What Are Your Thoughts on Comfort’s New Testament Text and Translation Commentary?

Richard J. Ward
Richard J. Ward Member Posts: 245 ✭✭
edited November 2024 in English Forum

I’m interested in purchasing Philip W. Comfort’s New Testament Text and Translation Commentary. I haven’t come across too many reviews on the book. What are your thoughts? 

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  • DAL
    DAL Member Posts: 10,870 ✭✭✭

    I think it's a great resource. See recent thread: https://community.logos.com/forums/p/131499/855858.aspx#855858 

    DAL

  • James C.
    James C. Member Posts: 453 ✭✭

    Love it. well worth the cost. highly recommended.

  • Beloved Amodeo
    Beloved Amodeo Member Posts: 4,224 ✭✭✭
    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/861680#Comment_861680

    I agree with both DAL and James. It is inexpensive in relation to the value of its commentary, however, owning Lexham, Omanson, Comfort and Metzger. If I could own but one resource, I would prefer Metzger over the rest.

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  • Keith Pang
    Keith Pang Member Posts: 1,083 ✭✭✭
    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/861691#Comment_861691

    Great resource and worth it!!

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  • Mark
    Mark Member Posts: 66 ✭✭

    I find the resource to be phenomenal!! I use this in conjunction with the NET textual notes. You will hit the ball out of the park in regards to addressing textual critical issues with these 2 resources.

  • Michael Kinch
    Michael Kinch Member Posts: 1,216 ✭✭✭

    If you are Comfort able with it, go for it [;)]

  • Stephen Miller
    Stephen Miller Member Posts: 432 ✭✭

    Richard,

    As above, excellent resource. I use it all the time. Some of Comfort's other resources are worth a look too.

    Stephen

  • Richard J. Ward
    Richard J. Ward Member Posts: 245 ✭✭

    Thanks for the input! I picked it up. I love it so far.

  • Rick Ausdahl
    Rick Ausdahl Member Posts: 1,722 ✭✭✭
    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/862478#Comment_862478

    IGNORE THIS POST.  I TRIED TO DELETE IT BUT WAS UNABLE TO DO SO.  [:(]

    I had this in my cart for quite a while and picked it up today, but am unable to scroll less than a page at a time in this resource on my laptop for the following reasons.

    1. No scroll bar so I can't scroll that way.
    2. Up and Down Arrow Key don't scroll one line at a time--they scroll an entire page, same as the Page-up and Page-down keys.
    3. Trying to use the track pad for two-finger scrolling is totally unmanageable, making large multi-page jumps that I can't control.

    I haven't tried using an external mouse and scroll wheel because I simply don't use one with my laptop.  Are others who have purchased this resource seeing anything like this?

    EDIT:  OK... I found all the above problems can be resolved, but only with columns set to "None", and even then it doesn't work if I have the Table of Contents open when I set the columns to "None".  If the TOC is open when setting the columns to "None", I have to close the TOC to get the scroll bar, then it will stay when I re-open the TOC.  Do others see this behavior???

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