Seems like now is the best deal for NICOT/NICNT. Is it really worth such investment? How better is NICOT/NICNT vs WBC, I don't have both of those commentaries
Hmmm no takers to answer your question eh? Aaight here's the short down to earth answer:
Similarities: Both are still incomplete, both are technical and both have uneven volumes.
Differences: NICOT/NICNT is more expensive than WBC
In short, WBC is the cheaper version of NICOT/NICNT...LOL
Giovanni [6]
How better is NICOT/NICNT vs WBC?
http://www.bestcommentaries.com/topcommentaries/ will give you one perspective on which are the best commentaries on each Bible book.
I imagine the NICOT/NT is a great series, but I ended up choosing the WBC (on a 3rd party special) + an upgrade to Platinum where I got several other commentaries including the New International Greek Testament Commentary, the UBS handbooks, NAC etc. For what I could afford, that seemed a better combination.
Hopefully others will give you other perspectives too.
i briefly owned both, i find WBC which i do own to be greg and use it a lot…. I had NIC for about 1 week and found it not helpful. Lots of people love it but i got so little out of it i returned it. NOT just from a price point for me the WBC is far better.
-dan
I personally benefit more from NIC than from WBC. It is a bunch more money than some of the $399 specials for WBC that have popped up, but I would not want to be without it. If I could only keep one I'd keep NIC.
I have both, and they are both good and complement one another. However, I would rank NICOT / NICNT as the better set. Every commentary set has some volumes better than others, but I believe from top to bottom NICOT / NICNT has more strong volumes than any other set. WBC would be a not too distant second. That is just my opinion.
Why NICOT / NT? Oswalt on Isaiah, Moo on Romans, Mounce on Revelation, F.F. Bruce on Acts and Hebrews, I. Howard Marshall on John's Epistles, and on and on. That is just off the top of my head. There is much more. It is like 1927 New York Yankees lineup! It just doesn't get much better.
Mark is right. If I could only keep one it would be the NICOT / NICNT.
I have both, and they are both good and complement one another. However, I would rank NICOT / NICNT as the better set. Every commentary set has some volumes better than others, but I believe from top to bottom NICOT / NICNT has more strong volumes than any other set. WBC would be a not too distant second. That is just my opinion. Why NICOT / NT? Oswalt on Isaiah, Moo on Romans, Mounce on Revelation, F.F. Bruce on Acts and Hebrews, I. Howard Marshall on John's Epistles, and on and on. That is just off the top of my head. There is much more. It is like 1927 New York Yankees lineup! It just doesn't get much better. Mark is right. If I could only keep one it would be the NICOT / NICNT.
From what I've seen NICOT/NICNT doesn't deal with the original languages very extensively. That is a definite demerit.
Agreed. That would be one difference. WBC tends to do more examination of the original text than NICOT/NICNT. I have both and enjoy both for different reasons.
