Product Description

A well-established one-volume commentary on the whole Bible from a team of international contributors.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #66516 in Books
• Published on: 1994-04
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 1472 pages

From the Inside Flap
New Bible Dictionary
Consulting Editors: I.H. Marshall, A.R.Millard, J.I.Packer and D.J.Wiseman

An essential reference tool, freshly sharpened for contemporary use.

- an A-Z of Bible terms, place names, books, people and doctrines
- written by an international team of over 150 scholars, reflecting advances in research and scholarship
- maps, family trees, line drawings, diagrams and charts clarify and expand the text
- an index gives ease of access to all significant data

‘The New Bible Dictionary and the New Bible Commentary – as basic books for every thinking Christian’s library they are indispensable.’
John Stott

‘Packed with information that will enrich your understanding of the Bible a hundredfold … Skip a meal out and a trip to the theatre and buy this book instead.’
Church of England Newspaper

From the Back Cover
For fifty years the New Bible Commentary has served Bible readers worldwide. This 21st Century Edition builds on the strengths of the previous three:
- a one-volume commentary on the whole Bible by an international team of contributors
- general articles on what the Bible is and how to read it
- an introduction to each Bible book
- commentaries dividing each book into sections for ease of reference

Designed to meet the needs of today, the New Bible Commentary makes use of recent international scholarship: 80% of the articles are entirely new and the rest have been rewritten. New maps, diagrams, charts and tables illuminate the text, and further reading lists are included with each article.

Commendations

‘IVP is to be congratulated on producing this edition of the New Bible Commentary. I warmly commend it to all those wanting to understand the Bible in greater depth.’
George Carey, formerly Archbishop of Canterbury

‘The New Bible Commentary offers a clear and concise explanation of the meaning of every book and every passage in the Bible, and all in one volume. It represents decades of sound biblical scholarship made accessible to the 21st century reader. It is an absolute gold mine. Every serious reader of the Bible should own a copy.’
Rev. Dr Mark Stibbe, Vicar of St Andrews Church, Chorleywood, UK

Customer Reviews

Still the best one volume bible commentary
First published in 1953, the New Bible Commentary has been revised and updated 4 times. It has been and still is, the best one volume Bible commentary available. To cover all 66 books of the bible means that some detail must be sacrificed, but the authors capture the flow of the argument in each book well, and also have time to discuss important and controversial issues.

Many of the articles are written by people with best-selling full-length commentaries on the books they were assigned. So you get G J Wenham on Genesis and Peter O'Brien on Colossians, for example.

Highly recommended.

If you would like this book at a bargain price, with 17 other helpful books, including the Dictionary of Biblical Imagery, Sinclair Ferguson's New Dictionary of Theology, the New Bible Dictionary and the New Dictionary of Biblical Theology, Amazon also sells the Essential IVP Reference Collection CD ROM.

Descriptive commentary from a strong educational source -IVP
The scholars who have contributed to this sterling commentary are clearly people after the heart of the truth in the Bible. The writings are from various times, and have been updated regularly and revised to keep the style relevant to the modern reader. Although the quotations are from the NIV, the commentary does not glue itself to any particular translation. Rather it seeks to determine the most likely from a number of sources - often explaining how some translations do not offer a meaning as passionate as the original text.

I would recommend this book to ANYONE seeking to learn more about their Bible. It is non denominational, it does not seek to conclude on issues, only to clarify what the writers of the bible appear to mean, by demystifying the problems with reading what can be hard to understand through the veil of translation into English.

This is one book that I have next to my bible 95% of the time, and CONSTANTLY turn to it. Interestingly enough, I find I cannot separate my Bible from it, as when I am reading the commentary it makes clear the woven tapestry that the Bible is, it does this by making one think of OTHER portions than the one that may be under discussion. It is self referential and is therefore confident in that which it describes, and it mirrors the Bible very well in this.

Its a GREAT book that leaves no stone unturned, and completely follows the books of both Old and New Testament.

I would (and did) choose this one over ANY other Bible study book.