With the final round of March Madness going on now, I'd like to have your opinion on any of the volumes of the NICOT/NICNT that I do not own. I own about half of the collection that I have cobbled together during other sales in the past. My dynamic price on the entire set, if purchased today, would be 48% off the regular price. Here are the volumes I do not own:
The Book of Numbers
The Book of Joshua
The Book of Judges
The Book of Ruth
The First Book of Samuel
The Books of Ezra and Nehemiah
The Book of Job
The Book of Psalms
The Book of Isaiah, Chapters 1–39
The Book of Isaiah, Chapters 40–66
The Book of Hosea
The Books of Haggai and Malachi
The Book of Zechariah
The Gospel of Matthew
The Gospel of Luke
The Gospel of John
The First Epistle to the Corinthians, Revised Edition
The Second Epistle to the Corinthians
The Epistle to the Galatians
The Epistles to the Colossians, to Philemon, and to the Ephesians
The Letters to Timothy and Titus
The Letter of James
The Epistle of James (Adamson)
The First Epistle of Peter
The Epistles of John
Revelation
Just to comment on the few that stand out to me. The Isaiah commentaries are like reading the most profound, yet heart warming, devotionals in the world. John is very good, and so are both volumes on Corinthians. Revelation was an interesting viewpoint, if you are a premillenialist.
You might try www.bestcommentaries.com and click on Best -> Top Commentaries by Series. Look for the column labeled NICOT. The same column has the label NICNT below.
You can see which particular resources are highly regarded by Evangelicals. I have used this method to see if I wanted to get the single volumes from Pillar and Opening Up that I was missing. In each case, the volume I was missing was not highly rated. So I skipped the sale.
Since Opening Up Commentary Series was not listed in the chart cited above, I went to the NT Books tab and selected the particular Bible book being covered. That page will list all rated commentaries and show you how far down the list the commentary resource might be. In both the NICOT and Opening Up cases, I already owned plenty of higher rated resources for the Bible book in question.
I just visited the sales page and realized that I am in the same boat. I currently own just over half of the set. So after the dust settles expect to be able to complete the set for around $300. That's going to be a hard choice. I had already pretty much decided on the ACCS offer.
It may involve talking to my wife and getting my birthday and Christmas early this year. [:D]
Psalms is beyond doubt my favourite NIC volume.
-Dan
David,
Thank you for this suggestion. In fact, I used www.bestcommentaries.com to guide my prior purchases in this set in addition to picking up the volumes written by authors I respect at the time. Most of the volumes I own are those that are highly rated.
I wish you well on your personal March Madness purchasing decision.
Psalms is beyond doubt my favourite NIC volume. -Dan
I second that along with the Isaiah volumes. Those are the only ones I've experienced a little bit.
DAL
Bill, I think the NICOT volumes are all valuable to have. However the ones you've listed are not ones I've used extensively, so i'll comment on the few NICNT volumes I have used enough to say something about.
The Gospel of Matthew The Gospel of Luke The Gospel of John The First Epistle to the Corinthians, Revised Edition The Second Epistle to the Corinthians The Epistle to the Galatians The Epistles to the Colossians, to Philemon, and to the Ephesians The Letters to Timothy and Titus The Letter of James The Epistle of James (Adamson) The First Epistle of Peter The Epistles of John Revelation
First Corinthians - must have. By far the best on this epistle. Followed by Garland (BECNT) and Barrett (Black's)
Second Corinthians - I prefer Garland (NAC), then Barnett (NIC), and Barrett (Black's)
Galatians - I prefer George (NAC) and Schriener (ZECNT). Fung (NIC) comes in #3.
Colossians - I prefer Moo (Pillar), Wright (Tyndale), and Garland (NIVAC), then Bruce (NIC)
FYI
Moo's Romans volume gets a rewrite and expansion in November.
RT France's Matthew is great because France is an amazing exegete.
Morris' John (older version, which is included) is a classic and is great.
Ramsey's John (new version) is not so good.
