“Feasting on the Word” is a 12-volume lectionary commentary series covering all the Sundays in the three-year lectionary cycle. For each of a day’s four lectionary texts, readers can see essays from four perspectives — exegetical, theological, pastoral, and homiletical.
It is a resource for preaching the Revised Common Lectionary, which provides a disciplined way to read the Bible. The sixth volume will cover the lectionary’s Year C, volume 2, running from Lent through Eastertide. The entire series is expected to be released by May 2011.
With more than 900 contributors to the series, the editors’ jobs have been demanding, said David Dobson, executive director of publishing and editorial for the Presbyterian Publishing Corporation. WJK has received support from Columbia Theological Seminary; six of the 12 volume editors are Columbia faculty.
Also from Columbia are co-general editors David L. Bartlett and Barbara Brown Taylor. Bartlett is a professor of the New Testament at Columbia, and Taylor is an adjunct professor of Christian theology at Columbia and a professor of religion at Piedmont College.
Gathering all those voices in one resource is attractive to Randy Harris, South Carolina pastor and book review editor for The Presbyterian Outlook.
“That variety of perspectives brought to bear in one volume, side by side, I’ve found to be helpful,” he said. “It’s written by preachers for preachers.”
