Philippians: Handbook on the Greek Text, Lidija Novakovic (Baylor University Press, 2020)

Over the years, I have tried to collected volumes from the excellent series Baylor Handbook on the Greek New Testament. They work well as textbooks or aids for students and as a commentary writer myself, I have turned to many of these for consultation.

The latest volume in the series is on Philippians, written by Baylor University professor of New Testament, Lidija Novakovic. Novakovic is up-to-date on cutting edge conversations in Greek studies, such as verbal aspect and discourse features.

The BHGNT series offers the scholar’s own translation. Throughout, Novakovic presents an accurate and insightful translation in English. In terms of syntactical and exegetical decisions, by nature the BHGNT series keeps comments very short and to the point, but I found Novakovic fair and she knows the relevant secondary literature quite well. More importantly, her engagement with the Greek text is impressive and yields many insights.

Check it out!