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Old 12-01-2008, 01:44 PM
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Let me first say that I think every preacher should have at least two books that help in the selection of modern commentaries. (For older, Puritan commentaries, you can use this:
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Those two books are John Glynn's Commentary and Reference Survey and Derek Thomas' Essential Commentaries for a Preacher's Library:

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Both of these books help greatly in determining if a modern commentaries is good, bad or horrible.

Having said that, Glynn rates the Anderson/Freedman volume as at least Critical/Moderate and the Paul volume as well. Jeremias, Wolffe and Mays all are rated "Liberal/Critical." So I would get Anderson/Freedman or Paul.
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