I'm shure this is ask before, but is Best Commenataries and here the Top 2 of each Book of the Bible
http://bestcommentaries.com/topcommentaries/
the Best Place to start a Collection with the Top 2 Commentaries?
Not for Catholics or Orthodox ...
Ok I'm not either the one or the other...soo where you go?
.soo where you go?
Because I belong to a Dominican parish (they don't take a vow of proverty because they owned books for teaching which in the 13th century were expensive) I ask Dominican friends or professors (including one Eastern Rite) ... then compare my list with that of my brother who spent his career at a Jesuit University.
thanks for let me know
.soo where you go? Because I belong to a Dominican parish (they don't take a vow of proverty because they owned books for teaching which in the 13th century were expensive) I ask Dominican friends or professors (including one Eastern Rite) ... then compare my list with that of my brother who spent his career at a Jesuit University.
I knew you had some Spanish look in you MJ but definitely didn't know you were from the Dominican republic ha ha 😁😜
DAL
That's a good place to start, but also consider your purposes for the commentaries. Sometimes both of the top volumes are technical commentaries; depending on your ministry you might be better served by starting with a couple of volumes with less overlap in purpose.
If you could only pick two commentaries for each book, you might rather have one that's more technical and one that's more practical. It could be worth looking further down the list on BestCommentaries.com than just the top 2.
Also, sometimes Logos offers sales on individual volumes in a set, and sometimes only on the entire set. It might be cheaper in the long run to save up until you can drop $300-500 on a set. You won't get the absolutely highest-rated commentaries, but it could save money. (Currently, however, there are lots of decent deals on individual volumes that don't require purchasing an entire set.)
for Catholics
http://www.biblico.it/doc-vari/ska_bibl.html - Jean Louis Ska, Old Testament Basic Bibliography (Pontifical Biblical Institute)
http://www.biblico.it/doc-vari/bibl_nt.html - Stanislaw Bazylinsky, New Testament Basic Bibliography (Pontifical Biblical Institute)
Here is a list for confessional Lutherans:
OT Testament
NT Testament
You will have to scroll down to see the documents
Thank you all for helping m out
list for confessional Lutherans
I have Lenski (in the NT list) and I use it. It may not be one of the top, but it is on Christmas sale.
Regarding to the OT, I feel lost, I have not really found good ones (simultaneously evangelical&technical&exegetical).
If you are a pastor who will be building a library and studying to prepare sermons and Bible studies for many years, I would recommend a little different approach. Start by purchasing a few select sets of quality commentaries that will give you solid resources on the entire Bible. Here are the sets that I would personally recommend first....
First, I would purchase three study Bibles: The ESV Study Bible, The MacArthur Study Bible, and the NIV Zondervan Study Bible. These study Bibles are very detailed and like commentaries on the entire Bible. Then, I would add the following commentary sets...
The older Expositor's Bible Commentary
Tyndale Commentaries OT/NT
New American Commentary OT/NT
Tom Constables Expository Study Notes (for the money, maybe the best value of any resource in Logos)
Baker New Testament Commentary
If you have these resources I have listed, you have a great foundation for Bible study and sermon preparation. You will also have resources that you will use and come back to over and over again without spending a huge fortune.
After, acquring these, I might recommend you pick up Lange's commentary (old but very good for the money), the MacArthur New Testament Commentary, or the more technical but excellent Word Biblical Commentary.
After reaching this stage, I would then recommend that you supplement your library with individual volumes from the best commentaries lists. For instance, if you are going to preach through Romans, you will already have some excellent resources in hand. Purchase a couple of additional great commentary volumes on Romans as you begin to prepare.
thanks Greg
I've always preferred to buy upscale: more technical, exegetical works than those meant for preaching. This usually makes it a bit more difficult to mine, but it gives you something solid to build upon. Not sure if anyone else has mentioned it, but the Moody Bible Commentary is really superb for a single volume work. Not out quite yet in Logos.
My recommendation is to use Longman III's Old Testament Commentary Survey and Carson's New Testament Commentary survey as a reference for what to buy.
I don't like the best bible commentaries website because the idea of a "best" commentary, as mentioned above, is arbitrary. At the very least Longman and Carson explain how they feel about the commentaries they cover. I have found them to be generally helpful.
