Matthew - (International Critical Commentary) by Dale C Allison (Paperback)

About the Book

This work is an abbreviated version of the monumental, three-volume 'Matthew, A Critical and Exegetical Commentary' in the International Critical Commentary series (ICC). Davies and Allison's magisterial work is considered to be the standard work on Matthew and is still a best-selling title. Retaining all the important features of the ICC volumes, this Shorter Commentary includes the new translation of the Gospel as well as a condensed introduction and a summary of the main exegetical points in a non-technical verse-by-verse commentary. For those who lack the linguistic and historical grounding, or the time, to deal with the ICC volume, this shorter volume is an accessible, affordable and practical alternative.

Book Synopsis

This work is an abbreviated version of the monumental, three-volume 'Matthew, A Critical and Exegetical Commentary' in the International Critical Commentary series (ICC). Davies and Allison's magisterial work is considered to be the standard work on Matthew and is still a best-selling title. Retaining all the important features of the ICC volumes, this Shorter Commentary includes the new translation of the Gospel as well as a condensed introduction and a summary of the main exegetical points in a non-technical verse-by-verse commentary. For those who lack the linguistic and historical grounding, or the time, to deal with the ICC volume, this shorter volume is an accessible, affordable and practical alternative.

Review Quotes

'A very useful and reader-friendly commentary for students, pastors, and teachers. [...] This shorter commentary is a valuable addition to theological libraries.'--Sanford Lakoff "Theological Book Review "

'It has many fine observations...this is still a commentary worth having.'' Epworth Review--Sanford Lakoff

Readers will generally gain a good understanding of the basic issues of interpretation of the individual pericopes as they work through each section. In this regard, Allison's Shorter Commentary is a welcome edition, particularly for beginning students and busy ministers who will not only benefit from consulting it but can now afford to own a copy of their own. As they read it, moreover, they can do so with the assurance that its present humble form has as its basis a colussus of demonstrated learning in its three-volume predecessor.--Sanford Lakoff

Review International Review of Biblical Studies, Vol 51, 2004/05

About the Author

Dale C. Allison Jr. is Errett M. Grable Professor of New Testament Exegesis and Early Christianity, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, and is the author of The Intertextual Jesus and, with the late W.D. Davies, the ICC volumes on Matthew. W. D. Davies was Emeritus Ivey Professor of Advanced Studies and Research in Christian Origins at Duke University. He was Professor Emeritus at Union Theological Seminary, and Texas Christian University. He was the author of many books, including Paul and Rabbinic Judaism and Jewish and Pauline Studies.