{"id":2908,"date":"2010-12-15T16:18:10","date_gmt":"2010-12-16T00:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=2908"},"modified":"2010-12-15T16:18:10","modified_gmt":"2010-12-16T00:18:10","slug":"commentary-review-blomberg-kamell-on-james","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2010\/12\/15\/commentary-review-blomberg-kamell-on-james","title":{"rendered":"Commentary Review: Blomberg &amp; Kamell on James"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zondervan.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00e54fc7cbdb88340147e0bb98ff970b-120wi\" class=\"right\">I recent\u00adly received <a href=\"http:\/\/www.koinoniablog.net\/2010\/12\/zecnt-blog-tour.html\">a review copy of the Zon\u00adder\u00advan Exeget\u00adi\u00adcal Com\u00admen\u00adtary on James<\/a> by Craig Blomberg and Mari\u00adam Kamell.<\/p>\n<p>I was par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar\u00adly excit\u00aded to receive this book for two rea\u00adsons:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I like Craig Blomberg. He\u2019s a care\u00adful schol\u00adar.<\/li>\n<li>I don\u2019t have any com\u00admen\u00adtaries on James beyond <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soniclight.com\/constable\/notes\/pdf\/james.pdf\">Thomas Con\u00adsta\u00adble\u2019s free com\u00admen\u00adtary<\/a>. Side note: Con\u00adsta\u00adble <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soniclight.com\/constable\/notes.htm\">offers a wealth of knowl\u00adedge on most books of the Bible<\/a>. If you\u2019re a Bible study leader or a new min\u00adis\u00adter on a bud\u00adget, you should down\u00adload his notes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So here\u2019s my take on the com\u00admen\u00adtary:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>It\u2019s nice and short. This is a plus, not a minus. Too many com\u00admen\u00adtaries today run to the thou\u00adsands of pages. This vol\u00adume is long enough to help\u00adful\u00adly explain puz\u00adzling aspects of the text with\u00adout being so mas\u00adsive that the cen\u00adtral mes\u00adsage gets lost.<\/li>\n<li>It pays atten\u00adtion to usabil\u00adi\u00adty. For exam\u00adple: the com\u00admen\u00adtary on each verse is pre\u00adced\u00aded by a bold\u00aded Eng\u00adlish trans\u00adla\u00adtion of the verse fol\u00adlowed by the Greek text. Con\u00adtrast this with most com\u00admen\u00adtaries that seem to assume you\u2019ve got three or four books open on your desk (or win\u00addows on your mon\u00adi\u00adtor) at once (<a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=Kc9hCvm574QC&amp;lpg=PA13&amp;dq=ZECNT%20James&amp;pg=PA48#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\">view the expla\u00adna\u00adtion of James 1:2<\/a> to see what I mean).<\/li>\n<li>It keeps you ori\u00adent\u00aded. Every sec\u00adtion begins with an out\u00adline of the sur\u00adround\u00ading text and an extra\u00ador\u00addi\u00adnar\u00adi\u00adly clear gram\u00admat\u00adi\u00adcal out\u00adline that makes the author\u2019s argu\u00adment clear. You can see <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=Kc9hCvm574QC&amp;lpg=PA13&amp;dq=ZECNT%20James&amp;pg=PA127#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\">a sam\u00adple page at Google Books<\/a> (click that link \u2014 seri\u00adous\u00adly).<\/li>\n<li>The com\u00admen\u00adtary ends with a very help\u00adful sum\u00adma\u00adry of the over\u00adall the\u00adol\u00ado\u00adgy of the book of James \u2014 some\u00adthing I wish more com\u00admen\u00adtaries did. The dis\u00adci\u00adpline of Bib\u00adli\u00adcal the\u00adol\u00ado\u00adgy would be much rich\u00ader if that were the case.<\/li>\n<li>It uses foot\u00adnotes. <a href=\"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/02\/04\/footnotes-are-infinitely-superior-to-endnotes\">Yay!<\/a><\/li>\n<li>I dug into some of the more puz\u00adzling vers\u00ades in James and thought that Blomberg &amp; Kamell explained them with clar\u00adi\u00adty and wis\u00addom. Dis\u00adclaimer: I have not read this com\u00admen\u00adtary all the way through.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Over\u00adall, I rec\u00adom\u00admend this com\u00admen\u00adtary if you need to preach or teach on James any\u00adtime soon and urge you to look care\u00adful\u00adly at the oth\u00ader vol\u00adumes in the series <a href=\"http:\/\/bestcommentaries.com\/series\/zondervan-exegetical-commentary-zec\/\">as reviews on them become avail\u00adable<\/a> (the linked web\u00adsite \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/bestcommentaries.com\/\">bestcommentaries.com<\/a> \u2014  is, in my opin\u00adion, the best place to begin search\u00ading for a com\u00admen\u00adtary).<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for the free\u00adbie, Zon\u00adder\u00advan! I would have told the truth if your com\u00admen\u00adtary was lack\u00adlus\u00adter, but I am delight\u00aded to report that this is a sol\u00adid expo\u00adsi\u00adtion of the book of James.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recent\u00adly received a review copy of the Zon\u00adder\u00advan Exeget\u00adi\u00adcal Com\u00admen\u00adtary on James by Craig Blomberg and Mari\u00adam Kamell. I was par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar\u00adly excit\u00aded to receive this book for two rea\u00adsons: I like Craig Blomberg. He\u2019s a care\u00adful schol\u00adar. I don\u2019t have any com\u00admen\u00adtaries on James beyond Thomas Con\u00adsta\u00adble\u2019s free com\u00admen\u00adtary. Side note: Con\u00adsta\u00adble offers a \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2010\/12\/15\/commentary-review-blomberg-kamell-on-james\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cCom\u00admen\u00adtary Review: Blomberg &amp; Kamell on James\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources-reviews"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-KU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2908"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2921,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2908\/revisions\/2921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}