The Next Chapter in the EEC
The Evangelical Exegetical Commentary series is a top-tier commentary sure to be the bedrock of your bible study. These acclaimed volumes are essential resources marked by three distinctives: they’re comprehensive without compromise; they’re written by today’s top scholars; and they’re unapologetically evangelical.
Re-introducing the EEC
When the EEC was launched back in 2011, it promised to be the most advanced biblical commentary ever produced. It was the first time a major Bible commentary series had been published in digital form before its print counterpart—and the first time one had been published with a digital format in mind.
A lot has happened since the series was first announced. Lexham Press as a publishing house has matured and grown. And our commitment to see this project through hasn’t wavered. There have been ups and downs—every major commentary series covering all of Scripture has had a similarly winding journey—but we’re in a better position than we’ve ever been to pursue the vision of the EEC with excellence. The currently published volumes, and the praise they’ve received from academics and pastors alike, speak for themselves.
We’re proud and excited to announce a number of new developments for the series. These changes should only serve to reinforce the fundamental mission of the EEC: to deliver thoroughly scholarly commentaries that don’t compromise on evangelical convictions, so that you can confidently use these volumes week in and week out in your sermon and teaching preparation and personal research and writing.
So take a look at what’s new with the EEC—we think you’ll really like what you see.
A NEW look
The first thing you’ll notice is a completely new look for the series. The original covers that were designed for the series were functional, but they weren’t very inspiring. Design is a core value for Lexham—which wasn’t necessarily true back in 2011—and these new covers for the series reflect this passion. We wanted the outside of these volumes to match the high quality content that can be found on the inside.
The EEC debut of NEW Testament editor Andreas J. Köstenberger
Andreas Köstenberger joins the team as the new New Testament editor. Dr. Köstenberger is a leading New Testament scholar, prolific author, and editor of the premiere evangelical theological journal, employing his commitment to bringing biblically centered resources to the church. He’s joined by Ben Gladd who will be serving as Assistant New Testament Editor.
NEW authors
A number of new authors have signed up to take on volumes that had been floundering.
- Andrew Abernathy & Michael McKelvey on Psalms
- Bryan Estelle on Proverbs
- Ben Gladd on Mark
- Andreas Köstenberger on John
- Jay Smith has joined Wayne House on 1 Corinthians
- Bryan Tabb on 1 and 2 Thessalonians
- Brandon Crowe on James
- Susan Hecht on 2 Peter
There are still a few volumes that do not have an author attached yet. The editorial team is hard at work looking for new scholars who are excited to contribute to a top-tier biblical commentary.
Comprehensive without compromise
The Evangelical Exegetical Commentary series will continue to provide exhaustive exploration that’s never exhausting—meeting the exacting standards of critical biblical scholarship. It is the trusted commentary you’ll turn to again and again.
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Thank you Jake! I'm looking forward to the rest of the series!!! Any idea what volume might come out next and when?
Also, Jude is missing its artwork for some reason
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Thank you Jake. I appreciate the update and I definitely appreciate the commentaries! The new page looks good, but I really think you should make it clear there that some of the volumes don't have authors assigned and many are years away from completion. It has taken 9 years to produce the first 13, so at the current rate it will be close to 20 years to complete the set. That helps people make an informed decision when they purchase the entire set.
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Thank you for the update Jake, it is appreciated. Really good to hear about the continued commitment and developments. The new cover design is nice too.
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Jude is missing its artwork for some reason
Yes, Jude and a handful of other volumes are missing artwork. We have artwork selected and the covers should be updated soon.
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Hi,
I think your website needs updating for the 13-vol bundle - I think it is missing Daniel.
It says on the left that if I hide owned resources, I have $0 to spend. Yet the dynamic price is $24.86!
Hope that helps you to fix this issue.
James
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Jude is missing its artwork for some reason
Yes, Jude and a handful of other volumes are missing artwork. We have artwork selected and the covers should be updated soon.
Jake
How do we get the updated artwork to appear on our computers? I'm using a MacBook. The updated covers show on my iPad but not on my computer. I tried deleting and redownloading the book.
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Jude is missing its artwork for some reason
Yes, Jude and a handful of other volumes are missing artwork. We have artwork selected and the covers should be updated soon.
Jake
How do we get the updated artwork to appear on our computers? I'm using a MacBook. The updated covers show on my iPad but not on my computer. I tried deleting and redownloading the book.
Still not updating on my Mac... anyone else having this issue?
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Jude is missing its artwork for some reason
Yes, Jude and a handful of other volumes are missing artwork. We have artwork selected and the covers should be updated soon.
Jake
How do we get the updated artwork to appear on our computers? I'm using a MacBook. The updated covers show on my iPad but not on my computer. I tried deleting and redownloading the book.
Still not updating on my Mac... anyone else having this issue?
My PC is still not updated with the new covers either.
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BUMP
Still no updated images on MAC (and from above PC)
Showing updated covers in mobile though
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How do we get the updated artwork to appear on our computers?
This is being investigated. It's unclear what the issue is currently.
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Showing updated covers in mobile though
Mobile does a cover refresh each time. And since I usually operate offline, all, some and none of the resources have covers, depending on the update process. Of course, Noet long lost all its covers. Sort of a used-book shop.
"If myth is ideology in narrative form, then scholarship is myth with footnotes." B. Lincolm 1999.
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This is an exciting series that I hope is completed. I'm not too particularly concerned about the book covers as I am about the content and completion of the unpublished works.
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Is the edition of James by Varner going to get the new cover or keep the original?
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Is the edition of James by Varner going to get the new cover or keep the original?
Doubtful as it was pulled for plagiarism or undocumented sources. An amazing volume and a shame... wish they would have just revised it but not my call. Either way, I doubt they would redo the cover. They have a new one in the works by a different author so that one will probably get the new cover.
New covers still NOT showing on desktop
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Is the edition of James by Varner going to get the new cover or keep the original?
Doubtful as it was pulled for plagiarism or undocumented sources. An amazing volume and a shame... wish they would have just revised it but not my call. Either way, I doubt they would redo the cover. They have a new one in the works by a different author so that one will probably get the new cover.
New covers still NOT showing on desktop
Varner did correct the issues in the EEC and it was republished by Fontes Press.
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Speaking of plagiarism, Köstenberger, the new New Testament editor, had his John commentaries in the Baker Exegetical Commentary Series and Zondervan Illustrated Bible Backgrounds Commentary Series pulled for plagiarizing Carson's commentary.
Given that EEC has already had one commentary pulled for plagiarism, Köstenberger seems like an odd choice.
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Köstenberger has already written 5 commentaries on the Gospel of John and a substantial theology on John's Gospel, what more can he add that is not available in those volume.
He is a capable scholar with various expertise in biblical studies, I would have thought that another New Testament book would be assigned to him.
Hopefully we will not be seeing a lot of replication but new material in the EEC volume.
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For those who do not have Köstenberger's BECNT on John, they may be glad that he is now doing for EEC.
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Speaking of plagiarism, Köstenberger, the new New Testament editor, had his John commentaries in the Baker Exegetical Commentary Series and Zondervan Illustrated Bible Backgrounds Commentary Series pulled for plagiarizing Carson's commentary.
Given that EEC has already had one commentary pulled for plagiarism, Köstenberger seems like an odd choice.
I believe Kostenberger actually had his own volumes pulled. If I remember correctly after the O'Brien thing he looked over his own work and found the errors and had them pulled. I wish they would have just updated and made a new one but this will be his chance to correct that and add more. The BECNT was from 2004 I believe so 15+ years of extra knowledge?
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This is Kostenberger's announcement:
https://www.biblicalfoundations.org/letter-dr-kostenberger/
As I understand his statement, he did not find the errors, but someone else brought it to his attention. And while he contacted the publishers, it was the publishers' decision to pull the volumes, not his.
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Ah I stand corrected
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The BECNT was from 2004 I believe so 15+ years of extra knowledge?
I take it you are aware of his 2009 volume the Theology of John’s Gospel and Letters: The Word, the Christ, the Son of God (Biblical Theology of the New Testament | BTNT) https://www.logos.com/product/26690/a-theology-of-johns-gospel-and-letters-the-word-the-christ-the-son-of-god
and his The Gospels and Acts HB (Holman Apologetics Commentary on the Bible) Hardcover – 1 Oct. 2013 https://www.amazon.com/Gospels-Holman-Apologetics-Commentary-Bible/dp/0805495304/ref=sr_1_fkmr2_1?dchild=1&keywords=The+Gospels+and+Acts+HB+%28Holman+Apologetics+Commentary+on+the+Bible%29+Hardcover+%E2%80%93+1+Oct.+2013&qid=1590000364&sr=8-1-fkmr2
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dear friends, when you look at the New Testament books published they contain commentary on 442 verses of the New Testament which itself consists of 7957 verses. This works out at 5.5%. this gives an estimated completion date of 2183. I am hoping to have retired by then and so won’t make much use of the last few commentaries!
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Ted
I have heard of the BTNT but I do not own it. I just assumed it was more of a theology versus a commentary. Not familiar with the other one but it looks more akin to a study bible?
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I have heard of the BTNT but I do not own it. I just assumed it was more of a theology versus a commentary. Not familiar with the other one but it looks more akin to a study bible?
Okay Mattillo, you do have a point. I will be comparing his Baker's volume with his EEC volume when it come out for fresh material
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God (1:1): In this opening verse of John’s Gospel, God is set in relation to the Word. The Word, which in verses 14-18 is clearly identified as Jesus Christ, is an eternal being that existed prior to creation. However, it is not simply that the Word was with God (so, too, was Isaiah’s personified Word and Wisdom), but John refers to the Word itself as God. This is quite a claim coming from a Jewish monotheist. From the patristic era (Arius) to the present (Jehovah’s Witnesses), some have argued that, because there is no definite article in front of theos, this verse merely identifies Jesus as a god rather than as God. Interestingly, around 1950 there was a change in how Jehovah’s Witnesses dealt with this verse. Before 1950, they carried a copy of the American Standard Version of the Bible. However, the problem they faced was that the ASV rendered verse 1 accurately with the phrase “the Word was God.” In an effort to resolve the difficulty this rendering posed for its theology, the Watchtower Society (the Jehovah’s Witnesses’ publishing group) issued its own translation of the Bible, which rendered the verse as “the Word was a god” (Reed 1986, 71). However, there are several reasons why this translation is inaccurate.
First, John, as a monotheistic Jew, would not have referred to another person as “a god.” The Jews had no place for demigods in their belief system. Second, if John had placed a definite article before theos, he would have abandoned the distinction between the two persons he established in the previous clause (“the Word was with God”). Third, the view defended by Jehovah’s Witnesses misunderstands Greek syntax. It is common in Greek for a predicate noun to be specific without having an article. For example, later in this chapter reference is made to Nathanael’s confession of Jesus, “you are the King of Israel” (1:49), with no article being before “King” in the Greek (for other NT examples of this construction, see 8:39; 17:17; Rom 14:17; Gal 4:25; Rev 1:20). From these examples, it is clear that the lack of an article in Greek does not necessarily imply indefiniteness (“a” god). Finally, John could have used the word theios if he were simply trying to say that Jesus was “divine” (i.e., that he had God-like qualities) rather than being God himself. The anarthrous (article-less) theos is most likely used to explain that Jesus “shared the essence of the Father though they differed in person” (Wallace 1996, 269). As D. A. Carson explains, “In fact, if John had included the article, he would have been saying something quite untrue. He would have been so identifying the Word with God that no divine being could exist apart from the Word. In that case, it would be nonsense to say (in the words of the second clause of this verse) that the Word was with God” (1991, 117).
The Word was with God, and the Word was God (1:1): Critics often say that the Christian doctrine of the Trinity is unbiblical. While it is true that no verse specifically spells out that God is “three divine persons in one essence,” as our historic creeds have stated, the fact is the biblical witness demands the Trinitarian doctrine. The present verse disproves any monistic model of God, for the Word is at one and the same time “with” God, meaning there is some way of making distinction between Word and God, while at the same time the Word is God. Hence from this verse one would conclude that there are at least two personal beings united in the one godhead. A sampling of other verses supporting Trinitarianism includes Genesis 1:26; Isaiah 9:6; Matthew 28:19; 1 Corinthians 2:10; and Colossians 1:17.
The true light, who gives light to everyone, was coming into the world (1:7, 9): Some have used these verses to teach that all people will in the end be saved through Jesus, a view called “universalism.” Yet, this confuses the desired with the actual result of John the Baptist’s testimony concerning Jesus. In other words, while God desires all people to believe (cf. 1 Tim 2:4; 2 Pet 3:9), this is not the actual outcome, because not all people will in fact believe.
John does not speak here of internal illumination in the sense of general revelation (contra Morris 1995, 84), but of external illumination in the sense of objective revelation requiring a response (Brown 1966, 9). The rest of the Gospel illustrates clearly that not all did in fact receive the light, though it was available to all through Jesus’ presence and teaching (Borchert 1996, 113). In the present verse, John is emphasizing the universal scope of Jesus’ coming and the potential spiritual enlightenment available to all who believe, an enlightenment available not only to Jews but to all people (cf. 1:12-13; 3:16; 10:16; 12:32; cf. 1:10; 3:19-21).
Reading the verses following verse 9, it becomes increasingly apparent that John is not proposing a form of universalism: “He was in the world, and the world was created through Him, yet the world did not recognize Him. He came to His own, and His own people did not receive Him” (1:10-11). Even though the world was created through the Word (an echo of 1:3), it did not recognize that Word, because it was estranged from him (Ridderbos 1997, 44). Yet the world should have recognized the one through whom it was made. Keener is correct to point out that “God did provide the light for all humanity in Jesus’ incarnation [for instance, T. Levi 14:4 says that the law was given to ‘enlighten every person’] just as in the Jewish tradition he provided the light of Torah to all nations at Sinai. But just as the nations rejected Torah, so the world rejected God’s Word made flesh” (2003, 395).
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Are any more EEC volumes going to come out within the next 18 months?
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For those who do not have Köstenberger's BECNT on John, they may be glad that he is now doing for EEC.
I hope is a correction plus new material of the now gone BECNT on John. Even if he replicated most of the material, it’d be like a new commentary since the others are out of print due to an academic mistake which I don’t think it was intentional.
Maybe they could invite O’Brien and have him correct his volumes and publish them as part of the EEC series. I definitely wouldn’t mind and it’ll help speed up the process in pumping new volumes out.
I think the series was supposed to be finished or almost finished by now, but hey, it’s a huge undertaking to write a full fledged commentary on the entire Bible.
I hope/wish they do the apocryphal books too (deSilva comes to mind for those).
Anyway, great technical series but useful for everyone. Keep them coming! 👍😁👌
DAL
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How do we get the updated artwork to appear on our computers?
This is being investigated. It's unclear what the issue is currently.
Any updates? Covers still haven't updated on desktop
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For those who do not have Köstenberger's BECNT on John, they may be glad that he is now doing for EEC.
I hope is a correction plus new material of the now gone BECNT on John. Even if he replicated most of the material, it’d be like a new commentary since the others are out of print due to an academic mistake which I don’t think it was intentional.
Maybe they could invite O’Brien and have him correct his volumes and publish them as part of the EEC series. I definitely wouldn’t mind and it’ll help speed up the process in pumping new volumes out.
I think the series was supposed to be finished or almost finished by now, but hey, it’s a huge undertaking to write a full fledged commentary on the entire Bible.
I hope/wish they do the apocryphal books too (deSilva comes to mind for those).
Anyway, great technical series but useful for everyone. Keep them coming! 👍😁👌
DAL
i'm trying to remember: was the series bent toward a premillenial or dispensationalist perspective?
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