NEW BIBLE COMMENTARY AVOIDS THEOLOGY, AND THAT'S THE PROBLEM
The Harper's Bible Commentary endeavors to provide in one volume a ``clear, convenient guide to reading and studying the Bible.'' In 1,344 pages, commentaries on the books of the Old Testament, New Testament and Apocrypha are presented by editor James L. Mays' group of 82 Jewish and Christian scholars of the Society of Biblical Literature. The book features 16 pages of full-color maps, 16 pages of color illustrations, as well as black and...
Bible Commentary: CATHOLIC COMMENTARY TO BE ECUMENICAL EFFORT
Catholics and Protestants can agree on what the Bible says. Now they're going to see whether they can agree on what it means.Encouraged by successes Catholic and Protestant scholars have had in Bible translations, an ecumenical team of scholars is attempting to come up with an international biblical commentary for the third millennium. What separates the planned International Catholic Bible Commentary from other efforts is that the book is not designed to be a popular scholarly...
Bible Commentary: Evolution and the Bible
* Re "It's Evolutionary, and It's in the Bible," Commentary, Sept. 5: I have reread Albert Wachtel's biblical quotes over and over and find no hint of any kind of evolution in his quotes, despite his taking some liberty with the words. The quote, "Let the Earth bring forth living creatures according to their species," created a conflict for biologists including Carolus Linnaeus, Chevalier de Lamarck, Alfred...
Bible Commentary: WOMEN'S BIBLES FLOOD MARKET
One hundred years after suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton came out with her version of the Bible, a host of new Bible commentaries for women is on its way into the marketplace.They range from a "The Woman's Study Bible" edited by Dorothy Patterson, adjunct lecturer at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, N.C., to "The Women's Bible Commentary," published in paperback this spring and representing...
Bible Commentary: In brief,
Two contribute to reference project
Two local scholars are among 97 others whose writings will appear in The New Interpreter's Bible Commentary, a 12-volume biblical reference project expected to be completed in the year 2000. The Rev. Daniel Simundson, a professor at Luther Seminary, wrote an analytical commentary on the book of Micah. Gale Yee, an associate professor at the University of St. Thomas, provided a commentary on the book of Hosea. The faithful 500 You could call them the faithful 500 -...