project that is expected to take several years to complete and cost hundreds of thousands of pounds. Recently Katharina Penner, the project coordinator, interviewed one of the theological editors and authors, Lidija Gunjevic from Croatia. She has already completed the commentaries on Jonah and…

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“CEEBC meeting was an eye-opening experience”

The editorial group for the Central Eastern European Bible Commentary (CEEBC) met in Wroclaw, Poland, in the week of November 20-25. It was their third planning meeting, in a series of continuing efforts to prepare the ground for the production of a Bible Commentary that would reflect and respond to the needs of Christian churches…

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