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IVP New Testament Commentary Series: 20 Volumes

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Pastors with a passion for sound exposition and scholars with a heart for pastoral leadership have joined forces to produce this exciting commentary series.

Each volume, informed by the best of up-to-date evangelical scholarship, presents passage-by-passage commentary based on the New International Version along with background information on authorship, setting, theme and various interpretive issues. A unique format allows the main commentary to focus on the vital message of the New Testament for today's church, while bottom-of-the-page notes include valuable scholarly information to support those who use the volumes as a resource for preaching or teaching preparation.

Seldom have such readable commentary and reliable research helps been available in the same volume! Preachers, teachers, students and other individuals who want to dig deep into the heart of the New Testament will find an indispensable companion in the IVP New Testament Commentary Series.

About the Editors

The series editor, Dr. Grant S. Osborne, is an Arminian Evangelical theologian. He has been professor of New Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School since 1977. Prior to coming to Trinity, Osborne taught at Winnipeg Theological Seminary and the University of Aberdeen. Osborne did undergraduate work at Taylor University and received the Bachelor of Arts in missions and pastoral training from Fort Wayne Bible College. He also received the Master of Arts in New Testament from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, and the Doctor of Philosophy in New Testament from the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. Osborne has also done academic research at the University of Cambridge, England, and the University of Marburg, Germany. Dr. Osborne was also one of six editors in charge of the New Living Translation published in 1996.

One of the consulting editors, Dr. Stuart Briscoe, was educated in England at Capernwray Hall Bible School. As a young man he served with the Royal Marine Commandos in Korea. Briscoe was called as senior pastor to Elmbrook Church in Brookfield, Wisconsin in 1970, after an eleven year banking career in England. Dr. Briscoe has served as assistant general director with the Caperwray Missionary Fellowship of Torchbearer’s International. During his pastorate, Elmbrook Church grew tremendously and planted a number of daughter churches in the Milwaukee metro area, while Briscoe continued his international teaching ministry. He has written more than 40 books and the media ministry, Telling the Truth, which he founded in 1971, continues to reach out daily around the world. In 2000, after thirty years or ministry, Dr. Osborne retired as pastor from Elmbrook Church and now has embarked on new ministries as Elmbrook's Ministers-at-Large, concentrating on reaching out to pastors, missionaries, and church leaders around the world.

Dr. Haddon W. Robinson, co-consulting editor, is the Harold John Ockenga Distinguished Professor of Preaching, senior director of the Doctor of Ministry program, and past President, 2007-09, at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. A native of New York City, he received a Th.M. from Dallas Theological Seminary, a M.A. from Southern Methodist University, and a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois. Dr. Robinson also served as president of Denver Conservative Baptist Seminary for 12 years (1979-1991), taught homiletics on the faculty of Dallas Theological Seminary for 19 years and served as General Director of the Christian Medical and Dental Society. Dr. Robinson was named among Christianity Today International’s Top 25 Most Influential Preachers from 1956 to 2006, and in an earlier Baylor University poll as one of the 12 most effective preachers in the English-speaking world.

Dr. Robinson has worked extensively in radio and television broadcast media. He has served as host for the television program Film Festival, and is one of the hosts for Discover the Word, a radio program which is broadcast 600

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