Commentary Survey

A nearly complete New Testament and partial Old Testament commentary series

Key features of this series are:
- Designed to be a critical and historical commentary
- Utilizes full range of philological and historical tools (including text criticism, the methods of the history of tradition, and the history of religion)
- Full use of Semitic and classical languages with English translation
- Designed for serious student of the Bible
- Tries to provide full critical discussion of each problem of interpretation along with the relevant data
(Info taken from the “Forward”)

Notes:
- Text critical issues primarily within the translation and then in the footnotes
- Translation is provided, but may have to be inferred in some cases - still possible to use without a knowledge of the languages
- Bibliography at the beginning and end of the commentary

Complete Old and New Testament commentary series

Key features of this series are:
- Seeks to bring together all relevant aids to exegesis including linguistic, textual, acheological, historical, literary, and theological
- New commentaries will incorporate new methods of study
- No uniform theological or critical approach, but scholars of distinction
(Info taken from the jacket cover)


Notes:
- Untranslated/transliterated original languages used throughout
- Also may find untranslated Latin, French, etc.
- Text critical information primarily in the footnotes
- Bibliographies after each passage

A full testament commentary, including the Pseudepigraphal writings.

This series is written for the teacher, preacher, student, etc. who desires a commentary series with broad denominational, creedal, and theological positions.

Key features of this commentary series are:
- Various "Introductions" for interpreting genre literature (e.g. Introduction to Apocalyptic Literature, Introduction to Epistolary Literature, Introduction to Narrative Literature, etc.)
- Commentary on Apocryphal literature
- Expositional analysis informed by linguistic, text-critical, historical-critical, literary, social-scientific, and theological methods.
- Brief introductions that provide rudimentary details on essential historical, sociocultural, literary, and theological issues.
- Broad interpretive options

Each volume is dependent upon the skill and theological positions of each author. Theological interpretive and critical decisions range from moderately conservative to moderately critical to Lutheranism to New Perspective. The breadth of theological commitments will aid the interpreter desiring to see the breadth of interpretive problems and theological selections of various passages and books.

No knowledge of biblical languages needed for this series.

(Info taken from the "Features of the New Interpreter's Bible")

A partial New Testament Commentary series:

This series is fit for students desiring to interact with critical scholarship and competing theological and interpretive views. Each volume, though having continuity with style, varies author to author (Galatians and Colossians may be the richest volumes thus far in the series).

Key features of this commentary series are:
- Simple, yet helpful, syntactical comments on the transliterated Greek text.
- Eclectic authorship from various creedal and theological vantage points.
- Broad, critical interaction of scholarship
- Attention is given to the "literary design" and the theological message of the text.

Knowledge of Greek is not mandatory because each volume transliterates the Greek and explains basic elements of syntax.

The overall commentary series favors a more critical perspective about the text of Scripture. For example, some volumes would either question Pauline authorship, or deny it altogether.

Advantages of interacting with this series will provide the interpreter a plethora of sources to interact with outside of conservatism and some outside of Evangelicalism. This series will provide various and competing theological and interpretive positions from adequate scholars.

(Info taken from interaction with the commentary series)

This is a complete New Testament commentary series with an Old Testament counterpart (Berit Olam).

Taken from the Latin expression, "Sacred Word", this series is written for biblical professionals, graduate students, theologians, clergy, and religious educators. The overarching goal of this series to provide critical analysis while maintaining the texts religious meaning as shaped by the Catholic tradition.

Key features of this commentary series are:
- Follows a Middle Age analysis of Scripture, where each author uses tools of grammar, rhetoric, dialectic, and philosophy.
- Cutting edge Catholic critical scholarship.
- Provides some text-critical and grammatical interaction; when provided, very minimal and simplistic interaction is provided for the non-specialist
- Each section of Scripture is provided with "further study" sections where bibliographic lists are provided with monographs or journal articles highlighting various theological or exegetical analyses.

Sacra Pagina, overall, is not overly critical of the text, though there are some Pauline commentaries that question Pauline authorship or affirm a pseudonymous composer.

Leading Catholic scholars provide a way for inter-religious interaction on a scholarly level. A list of broad sources are provided in each volume assisting the specialist.

(Info taken from the "Editor's Preface" and interaction with the NT commentary set)

Because this is a Septuagint commentary series, various pseudepigraphal writings are in this series.

Book divided in three parts: 1. Introduction and Textual History; 2. Greek Text and Translation; 3. Commentary.