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Contributing scholars are mostly British and American and most of them come from a mainstream Protestant background. The articles are therefore polished, precise and professionally pedantic. No one can fault the meticulous scholarship and wealth of detailed content. That's just what you want from a hefty Bible commentary. On the other hand, what can strike you when dipping into this tome is how slippery Biblical scholarship has become. At the turn of the last century Biblical criticism shot fundamentalism full of holes, but the new generation of scholars have now shot the certainties of old-fashioned Biblical criticism full of holes. As a result the articles exhibit an odd mix of solid content with honest supposition, guesswork and shoulder shrugging. This actually makes the book better. It's refreshing to read academics who admit their uncertainties. Their honesty allows some questions to remain open-ended, and that's exciting for any serious Biblical student. -- Dwight Longenecker --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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[A] magnificent, supremely scholarly volume. Indispensible to clergy, lay preachers, students, adult members of congregations and those just interested in the Bible as literature, it provides an up to date, clear, verse by verse explanation of all the books of the Old Testament, the New Testament and the Apocrypha... After carefully examining this brilliant authoritative volume, I unreservedly recommend it to anyone who wishes to understand the Bible more fully. (Ronald S. Mallone, Day by Day )
A. Studying the Bible. 1. People's reasons for studying the Bible-and therefore for using a biblical commentary-are many and various. Read the first page
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Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
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The commentary encompasses all books recognised as canonical in any of the western churches of Christianity, and also includes excerpts from books in other canons. The advanced bible scholar may additionally wish to refer to more specialist textbooks for detailed insight into specific topics or individual biblical books.
This is among the most authoritative Bible commentaries available. The reader will appreciate the expertise of the distinguished contributors, their concise verse explanations, thorough verse cross-references, and critical approach. The book is intuitively structured throughout and, despite the large size of this volume, easy to navigate.
It is a helpful aide toward informed reading of the Bible for any reason - religious, theological, historical, literary, or general interest. An extensive bibliographic resource and relevant maps complement the text.
A good Bible commentary such as this is highly enlightening. Each verse in the Bible suddenly makes much more sense in the light of expert explanation. In reading the Bible without the benefit of well-informed commentary, essential considerations such as the historical context, and relationships between verses, are almost certainly overlooked. While opinions expressed in this commentary are objective, they are frequently conservative and tend to be representative of mainstream or orthodox thought.
The OBC is a huge, high quality reference textbook, with a proportionate price-tag, and I fervently commend it to anyone with a serious interest in the Christian scripture.
It is edited by John Barton who is the Oriel & Laing Professor of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture, Oxford University and his colleague, John Muddiman, Tutorial Fellow in New Testament Studies at Mansfield College, Oxford. These two editors are to be commended for both the thoroughness of the articles and the relative consistency evident throughout this single volume. There are over other 70 contributors of articles, each an accredited expert in his or her own field.
Consistency can be an issue with a 'single volume' commentary on the Bible. It is easy for us to forget that the Bible is not strictly a book but is really a library which contains a broad and formidable range of literary genres sourced from a variety of cultures, ages, and philosophies. With that in mind, it is probably expecting too much, when we ask for one volume to 'tick all the boxes'; The Oxford Bible Commentary gets much closer to fulfilling these expectations than most other single volume works.
Michael Calum Jacques
It is cut from a very broad cloth, and is more open ended than one might have
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