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Michael S.
Michael S. Member Posts: 674 ✭✭
edited November 2024 in English Forum

Which commentary do you think is best?

- Job:  WBC or TOTC

-Daniel: WBC or TOTC

-Hosea: WBC or NAC

-Jonah: WBC or TOTC

-Galatians: WBC or NIGTC

-Colossians/Philemon: WBC or TNTC

-Pastoral Epistles: WBC or NIGTC

-Hebrews: WBC or NIGTC

-2 Pet/ Jude: WBC or NIVAC

Thank you.

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  • Joseph Turner
    Joseph Turner Member Posts: 2,871 ✭✭✭

    Info from Denver Seminary Annotated Old Testament Bibliography (* indicates recommended)

    - Job:  WBC or TOTC

    *Clines, D.J.A. Job 1-20 (WBC). Word, 1989. Remarkable study in its detail, with profound reflection on the implications of the rhetoric.

    *______________. Job 21-37 (WBC).  Thomas Nelson, 2006. 

    Anderson, F.I. Job (TOTC). IVP, 1976. Evangelical and linguistic study of the text.

    -Daniel: WBC or TOTC

    *Goldingay, John. Daniel (WBC). Waco: Word Books, 1989. Detailed comments with comparisons with biblical and non-biblical parallels. Defends a late date. Evangelical.

    Baldwin, Joyce G. Daniel (TOTC). Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 1978. Helpful with attention to background, textual, and theological issues. Evangelical.

    -Hosea: WBC or NAC

    *Stuart, Douglas. Hosea - Jonah (WBC). Waco: Word Books, 1987. Solid textual and expositional commentary. Stresses covenantal background. Evangelical.

    Hubbard, David A. Hosea (TOTC). Downers Grove: InterVarsity, 1989. Helpful commentary with some concern for literary features. Evangelical.

    -Jonah: WBC or TOTC

    Stuart, Douglas. Hosea - Jonah (WBC). Waco: Word Books, 1987. Solid textual and expositional commentary. Stresses covenantal background. Evangelical.

    Alexander, T.D., D.W. Baker, and B.K. Waltke. Obadiah, Jonah, Micah (TOTC). Downers Grove: InterVarsity, 1988. Helpful, but sometimes brief. Evangelical.

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  • Doc B
    Doc B Member Posts: 3,624 ✭✭✭

    I would vote against WBC (i.e. for the other choice) in every single case except Daniel.

    Just my two cents, and it didn't cost you that much.

    Eating a steady diet of government cheese, and living in a van down by the river.

  • Michael S.
    Michael S. Member Posts: 674 ✭✭
    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/764026#Comment_764026

    No recommended for the last entry?

  • Michael S.
    Michael S. Member Posts: 674 ✭✭

    Best Commentaries dot com has some of these pitted against each other in some form or another.  Since the WBC is on sale, I thought I could pick some up- but want to make sure I get the best ones (keeping tight on the budget).

    I purchased in the WBC- Ezra-Nehemiah, Job, Daniel, Hosea-Jonah, Galatians, Colossians-Philemon, Pastoral Epistles, Hebrews, 2 Pet-Jude.

    But I wonder if I should exchange some to get Genesis, Leviticus, Chronicles, Song of Songs, and Amos...and if so, which do I trade out?  I have the entire NAC, NIVAC, and Tyndale sets.

    I do NOT have the New International Commentary series...that is later down the road, so those are not in my consideration for this question.

    Thank you for helping me.

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