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Reviews and Responses to the Series

Reviews of the First Books

  • Review of David Gunn's Judges volume by Jacob L. Wright
  • Review of Mark Edwards's John volume, by William M. Wright.
  • Review of Kovacs and Rowland's Revelation volume, by Tobias Nicklas: in the original German, and in English translation.

Responses to the Series
'I just read David Gunn's Judges in proof and sent off a strong endorsement to Blackwells. This series is very exciting. It actually renews my enthusiasm for the genre of biblical commentary! These volumes, if they all knock down, as does David's, the barriers between professional and popular, text and visual/material, will be of major importance in the development of Biblical studies as a critical discipline. I certainly will find myself using these volumes.'

Burke Long, William R. Kenan Professor of the Humanities and Religion, Emeritus, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine

'This is a very fine series indeed, and what has appeared thus far is far more useful to me than most other commentaries. This is the kind of book that will not just be "best before the next commentary is published" (i.e., normally one or two years later).'

—Professor Bernhard Lang, Institut für Katholische Theologie, University of Paderborn