Joel B. Green is associate dean for the Center for Advanced Theological Studies and professor of New Testament interpretation at Fuller Theological Seminary. He is the author or editor of more than forty-five books, including Hearing the New Testament; coauthor of Introducing the New Testament; and editor of the New International Commentary on the New Testament series.
Christianity Today, Number 11 on the Top 25 Books of the Year list
(1998) Biblica
"This is a refreshing attempt to produce a new type of commentary,
one that is synchronic rather than diachronic. It is well
researched, carefully crafted, and eminently readable. It would
function as a complement, a sometimes a corrective, to the
traditional redaction critical commentary." Church Times (U.K.)
"This is a commentary that maintains a constant freshness and sense
of direction as issue succeeds to issue. It is one to use and to
read, especially if you are interested to see how the Gospel of
Luke fares in the light of the two fruitful questions: How does the
narrative go? And how does it go as a Jewish-influenced Christian
work of late first-century Graeco-Roman society, with its own ways
of looking at the world, many of them fascinatingly different from
our own, though intelligible, not least if we attend to books like
this." Expository Times
"This is among the best volumes in an impressive conservative
commentary series on the Greek text and RSV translation. . . The
author constantly throws new light on the text by being unusually
sensitive to Old Testament echoes and to the evangelist's narrative
strategies." Internationale Zeitschriftenschau f�r
Bibelwissenschaft und Grenzgebiete (IZBG)
"Green has given a great gift to NT scholarship. His book is a
full-scale critical commentary characterized by substantial
interaction with international scholarship. . . Green has written
the state-of-the-art book on the Third Gospel." Journal of
Theological Studies
"This is a significant contribution to the study of Luke. The
general concentration in more recent years on the theological
message of Luke and the coherence of his two-volume work is to be
welcomed, and it is important that full account should be taken of
social attitudes and relationships in the ancient world in trying
to assess the impact Luke intended the gospel to have. This
commentary contains a wealth of material which subsequent students
of the gospel will have to address and insights at many points for
which they will be grateful." Reviews in Religion & Theology
(U.K.)
"This is an approach for which the Lukan scholar ought to be truly
grateful, a timely contribution to studies of Luke-Acts that
expounds the text in detail for what it claims to be, a narrative,
and not an archeological tel." Stone-Campbell Journal
"An outstanding contribution to Lukan scholarship. The methodology
is a refreshing alternative to several more familiar approaches. .
. This book will be warmly received by scholars. . . This is a fine
reference tool that will well serve the preacher or teacher in the
pursuit of literary connections and theological meaning." The Bible
Today
"This major new commentary on the Gospel of Luke is exceptionally
fine. . . A thorough and finely balanced study of the context and
message of Luke's Gospel."
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