This extract from the Eerdmans Commentary on the Bibleย provides Baukhamโs introduction to and concise commentary on James. Theย Eerdmans Commentary on the Bibleย presents, in nontechnical language, the best of modern scholarship on each book of the Bible, including the Apocrypha. Reader-friendly commentary complements succinct summaries of each section of the text and will be valuable to scholars, students, and general readers.
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Rather than attempt a verse-by-verse analysis, these volumes work from larger sense units, highlighting the place of each passage within the overarching biblical story. Commentators focus on the genre of each textโparable, prophetic oracle, legal code, and so onโinterpreting within the historical and literary context.
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The volumes also address major issues within each biblical bookโincluding the range of possible interpretationsโand refer readers to the best resources for further discussions.