[B-Greek] [Off Topic] One volume commentary?

Kevin Woodruff cierpke at prodigy.net
Sun May 18 17:39:38 EDT 2003


Jonathan:


I would recommend:

Carson, D.A., et al., eds. New Bible Commentary: 21st
Century Edition. 4th ed. Downer's Grove, Illinois:
Intervarsity Press, 1994.

Elwell, Walter A. Evangelical Commentary on the Bible.
Grand Rpids: Baker, 1989.

Kevin









--- Jonathan Robie
<jonathan.robie at datadirect-technologies.com> wrote:
> My oldest daughter, Marissa, is graduating, and she
> is asking for a 
> one-volume commentary on the Bible as one possible
> graduation gift. I'm a 
> little stumped, because the ones I have used are
> rather old or require 
> knowledge of Greek. Is there anything reasonably in
> keeping with our 
> current state of knowledge that is reliable and
> informative?
> 
> She is particularly interested in historical
> background, which is what she 
> can't get from the text per se. She is also
> interested in overview 
> information that ties together the different texts.
> 
> Jonathan
> 
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