Commentary Survey

Key features of this commentary series are:
- Attempts to “provide, within the framework of informed evangelical thought, commentaries that blend scholarly depth with readability, exegetical detail with sensitivity to the whole, and attention to critical problems with theological awareness”
- Seeks to address the needs of pastors and expositors
- Intends to focus on problems within the text that have a direct bearing upon meaning
- Stresses the development of the argument and relates each passage to what has before and what will follow (function in context)
- Interact with scholarly literature
- Salient sections shaded for ease of use (intro comments and summaries of passages)
(Info taken from "Series Preface")

Notes:
-Text will contain Greek with transliteration and translation with amount of Greek and how its translation is shown varying between volumes
-Text-critical discussion in the "Additional Notes" portions

This series is fit for seasoned Greek students as well as the beginning Greek reader. Each particular volume will provide a verse-by-verse and word-by-word Greek analysis of the text. Greek form identification and syntactical function are the primary foci, thereby curbing interpretation and theological analysis.

Key features of this commentary series are:
- Provide a verse-by-verse foundational analysis of the Greek text prior to interpretation and theological analysis.
- Attempt to bring modern linguist insights to bear on some exegetical questions.
- The Greek text is treated on a word-by-word or phrase-by-phrase basis.
- Each verse contains comments on grammatical, lexical, and text-critical information.

This handbook assumes, at least, a basic awareness and comprehension of Greek morphology and syntax. It may be helpful to consult Daniel Wallace's "Greek Grammar Beyond the Basics" during your interaction with this series because of the author's nomenclature.

For those "advanced Greek" students, the Baylor Handbook series attempts to take into account recent theoretical studies of Tense/Aspect and Deponency.

(Info taken from the "Series Introduction")

This series is written for the pastor, missionary, and teachers of the Scriptures to present the divine intent with greater clarity and faithfulness to the text. This series follows a creedal confession of Lutheranism, while demonstrating adequate understanding of the biblical languages.

Key features of this commentary are formulated by various theological presuppositions and commentary structure:
- A theological presupposition of the scriptural testimony as Jesus Christ; thus, a Christological, Christ-centered hermeneutic.
- A theological presupposition that Law and Gospel are the overarching doctrines of the Bible.
- Each editor and author accepts without reservation that the canonical books of the Old and New Testaments are, in their entirety, the inspired, infallible, and inerrant Word of God.
- The editors and authors are standing in the exegetical method of Luther: 1. Analogy of Faith; 2. Attention to Grammar of original languages (Lexicography, phonetics, morphology, syntax, pragmatics); 3. Plain sense of Scripture; 4. Utilizing other fields of history, literature, philosophy to understand the text; 5. Considering the history of the church's interpretation; 6. Applying text with authority to the current interpreter; 7. Seeing the fulfillment of the text in terms of Jesus Christ and His corporate Church.
- Extensive interaction with text-critical, lexical, and syntactical features for each pericope.
- Extensive research of primary and secondary sources within footnotes (NT series only)

For those who utilize the OT commentary volumes, knowledge of Hebrew syntax will greatly aid the interpreter. Isaiah 40-55 and Daniel deal greatly with the syntax and various Hebrew Grammars.

For those who utilize the NT commentary volumes, knowledge of Greek reference grammars will help. Robertson, Wallace, Burton, Smyth, BDF, and Voelz are frequently referenced. Philemon, 2 Peter and Jude, and Matthew are exceptional in this series.

(Info taken from the "Editor's Preface")

This series will soon become a prominent commentary series as soon as other volumes are released. Written for the Greek student, Professor, and Pastor, each volume is short in length but rich with content. Though not a full-scale commentary, this series provides primary attention upon the exegesis of the Greek text and secondarily on exegetical and homiletical outlines.

Key features of this commentary series are:
- Analysis of syntactical features of phrase-by-phrase analysis, seeking to provide basic linguistic, and grammatical and syntactical information on every word.
- Exegetical structure of the passages
- List of recommended commentaries, monographs, and articles for various sections related to exegesis, theology, and basic critical study.
- Homiletical suggestions from the exegetical outline to form sermon outlines.

Those benefiting from this commentary will range from a fundamental background in Greek, to the advanced Greek student, to the advanced professor, to the preacher. The viability of this commentary will prove useful to any NT researcher.

This series cannot come recommended high enough.

(Info taken from the "General Introduction" and personal use)

Key features of this series are:
- Seeks to gather scholars from around the world who teach in the given field and can be called evangelical
- Commentators work from the original languages and their own translation as the basis for comment and exposition
- Seeks to be usable by the fledgling student up through the professional scholar
- Layout provides clearly defined sections to assist readers at different levels (ie. reader can skip to a section dealing with issues they wish to see discussed)
(Info taken from the “Editorial Preface”)

Notes:
- Extensive bibliography for each passage, given just before the translation of the text
- Text critical issues discussed under “Notes” for each passage
- Discussion of translation and grammar
- Interaction with scholarly literature

New Testament commentary series lacking only the 2 Peter/Jude volume

Key features of this series are:
- Exposition is thorough and abreast of modern scholarship, yet faithful to the Scriptures as the infallible word of God
- Based on the Greek text
- Critical yet orthodox
- Minimal amount of Greek in the intro and exposition
- Technical aspects (including grammar and textual problems) addressed in footnotes, special notes, and appendixes
(Info taken from the back cover)

Notes:
- Lengthy general bibliography at the beginning of the commentary
- Greek largely limited to footnotes and translated
- Interaction with scholarly literature in the footnotes
- Some discussion of text critical issues in footnotes

This series is aimed for the series Greek student and professor. Aiming to interact with modern scholarship and the original Greek text, each volume is robust with bibliographic material, exegetical data, and some volumes interact with critical scholarship. They attempt to interact within problem areas such as history, exegesis, and interpretation.

Key features of this commentary series are:
- Provide an exegetical analysis of each book based upon a historical-critical-linguistic exegesis.
- Provide a rich exegetical outline of the book.
- Broadly interacts with critically and theologically competing views
- Ample information on lexical and syntactical date of the Greek text.
- Excursuses on theological, historical, or textual critical issues, reaching into a broader biblical theological analysis.

Each volume will provide a verse-by-verse text-critical, linguistic, and syntactical study of the Greek (some do not transliterate or translate the Greek) and attempts to cater to the needs of an adequate Greek student. Each gospel commentary interacts with and participates in critical study (historical, source, form, and redaction criticism).

(Info taken from "Preface" and extensive interaction with this commentary series)

A partial Old and New Testament Commentary series:
- Numbers
- Joel, Amos, Obadiah
- Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah
- Romans (1-8)
- Philippians
- Revelation (1-7; 8-22)

This series, though stopping well before the completion of the series, aids the informed laymen, student, and scholar desiring to interact with the original languages. Because this series was never completed, each volume needs to be consulted on an individual basis.

Key features of this commentary series are:
- Assumes a grammatical-historical hermeneutic and leads to a conservative, evangelical theological position.
- Text-critical notes and word studies are included as deemed pertinent to each passage.
- Extended theological, historical, and archaeological excursuses are provided.
- Broad interaction with competing exegetical and theological views.

Each volume in this series offers various aids to the interpreter. The OT volumes work less with the original language than the NT volumes. The NT volumes require a knowledge of Greek due to their interaction with syntactical features.

Moo's volume predates, and is similar, to his Romans commentary in the NICNT series. Thomas' Revelation volumes is the most academic commentary advocating a Pre-Millennium Pre-Tribulation position. For informed Greek students, Silva's volume attempts to include and interact (briefly) with verbal aspect prior to the entrance of the Porter/Fanning volumes on aspect.

(Info taken from "General Editor's Introduction")

Under the direction of the editorial board, including Thomas Schreiner, this series sought to listen to the needs of pastors and teaches and what they desired for a commentary. This series is written for the pastor utilizing the Greek text. Each volume will provide various features, beneficial to the entire exegetical process.

Key features of this commentary series are:
- A literary contextual discussion and outline are provided in order to observe a given pericope's placement within the book
- A one-two sentence stating the "Main Idea" of each section
- A visual diagram of the text is provided in order to show phrase relationships. Non-technichal jargon is utilized when showing the functions of each phrase.
- Theological contribution of each pericope to the overall message of the book and the broader theological context.

Those benefiting from this commentary are for anyone with a two-year collegiate or seminary Greek class. The authors of these books assume familiarity of Greek grammars such as Wallace, Porter, Brooks and Winberry, or Dana and Mantey. However, the the lack of technical jargon makes this series beneficial to the Greek and English reader.

(Info taken from the "Series Introduction")