The Epistle of James (The New International Commentary on the New Testament)

by James Adamson

Hardcover, 1976

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Eerdmans Pub Co (1976), 227 pages

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LibraryThing member matthauck
The best thing about Adamson is the number of excurses he has that discuss matters in significant detail that others simply give a passing reference (e.g. a few pages on the word "all" in "all joy" in 1:2). Other than these, I did not find the commentary very valuable, except at times.

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that, Adamson shows himself willing and ready to emend the text without any textual variant support. I think this is an unwarranted practice and it makes me skeptical of him. Second, he refers a little too often to comparisons between James and Judaism--something James was saved out of.

Compared w/ Martin, Blomberg and Davids, this gets rank 4.
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