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Summary: Excellect commentary
Review: A good commentary that will get you familiar with the many different interpretations of James, but will ultimately supply you with a rock solid study. Especially good is his treatment of the "problems" people often encounter with James 2. There are plenty of footnotes that refer you to other works for further study concerning some opposing views, though not by any means an overkill on footnotes. I am using this text in my "General Epistles" class at Lee University (Pentecostal - Church of God - Clevland, TN.) It should be noted though that this is not an academic level commentary, but is designed for lay and clergy alike. Hard as it may seem, Moo was able to squeeze out 191 pages of commentary.
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Summary: Clearly the Best on James
Review: After going through this one again, I think it is the best commentary on the letter of James. The commentary is thorough, clear and comprehensive. The introduction is excellent and Moo provides excellent background material, and all of the most plausible interpretations of difficult passages. His exhaustive and lucid exegesis is rounded out with thoughtful application.
Note that Moo also wrote the commentary on James in the Tyndale series. The Pillar work far exceeds the Tyndale work (it is at least twice the size of the Tyndale commentary).
A fantastic addition to the Pillar series by one of the finest scholars of our time. A must have.
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Summary: Excellect commentary
Review: Basically I use this book as my resource of the Sunday school
class. The more I read it, the more I like it. Moo is very careful in tracing the meaning of the texts by examining the
Old Testament, extra-biblical literatures and the context. If some texts are controversial, he is very even-handed in handling different solutions and comes up with a reasonable conclusion. The even more important thing is he does not only render good
exegesis but also provide some good applications in christian life. I feel very impressed by his insightful prospectives. Great book!!
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Summary: don't be confused
Review: Doug Moo has written two seperate commentaries on the book of James. One is for the Tyndale New Testment series, while the other is for the Pillar New Testament Commentary. The Tyndale one is much simpler, shorter, and most accessable for the average layperson. The Pillar (a blue cover) has much more depth, including usage of the original greek. Some of the reviewers below are talking about the TYNDALE commentary and not the PILLAR commentary. Capiche?
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Summary: don't be confused
Review: Doug Moo has written two seperate commentaries on the book of James. One is for the Tyndale New Testment series, while the other is for the Pillar New Testament Commentary. The Tyndale one is much simpler, shorter, and most accessable for the average layperson. The Pillar (a blue cover) has much more depth, including usage of the original greek. Some of the reviewers below are talking about the TYNDALE commentary and not the PILLAR commentary. Capiche?
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Summary: good
Review: for its size and price, moo's commentary is filled with insights to enlighten and challenge any reader. a great scholar and expositor, moo makes the most of the pages given to him. in short, one of the best in an otherwise average series.
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Summary: This is not the hardback of Moo's Tyndale book!
Review: This is definitely not the hardback edition of Moo's Tyndale book. The Pillar commentary is a whole different animal, aimed at a more advanced reader. By analogy, this book is similar to Morris' Thessa. commentary in the NICNT versus his Tyndale volume. The Pillar series is about the same as the NICNT (in terms of their audience) based on Morris' Romans, which I have. Both are the most in-depth commentary for non-Greek readers available.
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Summary: My Favorite James Commentary
Review: This is my favorite commentary on James, and I have read many (see some of my other reviews). Moo has the most accessible, thorough, and easy-to-use commentary that I have read. This Pillar commentary is longer than the same author's commentary written for Tyndale's New Testament Commentary Series. You would do well to buy either one of these. Moo works very hard to be exegetical. He hesitates--no, he refrains--from saying anything that he cannot demonstrate exegetically from the text. He humbly alerts the reader when his view is in the minority or contested and even humbly admits when his view is not the only defendable one (see, specifically James 4:5). To a degree matched by few, Moo not only seeks to technically (without belaboring issues so as to make them inaccessibly technical) defend his points exposing salient points of interest in the text, but he also is a carefully writes his sentences, not wasting words. The student of the Letter of James would be amiss not to invest in the Pillar Commentary by Moo. For those who would like it a little shorter and a little easier to digest, his Tyndale Commentary on James will suffice as well. Two other James commentaries that I would highly recommend are Kistemaker's and MacArthur's.
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Summary: Great commentary
Review: This is the only commentary I have read on James, so I can't fairly compare it to others. But I can't imagine reading a more lucid, informed, intriguing, and just all around Godly understanding of what can be one of the most difficult books of the NT to understand. Moo handles each passage with clarity, being fair to different views and presenting his own conclusions. The book also has a well articulated introduction and discussion of time, place, and authorship. I would have wished Moo had included Greek words in their original letters as well as their transliteration. I also wish he had interacted a bit more with the Greek text. Moo, however, was only staying true to the general format of the Pillar series, which assumes no previous Greek study on the part of the reader. Both the hard cover as well as its dusk jacket are well manufactured and good looking. The pages are nice and the small size of the book makes it fairly easy to handle. Overall, one of the best commentaries on any book that I have read.
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