Barnes commentary author list

mab

I am looking forward to having the Barnes commentary series in Logos. Does anyone know of a list of who wrote what in this series? Other than I think Murphy writing on Genesis, I'm mostly at a loss who did what. I did some web searching, but seemed to come up empty handed on this one.

Rick

I think they are mostly Barnes' notes that he compiled. Murphy did help (see below):

Albert Barnes (1798-1870) pastored the First Presbyterian Church in
Philadelphia during the middle of the nineteenth century. He was deeply
involved in the social and moral issues of his day — slavery, drinking,
dancing, and so on. Barnes's commentaries were more notable because they
comment on every verse of the Bible, not because of his biblical
scholarship, per se. These are the comments of a pastor on the passages
on which he was preaching. One of the best-selling commentary sets of
its time — for preachers and laypeople! Albert Barnes, with the help of
James Murphy, wrote conservative verse-by-verse commentary of the KJV
text. This work is dependable and profitable for personal Bible study,
sermon preparation, and teaching.

Also, I have this collection in WS and the New Testament includes the original preface but the Old Testament does not. The following quote is from the NT preface:

In the preparation of the following Notes, free use has been made of all the helps within the reach of the author. The works from which most assistance has been derived are, Walton's Polyglott; the Critici Sacri, particularly the Notes of Grotius; Lightfoot's Works; Macknight and Newcome's Harmony of the Gospels; Jahn's Archaeology; Horne's Introduction; Doddridge's Family Expositor; Calmet's Dictionary; Campbell on the Gospels; the Commentaries of Kuinoel, Rosenmuller Clarke, and Henry; Tittman's Meletamata Sacra on John; the Sacred Geography of Wells, and that prepared for the American Sunday School Union, by Mcssrs J. real meaning of the Gospels;-the results of their critical study, rather than the process by which these results were reached.

Notes on the New Testament Explanatory and Practical.