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This is the third volume of D.’s commentary on the Books of Samuel; it brings together under a single cover the content of eight fascicules concerning 1 Samuel 27–2 Samuel 8 that appeared during the years 2016–2019. It opens with a preface and a bibliography for the above Samuel segment (as well as additions to those in the two previous volumes of the commentary). For his commentary on 1 Samuel 27–2 Samuel 8, D. breaks the material down into three larger units (each of which is itself divided into a number of sub-units), which he titles, respectively, Saul’s end, David’s survival (1 Samuel 27–2 Samuel 1); David’s rise to kingship over a double monarchy (2 Sam 2:1–5:6); and David’s rule (2 Sam 5:17–8:16). In his treatment of these units’ sub-sections, D. makes use of the familiar organizational categories of the BKAT series: sectional bibliography, annotated translation of the passage, overview of the passage in its various dimensions, verse-by-verse exegesis, and a closing synthesis of and reflection on the theological perspectives that emerge from a reading of the passage. The volume concludes with a series of eight indexes: names, concepts, images, excursuses, maps, persons/characters, toponyms, biblical passages, and Hebrew words.—C.T.B.
This riesenhaft volume brings together under a single cover, the content of the 10 fascicules treating the final six chapters of 1 Kings which T. published between 2000 and 2019 (for the last of these, see #807). Its opening matter consists of a “foreword,” an introduction to the Elijah-traditions, and a large-scale bibliography of works on Elijah [End Page 258] and his time. It continues with multifaceted commentary, extending for over 700 pages, on the eight component units into which he divides up 1 Kings 17–22 and concludes with various lists and indexes, which are specified in #807. OTA congratulates the author on the completion of a project to which he has devoted almost two decades of scholarly activity.—C.T.B.
With this 10th and final fascicule, T. brings to completion the commentary on 1 Kings 17–22, which he undertook in 2000, picking up at the point where Martin Noth left off in his commentary on 1 Kings, which had reached the end of 1 Kings 16 at the moment of his death in 1968 over a half century ago. The fascicule’s front-matter consists of a preface (dated to the fall of 2018) by T., a summary introduction of the “complex of the Elijah-traditions,” the continuation and conclusion of the commentary on 1 Kgs 22:39–54 begun in the previous fascicule of 2017, and an assortment of indexes to the commentary on 1 Kings 17–22 as a whole: abbreviations and commentaries, additions to previously cited literature and corrections of references to this, biblical passages cited (selective), names and topics, and Hebrew words. See #806.—C.T.B.
This is the twenty-seventh volume published in the Reformed Expository Commentary series. In keeping with the format and aim of the series, the commentary consists of theological commentary and application on the text from a Reformed perspective. The commentary is especially aimed...
