Tanner is a traveling teacher and curriculum writer for BEE (Benevolence, Education, and Evangelism) World Ministries and received his PhD in Hebrew literature and culture from the University of Texas at Austin. He has written several articles on the book of Daniel, one of the most interesting for this review being, “The Literary Structure of the Book of Daniel,” Bibliotheca Sacra 160 (2003): 269–82. Tanner has taught at five seminaries around the world, and served as professor of Hebrew and OT studies and academic dean at Jordan Evangelical Theological Seminary in Amman, Jordan, for five years.
Tanner has undertaken to write a comprehensive, 803-page commentary on Daniel, one of the most controversial books of the OT. This conservative commentary is not only scholarly, but provides a nice blend of well-researched, detailed exegesis of the text along with practical applications and devotional implications (see, for example, pp. 208, 259, 358). He...
