B&H recently released a new commentary series, and the first volume is an impressive 800 pages:
Howard, Jeremy Royal, ed. The Gospels and Acts. The Holman Apologetics Commentary on the Bible. Nashville: Broadman & Holman, 2013.
This is the most comprehensive 1-volume defense of the Gospels and Acts.
It has four contributors:
- Michael Wilkins (Matthew)
- Craig Evans (Mark)
- Darrell Bock (Luke and Acts)
- Andreas Köstenberger (John)
You can’t “look inside” the book at Amazon yet, so I asked B&H for permission to share this 29-page PDF that includes most of the front matter, the introduction to Matthew, and the notes on Matt 1.
For more about the commentary series and this particular volume, see pp. 1–6 along with an interview in which the editor briefly answers seven questions:
- What makes the Holman Apologetics Commentary on the Bible: The Gospels and Acts different from all the other commentaries on the market?
- How does it compare to products such as Gleason Archer’s Encyclopedia of Bible Difficulties?
- How did the authors identify which verses contain apologetics issues that warrant commentary?
- How did the academic background and expertise of each of the contributors, including yourself, help make this volume what it is?
- What do you think is the greatest threat to the historic evangelical understanding of the reliability of Scripture?
- How does the Holman Apologetics Commentary on the Bible: The Gospels and Acts differ from, or complement, the HCSB Apologetics Study Bible?
- Can readers expect any other volumes in this Apologetics series?
