Suggestion please: Homiletic Commentary

Good day and thank you so long for your help.

I want to buy a homiletic commentary on the whole Bible. I had a look at this series but don't know if the price is per volume or for the whole series.

http://www.logos.com/product/8523/preachers-homiletic-commentary

I will really appreciate your suggestions.

Sincere Regards,

Deon

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George Somsel

Good day and thank you so long for your help.

I want to buy a homiletic commentary on the whole Bible. I had a look at this series but don't know if the price is per volume or for the whole series.

http://www.logos.com/product/8523/preachers-homiletic-commentary

I will really appreciate your suggestions.

Sincere Regards,

Deon

The price will be for the entire series. One thing to consider -- it's OLD. Whether or not it suits your purpose isn't for me to say, but it certainly won't be the more recent scholarship, nor will it be very highly regarded scholastically (and not simply because of its date).

Rosie Perera

Also note that this series is in Community Pricing which is a special program Logos has for certain out-of-print works. It means people bid on it for what they're willing to pay, and Logos will not invest in the work to produce it unless a sufficient number of people bid enough on it to cover the cost of production. As you can see, currently it's got a long way to go, and this could take years. If you need something sooner, I'd look at some of the newer, albeit pricier, commentary sets.

Here are the commentary sets I've tagged as "homiletic" in my Library. You'll need to look up each of these on the Logos website to see the description and decide which one fits your purposes and budget best.

See also http://www.bestcommentaries.com for commentary reviews. And there are some commentary surveys available in Logos which give ratings from various theological standpoints:

Commentaries for Biblical Expositors: An annotated Bibliography of Selected Works (Jim Rosscup)

Appendix of How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth (Gordon Fee & Douglas Stuart)

New Testament Commentary Survey (D.A. Carson)

MJ. Smith

Okay, again I give up. What do you mean by homiletic commentary? Is it synonymous with application commentary? I thought I'd figured out that the bulk of Logos users gave expository sermons rather than homilies.

Rosie Perera

Okay, again I give up. What do you mean by homiletic commentary? Is it synonymous with application commentary? I thought I'd figured out that the bulk of Logos users gave expository sermons rather than homilies.

Homiletic is a synonym for expository. Homiletics is the field taught in seminaries that has to do with sermon preparation.

Alan Macgregor

Homiletic here means sermonic. To paraphrase it could well be entitled the commentary to assist preachers with preparing and structuring their sermons. Some of the volumes (e.g. Genesis) have suggestions for sermon illustrations and suggestive comments on the verses.

It is a bit like a forerunner to Zondervan's NIV Application Commentary series.

Every blessing

Alan

Alan Macgregor

Deon

As I've said in another couple of posts, this is a good series but is is only on community pricing (CP) just now and has a long way to go before it reaches production. A more modern series available now is the Zondervan NIV Application Commentary series for Old Testament Prophets and New Testament. (Just click the titles to go to the linked pages.)

Every blessing

Alan