What Bible Commentaries Do You Recommend?

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Scotth1960

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Dear NiceneChristian, Cleante, Zossima, and other Eastern Orthodox Christians:
What Bible commentaries do you recommend. Cleante, I believe you already recommended the Anchor Bible Series of commentaries, the Anchor Bible. That is mostly by non-Orthodox Scholars. But of course, maybe some or much of what they write will be helpful and agreeable to Eastern Orthodox theology.
The following book is a book I learned of way back in the 1970s and 1980s, and is by an Episcopal priest. It may or may not agree with Eastern Orthodox theology. It seems however to be a useful, non-denominational, nonsectarian reading of some of the NT.
Please see: Based upon the RSV (Revised Standard Version) Bible. Ward, Ronald A. (1974). Commentary on 1&2 Timothy & Titus. Waco, Texas: Word Books, Publisher.
ISBN# 0-87680-355-9
Tenth printing: November, 1982.
God save us in Christ Jesus our Saviour: AMEN. In Erie PA USA October 2011 AD Scott R. Harrington

 
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Personally, I would recommend either John Wesley or maybe Adam Clarke
 

Grandpa

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Institutes of the Christian Religion is a good one.
 
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knowing scotth1960 and his views on reformed theology, he will be staying away from John Calvin's commentary
 
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nomerhunks

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My favorite Bible Commentary is the Jerome Biblical Commentary.This commentary has existed in more than one edition. It was written by a group of bible scholars, so that their reflections on the various parts of the bible come from studying the original language in which the parts were written. So, it is a scholarly commentary.
 
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Scotth1960

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knowing scotth1960 and his views on reformed theology, he will be staying away from John Calvin's commentary
When's the last time every Christian trusted a murderer to comment on God's sovereignty and predestination? Isn't Calvin perhaps okay in some matters, but he goes afield from sound doctrine and good example by having Servetus burned to death at the stake. We don't do such things in America, do we?
Not since Salem, Massachusetts, no, and the Puritans were Calvinists, by the way.
 
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Scotth1960

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My favorite Bible Commentary is the Jerome Biblical Commentary.This commentary has existed in more than one edition. It was written by a group of bible scholars, so that their reflections on the various parts of the bible come from studying the original language in which the parts were written. So, it is a scholarly commentary.
I would say my favorite commentary is more an explanation of John 15:26 by a theologian.
See:

Saint Photios. (1987). The Mystagogy of the Holy Spirit. Joseph P. Farrell, translator. Brookline, MA: Holy Cross Orthodox Press.

Saint Photios. (1983). On the Mystagogy of the Holy Spirit. Holy Transfiguration Monastery, translators. Boston, MA: Studion Publishers.

God save us. In Erie Scott R. Harrington