BIBL 000: Bible Dictionaries/Encyclopedias and Commentaries

Remains useful for resources published up to 2014--especially due to its availability in ebook form.

Superior to the previous edition indicated above due especially to the more recent coverage. Unfortunately, this more recent edition is currently unavailable in ebook format.

Like its corollary, the Abingdon Old Testament Commentaries, this series offers straightforward and informed explanation of the final form of the text, with attention to the text's theology. Includes often significant, though brief, interaction with both primary and secondary sources. Typically interprets passages according to their literary structure, their role within the biblical book, and their unction within the canon, while attending also to matters of historical background that illumine the message of the text. No explicit attention to contemporary appropriation.