Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction; Commentary; Bibliography; Index
W. D. Davies was Emeritus Ivey Professor of Advanced Studies and Research in Christian Origins at Duke University. He was Professor Emeritus at Union Theological Seminary, and Texas Christian University. He was the author of many books, including Paul and Rabbinic Judaism and Jewish and Pauline Studies. Dale C. Allison, Jr., is the Richard J. Dearborn Professor of New Testament at Princeton Theological Seminary, USA, and the author of many books, including Constructing Jesus: Memory, Imagination, and History and the International Critical Commentary on James.
Readers will generally gain a good understanding of the basic
issues of interpretation of the individual pericopes as they work
through each section. In this regard, Allison's Shorter
Commentary is a welcome edition, particularly for beginning
students and busy ministers who will not only benefit from
consulting it but can now afford to own a copy of their own.
As they read it, moreover, they can do so with the assurance that
its present humble form has as its basis a colussus of demonstrated
learning in its three-volume predecessor.
*James P Sweeney*
Review ~ International Review of Biblical Studies, Vol 51,
2004/05
'It has many fine observations...this is still a commentary worth
having.'' Epworth Review
*Neil Richardson*
'This is a welcome condensed edition of the classic three-volume
International Critical Commentary. Dale Allison has skillfully cut
down the longer work in a way that makes it accessible to readers
without Greek or the other technical skills that the ICC
presupposes.' Peter Oakes
*Journal for the Study of the New Testament*
As the title indicates, this work is a shorter version of
the three-volume International Critical Commentary (ICC) that has
taken its place in Matthean scholarship as perhaps the foremost
historical-critical commentary. The shorter version is done by
Allison, and its target audience is "readers who find the larger
commentary too involved or too difficult." In that light, this
work, Allison says, "comments not on the Greek text but on my own
English translation." There are no major revisions of the
three-volume work, and any subsequent publications of the shorter
version will follow revisions in the three-volume commentary, not
vice versa. Bibliographies in the shorter version cover basic works
only through approximately 2003 but are helpful nonetheless for the
novice. The shorter commentary is an excellent tool for students,
busy pastors and priests, and laypeople, and it is an excellent
entrée into the larger commentary if one wants to pursue a point in
more depth. One wishes for at least a subject index, but given the
reasonable price, this is a highly recommended book for its
intended audience. Fred W. Burnett Anderson University v
*Religious Studies Review*
'A very useful and reader-friendly commentary for students,
pastors, and teachers. [...] This shorter commentary is a
valuable addition to theological libraries.'
*Theological Book Review*
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