Lexham Context Commentary
New Testament
Introduced by Leland Ryken
Douglas Mangum
Project Editor
Thomas Parr and Mark Ward
Associate Editors
Lexham Context Commentary: New Testament
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Some introductory material adapted from Leland Ryken, Jesus the Hero: A Guided Literary Study of the Gospels, Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2016, and Leland Ryken, Letters of Grace & Beauty: A Guided Literary Study of New Testament Epistles, Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2016.
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Project Editor: Douglas Mangum
Associate Editors: Thomas Parr and Mark Ward
Lexham Editorial Team: Matthew Boffey, Claire Brubaker, Elliot Ritzema, Abby Salinger, and Abigail Stocker
Cover Design: George Siler
CONTENTS
What Is the Lexham Context Commentary?
Why We Need to Read and Interpret the Bible as Literature
Reading the Gospels: What You Need to Know
Reading the Book of Acts: What You Need to Know
Reading the New Testament Letters: What You Need to Know
Reading the Book of Revelation: What You Need to Know
Introduction
What Is the Lexham Context Commentary?
The Lexham Context Commentary: New Testament provides students of the Bible with quick access to the context of any portion of the New Testament. It carefully outlines each book and then offers summaries of every portion of those books, at every level of the book’s outline. The commentary constantly asks, Where have we been, where are we, and where are we going? It is, then, a Context Commentary.
A given book—say, 1 Peter—may have three divisions.
● Jesus and the Foundations of a New Community (1:1–2:10)
● Practical Christian Living Even in the Midst of Suffering (2:11–4:11)
● Christian Ethics in Both Suffering and the Church (4:12–5:14)
That first division contains four sections:
● Greeting (1:1–2)
● A Heavenly Inheritance (1:3–12)
● Living Before God Our Father (1:13–25)
● The Chosen Stone and His Chosen People (2:1–10)
That second section, for example, has within it two paragraphs.
● A Secured Salvation in the Midst of Suffering (1:3–9)
● The Prophets Inquire ...
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About Lexham Context Commentary: New TestamentThe Lexham Context Commentary: New Testament surveys each book of the New Testament at several levels—Book, Division, Section, Pericope, Paragraph, and Unit—providing contextually appropriate commentary on each level. The reader of the commentary can easily ascertain the contextual importance of any larger section, or pericope, or even a particular verse of Scripture. |
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