The latest volume in D. A. Carson’s Pillar New Testament Commentary series will be available in about one month, and you can order it from WTS Books for $27.50 (45% off list price) or Amazon for $31.50:
Peter T. O’Brien. The Letter to the Hebrews. Pillar New Testament Commentary. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2010.
Check out the 77-page PDF that samples the 600-page book.
From Carson’s preface (pp. xi–xii):
With his many years of service as scholar, missionary, and long-time lecturer at Moore Theological College, Peter O’Brien has earned a reputation that is well-nigh unique. It is the combination of virtues that is compelling: great care in handling the Scriptures, fairness in dealing with the views of others, a characteristic understatement combined with a passion for the centrality of the gospel, and, uniting all the rest, a gentleness of spirit that has captured the minds and hearts of colleagues, friends, and several decades of students. In the cutthroat world of scholarship it is difficult to find someone who will say a bad word about Peter O’Brien.
Among commentary readers Dr. O’Brien is doubtless best known for his commentaries on Paul’s prison epistles, Ephesians, Philippians, and Colossians. The volume on Ephesians, of course, is published in the Pillar series, and it has become one of the “standard” works on that letter, not least for those preparing to teach and preach the text. Here Dr. O’Brien branches outside the Pauline corpus. The most recent six years of his life have been devoted to Hebrews, a book not always easy to understand but demonstrably important for Christians who want to know how first-century believers read the old covenant Scriptures. Such inquiry is the first step in building up a profoundly biblical theology, a profoundly canonical theology. It would be difficult to find a more helpful guide than Dr. O’Brien, or a guide better endowed with his combination of competence and genial wisdom. It is a pleasure to commend this work by a dear friend.
Related: Cf. my review of the Pillar NT Commentary series.
Does O’Brien admit that Apollos wrote Hebrews?
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Logos currently has it available on pre-publication for $29.95 at https://www.logos.com/products/prepub/details/5938.
Thought that I had heard that Carson was working on a Hebrews commentary and figured that it would be the Pillar series. Do you know which series Carson will be writing his commentary in? Thanks, Andy.
Scott
BECNT
Andy,
the various links to your review of the PILLAR comm series are not working…. help!
thanks,
db
Thanks, David. The link should be working now.
Andy, do you have an estimates for when Carson’s Hebrews commentary in the BECNT series might come out?
No. Sorry, Richard.
Well, at least we should see his revision of Matthew in the EBC soon, and also his long awaited 1-3 John in the NIGTC. I only ask because I so appreciate his work. I listened to a series of expositions he did on Hebrews in 2002, and it completely changed the way I read the Bible. I look forward to his full work on this important book. But I did already buy O’Brien’s commentary on Hebrews, which I know will be terrific as well. I pray the Lord will keep giving DAC birthdays!