Everything seemed in place to take Genius to the next level and transform it from a niche fan site into what Ben Horowitz, an early backer of the company who put in $ 15 million, calls the digital equivalent of the Talmud, the volumes
of biblical commentary produced by generations of rabbis that have arguably had more influence on the development of modern civilization than the Bible itself.
The first of three commentaries to be completed in 1994 is Gordon Wenham's, Genesis 16 - 50 (
Word Biblical Commentary Series, Waco: Word, 517 pp., $ 27.99) a companion to his 1987 work on Gen 1 - 15.
Most biblical commentaries easily point out how Peter seems to be talking about the origin of the prophecies in the OT scripture, therefore Peter is talking about what was said (and then written down).
Other projects include an exploration of motherhood in messianic genealogies in «Mother Knows Best: Messianic Surrogacy and Sexploitation in Ruth» in Mother Goose, Mother Jones, Mommie Dearest: Biblical Mothers and their Children (Brill), and a commentary on Ruth and article on «Responsible Christian exegesis of the Hebrew Scriptures» in the African
diasporic biblical commentary The Africana Bible (Fortress).
We should not read Thomas»
biblical commentaries as material for his Summas, but interpret the Summas by the biblical exegeses.
How God Became King: The Forgotten Story of the Gospels, by N.T. Wright (HarperOne): Sound,
accessible biblical commentary that's informed, but not distorted, by historical — critical scholarship is always welcome, and the former Anglican bishop of Durham is its leading practitioner in the Anglosphere.
Or, if you are older than twelve, summer is the time you bring The Complete Works of Shakespeare with you to beach, take a
fat biblical commentary to the pool, or stay up late pouring over the contents of a used American history book, just to brush up on that stuff you learned in college.
It is ironic that the Reformation principle of sola scriptura, much misunderstood, has led to the neglect among Protestants of
older biblical commentaries, even those of the reformers themselves.
provides a comprehensive survey of the discussion on each disputed point in Philippians,
Word Biblical Commentary (Waco, Tex.: Word Books, 1983).
For example, for many years
most biblical commentaries have pointed out that a writer called «Q» is considered the source of the many similar sayings in both Matthew and Luke, and «Matthew» and Luke» both incorporated Q's material in their testaments.
R.R. Reno, general editor of the Brazos Theological Commentary, writes: «This series
of biblical commentaries was born out of the conviction that dogma clarifies rather than obscures.
In the fifth century, St. Jerome, who was living in Palestine, carried on a running debate with Jews in
his biblical commentaries on the interpretation of the prophecies of return and restoration.
This development has made financially feasible the publication of excellent study aids in the form of
biblical commentaries, such as Reginald Fuller's Preaching the New Lectionary, Gerard Sloyan's Commentary on the New Lectionary, and Fortress Press's Proclamation series of 26 paperback volumes.
Regarding a woman who has written
a biblical commentary, he explains: «She's not looking at me, and directing me... as woman.
Logos also makes available on companion disks a reference library, including the Harper's one - volume commentary and one - volume Bible dictionary, the New Jerome
Biblical Commentary and, soon, the multi-volume Word Biblical Commentary.
«Really the Armageddon book is not designed to be
this Biblical commentary text on Ezekiel,» Hotsenpiller said.
This attitude toward the relation between history and myth is developed by Buber in his books of
biblical commentary, Königtum Gottes, Moses, and The Prophetic Faith, and it is this which constitutes one of the most significant contributions of these remarkable works.
For Calvin this meant dedicating himself not primarily to the Institutes but to
biblical commentary.
Zachman puts Calvin's life and work in context, emphasizing the pastoral concern expressed in
his biblical commentaries.
Calvin further labored to set forth the clear and genuine meaning of scripture in
his biblical commentaries.
Calvin's writings, especially his Institutes and
his biblical commentaries were also widely influential.
J. N. Darby, the founder of the Plymouth Brethren, tried to eliminate all vestiges of the Catholic tradition, including ministerial orders and the use of
biblical commentaries, which he considered unhelpful intermediaries between the Scriptures and the individual soul.