Commentaries

Ben Crick ben.crick at argonet.co.uk
Wed May 31 17:36:04 EDT 2000


On Wed 31 May 2000 (10:03:03 +0200), willker at chemie.uni-bremen.de wrote:
> Since we are at this: What other commentaries can you recommend that
> are dealing particularly with *the Greek text*?

 The older commentaries by BF Westcott (GJohn; EJohn; Hebrews); JB Lightfoot
 (Galatians; Philippians; 1&2 Thessalonians; Colossians and Philemon; and
 part-commentaries on 1 Corinthians 1-7, Romans 1-7, and Ephesians 1:1-14); and
 HB Swete (Mark; Revelation) are well worth consulting, even buying, if you can
 find them or reprints. For Ephesians I find the older commentary by J Armitage
 Robinson most useful on the Greek text.

 Most (not quite all) of the above print out the Greek text in full at the top
 of each page of the commentary.

 CEB Cranfield has published a commentary on the Greek of Mark (in the
 Cambridge Greek Testament Commentary series, 1959). This prints out Greek
 phrases attracting special comment, not the full text.

 Don't forget the "commentators' commentator", JA Bengel. His /Gnomon novi
 testamenti/ has much distilled wisdom, but it is unevenly spread out through
 the five volumes of the T&T Clark, Edinburgh, English translation by Andrew
 Fausset (1859).

 ERRWSQE
 Ben
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