Author: Daniel B. Wallace

A Curator’s Guide — An Exploration into Luke and Acts (Part 1)

On By Daniel B. WallaceIn Contemporary Issues3 Comments

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This week, I’ll include the first half of a two-part installment of the books Luke and Acts. Each book will bring insight into the world of Luke, detailing Jesus’ life and ministry, as well as the birth of the first century church. Enjoy!

 

A. Works on Luke-Acts

Blomberg, Craig L. “The Law in Luke-Acts,” Journal for the Study of the New Testament 22 (1984) 53-80. Biblical theological study by a leading NT scholar.

Bovon, Francois. Luke the Theologian: Thirty-Three Years of Research. Trans. Ken McKinney. PTMS 12. Allison Park, PA: Pickwick, 1987.

Cadbury, Henry J. The Making of Luke-Acts. 2d ed. London: SPCK, 1968. Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson, 1999.

Dollar, Harold E. A Biblical-Missiological Exploration of the Cross-Cultural Dimensions in Luke-Acts. San Francisco: Mellen Research University Press; Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 1993.

Garrett, Susan R. The Demise of the Devil: Magic and the Demonic in Luke’s Writings. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1989.

Green, Joel B., and Michael C. McKeever. Luke-Acts and New Testament Historiography. IBR Bibliographies 8. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1994.

Neyrey, Jerome H., ed. The Social World of Luke-Acts: Models for Interpretation. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 1991.

Sheeley, Steven M. Narrative Asides in Luke-Acts. JSOTSup 72. Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1992.

Shepherd, William H. The Narrative Function of the Holy Spirit as a Character in Luke-Acts. SBL Diss. 147. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1994.

Sterling, G. L. Historiography and Self-Definition: Josephus, Luke-Acts, and Apologetic Historiography. NovTSup 64. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1992.

Weatherly, Jon A. Jewish Responsibility for the Death of Jesus in Luke-Acts. JSNTSup 016. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1994.

B. General Works on Luke

1. Commentaries on Luke

Bock, Darrell L. Luke. IVP New Testament Commentary. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1994.

Bock, Darrell L. The NIV Application Commentary: Luke. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1996. Evangelical commentary including both exegesis and application sections for each passage.

Evans, Craig A. Luke. NIBC 3. Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson, 1990.

Fitzmyer, Joseph A. The Gospel according to Luke. 2 Vols. AB 28. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1981, 1985.

Gooding, David W. According to Luke: A New Exposition of the Third Gospel. Leicester, England: Inter-Varsity Press; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1987.

Johnson, Luke Timothy. The Gospel of Luke. Sacra Pagina 3. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 1991.

Marshall, I. Howard. The Gospel of Luke: A Commentary on the Greek Text. New International Greek Testament Commentary. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1978.

Marshall, I. Howard. Luke: Historian and Theologian. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1971.

Nolland, John. Luke. 3 Vols. WBC 35. Dallas: Word, 1989, 1993, 1993.

Stein, Robert H. Luke. New American Commentary 24. Nashville: Broadman Press, 1992.

2. Online General Resources on Luke

Carrier, Richard. “Luke and Josephus.” 2000. Online: http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/richard_carrier/lukeandjosephus.html.

Tabor, James D. “Color-Coded Luke.” In The Jewish Roman World of Jesus: Christian Origins and the New Testament. http://www.religiousstudies.uncc.edu/jdtabor/luke.html.

3. Studies in Luke

Goulder, Michael D. Luke: A New Paradigm. 2 Vols. JSNTSup 20. Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1989.

Powell, Mark Allan. What Are They Saying about Luke? New York: Paulist Press, 1990.

Turner, M. M. B. “Jesus and the Spirit in Lucan Perspective,” Tyndale Bulletin 32 (1981):3-42. Argues that Jesus’ relationship with the Spirit in Luke is unique and supports his deity.

Turner, M. M. B. “The Spirit and the Power of Jesus’ Miracles in the Lucan Conception,” Novum Testamentum 33 (1991):124-52.

Turner, M. M. B. “The Spirit of Christ and Christology.” In Christ the Lord: Studies in Christology Presented to Donald Guthrie, ed. H. H. Rowdon, 168-90. Leicester, England: Inter-Varsity Press, 1982.

White, R. E. O. Luke’s Case for Christianity. Harrisburg, PA: Morehouse, 1990, c. 1987.

4. Luke and the Old Testament

Blomberg, Craig L. “Midrash, Chiasmus, and the Outline of Luke’s Central Section,” in Gospel Perspectives III: Studies in Midrash and Historiography, ed. R. T. France and David Wenham (Sheffield, England: JSOT Press, 1983), 217-59.

Brodie, T. L. Luke the Literary Interpreter: Luke-Acts as a Systematic Rewriting and Updating of the Elijah and Elisha Narrative in 1 and 2 Kings. Ph.D. diss. Rome: Pontifical University of St. Thomas, 1987.

Evans, Craig A., and J. A. Sanders. Luke and Scripture: The Function of Sacred Tradition in Luke-Acts. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1993.

Grogan, G. W. “The Light and the Stone: A Christological Study in Luke and Isaiah.” In Christ the Lord: Studies in Christology Presented to Donald Guthrie, ed. H. H. Rowdon, 151-67. Leicester, England: Inter-Varsity Press, 1982.

Kimball, Charles A. Jesus’ Exposition of the Old Testament in Luke’s Gospel. JSNTSup 94. Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1994.

Larkin, William J. “Luke’s Use of the Old Testament as a Key to His Soteriology.” JETS 20 (1977) 325-35.

Larkin, William J. “The Old Testament Background of Luke 22:43-44.” New Testament Studies 25 (1978-79) 250-54.

Marshall, I. Howard. “Luke and His ‘Gospel.’” in Das Evangelium und die Evangelien, ed. P. Stuhlmacher, WUNT 28 (Tubingen: Mohr, 1983), 289-308. An important article on the purpose of Luke’s writings.

Strauss, Mark L. The Davidic Messiah in Luke-Acts: The Promise and Its Fulfillment in Lukan Christology. JSNTSup 110. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1995.

C. Women in Luke

D’Angelo, M. R. “Women in Luke-Acts: A Redactional View.” JBL 109 (1990) 441-61.

Flanagan, N. M. “The Position of Women in the Writings of St. Luke.” Marianum 40 (1978) 288-304.

Karris, R. J. “Women and Discipleship in Luke.” CBQ 56 (1994) 1-20.

Kopas, J. “Jesus and Women: Luke’s Gospel.” Theology Today 43 (1986) 192-202.

Maly, E. H. “Women and the Gospel of Luke.” Bible Today 10 (1980) 99-104.

Reid, B. E. “Luke: The Gospel for Women?” Currents in Theology and Mission 21 (1994) 405-14.

Seim, T. K. The Double Message: Patterns of Gender in Luke-Acts. SNTW. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1994.

Via, E. J. “Women in the Gospel of Luke.” In Women in the World’s Religions: Past and Present, ed. U. King, 38-55. New York: Paragon, 1987.

A Curator’s Guide — An Exploration into Matthew and Mark

On By Daniel B. WallaceIn Contemporary Issues, Exegesis, New Testament Studies7 Comments

img_9080Across the next few weeks, I will be publishing a series of blog posts celebrating the work of Robert M. Bowman, Jr. in creating helpful bibliographies on books of the Bible. Bowman is a very careful and well-researched theologian, exegete, and author, having published many articles and books on religion, theology, and apologetics. In particular, I’d like to highlight a book he co-authored with Ed Komoszewski, Putting Jesus in His Place, which is the most accessible introduction to the deity of Christ published in the last several decades. Each week I will upload new posts with the bibliographies of certain New Testament books compiled by Bowman. This first post will feature the bibliographies for Matthew and Mark, and subsequent posts will provide bibliographies for books up through Revelation. Rob has done his homework and I am grateful for the opportunity to post this bibliography of resource tools for studying the New Testament

Matthew:

Davies, William D., and Dale C. Allison. A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Gospel according to Matthew. Volume I: Matthew 1-7. Volume II: Matthew 8-18. Volume III: Matthew 19-28. ICC. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1988, 1991, 1996. The best non-evangelical, critical commentary. Both Davies and Allison are renowned scholars on Matthew.

Evans, Craig A. Matthew. New Cambridge Bible Commentary. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Best recent commentary, strong on the historical and cultural contexts.

France, R. T. The Gospel of Matthew. NICNT. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2007. Best exegetical and theological commentary, a stand-out especially in its handling of the Olivet Discourse.

Keener, Craig. A Commentary on the Gospel of Matthew. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1999. Most thorough treatment of Matthew’s cultural context, with numerous citations to background literature from both Jewish and Greco-Roman sources.

Quarles, Charles L. Sermon on the Mount: Restoring Christ’s Message to the Modern Church. NAC Studies in Bible & Theology. E. Ray Clendenen, series ed. Nashville: B&H, 2011. Best commentary on the Sermon on the Mount.

Mark:

Bock, Darrell L. Mark. New Cambridge Bible Commentary. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Current, meaty commentary by a leading evangelical scholar on the Gospels, featuring a helpful overview of Markan scholarship and an especially lengthy bibliography of secondary literature on Mark.

Collins, Adela Yarbro. Mark: A Commentary, ed. Harold W. Attridge. Hermeneia. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2007. The standard liberal commentary, bringing a wealth of background information to bear but depreciating the historical nature of the Gospel narrative.

France, R. T. The Gospel of Mark. NIGTC. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2002. Conservative commentary striking an excellent balance of exegetical and theological engagement with the text.

Marcus, Joel. Mark 1-8 and Mark 8-16. AB 27, 27A. New York: Doubleday—Anchor Bible, 2000, 2009. Arguably the best mainline, non-conservative commentary on Mark.

Stein, Robert H. Mark. BECNT. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2008. Detailed evangelical commentary fully engaging textual and literary-critical issues.

NIV Application Commentaries on Sale Now

On By Daniel B. WallaceIn Bible Translation, Contemporary Issues, Early Christianity, Exegesis, New Testament Studies, Uncategorized6 Comments

For a short time only, every NIV Application Commentary eBook is on sale for $4.99 apiece. Some may wonder whether a commentary with the name ‘application’ in it is really worth it. After all, aren’t commentaries supposed to deal with interpretation?

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Commentaries can be grouped broadly into two categories: critical and popular. The critical (or exegetical) ones focus on the original language text and give detailed interpretation, drawing out the meaning of the text for seminary students, pastors, and others with training in Greek and Hebrew. Popular commentaries tend to be on the lighter side of interpretation but are usually strong on drawing out principles for living out the Christian faith for the layperson.

Too often popular commentaries are written by pastors who do not have the training, time, or tools to investigate the biblical text in depth. And critical commentaries hardly relate to the person in the pew. What is unusual about the NIV Application commentary series is that the same scholars who wrote exegetical works now bring such insights to all Christ-followers.

Take Doug Moo’s commentary on Romans for example. He has written a massive work on this great epistle (over 1000 pages!), definitely not something for the faint of heart. But he’s also written the NIV Application Commentary on Romans. One can be confident that this superb scholar’s insights are also to be found in the more accessible commentary in the Zondervan series. Further, Moo frequently packages things in a way that is memorable, pithy, even at times inspiring. And the reader can be sure that the commentator has done his homework.

The commentaries by the other scholars in this series are of the same ilk. It’s a great opportunity to get any one of these excellent tools as an eBook. The sale is from November through November 13. See the details here.

Finally, an Awesome Backgrounds Bible!

On By Daniel B. WallaceIn Bible Translation, Contemporary Issues, Early Christianity, New Testament Studies, Uncategorized10 Comments

One of the great publishing delights of 2016 is the NIV Cultural Backgrounds Study Bible. Zondervan, of course, is the publishing house. The NIV 2011 is the translation employed, one that is faithful to the meaning of the Greek and Hebrew and communicates clearly to English-speakers of the 21st century. This is truly a landmark publication; the subtitle says it all: Bringing to Life the Ancient World of Scripture. The dense, nearly 2400-page Bible is packed with notes, graphs, photographs, sidebars, tables, charts, maps, and cross-references. It would be difficult to find two more qualified general editors than John Walton and Craig Keener. These two scholars live this stuff. They are giants in the field. Kudos to Zondervan for signing them on for this project. Their names alone are a solid recommendation of this Bible.

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Virtually every page brings fresh illumination to the text of Holy Writ. The NIV Cultural Backgrounds Study Bible makes accessible the best of evangelical biblical scholarship.

This should make a terrific Christmas present for just about anyone on your list. You can order your copies here: http://media.harpercollinschristian.com/page/cultural-backgrounds-study-bible.