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The New Testament Commentary Guide: A Brief Handbook for Students and Pastors is unavailable, but you can change that!

An indispensable map to the often intimidating world of biblical commentaries. For many beginning students of the New Testament, looking for a commentary seems like a simple process: identify the book you’re studying, search for a commentary, and pick one. However, the reality is far from simple. With new commentaries being published every year on every book of the Bible, the student of...

Technical (Own it: scholars) Raymond Brown (AB). This massive commentary is widely considered a modern classic for the study of the Johannine Epistles. Brown committed his career to the study of Johannine literature. His work on the Epistles is part of a wider theory about a “Johannine community.” This Anchor volume is recognizably historical-critical in approach, but Brown is also attentive to theological dimensions of the text as well. (Own it: pastors) Karen Jobes (ZECNT). Jobes