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Pastor’s Bookshelf: 2 Corinthians

posted by Scot McKnight | 2:00pm Thursday May 21, 2009

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Ah, Second Corinthians. One of the most formative classes I had in seminary was Murray Harris’ class on 2 Corinthians, and I’ve paid attention to the commentaries ever since.

I begin with C.K. Barrett because I learned so much from him in our class: The Second Epistle to Corinthians
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Then I go to my teacher’s, Murray Harris’, newest and full-length commentary: Second Epistle To The Corinthians (New International Greek Testament Commentary)
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Following Harris, I move along the shelf to Victor Furnish’s fine commentary in The Anchor Bible: II Corinthians
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Then to Ralph Martin’s Word commentary: 2 Corinthians: Revised (Word Biblical Commentary)
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Finally, I now finish off with Margaret Thrall’s ICC volume: 2 Corinthians
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danny

posted May 21, 2009 at 3:46 pm


I think Furnish’s (say that outloud 5 times fast) is often overlooked. Garland’s is one of the better NAC volumes.



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Ann

posted May 21, 2009 at 6:46 pm


Have you read Sze-Kar Wan’s, “Power in Weakness: the Second Letter of Paul to the Corinthians”?
http://www.bookreviews.org/pdf/1021_524.pdf



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Jim Martin

posted May 21, 2009 at 7:01 pm


Scot,
In addition to a few that you have already mentioned, I would add David Garland’s 2 Corinthians commentary (New American Commentary) and Ben Witherington’s CONFLICT AND COMMUNITY IN CORINTH.



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Eric

posted May 21, 2009 at 9:04 pm


Also, Frank Matera’s volume in the New Testament Library series, which is quite good.



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Jason

posted May 21, 2009 at 10:52 pm


I would echo danny and Jim and mention Garland’s volume in NAC.



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