The First Letter to the Corinthians
in Pillar New Testament Commentary
Pages
990
Publisher
Eerdmans
Published
2010
ISBN-13
9780802837325
This careful, sometimes innovative, mid-level commentary touches on an astonishingly wide swath of important, sensitive issues — theological and pastoral — that have urgent resonances in twenty-first-century life. Roy Ciampa and Brian Rosner reveal how 1 Corinthians directly addresses the claims of unity and truth, church discipline, sexual matters, the Lord’s supper, the nature of love, Christian leadership, and many other significant topics.
Those who preach and teach 1 Corinthians will be grateful to Ciampa and Rosner for years to come and scholars will be challenged to see this letter with fresh eyes.
Those who preach and teach 1 Corinthians will be grateful to Ciampa and Rosner for years to come and scholars will be challenged to see this letter with fresh eyes.
Reviews
WeberSergio
July 16, 2022
July 16, 2022
Good and centered in the context
Andy
July 20, 2019
July 20, 2019
Far more readable than the average commentary.
Nijay Gupta
May 21, 2019
May 21, 2019
These two scholars make a great academic team. Ciampa (one of my seminary professors) has expertise in the use of the Old Testament in Paul and also biblical translation theory and practice. Rosner wrote his doctoral dissertation on 1 Corinthians and has written extensively on Paul’s ethics.
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Robert M. Bowman, Jr
December 11, 2016
December 11, 2016
Perhaps the best overall, up-to-date commentary on 1 Corinthians.
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Review of Biblical Literature (RBL) (Korinna Zamfir)
February 1, 2012
February 1, 2012
This commentary, written by Roy E. Ciampa and Brian S. Rosner, belongs to the Pillar New Testament Commentary series, which addresses “serious pastors and teachers of the Bible” (xiv). The features of the series mark this volume as well. The commentary is extensive and detailed (the text itself has 867 pages), obviously the result of an enormous amount of work. The exegesis focuses to a lesser degree on academic discussions and more on theological and ethical issues. The commentary uses the TNIV. The few philological aspects of the exegesis are confined to footnotes. The volume has some practical orientation and discusses a number of themes of actuality with respect to Christian life in the modern world (see 1 and the body of the commentary). This explains why scholars of 1 Corinthians will not find within responses to all their questions on exegetical discussions. The lengthy introduction addresses a number of general issues, some of which are usually included in all commentaries (the city of Corinth and the Corinthian church, the structure of 1 Corinthians, and the reading strategy proposed by the commentary), while others would pertain rather to introductions to the New Testament (a quite long chapter on “The Identity and Aims of the Apostle Paul,” with biographical data gleaned from the Pauline Epistles and Acts and a discussion of Pauline theology).
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