{"id":61733,"date":"2025-12-01T01:35:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T01:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/?p=61733"},"modified":"2026-02-03T22:30:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T22:30:23","slug":"best-commentaries-on-obadiah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/content\/best-commentaries-on-obadiah\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Commentaries on Obadiah"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Note: Our list of recommendations is just getting started. We\u2019ll be adding more in the coming months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">From Mark Mitchell<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Mark Mitchell served as Pastor at Central Peninsula Church for 35 years and is now the Executive Director of the Bay Area School of Ministry (BASOM), a ministry seeking to raise up pastors and ministry leaders in the San Francisco Bay Area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Tremper Longman III and David E. Garland. 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