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Originally Posted by Difflugia
This month's free book for the Logos software is Roland Murphy's Ecclesiastes volume of the Word Biblical Commentary.
I hadn't read any volumes of this particular commentary before, but I'm impressed with it (or, at least, this volume). While the author is a bit theologically conservative for my taste in a critical commentary, he does a capable job of describing less conservative points of view.
If you're inclined to spend a few dollars, the Exodus volume is $4.99 and John's Gospel is $9.99. |
BestCommentaries.com has the Old and New Testament Word Biblical Commentary ranked probably first, closely followed by the much briefer T
yndale Old and New Commentary and the
NICOT/NICNT series.
The liberal-critical set,
The International Critical Commentary does not fare very well at all, but probably that is understandable given the generally conservative bent of the reviewers at the
bestcommentaries.com site. But, the poor showing of the ICC may be due to things other than the ideological stance of the reviewers. If I'm not mistaken, many volumes of that massive set have not been revised in many, many years--quite a few of them are on the Internet Archive because they were published pre-1923.
What is inexplicable to me is that the recent--to one degree or another--
Anchor Yale commentaries are not listed. I have used them very, very little so far, but I get the impression that the quality of scholarship is basically on par with the ICC.