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Choosing commentaries for your library
By Hall Harris - Posted on February 2nd, 2008
On one of my earlier posts about using commentaries in Bible study, I was asked a question about what commentaries to use and how to pick them. It occurred to me that this is a topic I cover in my Introduction to Exegesis class and it would probably be of benefit to comment on it here. What I'm talking about is not which commentary to use on a particular Bible passage or book, but the more general notion of how do I choose commentaries for my personal library. Related themes are (1) How many commentaries do I need?
Tips on using commentaries to study the Bible
By Hall Harris - Posted on January 24th, 2008
In a previous post we talked about different kinds of commentaries and how they can help the Bible student understand a particular passage more effectively. This time I would like to give some specific tips on using whatever commentaries you have available, regardless of whether they are fairly technical or more popular.
Using commentaries in Bible study
By Hall Harris - Posted on January 22nd, 2008
Occasionally I'm asked by both seminary students and people at church about the use of commentaries in one's personal study of the Bible. First, let's define what a commentary is: Commentaries are books that contain comments (observations) on the biblical text. Usually the comments are arranged in verse order, that is, in the same order as the text of the Bible.
A Bible translation is only as good as the reference tools used to produce it
By Hall Harris - Posted on January 15th, 2008
Today I taught my first class of the spring semester, a class in Introduction to New Testament Exegesis (interpretation). I realized this was the 30th year I have taught this course at Dallas Seminary, so counting fall semester sections and summer school, I have probably taught this same course around 60 times.
For thirty years W. Hall Harris III has taught on the faculty of Dallas Theological Seminary in the New Testament Studies Department. Since 1995 he has served as Project Director and Managing Editor for the NET Bible at bible.org passionately steering this revolutionary Bible from inception to global impact. Dr. Harris has traveled extensively in Western Europe, especially in Germany and Italy. And as an ordained minister he has served over the years as pastor of single adults, elder, and adult Sunday school teacher.
