Chronicles (International Critical Commentary | ICC)
Overview
For over one hundred years, the International Critical Commentary series has held a special place among works on the Bible. It has sought to bring together all the relevant aids to exegesis—linguistic and textual no less than archaeological, historical, literary and theological—with a level of comprehension and quality of scholarship unmatched by any other series.
No attempt has been made to secure a uniform theological or critical approach to the biblical text: contributors have been invited for their scholarly distinction, not for their adherence to any one school of thought.
The depth of analysis found in the International Critical Commentary (ICC) Series has yet to be surpassed in any commentary collection. One of the best features of this series is the extensive amount of background information given in each volume's introduction, where all of the analysis is provided before the actual commentary begins. Each volume packs more information into the introduction than you will often find in the body of most commentaries! Also consider that with the electronic versions of each volume, you will never need to leaf through the hundreds of pages in each volume searching for the passage you are studying.
Top Highlights
“And Jaʿbeẓ called on the God of Israel saying, Oh that thou wouldest surely bless me and enlarge my border and that thy hand would be with me and thou wouldest keep back evil so that no sorrow shouldest befall me!].” (Page 107)
“a name of ill omen, but he had prayed that its significance might not be fulfilled and God granted his request.” (Page 107)
To those whose work calls for a strictly critical commentary on the text and the sources this commentary is commended. It is a report of progress along these lines, a guide to the literature, a display of the material for discussion. For this purpose there is no other one book in English of equal value with this work of Professor Curtis.
—John D. Davis, The Princeton Theological Review
- Title: A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Books of Chronicles
- Authors: Edward L. Curtis and Albert A. Madsen
- Editors: Samuel Rolles Driver, Alfred Plummer, and Charles Augustus Briggs
- Publisher: T & T Clark
- Publication Date: 1910
- Pages: 534
Edward L. Curtis: Professor of the Hebrew Language and Literature in the Divinity School of Yale University.
Albert A. Madsen: Pastor of the First Congregational Church at Newburgh, N.Y.
Reviews
2 ratings
Moshe Wise
12/4/2022
While not as bad as other Logos distortions of ICC books, the Logos digitization of this book still contains a great many absurdities in the Hebrew which are not in the print original. Anyone wishing to see this for herself can compare scans of the original which are available for free online with the numerous nonsense Hebrew words appearing in the Logos edition. The authors and the customers deserve a faithful reproduction of the print edition and Logos fails to deliver. Charging nearly $50 for a distortion of a public domain book is shameful and Faithlife should refund everyone who bought this expecting an accurate version of a classic commentary.
