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essentianl for pastors and students.......2007-05-13
an excellent book will help pastors and students in second and third year in Greek to apply all you learn in class on preparing your messages and teaching lessons.
The book also has Gordon Fee's own bibligraphy from Historical to cultural to the best three commentaries on each book of the New Testament.
New Testament Exegesis: A Handbook for Students and Pastors.......2007-02-08
New Testament Exegesis: A Handbook for Students and Pastors is a trememdous study aid that guides the user through practical applications of the process of exegesis. This book is a great resource for a student writing exegetical papers and for any pastor who teaches or preaches from the Bible.
new testament exegesis: a handbook for students and pastors (3rd edition).......2006-11-07
The delivery was sooner than what I expected.
NOT for the novice.......2006-07-10
I am in the process of acquiring the language skills in Greek as a layperson. This book has enticed me to be more active so that I can fully grasp all the nuances that are brought to light. If you are truly interested in getting really deep into the texts and textual criticism or are in seminary this is an excellent resource and pathlight to give you a goal to reach.
The Standard...........2006-01-12
The is the standard for doing biblical exegesis of the New Testament. While it is advatagous to the NT Greek student, it is also useful for those who don't know Greek, so don't let that keep you from getting this book. It has broad application and will teach you how to study the Bible and prepare your sermons or write your papers. It also lists useful resources for studying various genre of the NT and for doing background work, syntactical diagramming (Greek and English) word studies, everything. If you get this with Dr. Stuart's book on OT Exegesis, you will be able to "rightly divide" any passage in the Bible.
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Books of the Bible: A Survey of the Old and New Testaments
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A Handbook on the Acts of the Apostles (Ubs Handbooks Helps for Translators)
Barclay M. Newman , and
Eugene A. Nida
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An ideal textbook for any first or second year course in Greek
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A Serviceable Work.......2006-05-28
Culy has attempted to give us a handbook on the Johannine epistles that is not exactly a commentary, nor a detailed exegetical or syntactical study. Instead, his work is something of a top-level combination of all these things that has syntax as its focus, but also touches on interpretational issues without getting too detailed about it. As a result, someone wanting to walk through the grammar, parsing, and syntax of the Johannine letters will find this work to be predominately useful. A working knowledge of Greek is likely necessary to get a whole lot out of this work, but it is a work that is not so overly technical that beginners in Greek will be left out of the conversation.
Culy is often helpful on issues of syntax. While not agreeing with all of his conclusions, Culy often lays out the syntactical options in a particular passage in summary form in ways that are helpful and understandable. In this way, Culy does the reader a service in providing summaries of major commentaries regarding syntactical options. This should not be used as a substitute for the bigger commentaries, but it does provide a good springboard for someone who wants a general grasp of the issues at stake without wading through much more expansive and technical material.
Culy's major syntactical error regards the issue of deponency. Culy tends to side with the school that believes that true deponency is problematic, and that many middle forms in particular should be taken as true middles. Culy believes that in taking this position, the significance of the middle voice reemerges from the obscurity that was forced on it by the deponency concept. The problem is that in taking this view, Culy only interacts with the anti-deponency school and does not give us a hint of the arguments on the other side or interact with them at all. There are still many good reasons for maintaining the deponency concept in Koine that Culy glosses over completely. One would have hoped that on an issue that he himself regards as semantically significant, he would have bothered to present the reader with something better than a one-sided presentation that half-heartedly stacks the deck in a particular direction.
Lastly, one of the major areas where Culy engages in interpretational commentary regards the infamous passage in 1J 5:6-9. It is here that the reader will find (at least in this book) a rather extensive commentary on what the 'water and blood' mean. He concludes, a la Witherington, that the water refers to Jesus' birth, rather than his baptism. While syntactically this is a possibility (the aorist form for 'come' certainly seems to refer to concrete actions in the past), it is grammatically and theologically deficient. Culy follows Larsen (and Witherington) in citing John 3 as support for this idea. But in doing so, Culy is going against every major lexical dictionary and lexicon that unanimously state that the Greek word for water never refers to amniotic fluid. That Culy fails to mention this is very problematic and raises serious questions about the breadth of his scholarship. Further, Culy assumes that John 3 supports the Incarnation view, but this is not at all the case. Culy is appealing to a particular (and minority) interpretation of a highly disputed passage to argue for a particular (and minority) interpretation of another highly disputed passage to make his case. This is methodologically deficient, and he should know it. But secondly, such a reading is problematic in light of the letter's theological purpose - to combat a particular form of heretical Christology that proposed that the man Jesus was adopted by the spiritual Christ at his baptism, but later abandoned the man Jesus at the crucifixion because God can't suffer. Culy's interpretation renders the parenthetical comment of 'not by water only, but water and blood', incoherent. This comment assumes that the heretics had no problem with the idea that Jesus Christ came by water (at the baptism). Their problem is that Jesus Christ suffered on the Cross. If we accept Culy's interpretation that the Incarnation and the crucifixion are in view, this parenthetical comment of v6 becomes nonsensical, because the heretics would have had a problem with Christ coming in the Incarnation as well. Culy does not engage any of this data, so that not only is his conclusion problematic, the method he takes to get there is also.
So while the discerning reader will profit from this handbook, the reader does indeed need to be discerning. The reader should realize that the somewhat technical nature of the book does not hide the fact that a number of the conclusions reached are based on assumptions and starting points that are definitely not beyond challenge.
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The material in this book represents a selection, reworking, and reordering of a series of articles which first appeared over a period of six years in the The Roll the magazine newsletter of the Schola Contemplation is a network of reader associates, most of whom live in the United States, Canada, and Western Europe.
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More than just contemplation!.......2000-10-03
This book needs to be discovered by anyone seriously interested in understanding the true essense of contemplation and Christian love. Somerville clearly defines the basic truth and the driving force behind why you should seek a further union with God. I found it to be a masterpiece!
Eye-opening view of the inner meaning of the gospels.......1999-01-27
This book is terrific! Somerville looks at the gospels from a different perspective - what they tell us about our internal and spiritual life. This book is a roadmap for reading the gospels on a higher, more spiritual level. A great book for both novices and experts in gospel study. Anyone on a spiritual path can benefit from the insights in this book.
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Provides the textual, philological, and grammatical essentials to any act of interpretation.
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A unique and very helpful resource.......2004-04-11
I saw this title in an ad from Baylor and asked for an examination copy since I am a professor of Greek exegesis. To be honest, I had low expectations, thinking that it was going to be too basic for my own needs and those of my students in "The Greek Text of Acts." Was I pleasantly surprised when I received this marvelous book, compactly written and printed and yet still over 550 pages. It serves its purpose - to illuminate the grammar of Acts for exegesis - exceedingly well. I have already decided to adopt it for a course in the Fall. This is more than an "analytical lexicon." It is more than a "grammatical analysis." It combines the good points of those types of works with a great awareness and sensitivity to the most recent work in grammar and linguistic insights into the language.
It will serve pastors well, but also should not be viewed by professors as too much of a "crutch" for their students. It doesn't tell the reader everything about a verse. It doesn't eliminate the use of a good commentary or one's own exegetical analysis. As a matter of fact, the authors make excellent recommendations about other writings and have an excellent up-to-date bibliography on Acts. Parsons and Culy often cover matters that the commentaries omit. It is current, compactly written and very helpful for readers of the Greek text at all levels. We need to see more works like this from these two authors, if they are in the same vein as this work. Highly recommended!
Solid exegesis starts right here.......2004-01-13
Culy and Parsons are among the most scrutinizing and perceptive exegetes in evangelicalism today. Clear, concise, and painstakingly careful, you will not find a better work on the Greek text of Acts anywhere.
The book is directed toward people who have at least an intermediate knowledge of Greek. Among other things, it helps readers to understand what are the various interpretive options that the text of Acts allows, and often makes arguments for which ones are preferable. It is not for the faint of heart, though; this is anything but light reading. I often spend fifteen minutes examining one specific verse, analyzing what the different exegetical options are, and considering how my interpetation of the text could be affected by each one.
The book is formatted in the style typical to scholarly commentaries today. The text of Acts is broken up into various sections, at the beginning of each one is the authors' own translation. Then they provide a phrase by phrase (often word by word) analysis of each individual verse.
It is worth noting that the book is quite handy for those who find Luke's style of Greek to be somewhat intimidating. It can help to clarify those difficult passages where his writing leans heavily toward the classical style, and is even useful for those who are studying his gospel, since it gives readers a feel for his use of the language.
It should be emphasized that there is not very much in this book as far as "commentary" is concerned. Rather than examining the broad picture that Luke has given us, it focuses on the tiny pixels that make up that picture. But, it does such a great job in doing so, that I highly recommend keeping it nearby when you are reading any commentary on Acts.
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A Handbook on the Gospel of John (Ubs Handbooks Helps for Translators)
Barclay M. Newman , and
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Manufacturer: American Bible Society
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This handbook provides a substantial theoretical and practical guide to the multi-faceted discipline of exegesis of the New Testament. After an introduction to exegesis and a bibliographic essay on the basic tools, the volume has two major parts. The first focuses on method, and includes essays on the major approaches to exegesis, including textual criticism, language, genre and backgrounds. The second part applies exegetical method to the various literary units of the New Testament. Most exegetical handbooks are either too short and brief, thereby failing to cover the requisite current topics in sufficient depth, or too technically difficult, failing to provide a useful methodology. This coordinated volume offers succinct and well-informed essays, with plenty of bibliography, written by experts in their respective fields. The handbook will serve well as a textbook, as well as a reference book to the major tools and topics in the area.
Customer Reviews:
Excellent resource.......2003-04-12
It has been a few years since I made use of this book, but I see no one has reviewed it, so my few comments can only help.
This is a top-quality resource, providing papers and essays by some of the finest biblical scholars on each of the main methods of critical interpretation. The tone is academic, but accessible enough for your regular pastor or serious student of theology, if not the entirely untrained layman.
I would not hesitate to recommend this as the best volume of its kind available, although on the negative side, not many people are going to be in a position to spend [dollar amount] on a single volume. I recommend ordering a copy from your library or finding some other way of borrowing it.
For an infinitely better-priced compendium, albeit only a second-runner to Porter's volume, you can purchase I H Marshall's New Testament Interpretation for [dollar amount] or less.
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Start your study of any scripture with a comprehensive overview of the book it is in.
Talk Thru the Bible is an easy-to-use handbook that summarizes each book of the Bible with at-a-glance charts, illustrations, and outlines. This reference volume is your first step to more in-depth, more satisfying study.
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Excellent Study Tool.......2006-07-03
I teach Bible study and I find Talk Thru the Bible an excellent study tool for self-study and preparing lessons. It gives an outline and overview of each book of the Bible and is easy to read and understand. It is a book I will keep in my library and refer to often.
just what I needed.......2003-06-11
Talk Thru the Bible provided me with what most commentaries cannot-- a clear and concise overview of the Bible that saved me the time and trouble of wading through paragraphs of tedious text. Wilkinson and Boa did an excellent job charting the outlines of each book of the Bible, providing capsulated information on the background and theme of each book, and explaining the Bible in modern-day English. I highly recommend this resource to any Bible student, Sunday School teacher, Bible study leader. In fact, it's thorough enough to meet the need of most Bible teachers, but also simple enough for any Christian. My library is incomplete without it.
This is a great survey book........2001-10-03
If you are looking for an easy to understand survey book, then this is what you want. Talk Thru the Bible does a good job explaining the historical background, date, theological contributions, and authorship of each book by highlighting the big ideas presented. It is written from a conservative evangelical perspective in a conversational mood and is devoid of heavy theological language.
Besides what you'd expect to find in a survey book, Talk Thru the Bible also offers explanations of Hebrew poetry which you can understand, nifty charts, and outlines detailed enough that you could develop sermons from them. All the articles are short and easy to digest--which is perfect for the micro wave attention spans (short) we all seem to have these days. This would be my choice of a textbook if I were to teach Old or New Testament survey.
A wonderful resource for the serious Bible student.......2000-12-28
This is a wonderful resource for any serious student of the Bible. Use it right along with your Bible to help you better understand the who, what, when, where of each book of the Bible and how it fits together as a whole. I find it very easy to follow and would highly recommend it for any Christian's library. Now I am even more excited than ever to dig deep into the treasures of God's word!
Talk Thru The Bible.......2000-02-23
I have used this resource for casual and in-depth Bible study. Every book in the Bible is reviewed, names defined, key theme, key verse identified and more. The Old Testament writers are charted in order that "at-a-glance" the reader can see whom was ministering as contemporaries. This is a simple, yet complete resource. My library is incomplete with out it.
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