New Testament Text and Translation Commentary

by Philip W. Comfort

Publisher:

Tyndale

, 2008

Overview

This commentary is especially useful for pastors and teachers who know that the members of their audiences use a variety of different English versions. It is also a helpful tool for serious students of the Bible, including laypeople and seminary students. In addition to this passage-by-passage commentary, the reader is introduced to the art of textual criticism, its importance for studying the New Testament, and the challenges translators of English versions face. Philip W. Comfort surveys and tabulates all the major English translations in a clear, easy to read manner.

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Key Features

• Provides an accessible commentary for everyone from laypeople to seminary students
• Introduces readers to textual criticism in New Testament scholarship
• Surveys all major English translations in a clear, easy to read manner

Product Details

• Title: New Testament Text and Translation Commentary: Commentary on the Variant Readings of the Ancient New Testament Manuscripts and How They Relate to the Major English Translations
• Author: Philip W. Comfort
• Publisher: Tyndale
• Print Publication Date: 2008
• Logos Release Date: 2015
• Pages: 944
• Era: era:modern
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Bible. N.T. › Manuscripts, Greek; Bible. N.T. › Criticism, textual; Bible. N.T. › Translating; Bible. N.T. › Commentaries
• ISBNs: 9781414310343, 141431034
• Resource ID: LLS:NTTXTTRANSCOMM
• Resource Type: Bible Commentary
• Metadata Last Updated: 2020-08-27T20:55:12Z

About Philip W. Comfort

Philip Wesley Comfort (1950–) is a noted professor, author, and editor. He is professor of Greek and New Testament at Trinity Episcopal Seminary, visiting professor at Wheaton College, and senior editor of Bible reference at Tyndale House Publishers.

Comfort completed his second doctorate under the noted textual critic Jacobus H. Petzer at the University of South Africa.

Not only has Comfort written several journal articles—he is also the author of Encountering the Manuscripts: An Introduction to New Testament Paleography and Textual Criticism and coauthor of the Holman Treasury of Key Bible Words in the Holman Reference Collection. He has also edited numerous titles, including The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts and the Life Application Bible Commentary: 1 & 2 Corinthians.

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