I got an email yesterday from someone wanting to get a commentary that covered the whole Bible, and they asked what I would recommend. Although I haven’t read either of these, I have many friends who have. So these two Bible Handbooks come highly recommended. I thought this would be a good place to share them.
1. The New Unger’s Bible Handbook (Make sure you get the newest edition.)
loud said:
The IVP New Bible Commentary is pretty freaking sweet.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0830814426/ref=nosim/intervarsityp-20
You can get the hardcover pretty cheap, and the scholarship is the best around. It’s also on a cd with a bunch of other good resources, in both Windows and Mac.
John Gill’s Exposition of the Whole Bible is pretty sweet. It’s at freegrace.net/gill.
Posted on July 25, 2007 at 11:30 am
John Plummer said:
Check out The Sword Project on the web. You can download an integrated reader. Then you select multiple translations of the Bible and various commentaries, etc. The best free bible resource tool I have seen.
Posted on July 26, 2007 at 7:22 pm
John Plummer said:
http://www.crosswire.org/sword/index.jsp
Posted on July 26, 2007 at 7:25 pm
Ben said:
Halley’s is one of my favs too.
Posted on July 26, 2007 at 10:15 pm
Armen said:
I wouldn’t consider either of those as ‘commentaries’ on the whole Bible Shawn. Matthew Henry is still the best, and most widely read complete Bible Commentary there is. Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown is also pretty good. Although I don’t have it, John Gill’s commentary on the whole Bible is supposed to be very reliable too.
Posted on July 26, 2007 at 10:58 pm
{Shawn} said:
@ Armen: You’re right. They’re not exactly commentaries. But Matthew Henry’s is not one book either.
Posted on July 27, 2007 at 12:15 am
Armen said:
You can get a concise version, which is in one book. Or you can actually get the complete in one book too, but you’d need a microscope to read it!
Failing that, quite a number of the older commentaries are freely available online.
Posted on July 28, 2007 at 1:07 am