THE FIRST LETTER TO THE CORINTHIANS
The Pillar New Testament Commentary
By Roy Ciampa and Brian Rosner. IVP. 922 pages. £44.99
ISBN 978 1 844 744 848
This large and excellent volume is a welcome addition to the Pillar series edited by Don Carson.
Before it was published I had started out on an expository series in 1 Corinthians using Thiselton’s detailed commentary in the New International Greek Testament series. This provided stimulating reading, especially concerning the cultural setting of first-century Corinth with its multi-national immigrant community striving to ‘get on’. However, Thiselton tends to be complicated and does not help the reader by his frequent and rather diverting excursus sections on topics related to the text.
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