{"id":378,"date":"2006-09-27T22:12:27","date_gmt":"2006-09-27T19:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/2006\/09\/27\/bible-commentaries\/"},"modified":"2006-09-27T22:12:27","modified_gmt":"2006-09-27T19:12:27","slug":"bible-commentaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/27\/bible-commentaries\/","title":{"rendered":"Bible Commentaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When asked what the best Bible commentary set is, I recommend the 12-volume Expositor&#8217;s Bible Commentary.  In one set, you get complete coverage of the Bible that is conservative and generally helpful.  There are certainly better single-volume commentaries on individual biblical books, but you&#8217;ll spend a lot more on those (besides the research required to find the best ones).<\/p>\n<p>The revised edition of the EBC has been gradually released over the last year or so and all volumes are scheduled to be available in about one month.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianbook.com\/Christian\/Books\/product?item_no=11190x&#038;event=6857EBC|1232051|\">CBD<\/a> is now advertising it for sale for $120 (hardcover).  When I saw the price, I thought it was a misprint.  The list price is $450 and Amazon is selling it for $275.  But as far as I can tell, CBD really is selling it for that price.  I can&#8217;t tell if it will change in the near future or not, but I do recommend it, especially for $10\/volume!<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I should have told you about this <em>after <\/em>I found a buyer for my old set! :-)<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianbook.com\/Christian\/Books\/product?item_no=11190x&#038;event=6857EBC|1232051|\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image377\" alt=\"ebc2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/ebc2.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n<div align=\"left\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">UPDATE: See <a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/2006\/09\/28\/bible-commentaries-correction\/\">this post<\/a> for an important correction.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When asked what the best Bible commentary set is, I recommend the 12-volume Expositor&#8217;s Bible Commentary. In one set, you get complete coverage of the Bible that is conservative and generally helpful. There are certainly better single-volume commentaries on individual biblical books, but you&#8217;ll spend a lot more on those (besides the research required to\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/27\/bible-commentaries\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}