New Commentaries in Abundance

This is the time of the year when publishers bring out new commentaries, and I mentioned one yesterday.  Why is this the time? The annual academic meetings are this week and next week so the publishers get their Fall line-up of books ready to market them to professors. It is also the time when new books seem to fly across my desk.  I attempt to keep the readers of this blog aware of some of the best books that are coming out so I want to mention two in the very useful Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament by Zondervan:

Clinton Arnold, Ephesians (Zondervan Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament).

Tom Schreiner, Galatians (Zondervan Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament).

This series is unique in that it approaches the texts through the approach many evangelicals learn in exegesis classes, including diagramming the Greek sentences of the passage, finding the big, main idea, working through the structure, and then examining the passage without it becoming lengthy excursions into the vagaries of everything everyone has ever said on everything imaginable about every text. The series is specially designed for teaching students how to exegete texts.

I will use Arnold’s Ephesians soon because I’m eventually going to write a commentary on Colossians, and Ephesians and Colossians are in discussion with one another. Schreiner’s commentary approaches Paul through the “old” perspective and gives the new perspective folks a run for their money.