Types of commentaries

What is the best way to categorize your commentaries? How do you know which one is more expositional, exegetical, homiletical, or devotional. I am not very familiar with my commentaries so it is not easy for me to categorize them.

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steve clark

How do you know which one is more expositional, exegetical, homiletical, or devotional.

perhaps this site: http://www.bestcommentaries.com/category/genesis/

It has them categorized using this legend

i would guess that Technical = Expositional, Exegetical; Pastoral = homiletical??; Devotional

Mark Barnes

You have two basic options: tags, or collections. I chose collections, and they're listed below. To tag, you'd sort your library by series, then put type:commentary in the filter, then create your collections from tags.

Ideally, you should really get to know your commentaries and come to your own conclusions. You'll need a feel for quality as much as categories.

(There's an updated version of these rules now available.)

Commentaries, Technical

Library Size: 4,032
Collection Size: 312
Rule: type:bible-commentary AND(series:("New International Commentary on the Old and New Testament", "New International Greek Testament Commentary", "Eerdmans Critical", "Anchor Yale Bible", Hermeneia, JPS, Pillar, "socio-rhetorical", "word biblical", "Baker Exegetical", "Continental Commentary") OR (series:"international critical" AND pubdate:>1970))
Manually Included Items: none
Manually Excluded Items: none

Commentaries, Historical

Library Size: 4,032
Collection Size: 175
Rule: type:bible-commentary AND (series:(“Commentary on the New Testament from the Talmud”, “ancient christian commentary”, “Classic Commentaries on the Greek New Testament”, “Early Church Fathers”) OR (series:”international critical” AND pubdate:<=1970) OR author:(“hodge, charles”, “Luther, Martin”, “darby, John Nelson”, “Spurgeon, Charles”) OR pubdate:<1939)
Manually Included Items: Several ‘one-off’ commentaries
Manually Excluded Items: none

Commentaries, Intermediate

Library Size: 4,032
Collection Size: 470
Rule: type:bible-commentary AND (series:(“zondervan illustrated bible backgrounds”, “expositor’s bible commentary”, “niv application commentary”, “Ariel’s”, “baker new testament”, “bible speaks today”, “black’s new testament”, “book of Isaiah (Young)”, “Calvin’s Commentary”, Ellicott, “Charles Hodge”, “Hebrews (Owen)”, “Holman New Testament”, “International Theological”, “IVP New Testament”, Lange, Lenski, “New American”, Barnhouse, “United Bible Societies’ Handbooks”, “Tyndale Commentaries”, “New International Biblical Commentary”, “Cornerstone”) OR mytag:intermediate OR author:”Calvin, John”)
Manually Included Items: none
Manually Excluded Items: none

Commentaries, Expository

Library Size: 4,032
Collection Size: 378
Rule: type:bible-commentary AND (series:("opening up", exposit, believer, "daily study", horae, "MacArthur New Testament", preach, pulpit, Wiersbe, "college press NIV") OR author:("Pink, Arthur", "lloyd-jones") OR title:exposition*)
Manually Included Items: none
Manually Excluded Items: none

Commentaries, One Volume

Library Size: 4,032
Collection Size: 17
Rule: type:commentary AND subject:”Bible—Commentaries” ANDNOT subject:”Bible—Commentaries—Collected works”
Manually Included Items: Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament
Manually Excluded Items: none

Commentaries, Unclassified

Library Size: 4,032
Collection Size: 227
Rule: type:bible-commentary
Manually Included Items: none
Manually Excluded Items: {Academic Commentaries}, {Intermediate Commentaries}, {Expository Commentaries}, {One Volume Commentaries}

Friedrich

i like a little of both of the above. (I like "special study" and technical and pastoral/expository, along with some of the other designations Mark has--one volume.

Mark do some of your commentaries overlap? I find certain series might be a little technical and a little expository. I might want them in both. Wonder what your experience was.

Blair Laird

How do you know which one is more expositional, exegetical, homiletical, or devotional.

perhaps this site: http://www.bestcommentaries.com/category/genesis/

It has them categorized using this legend

i would guess that Technical = Expositional, Exegetical; Pastoral = homiletical??; Devotional

For some reason when I go to the new testament page nothing show's up http://www.bestcommentaries.com/category/new-testament-commentaries/

Maybe I am doing it wrong?

Mark Barnes

Mark do some of your commentaries overlap? I find certain series might be a little technical and a little expository. I might want them in both. Wonder what your experience was.

I prefer them not to overlap, so I try and make a decision one way or the other. Currently the only one I do let overlap series is the Expositor's Commentary, and that's due to to the mixed nature of that series, and the fact that I don't currently know the individual volumes well enough to place them exactly.

steve clark

For some reason when I go to the new testament page nothing show's up http://www.bestcommentaries.com/category/new-testament-commentaries/

Maybe I am doing it wrong?

Think that you need to click on each NT book (one at a time), clicking on the tab NT Books doesn't go anywhere.

EDIT: i also was looking for Logos page on commentary set review, it used to be on the old product page, but i can't locate it now on the new site. It was similar to the site above in that it had markings relative to type of commentary, but was for whole sets. Perhaps someone else knows how to find it on the new Logos.com site.

Jerry M

I made a separate collection for language commentaries. It includes the Handbook series, The New International Greek Testament series, Word Pictures in the N.T., Word Studies in the N.T. and Wuest's Word Studies in the Greek N.T.

Blair Laird

What would you consider beets commentaries

Blair Laird

For some reason when I go to the new testament page nothing show's up http://www.bestcommentaries.com/category/new-testament-commentaries/

Maybe I am doing it wrong?

Think that you need to click on each NT book (one at a time), clicking on the tab NT Books doesn't go anywhere.

EDIT: i also was looking for Logos page on commentary set review, it used to be on the old product page, but i can't locate it now on the new site. It was similar to the site above in that it had markings relative to type of commentary, but was for whole sets. Perhaps someone else knows how to find it on the new Logos.com site.

Thanks, I figured I was doing something wrong.. I noticed NICNT was in the pastoral section. I am debating if I should tag it as exegetical or expositional.