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| Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament | 
| Creators: G. K. Beale, D. A. Carson
Publisher: Baker Academic
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  18 reviews
Sales Rank: 6720
Media: Hardcover
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Pages: 1280
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Dimensions (in): 10.1 x 7.1 x 2.3
ISBN: 0801026938
Dewey Decimal Number: 225.6
EAN: 9780801026935
ASIN: 0801026938
Publication Date: November 1, 2007
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| Customer Reviews:
 The Whole Counsel of God May 2, 2008
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
At a recent gathering of pastors from across the USA and Canada I was surprised that one VERY well-known speaker from So. California spoke to the pastors about his preaching style, his study habits, and his commentaries. When asked about his lack of preaching from Old Testament books, this pastor noted that he is a New Testament pastor and in his 25+ years has never preached through an Old Testament book, that the era of the Old Testament has no place in New Testament kingdom work. There was a hush like I had never heard (and these are all pastors who love to talk!). This new volume is a fantastic addition to any pastor's library and helps to link the entire counsel of God. Beale and Carson have given us a tremendous gift in the unique style of this reference book and how they build all the New Testament upon the shoulders of those prophets, priests, and sages who had gone before.
As we have seen, the New Testament is replete with uses of the Old Testament. Jesus, himself, was often quoting the Old Testament and the authors show us how the knowledge, culture, and genre of Old Testament books and passages that were useful in the establishment of the church after the resurrection. The authors are quick to remind us that the authors of the New Testament Canon were using Old Testament text to establish the church and then included God's counsel from the ancient eras in their writings back to the churches at Rome, Ephesus, and more.
This book serves a very powerful niche in our sermon preparation, it gives us tools to excite our congregation about the Old Testament which seems so ancient and almost out of place to the 21st Century thinker. Beale and Carson give us the tools to energize a new generation of disciples. I cannot imagine our pastoral libraries without this new work. It serves us as pastors and it serves our congregation as it illuminates the whole counsel of God.
Commentary April 10, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is an excellent one worthy of a collection specially to those who are involved in the ministry of preaching, bible study, or even in sharing the gospel. It might not be as elaborate as those individual commentaries, but needless to say, the book is complete and touches almost all of the critical, difficult, and controversial issues.
References to the historical findings such as the MT, LXX and a lot more gives sufficient credence to their studies that these are based on historical facts, and not just on personal opinions. A great number of authors with their credentials who participated in writing this commentary proves that this book is a collective effort of great minds in order for us to benefit the cream of the crop. It is because of this that I find this book worthy as a treasure.
Can't ask for more, but I want more. April 6, 2008
2 out of 8 found this review helpful
Really, this is just a start. Any commentary is. But this is one of the best because it proceeds from a radical premise: the whole Bible is from God, giving His point of view and superceding that of the human author.
Not that this is promoted self-consciously or consistently from each contributor. But the structure of the enterprise is such that they are sucked back into presenting how it is that the old testament is so thoroughly imbued in NT writings, including in ways which both OT and NT writers could not have intended.
Treading down this path forces us to question all those teachings we've had where we were told: "Matthew (or Paul or John ...) here had in mind xyz." When Matthew wrote his gospel, we might now surmise that we can't be sure what he himself had in mind, because what we wrote was superintended to the degree that Matthew's sinful thoughts were NOT what ended up on parchment. God's thoughts are there, pure and untainted by Matthew's natural limitations and sin.
Attempts to work from Matthew's sinful thoughts and culture to God's meaning miss the point that whatever Matthew was in his head was NOT the end product that flowed out his quill. Remember when Caiaphas spoke what he thought naturally about how it is better for one man to die rather than the whole nation take a hit? He meant it for evil, but God superintended it to be ultimate truth, regardless of that speaker's intent. Same with all holy writings.
Yes, holy men of old spake as they were moved, but their holiness does not naturally come out in uncontaminated speech -- that takes a special work of God. This commentary allows for that premise. There's something way more than human going on that ties this whole Bible together in one theme from one Writer.
Don't get me wrong, not all these contributors seem to subscribe to my radical conclusions above, although I think the editors do. And their prescribed structure for this commentary nudge the contributors into a path that I think leads to a more theocentric authorship. So this is a good start, but nothing beats trying to read the Bible itself from God's point of view, rather than the hallowed and misguided grammatial-historical human focused approach.
A Must Have! February 21, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I just got this book and I'm already impressed. The book is over 1200 pages of solid, scholarly output.
From Matthew through Revelation are treatments of quotations, echoes and allusions from the OT.
At the end of each NT book is a bibliography of the sources cited along the way. A great help!
The scholars are not afraid to give their own translation of the Greek text, while consulting other reliable versions of the Bible. I find this extremely helpful, as one who is adept at NT Greek.
DA Carson puts his scholarly touch on most of the Catholic Letters. He is so good.
Overall, this volume represents the best of NT scholarship. If you don't have this book in your collection and not making the most of it, you're depriving yourself of the best treatment to date on this subject, the use of the OT in the NT.
I give 10 stars.
 An excellent resource for serious exegesis February 9, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Compiled by a large number of scholars from the evangelical tradition, this work is a much needed resource in your library. The difficulity and debate over how the new testament qoutes and uses the new testament as fulfillment is not glossed over as this 1000 plus page book examines passages from Matthew to Revelation. The sources cited and research used in this compilation is wide and scholarly in its use. A book needed by all serious students of the bible.
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