New Testament Guides (Cornell/JSOT) are so slim that they rarely receive notice in the pages that follow. The New Testament Message (/Michael Glazier) is a Catholic series of slim books that vary between being, more or less, commentaries (working through the text roughly paragraph by paragraph) and thematic surveys. A new series of Narrative Commentaries (Epworth/TPI) may become, in the NT, the American equivalent of the revised Epworth Preachers Commentaries. On the whole, it is disappointing. The