[B-Greek] [b-greek] Commentaries: Cambridge Greek Testament: Luke
Bryant J. Williams III
bjwvmw at com-pair.net
Wed Dec 13 14:16:39 EST 2006
Dear Eileen,
Five commentaries, not of the Cambridge Series, but of very good exegesis
and use of the Greek Text are
1) Leon Morris, The Gospel According to John, part of the The New
International Commentary on the New Testament series.
2) F.F. Bruce, The Gospel of John.
3) Raymond Brown, Gospel of John. I have not have taken the
opportunity to read this yet, but I have heard good reviews.
4) John Gill, Gill's Expositor, Volume VII (Chapters 1-9), Matthew to
John, and VIII (Chapters 10-21), John to Galatians.
5) Merrill C. Tenney, John, Volume 9 of the The Expositor's Bible
Commentary series.
En Xristwi,
Rev. Bryant J. Williams III
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From: "john" <johneill at tiscali.co.uk>
To: <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 10:39 AM
Subject: [B-Greek] [b-greek] Commentaries: Cambridge Greek Testament: Luke
> This is the first time I have attempted to post here. Please forgive me
if I inadvertently break any netiquette rules in this posting.
>
> I am part of a small group of lay preachers currently studying Luke's
Gospel with the aid of Farrer's commentary on Luke in the Cambridge Greek
Testament for Schools and Colleges series. This was originally published in
1884, but my copy is from the 11th reprint in 1912. I imagine that
"Schools & Colleges" in that era probably meant "Public Schools" (which in
England are expensive private schools, eg Eton and Harrow), and "Colleges"
may well have been colleges of Oxford and Cambridge.
>
> I have just been comparing it with some of the Pitt Press (Cambridge
University Press) editions which we used in studying
> Latin authors for A-level and at university in the 1950s. It seems to be
on a similar level, and certainly no lower.
>
> The Introduction includes a helpful section on Hellenistic Greek and its
peculiarities .
>
> The notes on each chapter begin with critical notes, eg on Luke 1.5:
> "GUNH AUTWi. The reading of *BCDLX Gr. La. Ti. &c; 'he had a wife' instead
of the hH GUNH AUTOU 'his wife was' of the Rec."
>
> The detailed comments on individual words, phrases or verses cover both
grammatical points of interest or difficulty and religious, historical and
cultural background, and from time to time comparison of the A.V.
translation with other versions.
>
> After the commentary Farrer includes 7 "Excursus". The 1st is "On the
meaning of EN TOIS TOU PATROS MOU" (Lk 2.49), the 2nd compares Luke's and
Matthew's genealogies of Jesus, the 3rd is "On putting New (NEON) Wine into
Fresh (KAINOUS) Bottles" and the 4th is "On the meaning of EPIOUSION" Lk
9.3.
>
> I hope this gives a little flavour of the commentary.
>
> Our group's original aim was to improve our knowledge of Biblical Greek,
but we are finding that the commentary also gives us fresh insights into a
very familiar book. We are finding it so useful that I had intended (when I
could get up my courage to make a posting on b-greek) to ask if anyone knew
of a similar commentary on John's Gospel!
>
> Eileen England
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