Bible Commentaries

Is the letter of James really a letter? It certainly purports to be. It begins with the stereotypical form of letter-opening with which all Greek letters began, consisting of the ‘parties formula’ (‘X to Y’) and a salutation (‘Greetings!’). Bu...

Each of the Gospels tells the story of Jesus in its own way. This is both an advantage and a problem. Four Gospels enrich the depth of our perception of Jesus but cause problems with conflicting presentations. Modern critical scholarship is mo...

Parallel Edition with the New Revised Standard Bible and the Revised English Bible. 28 издание греческого Нового Завета Нестле-Аланда с параллельными текстами на английском языке - Revised Standard Bible - Revised English Bible. &n...

Последнее критическое издание Нового Завета на греческом языке - 28 издание Нестле-Аланда.   28-е издание критического текста Нового Завета на древнегреческом языке издано Институтом новозаветных текстологических исследований в Мю...

Die vorliegende Taschenausgabe des Griechischen Neuen Testaments erschien zum erstenmal im Jahr 1898, von meinem Vater D. Eberhard Nestle (1851—1913) herausgegeben.    Es war dabei seine Absicht gewesen, an Stelle der noch...

The origins of a literature lie buried in the unconscious of a people’s infancy. Its ultimate roots coincide with that people’s very birth, a moment which can hardly be situated with historical accuracy. The same spiritual forces which brought...

The Mishnah (“repetition” or “teaching”), the first rabbinic book, composed in Hebrew in the Land of Israel and edited around 200 ce, is an anthology primarily about matters of Jewish practice, ritual, and law. In addition to statements, wheth...

The book of Isaiah is one of the longest books in the Hebrew Bible. It contains some of the most hauntingly beautiful passages in the entire Bible, and it has influenced Judaism and Christianity to an exceptional extent. Many of its passages f...

The letters of the apostle Paul comprise a tiny corpus, even if we include the many pseudonymous ones (White 2014; Hart 2020; Petroelje forthcoming). The canonical ones make up not even half of the New Testament, itself a very small literary c...

The field of pentateuchal studies continues to witness an impressive volume of scholarly productivity, activity that underscores the vibrancy of this area of academic research. Given this robust interest, it is unsurprising that diverse perspe...

Ever since the publication of the first translations and editions of Akkadian prayer texts at the end of the nineteenth century, parallels between Mesopotamian prayers1 and the biblical psalms have been explored in various ways. Moreover, beca...

Paideia Commentaries on The New Testament   The distinctive language of the epistle signals that James develops this theme in a distinctive way, though not without significant relationship to the Jesus tradition and connec...

A question that has long occupied students of Paul is whether there is a definable center to his thought. A previous generation of interpreters did not find it insuperably difficult to posit that there was a central notion or even complex set...

Roughly seventy years after the death and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth, a Roman senator, mindful of his own importance and seniority, wrote to a friend about a third man, a social inferior who had got himself in trouble: You told me you had been...

Inspired by Pope Francis, The Paulist Biblical Commentary opens the door to the study of Sacred Scriptures for a new generation of believers. This rich resource is the work of women and men who have dedicated themselves to the study of the Scriptu...

The story to be told in this Gospel begins with the words, “A man came, sent from God. John was his name” (1:6). This means that the five preceding verses must be taken as a kind of preface or preamble, in keeping with the principle stated by...

In recent years I have often been asked, "How do we find out more about the first-century Jewish world?"   This question often comes after I have given a lecture or seminar paper, whether to a general audience or to scholars from o...

Книга «Чтение Откровения в контексте: Апокалипсис Иоанна и иудаизм Второго храма» под редакцией Бена К. Блэкуэлла, Джона К. Гудрича и Джейсона Мастона представляет собой незаменимое пособие для тех, кто стремится понять последнюю книгу Нового Завета...

The name ‘Lamentations’ is a rendering of the Hebrew word קנות (qinot). The fact that the name was employed by the oldest Jewish traditions for the five songs it designates is evident from its use in the Septuagint (0pfjvo1), which was followe...

Книга Гордона Фи «Откровение: Комментарий Нового Завета» (Revelation: New Covenant Commentary) представляет собой образцовый труд одного из самых уважаемых исследователей Нового Завета. Автор ставит перед собой задачу сделать текст Откровения понятны...

Книга Митчелла Реддиша «Откровение» (Revelation), вышедшая в известной серии Smyth & Helwys Bible Commentary, представляет собой взвешенный и глубокий путеводитель по самому загадочному тексту Нового Завета. Автор ставит перед собой задачу помочь...

Книга Рея Барнетта «Откровение: простое, мощное послание надежды» предлагает свежий и ободряющий взгляд на одну из самых загадочных книг Библии. Автор ставит перед собой задачу освободить последнюю книгу Нового Завета от наслоений страха, сложных эсх...

Книга Бена Уизерингтона III «Откровение» (Revelation), вышедшая в серии Cambridge Greek Testament Commentary, представляет собой образец высококачественного библейского анализа, сочетающего глубокую филологическую точность с социо-риторическим подход...

The ten days that begin on Rosh HaShana and culminate in Yom Kippur are the holy of holies of Jewish time. The atmosphere in the synagogue is intense. You can almost touch the Divine Presence. Isaiah said: “Seek God where He is to be found, ca...