Jude-2 Peter, Volume 50 (50) (Word Biblical Commentary)

✍ Scribed by Dr. Richard Bauckham, David Allen Hubbard (editor), Glenn W. Barker (editor)

• Publisher: Zondervan Academic
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 378
• Edition: Revised
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The Word Biblical Commentary delivers the best in biblical scholarship, from the leading scholars of our day who share a commitment to Scripture as divine revelation. This series emphasizes a thorough analysis of textual, linguistic, structural, and theological evidence. The result is judicious and balanced insight into the meanings of the text in the framework of biblical theology. These widely acclaimed commentaries serve as exceptional resources for the professional theologian and instructor, the seminary or university student, the working minister, and everyone concerned with building theological understanding from a solid base of biblical scholarship.

Overview of Commentary Organization

• Introduction—covers issues pertaining to the whole book, including context, date, authorship, composition, interpretive issues, purpose, and theology.
• Each section of the commentary includes:
• Pericope Bibliography—a helpful resource containing the most important works that pertain to each particular pericope.
• Translation—the author’s own translation of the biblical text, reflecting the end result of exegesis and attending to Hebrew and Greek idiomatic usage of words, phrases, and tenses, yet in reasonably good English.
• Notes—the author’s notes to the translation that address any textual variants, grammatical forms, syntactical constructions, basic meanings of words, and problems of translation.
• Form/Structure/Setting—a discussion of redaction, genre, sources, and tradition as they concern the origin of the pericope, its canonical form, and its relation to the biblical and extra-biblical contexts in order to illuminate the structure and character of the pericope. Rhetorical or compositional features important to understanding the passage are also introduced here.
• Comment—verse-by-verse interpretation of the text and dialogue with other interpreters, engaging with current opinion and scholarly research.
• Explanation—brings together all the results of the discussion in previous sections to expose the meaning and intention of the text at several levels: (1) within the context of the book itself; (2) its meaning in the OT or NT; (3) its place in the entire canon; (4) theological relevance to broader OT or NT issues.
  • General Bibliography—occurring at the end of each volume, this extensive bibliographycontains all sources used anywhere in the commentary.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Editorial Preface
Author’s Preface
Abbreviations
Jude
Introduction
Form and Structure
Language
Sources
Character of the Letter
The Opponents
Date
Authorship
Destination
Attestation
Address and Salutation (vv 1–2)
Occasion and Theme (vv 3–4)
Three Old Testament Types (vv 5–10)
Excursus: The Background and Source of Jude 9
Three More Old Testament Types (vv 11–13)
The Prophecy of Enoch (vv 14–16)
The Prophecy of the Apostles (vv 17–19)
The Appeal (vv 20–23)
Closing Doxology (vv 24–25)
Bibliography
2 Peter
Introduction
Form and Structure
Language
Literary Relationships
Character of the Letter
The Opponents
Date
Authorship and Pseudonymity
Attestation
Address and Salutation (1:1–2)
Theme: A Summary of Peter’s Message (1:3–11)
Occasion: Peter’s Testament (1:12–15)
Reply to Objection 1: (a) Apostolic Eyewitness (1:16–18)
Reply to Objection 1: (b) the Value of Old Testament Prophecy (1:19)
Reply to Objection 2: The Inspiration of OT Prophecy (1:20–21)
Peter’s Prediction of False Teachers (2:1–3a)
Reply to Objection 3: The Certainty of Judgment (2:3b–10a)
Denunciation of the False Teachers (a) (2:10b–16)
Denunciation of the False Teachers (b) (2:17–22)
Peter’s Prediction of Scoffers (3:1–4)
Reply to Objection 4: (a) the Sovereignty of God’s Word (3:5–7)
Reply to Objection 4: (b) the Forbearance of the Lord (3:8–10)
Exhortation (3:11–16)
Conclusion (3:17–18)
Bibliography
Indexes
Index of Ancient Authors
Index of Modern Authors
Index of Principal Subjects
Index of Principal Passages Cited