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NEWLY DISCOVERED COMMENTARIES ON JOHN, ACTS, 2 CORINTHIANS & 1 PETER
J.B. LIGHTFOOT edited by Ben Witherington III and Todd D. Still
VERY SPECIAL OFFER OF $20.00 FOR LIGHTFOOT'S NEWLY DISCOVERED COMMENTARY ON ACTS.
InterVarsity Press is proud to present The Lightfoot Legacy, a three-volume set of previously unpublished material from J. B. Lightfoot, one of the great biblical scholars of the modern era.
In the spring of 2013, Ben Witherington III discovered hundreds of pages of biblical commentary by Lightfoot in the Durham Cathedral Library. While incomplete, these commentaries represent a goldmine for historians and biblical scholars, as well as for the many people who have found Lightfoot's work both informative and edifying, deeply learned and pastorally sensitive.
Now on display for all to see, these commentary notes reveal a scholar well ahead of his time, one of the great minds of his or any generation. Well over a century later, Lightfoot's writings remain a relevant and significant resource for the church today.
Volume 1 covers the book of Acts, Volume 2 explores the Gospel of John, and Volume 3 covers 2 Corinthians and 1 Peter.
"J. B. Lightfoot was perhaps the greatest New Testament exegete in the nineteenth-century English-speaking world, and his works remain useful today. The discovery of his previously unpublished research, which addresses in a balanced and informed way many issues still debated today, is an epochal event in New Testament studies." --Craig Keener, Asbury Theological Seminary
"To have Lightfoot on Acts is astonishingly valuable, for three reasons. First, Lightfoot is peerless among biblical commentators of his day, and shows a breadth of learning and understanding which always illuminates the text he comments on. Second, Lightfoot deals in this commentary with key issues that are current today in study of Acts, such as the text, the historical value of the Acts narrative, the speeches of Acts and the portrait of Paul. Third, this book enlarges our understanding of Lightfoot's massive scholarship; he is truly a giant among New Testament scholars, and to watch him work - as in this book on Acts - is an education in the questions to ask, approaches to take and ways to draw evidence from disparate sources together to produce a coherent whole. We are greatly in debt to Ben Witherington, Todd Still and their collaborators for bringing this material to light for our day." -Steve Walton, Tyndale House, Cambridge
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NEWLY DISCOVERED COMMENTARY ON THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES
SGCB Price: $20.00 (list price $40.00)
THIS IS A 400 PAGE HARDCOVER VOLUME (LESS THAN 10 AT THIS PRICE)
NEWLY DISCOVERED COMMENTARY ON THE GOSPEL OF JOHN SGCB Price: $29.95 (list price $40.00)
THIS IS A 375 PAGE HARDCOVER VOLUME
NEWLY DISCOVERED COMMENTARY ON 2ND CORINTHIANS & 1ST PETER SGCB Price: $29.95 (list price $40.00)
THIS IS A 362 PAGE HARDCOVER VOLUME
ORDER ALL THREE VOLUMES OF THE LIGHTFOOT LEGACY SGCB Price: $78.00 (list price $120.00)
THIS IS THE PRICE FOR ALL THREE COMMENTARIES
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"The work of J. B. Lightfoot, along with that of his close collaborators B. F. Westcott and F. J. A. Hort, remains of landmark significance to contemporary New Testament studies. The editors and their assistants are to be thanked and congratulated for their labors in bringing to publication these previously unpublished notes on 2 Corinthians and 1 Peter, along with various essays by and about Lightfoot. These materials will be of interest to all who work on the historical interpretation of these letters and on the history of their interpretation." - David G. Horrell, professor of New Testament studies, director, Centre for Biblical Studies, University of Exeter
"Thanks to Witherington and his associates and to IVP for bringing this cache of material from the great J. B. Lightfoot into the public domain. His previously published works have remained important (his multivolume study of the apostolic fathers is essential for these writings), and this hitherto unpublished material will now also likely come to be seen as a valuable resource." -Larry Hurtado, University of Edinburgh
"From Bede, the greatest European scholar of the seventh century, to today's world-class university sharing a world heritage site with a majestic cathedral, creative and careful study has long stood alongside prayer and worship here in Durham. It is therefore fitting that this amazing discovery of Lightfoot's handwritten manuscripts was made by one of the world's leading biblical scholars in the cathedral library. For within these pages, Lightfoot embodies that Durham tradition — outstanding independent scholarship offered humbly in the service of God." -David Wilkinson, Durham University
"We are greatly in debt to Ben Witherington, Todd Still and their collaborators for bringing this material to light for our day." -Steve Walton, Tyndale House, Cambridge
"The discovery and publication of previously unpublished commentaries on the New Testament by Joseph Barber Lightfoot is a highly significant event in the history of New Testament scholarship. For a start, these shed valuable light on the reception of the New Testament in the nineteenth century, representing the work of the foremost English scholar of that era whose linguistic and historical skills exhibit a quality of scholarship that few today can match. . . . Ben Witherington, Todd Still and Jeanette Hagen are to be warmly congratulated for their remarkable success in making such a significant voice from the past resound again today." -John M. G. Barclay, Lightfoot Professor of Divinity, University of Durham
"Joseph Barber Lightfoot has been, for me, in many ways the epitome of what the commentator on New Testament and early church texts can and should aspire to. His detailed knowledge of the literature of the time was unsurpassed, and his ability to shed the light of that knowledge on the New Testament writings was without peer. His commentaries on New Testament texts and the early Fathers retain a relevance and a value to this day almost unique for nineteenth-century scholarship. That a fuller publication of his writings is now available in these volumes is a wonderful bonus for those who want to hear these New Testament and early church texts as they were first heard." - James D. G. Dunn, Emeritus Lightfoot Professor of Divinity, University of Durham
