Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] [Off Topic] One volume commentary?
Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 05:47:34 +0200
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.