AB 32A: 2 Corinthians

A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary.

Nothing speaks more highly for a commentary than how valuable it is to pastors
and scholars, students, and interested readers. By all accounts, Victor Paul
Furnish's commentary on II Corinthians has become the standard by which others
are judged. It is praised as a quite superb commentary . . . everything that a " good commentary should be (Expository Times), "by any standard . . . an " excellent volume ((Interpretation), and "perhaps the definitive commentary on " the letter in English ((Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society). In " addition, Furnish has accomplished a difficult task with remarkable skill and " apparent ease ((Biblical Theology Bulletin), and has given us "one of [the " Anchor Bible's] finest studies ((Catholic Biblical Quarterly). In the " internationally renowned tradition of the Anchor Bible series, this commentary
is an excellent and indispensable tool for biblical study.

Scholars rarely posses both the gift of academic excellence and the ability to
communicate their expertise in an extremely readable fashion; but Furnish
succeeds admirably with the right balance of scholarship and practical
application, offered in the most accessible prose. With a mastery of primary
languages and sources, and a lucid discussion of the first-century context of
Paul's second letter to the Corinthians, the reader enters the worldview of the
original recipients of this hard-hitting letter. In the end, Furnish
successfully navigates the maze of difficulties faced by the commentator and,
thankfully, helps the general audience understand what II Corinthians says and
means.

Series: Anchor Yale Bible Commentary Series, volume 32A.

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