Gordon J. Wenham's volume on Leviticus has long been the standard evangelical treatment of a book most readers skip. He works through the five offerings, the ordination of the priests, the laws of clean and unclean, the Day of Atonement, the holiness code, and the festal calendar, showing that the ritual system is a coherent theology of holiness, atonement and the presence of God rather than arbitrary regulation.

The New International Commentary on the Old Testament is a standard evangelical series working from the Hebrew text, with the author's own translation, detailed notes on language and background, and sustained attention to the theology of each book. Anyone who has stalled in Leviticus will find the book opened here, and pastors will find the material genuinely preachable once its logic is clear. It also supplies essential background for reading Hebrews and the New Testament's language of sacrifice.