Understand salvation in both the Old and New Testaments. God Is a Warrior traces the development of the "divine warrior" motif through the Old and New Testaments, beginning with Israel's conflicts with her enemies and ending with Christ's victorious return in Revelation. Against the broader background of Ancient Near Eastern warrior mythology, Part I discusses Yahweh's warfare on behalf of ancient Israel, and prophecies of the coming Divine Deliverer. Part II looks at the New Testament's Divine Warrior, Jesus Christ, and his war against his spiritual enemies in the Synoptic Gospels, in Paul's letters, and in the final apocalyptic battle in the book of Revelation. As an exercise in biblical theology, this book begins with the canon of Christian scripture as given. It does not seek to apply critical scholarly tools to the history of formation of the canon but to describe phenomena within the Bible using biblical categories. The category in question here is the divine warrior motif, and the authors argue persuasively for its pervasiveness in both the Old and the New Testaments of Christian scripture. Their claim is that although the Bible is a diverse collection, it also displays a certain "organic unity." They make a strong case for the divine warrior motif as a source of this unity, compiling significant evidence that it was one metaphor that guided editors, interpreters, and writers of Hebrew scripture as well as the Christian community that appropriated it in the formation of its own canon and identity. Steve Schroeder Tremper Longman III (Ph.D., Yale University) is professor of Old Testament at Westmont College in Santa Barbara, California. He is the coauthor of Introduction to the Old Testament as well as many other books and articles God Is a Warrior traces the development of the 'divine warrior' motif through the Old and New Testaments, beginning with Israel's conflicts with her enemies and ending with Christ's victorious return in Revelation. Against the broader background of Ancient Near Eastern warrior mythology, Part I discusses Yahweh's warfare on behalf of ancient Israel, and prophecies of the coming Divine Deliverer. Part II looks at the New Testament's Divine Warrior, Jesus Christ, and his war against his spiritual enemies in the Synoptic Gospels, in Paul's letters, and in the final apocalyptic battle in the book of Revelation. Tremper Longman III (PhD, Yale University) is a distinguished scholar and Professor Emeritus of Biblical Studies at Westmont College in Santa Barbara, California. He is on the advisory council of the BioLogos Foundation, and is the Old Testament editor for the revised Expositor's Bible Commentary and general editor for the Story of God Bible Commentary Old Testament, and has authored many articles and books on the Psalms and other Old Testament books. Dan Reid is reference book editor for InterVarsity Press.