On the Writing of the New Testament Commentaries—Festschrift for Grant R. Osborne on the Occasion of His 70th Birthday

Osborne has been professor of New Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Illinois since 1977, and during the course of his distinguished career has written many commentaries on the books of the New Testament. This volume contains contributions by colleagues, friends, and former students on the subject of commentary-writing itself in the field of New Testament studies. Editors Porter (McMaster Divinity College) and Schnable (Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary) address commentaries and exegesis, the hermeneutical task, and theology, and commentaries on the gospels, the epistles, and Revelation. The final chapter discusses commentaries and commentators from a publisher's perspective. Annotation c2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Stanley E. Porter, Ph.D. (1988), McMaster Divinity College, is President and Dean, and Professor of New Testament. He has published monographs and essays on the New Testament, Greek language and literature, and hermeneutics, including Verbal Aspect in the Greek of the New Testament (Lang, 1989) and Hermeneutics: An Introduction to Interpretive Theory (Eerdmans, 2011).Eckhard J Schnabel, Ph.D. (1983), Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, is the Mary E. Rockefeller Distinguished Professor of New Testament Studies. He has published monographs and essays on the New Testament, including Early Christian Mission (InterVarsity Press, 2004) and Der Erste Brief des Paulus an die Korinther (R. Brockhaus, 2006).