Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Raymond de Hoop <rdehoop AT keyaccess.nl>]

At 18-05-2003 19:57 Jonathan Robie
<jonathan.robie AT datadirect-technologies.com> wrote:

> My oldest daughter, Marissa, is graduating, and she is asking for a
> one-volume commentary on the Bible as one possible graduation gift. I'm a
> little stumped, because the ones I have used are rather old or require
> knowledge of Greek. Is there anything reasonably in keeping with our
> current state of knowledge that is reliable and informative?
> 
> She is particularly interested in historical background, which is what she
> can't get from the text per se. She is also interested in overview
> information that ties together the different texts.

W.R. Farmer (ed.),
The International Bible Commentary: A Catholic and Eucumenical Commentary
for the Twenty-First Century,
City of Publ.????; Publisher: University of Dallas 1998.

Though it has to be said that the quality of articles differs strongly.

Regards,
Raymond 

> 
> Jonathan
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