Joseph Blenkinsopp

Paul Caneparo

The Verbum free book of the month is by Joseph Blenkinsopp. Obviously it's a no-brainer to get that. My question relates to the 2 chargeable commentaries. Has anyone profitably used them, who like myself comes at scripture from a Bible believing position? I note every review I've read so far notes he holds a critical position. I also note that until 2014 Denver Seminary did consider them useful, although my interest is preaching rather than academic.

https://www.logos.com/product/157820/ezra-nehemiah-a-commentary

https://www.logos.com/product/15675/interpretation-a-bible-commentary-for-teaching-and-preaching-ezekiel

Liam Maguire

Great find Paul! I needed a lot of impulse control not to buy the whole lot of them!!!

Paul Caneparo

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1093742#Comment_1093742

Liam & Abi Maguire said:

Great find Paul! I needed a lot of impulse control not to buy the whole lot of them!!!

And did you control yourself?

DMB

Paul Caneparo said:

Has anyone profitably used them, who like myself comes at scripture from a Bible believing position?

I got the Neh/Ezra one. Since I AM interested in critical, especially the Persian period, probably I'm opposite your views (and not comfortable with your doctrine-nailing, vs the Writings).

This volume is a verse-group drill-down (as you'd expect). But his intro gives a good perspective of his direction:

"The commentary grew out of a long-standing interest in the religious history of the Second Temple period. Writing almost sixty years ago, Hans Heinrich Schaeder, author of an important monograph on Ezra, described what was then—and residually still is—the standard approach to postexilic Judaism in Christian scholarship, and concluded as follows: “This historical perspective, which sees Judaism as fulfilling its mission and then making way for the gospel and the Church, has an impressive inner consistency and spiritual allure; the only problem with it is the real history of Judaism” (Esra der Schreiber, Tübingen, 1930, 2). My hope is that the present commentary may make a modest contribution to recovering that history."