Daniel–Malachi

Expositor's Bible Commentary #8

by Zondervan, Andrew E. Hill (Contributor), M. Daniel Carroll (Contributor)

Continuing a Gold Medallion Award-winning legacy, this completely revised edition of The Expositor's Bible Commentary series puts world-class biblical scholarship in your hands. Based on the original twelve-volume set that has become a staple in college and seminary libraries and pastors' studies worldwide, this new thirteen-volume edition marshals the most current evangelical scholarship and resources.
The thoroughly revised features consist of:
* Comprehensive introductions
* Short and precise bibliographies
* Detailed outlines
* Insightful expositions of passages and verses
* Overviews of sections of Scripture to illuminate the big picture
* Occasional reflections to give more detail on important issues
* Notes on textual questions and special problems, placed close to the texts in question
* Transliterations and translations of Hebrew and Greek words, enabling readers to understand even the more technical notes
* A balanced and respectful approach toward marked differences of opinion

Genres: Old Testament

865 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 28, 2008

About the author

Zondervan is an international Christian media and publishing company. Zondervan is a founding member of the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association (ECPA). They are a part of HarperCollins Christian Publishing, Inc. and has multiple imprints including Zondervan Academic, Zonderkidz, Blink, and Editorial Vida. Zondervan is the commercial rights holder for the New International Version (NIV) Bible in North America.

Reviews

[Jimmy Reagan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Mark me down as someone who has loved and used the earlier EBC set for years. This new set, edited by Tremper Longman and David Garland, has been one I’ve wanted to check out and this volume 8 is my first foray into the set. One thing is clear: the revision is a success. Not only is much brought up to date and improved, but the way the original series was envisioned remained. In other words, real depth with a corresponding succinctness for busy pastors.

In Daniel, Andrew Hill replaced the late Gleason Archer. There’s a much more scholarly feel and less direct eschatology. Gone is Archer’s clear premillennial position that is replaced by Hill’s survey of opinions. Still, Hill provides what I’d call an astute presentation that can run with the big dogs of exegetical commentaries. A similar thing happened in Carroll R.’s replacement of Leon Wood for Hosea.

Richard Patterson took his fine work on Joel and made it better. In Amos and Micah editor Tremper Longman took the late Thomas McComiskey’s work and updated to the extent that he is now listed as the co-author. The effort is a good one. Carl Amerding updated his work on Obadiah, Nahum, and Habakkuk to good effect. John Walton turned in a more scholarly effort on Jonah than did H. L. Ellison, though I wish he could see his way clear to see it as “journalistic history”. He still came to pretty conservative positions.

In Zephaniah, Larry Walker updated his earlier work and I really loved it. Haggai and Malachi were greatly improved by Eugene Merrill, a scholar I always enjoy. Kenneth Barker updated his work on Zechariah and kept a dispensational outlook. It was yet another success for the project.

This book has a lot going for it. A quality help on Daniel and all the Minor Prophets between two covers means that for an economical price you can build your library more quickly. This is a winner all the way!

I received this book free from the publisher. I was not required to write a positive review. The opinions I have expressed are my own. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s 16 CFR, Part 255.

[Dan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Many times a commentary set is uneven.  Some volumes are going to be better than others.  This is usually because some authors are better at writing on certain books of the Bible than others or in a certain style.  While the same can be said of Daniel-Malachi, some of the entries in the volume are stronger than others, there are a few entries which make the whole thing a worth while purchase.

One of these entries is the entry on Amos and Micah.  Anytime Tremper Longman puts pen to paper it is worth reading, and in this case it is worthy of your purpose.  While he is only updating Thomas McComiskey's work, the update is truly superior to the previous version and is a great help to the expositor of scripture.

While I do not subscribe to the premillennial views of Andrew Hill, his commentary on Daniel was a great conservative scholarly effort which will make this entry the real reason for purchase of this commentary.  Further more his comments on the narrative portions where extremely helpful.

One negative of this volume in this series is the massive amounts of books covered in such limited space.  I was always asking for more.  There were great ideas, great application, superior exegesis, yet there could have been more.

The full list of the authors are listed below:

Daniel: Andrew E. Hill
Hosea: M. Daniel Carroll R. (Rodas)
Joel: Richard D. Patterson
Amos: Thomas E. McComiskey/Tremper Longman
Obadiah: Carl E. Armerding
Jonah: John Walton
Micah: Thomas E. McComiskey/Tremper Longman
Nahum: Carl E. Armerding
Habakkuk: Carl E. Armerding
Zephaniah: Larry L. Walker
Haggai: Eugene H. Merrill
Zechariah: Kenneth L. Barker
Malachi: Eugene H. Merrill

This book was provided to me free of charge from Zondervan Academic Publishing in exchange for an unbiased, honest review.