{"id":6129,"date":"2009-11-15T12:58:50","date_gmt":"2009-11-15T12:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2009\/11\/book-comments-bird-and-hansen.html"},"modified":"2009-11-15T12:58:50","modified_gmt":"2009-11-15T12:58:50","slug":"book-comments-bird-and-hansen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2009\/11\/book-comments-bird-and-hansen.html","title":{"rendered":"Book Comments: Bird and Hansen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve now completed our commentary listing, but commentaries will continue to be produced so I will use the Book Comments to update commentaries. I want to mention two that have recently crossed my desk.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bird.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/files\/import\/imgs\/Bird.jpg\" width=\"231\" height=\"296\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right;margin: 0 0 20px 20px\" \/><\/span>First, there is a brand new series from Wipf and Stock &#8212; Cascade Books &#8212; edited by Michael Bird and Craig Keener, with an impressive list of assigned authors. The series is called the New Covenant Commentary Series. The first one I&#8217;ve seen and read is by Michael Bird: <em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1606081314?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=jescre-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1606081314\">Colossians and Philemon (New Covenant Commentary)<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=jescre-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1606081314\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important;margin:0px !important\" \/><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em>. Noteworthy features of the series: diversity (a list of global scholars), a focus on paragraph level instead of verse-by-verse level, and the authors are commissioned to ponder how the Bible impacts new covenant communities today.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Michael Bird is noteworthy in his grasp of contemporary scholarship and its significance for theologizing, and his new Colossians commentary exhibits that skill of his. Furthermore, though a younger scholar, he&#8217;s learned to see the forest instead of getting lost in the trees. He concludes the letter concerns a form of Jewish mysticism and works his way through this letter with deftness. Preachers will find this brief commentary to be a plentiful sketch of what needs to be known in order to move from text to sermon.<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>Every Pauline letter has a ready list of good commentaries. Besides Romans, perhaps Philippians has the most abundant of such good works, but now G. Walter Hansen&#8217;s new commentary (<em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1844744035?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=jescre-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1844744035\">The Letter to the Philippians (Pillar New Testament Commentary)<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=jescre-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1844744035\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important;margin:0px !important\" \/><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em>) will take its place alongside any of them &#8212; and once again, this commentary will prove itself eminently useful for preachers. This series joins a host of other fine works on the New Testament in the Pillar series.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Walt wisely avoids letting the letter get trapped in rhetorical discourse and focuses on the message and historical context of the letter. I recently worked through Philippians 3:2-16, Paul&#8217;s famous autobiographical comments, and so reading through Hansen here was instructive: he&#8217;s solid; he&#8217;s not carrying on a private or riveting agenda; he&#8217;s sensitive to what pastors will need &#8212; and he&#8217;s got good command of the ancient evidence and contemporary debates. This is a solid preacher&#8217;s commentary and it is what one needs to prepare texts for sermons.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve now completed our commentary listing, but commentaries will continue to be produced so I will use the Book Comments to update commentaries. I want to mention two that have recently crossed my desk.&nbsp; First, there is a brand new series from Wipf and Stock &#8212; Cascade Books &#8212; edited by Michael Bird and Craig&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible","category-biblical-studies"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Book Comments: Bird and Hansen - 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\/11\/book-comments-bird-and-hansen.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Book Comments: Bird and Hansen - Jesus Creed\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"We&#8217;ve now completed our commentary listing, but commentaries will continue to be produced so I will use the Book Comments to update commentaries. 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