Biblical Commentary Website Recommendations

[Constance]

Does anyone have any website recommendations for good biblical commentary? Ideally, I'm looking for something with reliable scholarship that would include cultural context and maybe even analysis of the language used.

I could just sift through Google search results, but I was hoping that maybe some of you, my boardmates, might have preferred sites that you rely on and could suggest.

[peky]

Does anyone have any website recommendations for good biblical commentary? Ideally, I'm looking for something with reliable scholarship that would include cultural context and maybe even analysis of the language used.

I could just sift through Google search results, but I was hoping that maybe some of you, my boardmates, might have preferred sites that you rely on and could suggest.

try a jewish bible, the kind used in the temple

[Annah]

Does anyone have any website recommendations for good biblical commentary? Ideally, I'm looking for something with reliable scholarship that would include cultural context and maybe even analysis of the language used.

I could just sift through Google search results, but I was hoping that maybe some of you, my boardmates, might have preferred sites that you rely on and could suggest.

I've been using commentaries for over 15 years now and I use them everyday academically. I don't know of any decent web based commentaries and none of my courses really advocate the use of them unless they come from a very reputable source (and i really do not know of any really good sites for free commentaries). I really do not rely on those for good information. The best commentaries I have ever used are the New Interpreter's Bible Commentary. Both conservative and progressive preachers have used these and they use some of the best scholars today.

[Constance]

I've been using commentaries for over 15 years now and I use them everyday academically. I don't know of any decent web based commentaries and none of my courses really advocate the use of them unless they come from a very reputable source (and i really do not know of any really good sites for free commentaries). I really do not rely on those for good information. The best commentaries I have ever used are the New Interpreter's Bible Commentary. Both conservative and progressive preachers have used these and they use some of the best scholars today.

Okay, I thought that this would be the case. I'm guessing I probably won't be able to find this in my local public library, but I'll look. The GTU library is open to the public, but I wouldn't be able to check anything out. I'd have to use it there.

Thanks, Annah.

[Felix]

I don't know about the internet but I love Asimov's annotated bibles. Lots of cultural and linguistic context.

[Constance]

I don't know about the internet but I love Asimov's annotated bibles. Lots of cultural and linguistic context.

Thanks, Felix.

[Annah]

Okay, I thought that this would be the case. I'm guessing I probably won't be able to find this in my local public library, but I'll look. The GTU library is open to the public, but I wouldn't be able to check anything out. I'd have to use it there.

Thanks, Annah.

You never know..they may have em.

If you have a seminary near your area, I am positive they will carry them.

They go DEEP into word studies, languages, cultural/social/theological interpretations. I mean everything. The Commentary of the Book of Jonah is over 700 pages long.....and the Book of Jonah itself is only a few short chapters long (about 3 pages in the Bible). I love those commentaries.

[Constance]

The seminary my ex-wife went to is not far away, and part of the Graduate Theological Union (GTU) in Berkeley. Their library is open to the public, even if I can't actually check anything out from there.

[Shantel]

They go DEEP into word studies, languages, cultural/social/theological interpretations. I mean everything. The Commentary of the Book of Jonah is over 700 pages long.....and the Book of Jonah itself is only a few short chapters long (about 3 pages in the Bible). I love those commentaries.

Some bible expositors are deftly able to put together the backdrop as you point out that brings these ancient stories to life and helps to make the reason they were written in the first place much more applicable to the times we live in. It seems as if the book of Revelation in the new testament was written in the same manner that modern day animation is done with first one layer of the backdrop, the lake and the mountains, then the next layer being the trees and birds, each chapter being a different overview of the same series of events. Reading it with that in mind makes it easier to understand.

[Kendall]

How about something like this.
http://www.freebiblecommentary.org/old_testament_studies/VOL01AOT/VOL01AOT.html
i like this

http://www.christnotes.org/commentary.php
3 commentary


http://concordances.org/

It's a little hebrew greek and strong reference.

Ken

[Constance]

How about something like this.
http://concordances.org/

It's a little hebrew greek and strong reference.

Ken

Thanks, I'll check it out.

[Kendall]

It is a few more to the post.