Studying the book of Ephesians

Albert Cooper

What is the best commentary to read in Ephesians. Any suggestions

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Lonnie Spencer

The suggestions of this website might be a good place to start

http://bestcommentaries.com/

TCBlack

That site is always my starting point.

If you're looking for further recommendations you might let us know what you're looking for in a commentary: original language focus (i.e. technical) or more pastoral or even devotional level.

Dave Moser

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/754261#Comment_754261

The suggestions of this website might be a good place to start

http://bestcommentaries.com/

A better option is to read something like New Testament Commentary Survey. You get a description of each commentary's strengths and weaknesses - this has saved me an incredible amount of money and it has pointed me to resources I never would have considered otherwise.

TCBlack

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/754291#Comment_754291

Thanks for pointing that out. I had forgotten about it.

While Carson's work is quite valuable it is of course only relevant for (in this case) pre 2007. No newer commentaries will be available, while the website is usually relatively quick to update.

DAL

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/754305#Comment_754305

Carson's advice is contradictory sometimes; e.g. in one place he recommends College Press NIV commentaries and later in the same book he doesn't and says they're not good or too rudimentary. He does that with others also. Overall I guess he's ok in his advice.

DAL

Donnie Hale

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/754305#Comment_754305

While Carson's work is quite valuable it is of course only relevant for (in this case) pre 2007.

Carson has a 7th edition from 2013, but I don't think it's in Logos yet. I start with bestcommentaries.com.

-Donnie

Dave Moser

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/754305#Comment_754305

While Carson's work is quite valuable it is of course only relevant for (in this case) pre 2007. No newer commentaries will be available, while the website is usually relatively quick to update.

The rankings at best commentaries are useless to me without annotation. I need to know a volume's strengths and weaknesses and a numerical ranking with limited blurbs scraped from other websites does nothing to help me with that.

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Carson's advice is contradictory sometimes; e.g. in one place he recommends College Press NIV commentaries and later in the same book he doesn't and says they're not good or too rudimentary. He does that with others also. Overall I guess he's ok in his advice.

While I can't speak of every instance my guess is that you're referring to places where Carson makes an assessment of a series as a whole and then makes a different assessment of an individual volume within that series.

Pam Larson

Lexham Bible Guide on Ephesians would be a good place to start:

https://www.logos.com/product/25325/lexham-bible-guide-ephesians