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THE NEW AMERICAN COMMENTARY is for the minister or Bible student who wants to understand and expound the Scriptures. Notable features include:* commentary based on THE NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION;* the NIV text printed in the body of the commentary;* sound scholarly methodology that reflects capable research in the original languages;* interpretation that emphasizes the theological unity of each book and of Scripture as a whole;* readable and applicable exposition.
- Sales Rank: #498493 in Books
- Brand: B & H Publishing Group
- Published on: 1999-11-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.31" h x 1.39" w x 6.38" l, 2.00 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 352 pages
About the Author
David E. Garland (PhD, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) is associate dean for academic affairs and William M. Hinson Professor of Christian Scriptures at George W. Truett Theological Seminary, Baylor University. He is the author of numerous books, including award-winning commentaries on 1 Corinthians and Mark.
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24 of 24 people found the following review helpful.
Great commentary
By J. M. White
D.A. Carson recommends Garland's commentary on 2 Corinthians as second only to C.K. Barrett's work. Garland's work is comprehensive, readable, and conservative. He's not afraid to critique other scholars -- including Barrett -- and he is very persuasive. As with the rest of the NAC series, the Greek is mostly limited to footnotes, making this commentary a valuable resource for both pastors and lay teachers. Highly recommended.
17 of 20 people found the following review helpful.
A Great Series
By Roy J. Meek
This Series has been consistenly good. I usually do not recommend that a person buy a commentary set. Most sets have good volumes and not so good volumes. This series I would recommend. It is scholarly enoungh for a seminary student, yet readble enough for a layman or a pastor lacking a degree. This commentary offers a wealth of exegetical information. This is not a "preaching" and there fore offers no illustration or outlines. It just has good, sound and complete exposition.
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful.
Good all 'round with extra attention to theological concerns
By D Glover
Few commentaries successfully combine solid scholarship and depth of discussion with accessible and engaging writing but this volume on 2 Corinthians by David E. Garland takes a prominent place among them. While clearly on the technical side of the spectrum (537 pages of text), Garland's commentary may be read front to back.
The NAC series is based on the NIV translation, but Garland lets the reader know when and why he disagrees with the NIV's rendering of a particular passage. Interaction with the Greek text is split between the body of the commentary, where Greek words are always transliterated, and the footnotes, where they are not, making for a best-of-both-worlds approach and leaving the body of the text accessible to laymen. Though discussion of introductory matters such as historical-political context, Paul's mission, chronology of events, occasion, purpose, unity of the letter, etc., is brief (a mere twenty five pages), it is sufficient to give readers a solid orientation before beginning the commentary proper.
This volume is grounded in careful exegesis, frequently working through various interpretive options and consulting the broader Pauline corpus, before arguing for the author's understanding of the text. The author converses with ancient non-canonical texts, yet uses them without giving in to the temptation of many commentators to view Paul as beholden to the literary styles and rhetorical forms of his day. Never ignoring literary and rhetorical concerns, such as Paul's use of inclusio and chiasmus, Garland nevertheless focuses more on the theological or pastoral point Paul is making than how Paul makes it. Garland gleans from past and contemporary secondary literature in a way that adds value to the discussion of 2 Corinthians rather than distracting from it and at no point, even during excursus on famously thorny passages, does the reader lose their place in the flow of discussion of the letter itself.
In the introduction, Garland argues convincingly for the unity of 2 Corinthians rather than seeing it as a compendium of various writings, such as portions of the lost "sorrowful letter" (p. 38-44). These discussions are fleshed out in the body of the commentary as context warrants. Garland identifies 2 Corinthians 1:12-14 as the thematic statement of the letter (p. 42).
Garland's sensitivity to Paul's tact and his awareness of the pastoral implications of this most pastoral of Paul's letters shows in his frequent distillation of principles and crisp summary statements of the apostle's argument. Garland's applications never feel forced, preferring to keep them general, and thus they are seldom tied to current cultural phenomena in such a way as to render them unintelligible to readers in different historical or cultural settings. A good example of this pastoral awareness comes in the discussion of 2:4:
"Discipline is never painless - for the one who delivers it or the one who receives it. Calvin points out that godly pastors weep within themselves before making others weep. Paul is neither ironhearted nor ironhanded. His love for them motivated his actions entirely. If they were grieved, he leaves no doubt that he was grieved more" (p. 115).
There are some places where Garland's interpretation seems strained, most prominently his take on the nature of the challenge to Paul's apostleship. Garland doesn't think that Paul's apostolic authority was being questioned by the Corinthians, only his adequacy (p. 48-49); not his mandate, only his methods.
"The epistle is about Paul's ministry, which the Corinthians fail to understand (not about the legitimacy of his apostleship, which is not in question). They understand him only in part (1:14) because they still evaluate things from the perspective of the flesh" (p. 32).
`Amen' to everything here, except what is between the parentheses. This stance resurfaces throughout the commentary and, to this reader at least, becomes somewhat tedious. Garland recognizes that some of the Corinthians, under the influence of the "super apostles", have become "disgruntled with Paul" and have "belittled his apostolic gifts (10:10)...distrusted his motives (11:7-11)...accused him of unreliability, duplicity, and cowardice..." and "even began to call into question his gospel" (p. 55; see also p. 151, 312). In light of the varied and manifold ways Garland (rightly) sees the Corinthians' calling into question so much of the Apostle's person and ministry it seems like splitting hairs to repeatedly maintain that they weren't questioning the legitimacy of his apostleship, only the manner of his apostleship.
Related to this, Garland feels that little can be known about Paul's opponents. He does not see the "super-apostles" as related to the opponents Paul addressed in his Galatian or Philippian correspondence, a position which seems a bit too firm in light of the fact that they are clearly proud of their Jewish heritage (11:22). In Garland's view, many commentators too often read into Paul's arguments, assuming that he is either countering a charge against himself or some false teaching by an opponent (p. 213-4; p. 246, note 627; 272-3). Unless Paul clearly spells out the charge or opponent, Garland prefers to see Paul simply stating and clarifying the truth. Rather than building a case, however, Garland simply repeatedly reasserts this view, which leaves one with the impression that, where he accuses other commentators of assuming too much in one direction, he is guilty of assuming too much in the other. This assumption sometimes leads into false dichotomy, such as where Garland, commenting on 3:7-18, asserts that "Paul is not arguing against false apostles...He is defending his bold speech in correcting the Corinthians" (p. 167). One is left wondering why Paul couldn't be doing both.
Garland summarizes Paul's intentions in this letter as "defending his ministry", accomplishing this in the main by clarifying "the implications of the gospel that they have failed to grasp" (32). He hopes the letter will move the Corinthian church to "become proud of him again (5:12)", to give cheerfully and generously to the poor in Jerusalem, and to "understand the countercultural nature of the gospel" (32). Garland nails the concern of Paul's heart for the Corinthians:
"If they cannot understand and appreciate his cross-centered life and ministry as demonstrated by weakness and suffering, how can they understand the cross and the weakness and suffering of Christ and apply it to their own lives?"..."Those who cannot see the glory in the cross of Christ because they are captured by the wisdom of this world will hardly see it in his suffering apostle. If they do see it, however, they will see how exceedingly glorious Paul's ministry is. This letter is not just a personal defense; it is a restatement of the basic doctrine of the cross which Paul preached to them (1 Cor 2:2)" (32-3).
For Garland, this is at the center of the enduring relevance of 2 Corinthians.
Whether one agrees or disagrees with Garland on a particular point of interpretation (and there is far more to agree with than not), one consistently comes away from this commentary edified and challenged. Any student or teacher of 2 Corinthians would benefit from having this worthy volume close at hand.
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