{"id":6015,"date":"2009-10-21T14:03:02","date_gmt":"2009-10-21T14:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2009\/10\/pastors-bookshelf-1-3-john.html"},"modified":"2009-10-21T14:03:02","modified_gmt":"2009-10-21T14:03:02","slug":"pastors-bookshelf-1-3-john","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2009\/10\/pastors-bookshelf-1-3-john.html","title":{"rendered":"Pastor’s Bookshelf: 1-3 John"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"JohnApostle.jpg\"<\/span>Those who preach books of the Bible eventually find their way to 1 John; those who preach a lectionary always find their way to 1 John, and there are some fantastic commentaries on the Epistles of John, beginning with:<\/p>\n

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Surely the most complete, if not also at times speculative, commentary is that of Raymond E. Brown, The Epistles of John (The Anchor Yale Bible Commentaries)<\/a>\"\"
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A new and useful commentary, with a sensitivity to early Christian identity is Judith Lieu, I, II, & III John: A Commentary (New Testament Library)<\/a>\"\"
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A standard that won’t go away: John R.W. Stott, The Letters of John (Tyndale New Testament Commentaries)<\/a>\"\"
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One of evangelicalism’s finest scholars, I.H. Marshall, writes good commentaries and has a rock-solid commonsens:  The Epistles of John (The New International Commentary on the New Testament)<\/a>\"\"
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A fresh approach from Baylor, one rooted in observations of the Greek text, begins with Martin Culy, I, II, III John: A Handbook on the Greek Text (Baylor Handbook on the Greek New Testament)<\/a>\"\"
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It seems unfair to list this commentary last, but here is another really good commentary: S. Smalley, Word Biblical Commentary Vol. 51, 1,2,3 John<\/a>\"\"
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Those who preach books of the Bible eventually find their way to 1 John; those who preach a lectionary always find their way to 1 John, and there are some fantastic commentaries on the Epistles of John, beginning with: Surely the most complete, if not also at times speculative, commentary is that of Raymond E.…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gospel"],"yoast_head":"\nPastor's Bookshelf: 1-3 John - Jesus Creed<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2009\/10\/pastors-bookshelf-1-3-john.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pastor's Bookshelf: 1-3 John - 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