What commentary sets do you find most useful?
Josh HuntBible Study LessonsSunday School Lessons That Have Groups Talking
UBS Handbooks and NICOT/NICNT
It obviously depends for what use. But generally I love turning to New American Commentary series and also Pulpit commentary series first stop devotionally or as I begin deeper prep.
Josh Hunt: What commentary sets do you find most useful?
In order: Hermeneia, Word, Interpretation, and Social-Rhetorical
So far my favorites are USB and Pillar for the New Testament. Both of these sets are available in Platinum. I do not own the WBC or NICOT/NICNT (yet).
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Word, UBS, NIGTC series.
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It varies by book of the Bible. But for sermon prep:
1. Pillar
2. NIGTC
3. Baker Exegetical
4. NIVAC
5. NAC, TOTC/TNTC,
6. Bible Speaks Today, Opening up . . . , Preachers
Special Usage: UBS Handbooks, New Testament Use of the Old Testament, Ancient commentary
Meyer
Anchor Bible
Hermenaeia
"God will save his fallen angels and their broken wings He'll mend."
NICOT / NICNT
Ancient Christian Commentary
Word Biblical
Pillar
New International Greek Commentary
Preachers' Commentary
Boice Expository
"In all cases, the Church is to be judged by the Scripture, not the Scripture by the Church," John Wesley
2. UBS
3. WBC
4. NIGC
5. Baker Exegetical Series
6. JPS
7. Tyndale
8. NAC
Here You can see that I and Soulgazer had communication: http://www.christianforums.com/t7664842-post60751598/ The topic was:"if you go into the study with a firm grasp by what is historically meant by the "indwelling Christ", "Perfect Man" and "Son of God", your faith can be greatly enhanced."... and that's the topic the Brill commentaries he recommends, discuss. Commentaries that are not (yet) made available in Logos. Is here someone else who is interested in this type of historical information? Browse amazon for historical information in Brill commentaries, and You'll see the titles!There are of course all kinds of commentaries with historical information, but Soulgazer is good at early Church, he has read in college or university and/or read/aquired a lot of books on comparative historical information regarding the early Church, to study those topics in depth. He needed to do that to be a good pastor and be able to teach.I hope this could interest other's, and I think I'm going to start a separate thread somewhere on Brill commentaries (theological discussions are not allowed on Logos User Forums, so some of the discussion will have to take place on Christianforums), but not quite yet, first I have some grounds to cover so I that I'll have better all-around knowledge to be able to participate in the discussion. (So it's going to take a while before I start the thread, but I think I'll post the link here when I do.=
Unix:Brill (I have none yet, I want to get on the history of the early Church,[...]
Unix: theological discussions are not allowed on Logos User Forums, so some of the discussion will have to take place on Christianforums
theological discussions are not allowed on Logos User Forums, so some of the discussion will have to take place on Christianforums
Actually you could create a discussion group on Faithlife, the benefit is its interaction with your Logos library. You can share and have community notes on what you are reading/studying directly from the book. I think this might be even more helpful.
I would add a commentary with only one volume out right now!
High Definition Commentary: Philippians
Romans is on pre pub...its a great commentary with discourse analysis, but also included slides that can illustrate a sermon or lesson.
Josh, (by the way, I absolutely love Love LOVE your Questions That Have Groups Talking, and How To Double Your Class resources! Fabulous stuff, and I'm an appreciative and grateful subscriber!!) in order of typical study preference:
"I read dead people..."
Here are mine in no particular order:
1. PNTC
3. College Press OT/NT
4. Expositor's Bible Commentary
5. Barclay's Daily Study Bible (I only have the original version in Spanish).
6. BECNT
7. USB Handbooks
8. Meyer's is becoming a favorite too.
Hermeneia
Smyth & Helwys (not available in Logos)
Many others
Faithlife doesn't seem to be designed for serious study, it's limited to very few Bible versions (when I'm actually waiting for the 1989 REB to be released in Logos 4 or 5) and provides a very basic study Bible (if it's comprehensive at times doesn't matter to me anyway, I don't agree with Logos's official theology). (I never use study Bibles, I have none.) So I can't see how it would be possible to find opinions on and readers of Brill historical information?!
Philana Crouch:Actually you could create a discussion group on Faithlife, the benefit is its interaction with your Logos library.
Unix:I just discovered Biblical Performance Criticism -series (4 volumes, 2009-2011) - how good do You think it is?
It's not released yet ... give us a little time to find out.