My last commentary themed post for awhile
It's official that this is my thang, and will be till i die. There is so much, and i wholeheartedly choose to spend the rest of my earthly existence with them primarily, and with other Christian resources, and only minimally with other kinds of reading material.
There are 2 kinds of commentaries
1. The inexpensive -- these can all be used online or gotten for cheap, i like to have everything i use on my kindle if possible, so i think there's around 30 i've collected so far.
2. The expensive -- these are for the most part those which represent recent scholarship, this is where my lifelong spending will be focused on. 2 of the highest ranked are the Word Biblical and the NICOT, the NIVAC is not too far behind them. Experts however recommend not collecting whole sets, but getting the best for each bible book. You're gonna be researching a lot with these resources, so might as well be researching in order to be getting them. Regardless of that, i will if i can get whole series on kindle, some aren't fully kindleized however, which makes me sad, and another thing is often old commentaries are replaced, meaning the old can be cheap physically.
These are the reasons i am doing this
1. I miss my mom, and she loved the bible, so part of this makes me feel closer to her, and if it's all true she knows the bible more now than all the scholars put together.
2. I want to have the kind of teaching material that Pastors and those in learning facilities devoted to these matters for myself, so that i can have a little of that knowledge that puffs up, so then i can exercise self correction and reporach whenever i use it wrongly.
3. It's a huge compliment to the bible to want to go as deep as you can into it. Now in a Christian POV the best thing would be to be applying it in your life and doing what you're supposed to like witnessing and all that. But i like and can't help being different. Plus my words i come up to describe myself is maybe insufficient in what is really going on.
Website resources can be a great guide in showing you where it would be best to go, i use the following so far.
In this Ligonier resource guide, you are guided by a Reformed POV to the best, which also include volumes by fellers with something good to say which may also conflict with Reformed theology.
https://www.ligonier.org/learn/collections/top-5-commentaries
This here is a rotten tomatos for bible commentaries, which will be a more general overview of what's out there
https://bestcommentaries.com/topcommentaries/
There are 2 kinds of commentaries
1. The inexpensive -- these can all be used online or gotten for cheap, i like to have everything i use on my kindle if possible, so i think there's around 30 i've collected so far.
2. The expensive -- these are for the most part those which represent recent scholarship, this is where my lifelong spending will be focused on. 2 of the highest ranked are the Word Biblical and the NICOT, the NIVAC is not too far behind them. Experts however recommend not collecting whole sets, but getting the best for each bible book. You're gonna be researching a lot with these resources, so might as well be researching in order to be getting them. Regardless of that, i will if i can get whole series on kindle, some aren't fully kindleized however, which makes me sad, and another thing is often old commentaries are replaced, meaning the old can be cheap physically.
These are the reasons i am doing this
1. I miss my mom, and she loved the bible, so part of this makes me feel closer to her, and if it's all true she knows the bible more now than all the scholars put together.
2. I want to have the kind of teaching material that Pastors and those in learning facilities devoted to these matters for myself, so that i can have a little of that knowledge that puffs up, so then i can exercise self correction and reporach whenever i use it wrongly.
3. It's a huge compliment to the bible to want to go as deep as you can into it. Now in a Christian POV the best thing would be to be applying it in your life and doing what you're supposed to like witnessing and all that. But i like and can't help being different. Plus my words i come up to describe myself is maybe insufficient in what is really going on.
Website resources can be a great guide in showing you where it would be best to go, i use the following so far.
In this Ligonier resource guide, you are guided by a Reformed POV to the best, which also include volumes by fellers with something good to say which may also conflict with Reformed theology.
https://www.ligonier.org/learn/collections/top-5-commentaries
This here is a rotten tomatos for bible commentaries, which will be a more general overview of what's out there
https://bestcommentaries.com/topcommentaries/
SW-User
