Prepared by and Copyright © January 2014 by
William W. Klein, Craig L. Blomberg and David Mathewson 
of the New Testament Department of DENVER SEMINARY  

Items marked with an asterisk [*] are top priority for acquisition and/or use. Others would be good to have if and when finances allow and well worth consulting even now. (All are selected as excellent out of a much larger list that could have been compiled.)  Selections are consciously weighted in favor of evangelical scholarship but excellent works from other perspectives are included.

Textual Criticism

*Aland, Kurt and Barbara Aland. The Text of the New Testament. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1989.²

Black, David A. New Testament Textual Criticism: A Concise Guide. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1994.

Greenlee, J. Harold.  Introduction to New Testament Textual Criticism. Peabody: Hendrickson, 1995.²

Jones, Timothy P. Misquoting Truth: A Guide to the Fallacies of Bart Ehrman’s Misquoting Jesus. Downers Grove: IVP, 2007.

*Metzger, Bruce M. A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament. New York: UBS, 1994.²

Omanson, Roger L. A Textual Guide to the Greek New Testament. Stuttgart: German Bible Society, 2006.

Parker, D. C. An Introduction to the New Testament Manuscripts and Their Texts. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.

*Wegner, Paul D. A Student’s Guide to Textual Criticism of the Bible: Its History, Methods and Results. Downers Grove: IVP, 2006.

Grammar

*Black, David A. It’s Still Greek to Me. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1998.

Blass, Friedrich, Albert Debrunner, and Robert W. Funk. A Greek Grammar of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1961.

Harris, Murray J.  Prepositions and Theology in the Greek New Testament.  Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2012.

Levinsohn, Stephen.  Discourse Features of New Testament Greek.  Dallas: SIL, 2000.

*Mathewson, David.  Verbal Aspect in the Greek of Revelation.  Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2010.

Mounce, William D. The Morphology of Biblical Greek. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1994.

Porter, Stanley E. Idioms of the Greek New Testament. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1992.

Runge, Steven E. Discourse Grammar of the Greek New Testament.  Peabody: Hendrickson, 2010.

Wallace, Daniel B. The Basics of New Testament Syntax. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2000.

*Wallace, Daniel B. Greek Grammar Beyond the Basics. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1996.

Introduction

Burge, Gary M., Lynn H. Cohick, and Gene L. Green. The New Testament in Antiquity. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2009.

*Carson, D. A. and Douglas J. Moo. An Introduction to the New Testament. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2005.²

*deSilva, David A. An Introduction to the New Testament: Context, Methods and Ministry Formation. Downers Grove: IVP, 2004.

Elwell, Walter A. and Robert W. Yarbrough. Encountering the New Testament and Readings from the First-Century World [with CD-ROM]. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2005.²

*Hagner, Donald A. The New Testament: A Theological and Historical Introduction.  Grand Rapids: Baker, 2012.

Johnson, Luke T. The Writings of the New Testament. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2010.³

Köstenberger, Andreas J., L. Scott Kellum and Charles L. Quarles. The Cradle, The Cross, and the Crown: An Introduction to the New Testament. Nashville: B&H, 2009.

*Powell, Mark A.  Introducing the New Testament: A Historical, Literary, and Theological Survey.  Grand Rapids: Baker, 2009.

Wenham, David and Steve Walton. Exploring the New Testament, vol. 1: A Guide to the Gospels & Acts. Downers Grove: IVP, 2001; Marshall, I. Howard, Stephen Travis, and Ian Paul, vol. 2: A Guide to the Epistles and Revelation (2002).

Historical Background

A. Lexical Analysis

Balz, Horst and Gerhard Schneider, eds. Exegetical Dictionary of the New Testament, 3 vols. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1990-93.

*Bauer, Walter, Frederick W. Danker, William F. Arndt and F. Wilbur Gingrich, eds., A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. ³

*Brown, Colin, ed. The New International Dictionary of New Testament Theology, 3 vols. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1975-78. [Currently “out of print” but in the process of revision; Verbrugge, below, is the 1-volume abbreviation]

Burer, Michael H. and Jeffrey E. Miller, A New Reader’s Lexicon of the Greek New Testament.  Grand Rapids: Kregel, 2009.

Kittel, Gerhard and Gerhard Friedrich, ed. Theological Dictionary of the New Testament, 10 vols. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1964-76.

Kittel, Gerhard and Gerhard Friedrich; ed. and abridged by Geoffrey Bromiley. TDNT, 1 vol. edition. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1985.

Liddell, H. G. and Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon, 9th ed. Oxford: Clarendon, 1925-40; repr. 1968 [for classical Greek].

*Louw, Johannes P. and Eugene A. Nida. A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament Based on Semantic Domains, 2 vols. New York: UBS, 1988.

Marshall, I. Howard, ed. Moulton and Geden Concordance to the Greek New Testament. New York: Continuum, 2002.⁶

Mounce, William D., ed. Mounce’s Complete Expository Dictionary of Old and New Testament Words. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2006.

Verbrugge, Verlyn D. The NIV Theological Dictionary of New Testament Words. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2000 [abridg. of C. Brown]

B. History and Religion

Barnett, Paul.  Jesus and the Rise of Early Christianity. Downers Grove: IVP, 1999.

*Ferguson, Everett. Backgrounds of Early Christianity. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2003.³

Jeffers, James S. The Greco-Roman World of the New Testament Era. Downers Grove: IVP, 1999.

*Keener, Craig S. The IVP Biblical Background Commentary: New Testament. Downers Grove: IVP, 1993.

Nash, Ronald H.  The Gospel and the Greeks: Did the New Testament Borrow from Pagan Thought? Phillipsburg, NJ: P & R, 2003.

Porter, Stanley E. and Cynthia Long Westfall, eds. Empire in the New Testament. Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2011.

Skarsaune, Oskar.  In the Shadow of the Temple: Jewish Influences on Early Christianity. Downers Grove: IVP, 2002.

Theissen, Gerd. The Religion of the Earliest Churches: Creating a Symbolic World. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1999.

VanderKam, James C. An Introduction to Early Judaism. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2001.

*Witherington, Ben, III. New Testament History: A Narrative Account. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2001.

Wright, N. T. The New Testament and the People of God. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1992.

C. Introductions to Primary Source Material

deSilva, David A. Introducing the Apocrypha. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2002.

Charlesworth, James H.  The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha and the New Testament.  Valley Forge: Trinity Press Intl., rev. 1998.

*Evans, Craig A. Ancient Texts for New Testament Studies: A Guide to the Background Literature. Peabody: Hendrickson, 2005.

Helyer, Larry R. Exploring Jewish Literature of the Second Temple Period. Downers Grove: IVP, 2002.

Holmes, Michael W. The Apostolic Fathers: Greek Texts and English Translations. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2007.³

Jobes, Karen H. and Moisés Silva. Invitation to the Septuagint. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2000.

Mason, Steve.  Josephus and the New Testament. Peabody: Hendrickson, 1992.

VanderKam, James C. The Dead Sea Scrolls Today. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2010.²

Theology

*Beale, G. K.  A New Testament Biblical Theology: The Unfolding of the Old Testament in the New.  Grand Rapids: Baker, 2011.

Helyer, Larry R. The Witness of Jesus, Paul and John: An Exploration in Biblical Theology. Downers Grove: IVP, 2008.

Helyer, Larry R.  The Life and Witness of Peter.  Downers Grove: IVP, 2012.

*Hurtado, Larry W. Lord Jesus Christ: Devotion to Jesus in Earliest Christianity. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2003.

Ladd, George E. A Theology of the New Testament. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1993.²

*Marshall, I. Howard. New Testament Theology: Many Witnesses, One Gospel. Downers Grove: IVP, 2004.

Matera, Frank J. New Testament Theology: Exploring Diversity and Unity. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2007.

Schnelle, Udo.  Theology of the New Testament.  Grand Rapids: Baker, 2009.

Schreiner, Thomas R. New Testament Theology: Magnifying God in Christ. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2008.

Thielman, Frank. New Testament Theology: A Canonical and Synthetic Approach. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2005.

Witherington, Ben III. The Indelible Image: The Theological and Ethical World of the New Testament, 2 vols.  Downers Grove: IVP, 2009-10.

Dictionary / Encyclopedia

Bromiley, Geoffrey W., ed. The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, revised, 4 vols. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1979-86.

*Evans, Craig A. and Stanley E. Porter, eds. Dictionary of New Testament Background. Downers Grove: IVP, 2000.

Freedman, David N., ed. The Anchor Bible Dictionary, 6 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1993.

Green, Joel B., ed.  Dictionary of Scripture and Ethics.  Grand Rapids: Baker, 2011.

*Green, Joel B., Scot McKnight, and I. Howard Marshall, eds. Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels. Downers Grove: IVP, 1992.

*Hawthorne, Gerald F., Ralph P. Martin, and Daniel G. Reid, eds. Dictionary of Paul and His Letters. Downers Grove: IVP, 1993.

Holmén, Tom and Stanley E. Porter. Handbook for the Study of the Historical Jesus.  4 vols.  Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2011.

*Martin, Ralph P. and Peter H. Davids, eds. Dictionary of the Later New Testament and Its Developments. Downers Grove: IVP, 1998.

Ryken, Leland, et al., eds. Dictionary of Biblical Imagery. Downers Grove: IVP, 1998.

Sakenfeld, Katharine D., ed. New Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible, 6 vols. Nashville: Abingdon, 2006-    .

Tenney, Merrill C. and Moisés Silva, eds. The Zondervan Encyclopedia of the Bible, Revised, 5 vols.  Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2009.

*Vanhoozer, Kevin J., ed. Dictionary for Theological Interpretation of the Bible. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2005.

Criticism and Exegesis

*Blomberg, Craig L. and Jennifer F. Markley, Handbook of New Testament Exegesis. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2010.

Bock, Darrell L. and Buist M. Fanning, eds. Interpreting the New Testament Text. Wheaton: Crossway, 2006.

Croy, Clayton.  Prima Scriptura: An Introduction to New Testament Interpretation.  Grand Rapids: Baker, 2011.

Dockery, David S. and David A. Black, eds. Interpreting the New Testament. Nashville: Broadman & Holman, 2001.²

*Green, Joel B., ed. Hearing the New Testament. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2010.²

*McKnight, Scot and Grant R. Osborne, eds. The Face of New Testament Studies. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2004.

Porter, Stanley E. and David Tombs, eds. Approaches to New Testament Study. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1995.

Soulen, Richard N. and Richard K. Soulen. Handbook of Biblical Criticism. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, rev. 2001.

Hermeneutics

*Beale, G. K. and D. A. Carson, eds. Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2007.

Bray, Gerald L. Biblical Interpretation: Past and Present. Downers Grove: IVP, 1996.

Brown, Jeannine. Scripture as Communication: Introducing Biblical Hermeneutics. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2007.

Goldsworthy, Graeme. Gospel-Centered Hermeneutics.  Downers Grove: IVP, 2006.

*Klein, William W. Handbook for Personal Bible Study.  Colorado Springs: NavPress, 2008.

*Klein, William W., Craig L. Blomberg and Robert L. Hubbard, Jr. Introduction to Biblical Interpretation. Nashville: Nelson, 2004.²

Köstenberger, Andreas and Richard D. Patterson, Invitation to Biblical Interpretation. Nashville: B & H, 2011.

*Osborne, Grant R. The Hermeneutical Spiral. Downers Grove: IVP, 2007.²

Porter, Stanley E. and Jason C. Robinson.  Hermeneutics: An Introduction to Interpretive Theory.  Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2011.

Porter, Stanley E. and Beth M. Stovell.  Biblical Hermeneutics: Five Views.  Downers Grove: IVP, 2012.

Thiselton, Anthony C.  Hermeneutics: An Introduction.  Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2009.

*Vanhoozer, Kevin J. Is There a Meaning in this Text? Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1998.

Jesus and the Gospels

*Bauckham, Richard. Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2006.

Blomberg, Craig L. The Historical Reliability of the Gospels. Downers Grove: IVP, 2007.²

*Blomberg, Craig L. Jesus and the Gospels: An Introduction and Survey. Nashville: Broadman & Holman, 2009.².

Bock, Darrell L. Studying the Historical Jesus and Jesus according to Scripture. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2002.

*Bock, Darrell L. and Robert L. Webb, Key Events in the Life of the Historical Jesus.  Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2010.

Dunn, James D. G. Jesus Remembered. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2003.

Eddy, Paul R. and Gregory A. Boyd. The Jesus Legend: A Case for the Historical Reliability of the Synoptic Jesus Tradition. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2007.

Keener, Craig S. The Historical Jesus of the Gospels.  Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2009.

*Keener, Craig S.  Miracles.  2 vols.  Grand Rapids: Baker, 2011.

Meier, John P. A Marginal Jew, 5 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1991-   .

Stein, Robert H. Studying the Synoptic Gospels. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2001.²

Strauss, Mark L. Four Portraits, One Jesus: An Introduction to Jesus and the Gospels. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2007.

*Wright, N. T. Jesus and the Victory of God. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1996.

*Wright, N. T. The Resurrection of the Son of God. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2003.

Acts and Earliest Church History

Alexander, Loveday C. A. Acts in Its Ancient Literary Context.  New York: T & T Clark, 2008.

Blomberg, Craig L. From Pentecost to Patmos: An Introduction to Acts through Revelation. Nashville: B & H, 2006.

*Dunn, James D. G. Beginning from Jerusalem. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2009.

Hemer, Colin J. The Book of Acts in the Setting of Hellenistic History, ed. Conrad Gempf.  Tübingen: Mohr (Siebeck), 1989.

*Marshall, I. Howard and David Peterson, Witness to the Gospel: The Theology of Acts. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1998.

Porter, Stanley E. Paul in Acts. Peabody: Hendrickson, 2001.

Rowe, C. Kavin. World Upside Down: Reading Acts in the Graeco-Roman Age.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.

*Schnabel, Eckhard J.  Early Christian Mission, 2 vols.  Downers Grove: IVP, 2004.

*Winter, Bruce W., ed. The Book of Acts in Its First-Century Setting, 5 vols. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1993-96.

Paul

Bruce, F. F. Paul: Apostle of the Heart Set Free. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1977.

Capes, David B., Rodney Reeves and E. Randolph Richards, Rediscovering Paul. Downers Grove: IVP, 2007.

Dunn, James D. G. The New Perspective on Paul, rev. ed. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2008.

*Dunn, James D. G. The Theology of Paul the Apostle. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1998.

*Gorman, Michael. Apostle of the Crucified Lord: A Theological Introduction to Paul and His Letters. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2004.

Polhill, James B. Paul and His Letters. Nashville: Broadman & Holman, 1999.

Ridderbos, Herman. Paul: An Outline of His Theology. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1975.

Schreiner, Thomas E. Paul: Apostle of God’s Glory in Christ. Downers Grove: IVP, 2001.

Taylor, Walter, F., Jr. Paul. Apostle to the Nations. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2012.

*Thiselton, Anthony C. The Living Paul: An Introduction to the Apostle’s Life and Thought. Downers Grove: IVP, 2009.

Wenham, David. Paul: Follower of Jesus or Founder of Christianity? Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1995.

*Wright, N. T. Paul and the Faithfulness of God, 2 vols.. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2013.

Major Commentaries

The lists of top commentaries for each N.T. book are divided into three sections: the first contains those we consider the best detailed, critical commentaries using the Greek text; the second lists more mid-level works using the English text (some with references to the Greek in footnotes); and the third consists of commentaries that are briefer and/or have a special focus on application. At least one priority title is asterisked for each level. Abbreviations for series are:

AB = Anchor Bible

ABCS = Africa Bible Commentary Series

BECNT = Baker Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament

BNTC = Black’s New Testament Commentary

BST = Bible Speaks Today

CC = Concordia Commentary

EBC = Expositor’s Bible Commentary

EC = Epworth Commentaries

ECC = Eerdmans Critical Commentary

EGGNT = Exegetical Guide to the Greek New Testament

ICC = International Critical Commentary

Int = Interpretation

NAC = New American Commentary

NBBC = New Beacon Bible Commentary

NCB = New Century Bible

NCBC = New Cambridge Bible Commentary

NCCS = New Covenant Commentary Series

NICNT = New International Commentary on the New Testament

NIGTC = New International Greek Testament Commentary

NIVAC = NIV Application Commentary

NTC = New Testament Commentary

NTinC = New Testament in Context

NTL = New Testament Library

PCS = Pentecostal Commentary Series

PNTC = Pillar New Testament Commentary

SOGBC = Story of God Bible Commentary

SP = Sacra Pagina

SHBC = Smyth & Helwys Bible Commentary

THNTC = Two Horizons New Testament Commentary

TNTC = Tyndale New Testament Commentary

WBC = Word Biblical Commentary

ZECNT = Zondervan Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament

MATTHEW

Davies, W. D. and Dale C. Allison, Jr. A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Gospel according to St. Matthew, 3 vols.  (ICC, rev.). Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1988-97.

*Hagner, Donald A. Matthew, 2 vols. (WBC). Dallas: Word, 1993-95.

Luz, Ulrich. Matthew, 3 vols. (Hermeneia).  Minneapolis: Fortress, 2001-7.

Nolland, John. The Gospel of Matthew (NIGTC). Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2005.

*Osborne, Grant R. Matthew (ZECNT). Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2010.

Turner, David L. Matthew (BECNT). Grand Rapids: Baker, 2008.

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Blomberg, Craig L. Matthew (NAC). Nashville: Broadman, 1992.

*Carson, D. A. “Matthew,” in EBC, rev., vol. 9, 23-670. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2010.

Evans, Craig A.  Matthew (NCBC).  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.

France, R. T. The Gospel of Matthew (NICNT). Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2007.

*Keener, Craig S. The Gospel of Matthew: A Socio-Rhetorical Commentary. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, rev. 2009.

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Green, Michael. The Message of Matthew (BST). Downers Grove: IVP, 2000.

Keener, Craig S. Matthew (NTC). Downers Grove: IVP, 1997.

*Wilkins, Michael J. Matthew (NIVAC). Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2004.

MARK

Collins, Adela Y. Mark (Hermeneia). Minneapolis: Fortress, 2007.

*France, R. T. The Gospel of Mark (NIGTC). Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2002.

Guelich, Robert A. Mark 1-8:26 (WBC). Dallas: Word, 1989; and Evans, Craig A. Mark 8:27-16:20 (WBC). Nashville: Nelson, 2001.

Gundry, Robert H. Mark: A Commentary on His Apology for the Cross. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1993.

Marcus, Joel. Mark, 2 vols. (AB, rev.). New York: Doubleday, 2000; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009.

*Stein, Robert H. Mark (BECNT).  Grand Rapids: Baker, 2008.

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Beavis, Mary Ann.  Mark (Paideia).  Grand Rapids: Baker, 2011.

Boring, M. Eugene.  Mark (NTL).  Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2006.

*Edwards, James R. The Gospel according to Mark (PNTC). Grand Rapids Eerdmans, 2002.

Lane, William L. The Gospel according to Mark (NICNT). Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1974.

Witherington, Ben, III. The Gospel of Mark: A Socio-Rhetorical Commentary. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2001.

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Culpepper, R. Alan. Mark (SHBC) Macon: Smyth & Helwys, 2007.

*Garland, David E. Mark (NIVAC). Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1996.

Kernaghan, Ronald J. Mark (IVPNTC). Downers Grove: IVP, 2007.

LUKE

*Bock, Darrell L. Luke, 2 vols. (BECNT). Grand Rapids: Baker, 1994-96.

Bovon, FranñÇois.  Luke, 3 vols. (Hermeneia).  Minneapolis: Fortress, 2002-13.

Fitzmyer, Joseph A. The Gospel According to Luke, 2 vols. Garden City: Doubleday, 1981-85.

*Garland, David E.  Luke (ZECNT).  Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2011.

Marshall, I. Howard. The Gospel of Luke (NIGTC). Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1978.

Nolland, John. Luke, 3 vols. (WBC). Dallas: Word, 1990-93.

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Carroll, John T.  Luke (NTL).  Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2012.

*Green, Joel B. The Gospel of Luke (NICNT, rev.). Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1997.

Liefeld, Walter L. and David Pao, “Luke,” in EBC, rev., vol. 10, 19-355. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2007.

Johnson, Luke T. The Gospel of Luke (SP). Collegeville, MN: Liturgical, 1992.

Stein, Robert H. Luke (NAC). Nashville: Broadman, 1992.

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*Bock, Darrell L. Luke (NIVAC). Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1996.

Bock, Darrell L. Luke (NTC). Downers Grove: IVP, 1994.

Vinson, Richard B.  Luke (SHBC) Macon: Smyth & Helwys, 2009.

JOHN

Beasley-Murray, George R.  John (WBC, rev.).  Nashville: Nelson, 1999.

Brown, Raymond E.  The Gospel according to John (AB). , 2 vols.  Garden City: New York: 1966-70.

*Keener, Craig S. The Gospel of John: A Commentary, 2 vols. Peabody: Hendrickson, 2003.

*Köstenberger, Andreas. John (BECNT). Grand Rapids: Baker, 2004.

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Borchert, Gerald L. John, 2 vols. (NAC). Nashville: Broadman & Holman, 1996-2002.

*Carson, D. A. The Gospel according to John (PNTC). Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1991.

*Michaels, J. Ramsey. The Gospel of John (NICNT, rev.). Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2010.

Moloney, Francis J. The Gospel of John (SP). Collegeville, MN: Liturgical, 1998.

Ridderbos, Herman L. The Gospel of John. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1997.

Witherington, Ben, III. John’s Wisdom. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1996.

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*Burge, Gary M. John (NIVAC). Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2000.

Kanagaraj, Jay J.  John (NCCS).  Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2012.

Kruse, Colin G. The Gospel according to John (TNTC, rev.). Leicester: IVP, 2004.

Whitacre, Rodney A. John (NTC). Downers Grove: IVP, 1999.

ACTS

Barrett, C. K. A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles, 2 vols. (ICC, rev.).  Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1994-98.

*Bock, Darrell L. Acts (BECNT). Grand Rapids: Baker, 2007.

Fitzmyer, Joseph A. The Acts of the Apostles (AB, rev.). New York: Doubleday, 1998.

*Schnabel, Eckhard  J.  Acts (ZECNT).  Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2012.

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Bruce, F. F. The Book of the Acts (NICNT). Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1988.²

Keener, Craig S.  Acts: An Exegetical Commentary, 4 vols.  Grand Rapids: Baker, 2012-   .

Longenecker, Richard N. “Acts,” in EBC, rev., vol. 10, 663-1102. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2007.

Marshall, I. Howard. The Acts of the Apostles (TNTC, rev.). Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1980.

*Peterson, David G. The Acts of the Apostles (PNTC).  Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2009.

Polhill, John B.  Acts (NAC). Nashville: Broadman, 1992.

*Witherington, Ben, III. The Acts of the Apostles: A Socio-Rhetorical Commentary. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1998.

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*Fernando, Ajith. Acts (NIVAC). Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1998.

Larkin, William J. Acts (NTC). Downers Grove: IVP, 1995.

Parsons, Mikeal C. Acts (Paideia). Grand Rapids: Baker, 2008.

ROMANS

*Cranfield, C. E. B. The Epistle to the Romans, 2 vols.  (ICC, rev.). Edinburgh: T & T Clark. 1975-79.

Fitzmyer, Joseph A. Romans (AB). New York: Doubleday, 1993.

Dunn, James D. G. Romans, 2 vols. (WBC). Dallas: Word, 1988.

Jewett, Robert. Romans (Hermeneia). Minneapolis: Fortress, 2007.

*Schreiner, Thomas R. Romans (BECNT). Grand Rapids: Baker, 1998.

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Hultgren, Arland J.  Paul’s Letter to the Romans: A Commentary.  Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2011.

*Kruse, Colin G.  Paul’s Letter to the Romans (PNTC).  Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2012.

Matera, Frank J. Romans (Paideia). Grand Rapids: Baker, 2010.

*Moo, Douglas J. The Epistle to the Romans (NICNT, rev.). Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1996.

Witherington, Ben, III, with Darlene Hyatt. Paul’s Letter to the Romans: A Socio-Rhetorical Commentary. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2004.

Wright, N. T. “The Letter to the Romans.” In NIB, vol. 10, 393-770.  Nashville: Abingdon, 2002.

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Keener, Craig S. Romans (NCCS). Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2009.

*Osborne, Grant R. Romans (NTC). Downers Grove: IVP, 2004.

Talbert, C. H. Romans (SHBC). Macon: Smyth & Helwys, 2002.

1 CORINTHIANS

Fitzmyer, Joseph A. First Corinthians (AB, rev.).  New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008.

*Garland, David E.