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Commentaries on Other NT Books

Commentaries on Other NT Books

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Commentaries on Philippians (In English)

Barth, K. The Epistle to the Philippians. Translated by J. W. Leitch. London: SCM Press, 1962.

Beare, F. W. A Commentary on the Epistle to the Philippians. HNTC. New York: Harper, 1959.

Bengel, J. A. Gnomon of the New Testament (1742), “Epistle to the Philippians.” Translated by J. Bryce, vol. 4, pp. 119–56. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1857.

Caird, G. B. Paul’s Letters from Prison. NClarB, pp. 95–154. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976.

Calvin, John. The Epistles of Paul the Apostle to the Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians and Colossians (1548). Translated by T. H. L. Parker, pp. 225–95. Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1965. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1979.

Chrysostom (Saint John Chrysostom). Homilies on the Epistle of St. Paul the Apostle to the Philippians (between A.D. 398 and 404). Translated by W. C. Cotton. NPNF, Series 1, vol. 13, pp. 181–255. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1956.

Collange, J.-F. The Epistle of St. Paul to the Philippians. Translated by A. W. Heathcote. London: Epworth, 1979.

Grayston, K. The Epistles to the Galatians and to the Philippians. EPC, pp. 75–116. London: Epworth, 1957.

———. The Letters of Paul to the Philippians and to the Thessalonians. CBC, pp. 3–48. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1967.

Hawthorne, G. F. Philippians. WBC 43. Waco, Tex.: Word, 1983.

Hendriksen, W. Philippians. NTC. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1962.

Houlden, J. L. Paul’s Letters from Prison. PNTC, pp. 29–116. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1970. WPCS. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1978.

Jones, M. The Epistle to the Philippians. WC. London: Methuen, 1918.

Kennedy, H. A. A. The Epistle to the Philippians. EGT, vol. 3, pp. 397–473. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1903. (On the Greek text.)

Lightfoot, J. B. St. Paul’s Epistle to the Philippians. 6th ed. London: Macmillan, 1881. (On the Greek text.)

Martin, Ralph P. Philippians. NCB. London: Oliphants, 1976. NCBCS. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1980.

Meyer, H. A. W. The Epistles to the Philippians and Colossians. Translated by J. C. Moore and W. P. Dickson. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1885.

Michael, J. H. The Epistle of Paul to the Philippians. MNTC. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1928.

Moule, H. C. G. The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Philippians. CBSC. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1889.

Müller, J. J. The Epistles of Paul to the Philippians and to Philemon. NICNT Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1955.

Plummer, Alfred. A Commentary on St. Paul’s Epistle to the Philippians. London: Robert Scott, 1919. Old Tappan, N.J.: Revell, 1980.

Scott, E. F. The Epistle to the Philippians. IB, vol. 11. New York and Nashville: Abingdon, 1955.

Silva, Moisés. Philippians. Wycliffe Exegetical Commentary. Chicago: Moody Press, 1988.

Smith, R. R. The Epistles of St. Paul’s First Trial. Cambridge: Macmillan & Bowes, 1899.

Vaughan, C. J. St. Paul’ s Epistle to the Philippians. London: Macmillan, 1885. (On the Greek text).

Vincent, M. R. Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Epistles to the Philippians and to Philemon. 3d ed., ICC. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1922. (On the Greek text).

Commentaries on Philippians (In Other Languages)

Benoit, P. Epître aux Philippiens. 2d ed., BJ. Paris: Editions du Cerf, 1956.

Dibelius, M. An die Thessalonicher I–II. An die Philipper. HNT 11. Tübingen: Mohr, 1937.

Ewald, P. Der Brief des Paulus an die Philipper. Revised by G. Wohlenberg. ZK 11. Leipzig and Erlangen: Deichert-Scholl, 1923.

Friedrich, G. Der Brief an die Philipper. In Die kleineren Briefe des Apostels Paulus. 10th ed., NTD 8. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1965.

Gnilka, J. Der Philipperbrief TKNT. Freiburg: Herder, 1968.

Haupt, E. Der Brief an die Philipper. In Die Gefangenschaftsbriefe. 7th ed., KEK 9. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1902.

Lipsius, R. A. Der Brief an die Philipper. 2d ed., HCNT II.2. Freiburg: Mohr, 1892.

Lohmeyer, E. Der Brief an die Philipper. Revised by W. Schmauch. 14th ed., KEK 9. Göttingen. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1974.

Lueken, W. Der Brief an die Philipper. 3d ed., SNT II. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1917.

Michaelis, W. Der Brief des Paulus an die Philipper. THKNT 11. Leipzig: Deichert, 1935.

Staab, K. Die Thessalonicherbriefe. Die Gefangenschaftsbriefe. 5th ed., RNT. Regensburg: Pustet, 1969.

Victorinus (C. Marius Victorinus Afer). Commentarii in Epistulas Pauli (between A.D. 360 and 370). Edited by A. Locher. BT, pp. 72–122. Leipzig: Teubner, 1972.

Bibliography on the Christ Hymn (Phil. 2:6–11) (In English)

Bornkamm, G. (1950). In Early Christian Experience, pp. 112–22. Translated by P. L. Hammer. London: SCM Press, 1969.

Dunn, J. D. G. Christology in the Making, pp. 114–21. London: SCM Press, 1980. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1980.

Ehrhardt, A. A. T. “Jesus Christ and Alexander the Great” (1948). In The Framework of the New Testament Stories, pp. 37–43. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1964.

Fairweather, E. R. “The ‘Kenotic’ Christology.” In F. W. Beare, Philippians, pp. 159–74.

Furness, J. M. “Behind the Philippian Hymn.” ExpT 79 (1967–68), pp. 178–82.

Gifford, E. H. The Incarnation: A Study of London: Longmans, 1911.

Glasson, T. F. “Two Notes on the Philippians Hymn (II.6–11).” NTS 21 (1974–75), pp. 133–39.

Hooker, M. D. In Jesus und Paulus: Festschrift für W. G. Kümmel. Edited by E. E. Ellis and E. Grässer, pp. 151–64. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1975.

Hoover, R. W. “The Harpagmos Enigma: A Philological Solution.” HTR 64 (1971), pp. 95–119.

Käsemann, E. (1950). Translated by A. F. Carse. JTC 5 (1968), pp. 45–88.

Knox, W. L. “The ‘Divine Hero’ Christology in the New Testament.” HTR 41 (1948), pp. 229–49.

Marshall, I. H. TB 19 (1968), pp. 104–27.

Martin, R. P. Carmen Christi: in Recent Interpretation and in the Setting of Early Christian Worship. SNTSMS 4. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1967.

Moule, C. F. D. In Apostolic History and the Gospel … Essays presented to F. F. Bruce. Edited by W. W. Gasque and R. P. Martin. Exeter: Paternoster, 1970, pp. 264–76.

Murphy-O’Connor, J. RB 83 (1974), pp. 25–50.

Sanders, J. T. The New Testament Christological Hymns. SNTSMS 15. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1971. pp. 9–12, 58–74.

Schweizer, E. Lordship and Discipleship. SBT 28. London: SCM Press, 1960. pp. 61–67.

Wallace, D. H. “A Note on morphē.” TZ 22 (1966), pp. 19–25.

Warren, W. “On heauton ekenōsen.” JTS 12 (1911), pp. 461–63.

Bibliography on the Christ Hymn (Phil. 2:6–11) (In Other Languages)

Cerfaux, L. “L’hymne au Christ-Serviteur de Dieu.” In Recueil Lucien Cerfaux, vol. 2, pp. 425–38. Gembloux: Duculot, 1954.

Grelot, P. “Deux notes critiques sur Philippiens 2, 6–11.” Bib. 54 (1973), pp. 169–86.

Hofius, O. Der Christushymnus Philipper 2, 6–11. WUNT 17. Tübingen: Mohr, 1976.

Jeremias, J. “Zur Gedankenführung in den paulinischen Briefen.” In Studia Paulina in honorem J. de Zwaan. Edited by J. N. Sevenster and W. C. van Unnik, pp. 152–55. Haarlem: Bohn, 1953.

———. “Zu heauton ekenōsen” NovT 6 (1963), pp. 182–188.

Jervell, J., Imago Dei: Gen. 1, 26f. im Spätjudentum, in der Gnosis und in den paulinischen Briefen, FRLANT 76 (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1960), pp. 227–31.

Larsson, E. Christus als Vorbild. ASNU 23, pp. 230–75. Uppsala: Almquist & Wiksells, 1962.

Lohmeyer, E. Kyrios Jesus: Line Untersuchung zu Phil 2, 5–11. Heidelberg: Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1928, 2d ed., 1961.

Works Relevant to the Study of Philippians (In English)

Bandstra, A. J. The Law and the Elements of the World. Kampen: Kok, 1964.

Baur, F. C. Paul: His Life and Works. (First German edition, 1845). 2 vols. Translated by A. Menzies. London: Williams & Norgate, 1875.

Beker, J. Christiaan. Paul the Apostle. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1980. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1980.

Bruce, F. F. Paul: Apostle of the Free Spirit. Exeter: Paternoster, 1977. USA title: Paul: Apostle of the Heart Set Free. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1977.

———. Tradition Old and New. Exeter: Paternoster, 1970.

Carr, W. Angels and Principalities. SNTSMS 42. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981.

Clarke, W. K. L. New Testament Problems. London: SPCK, 1929.

Conybeare, W. J., and Howson, J. S. The Life and Epistles of St. Paul. London: Longmans, 1877.

Cullmann, Oscar. The Christology of the New Testament. Translated by S. C. Guthrie and C. A. M. Hall. London: SCM Press, 1959. Rev. ed. NTL. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1964.

———. The Early Church. Translated by A. J. B. Higgins and S. Godman. London: SCM Press, 1956.

Davies, W. D. Paul and Rabbinic Judaism. London: SPCK, 1948. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1980.

DeBoer, W. P. The Imitation of Paul. Kampen: Kok, 1962.

Deissmann, A. Bible Studies. 2d ed. Translated by A. Grieve. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1909.

———. Light from the Ancient East. 2d ed. Translated by L. R. M. Strachan. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1927.

Dodd, C. H. According to the Scriptures. London: Nisbet, 1952.

———. New Testament Studies. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1953.

Duncan, G. S. St. Paul’s Ephesian Ministry. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1929.

Ehrhardt, A. A. T. The Framework of the New Testament Stories. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1964. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1964.

Evans, O. E. Saints in Christ Jesus: A Study of the Christian Life in the New Testament. Swansea: John Penry Press, 1975.

Funk, R. W. Language, Hermeneutic, and Word of God. New York: Harper & Row, 1966.

Gamble, H. The Textual History of the Letter to the Romans. SD 42. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1977.

Goodspeed, E. J. Problems of New Testament Translation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1945.

Gundry, R. H. “Sōma” in Biblical Theology: With Emphasis on Pauline Anthropology. SNTSMS 29. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1976.

Gunther, J. J. Paul: Messenger and Exile. Valley Forge, Pa.: Judson, 1972.

Hanson, R. P. C. Tradition in the Early Church. London: SCM Press, 1962.

Hengel, M. Acts and the History of Earliest Christianity. Translated by J. Bowden. London: SCM Press, 1979. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1980.

———. Crucifixion. Translated by J. Bowden. London: SCM Press, 1977. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1977.

Holmberg, B. Paul and Power: The Structure of Authority in the Primitive Church as Reflected in the Pauline Epistles. CB NT Series 11. Lund: Gleerup, 1978. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1980.

Hort, F. J. A. The Christian Ecclesia. London: Macmillan, 1897.

Hunter, A. M. Paul and His Predecessors. 2d ed. London: SCM Press, 1961.

Kim, S. The Origin of Paul’s Gospel. WUNT 2.4. Tübingen: Mohr, 1981. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1982. 2d ed. 1984.

Kümmel, W. G. Introduction to the New Testament. Translated by A. J. Mattill, Jr. London: SCM Press, 1966.

Larsen, J. A. O. Greek Federal States. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968.

Lincoln, A. T. Paradise Now and Not Yet. SNTSMS 43. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press 1981.

Manson, T. W. Studies in the Gospels and Epistles. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1962.

Marxsen, Willi. Introduction to the New Testament. Translated by G. Buswell. Oxford: Blackwell, 1968. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1968.

Montefiore, H. W. Paul the Apostle. London: Collins, 1981.

Moore, A. L. The Parousia in the New Testament. NovTSup 13. Leiden: Brill, 1966.

Moule, C. F. D. An Idiom-Book of New Testament Greek. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1953.

———. The Origin of Christology. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1977.

Moule, H. C. G. Philippian Studies. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1897. Grand Rapids: Kregel, 1977.

O’Brien, P. T. Introductory Thanksgivings in the Letters of Paul. NovTSup 49. Leiden: Brill, 1977.

O’Sullivan, F. The Egnatian Way. Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1972.

Pfitzner, V. C. Paul and the Agon Motif: Traditional Athletic Imagery in the Pauline Literature. NovTSup 16. Leiden: Brill, 1967.

Ramsay, W. M. St. Paul the Traveller and the Roman Citizen. 14th ed. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1920.

Renan, E. Saint Paul. Translated by W. M. Thomson. London: Mathieson, 1889.

Rigaux, B. The Letters of Paul. Translated by S. Yonick. Chicago: Franciscan Herald, 1968.

Rivkin, E. A Hidden Revolution. Nashville: Abingdon, 1978.

Robinson, H. W. The Cross of the Servant. London: SCM Press, 1926.

Robinson, J. A. T. Redating the New Testament. London: SCM Press, 1976.

Sanders, E. P. Paul and Palestinian Judaism. London: SCM Press, 1977. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1977.

———. Paul, the Law and the Jewish People. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1983.

Schmithals, W. Paul and the Gnostics. Translated by J. E. Steely. Nashville and New York: Abingdon, 1972.

Schubert, P. Form and Function of the Pauline Thanksgivings. BZNW 20. Berlin: Töpelmann, 1939.

Schweitzer, A. The Mysticism of Paul the Apostle. Translated by W. Montgomery. London: A. & C. Black, 1931.

Sherwin-White, A. N. Roman Society and Roman Law in the New Testament. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963.

———. The Roman Citizenship. 2d ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1973.

Stauffer, E. New Testament Theology. Translated by J. Marsh. London: SCM Press, 1955.

Stendahl, K., ed. The Scrolls and the New Testament. London: SCM Press, 1958.

Tarn, W. W., and Griffith, G. T. Hellenistic Civilisation. 3d ed. London: Arnold, 1952. Rev. ed. New York: New American Library, 1961.

Thornton, L. S. Christ and the Church. London: Dacre Press, 1956.

Thrall, M. E. Greek Particles in the New Testament. NTTS 3. Leiden: Brill, 1962.

Weiss, J. Earliest Christianity. 2 vols. Edited by F. C. Grant. New York: Harper Torchbooks, 1959.

White, J. L. The Form and Function of the Body of the Greek Letter. SBLDS 2. Missoula, Mont.: Scholars Press, 1972.

Wiles, G. P. Paul’s Intercessory Prayers. SNTSMS 24. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1974.

Zahn, T. Introduction to the New Testament. 3 vols. Edited by M. W. Jacobus. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1909.

Ziesler, J. A. The Meaning of Righteousness in Paul. SNTSMS 20. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1972.

Works Relevant to the Study of Philippians (In Other Languages)

Appel, H. Einleitung in das Neue Testament. Leipzig: Deichert, 1922.

Bouttier, M. En Christ. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1962.

De Wette, W. M. L. Lehrbuch der historisch-kritischen Einleitung in die kanonischen Bücher des Neuen Testaments. 4th ed. Berlin: G. Reimer, 1842.

Dupont, J. Gnosis: La connaissance religieuse dans les épîtres de saint Paul. Louvain: Nauwelaerts and Paris: Gabalda, 1949.

Feine, P. Die Abfassung des Philipperbriefes in Ephesus. BFCT 20.4. Gütersloh: Bertelsmann, 1916.

Güttgemanns, E. Der leidende Apostel und sein Herr. FRLANT 90. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1966.

Holtzmann, H. J. Einleitung in das Neue Testament. Freiburg: Mohr, 1886.

Lütgert, W. Die Vollkommenen im Philipperbrief und die Enthusiasten in Thessalonich. BFCT 13. Gütersloh: Bertelsmann, 1909.

Michaelis, W. Die Gefangenschaft des Paulus in Ephesus und das Itinerar des Timotheus. NTF 1.3. Gütersloh: Bertelsmann, 1925.

Seesemann, H. Der Begriff KOINŌNIA im Neuen Testament. BZNW 14. Giessen: Töpelmann, 1933.

Collected Essays

Bammel, E.; Barrett, C. K.; and Davies, W. D., eds. Donum Gentilicium: New Testament Studies in Honour of David Daube. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978.

Banks, R., ed. Reconciliation and Hope: New Testament Essays on Atonement and Eschatology presented to L. L. Morris. Exeter: Paternoster, 1974.

Barclay, W., and Anderson, H., eds. The New Testament in Historical and Contemporary Perspective: Essays in Memory of G. H. C. Macgregor. Oxford: Blackwell, 1965.

Black, M., and Fohrer, G., eds. In Memoriam Paul Kahle. BZAW 103. Berlin: Töpelmann, 1968.

Buckler, W. H., and Calder, W. M., eds. Anatolian Studies presented to Sir William Mitchell Ramsay. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1923.

Farmer, W. R.; Moule, C. F. D.; and Niebuhr, R. R., eds. Christian History and Interpretation: Studies presented to John Knox. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1967.

Gasque, W. W., and Martin, R. P., eds. Apostolic History and the Gospel: Biblical and Historical Essays presented to F. F. Bruce. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1970.

Newman, J. H. Parochial and Plain Sermons, vol. 6. London: Longmans, 1896.

Sevenster, J. N., and van Unnik, W. C., eds. Studia Paulina in honorem Johannis de Zwaan. Haarlem: Bohn, 1953.

van Unnik, W. C., ed. Neotestamentica et Patristica: Eine Freundesgabe O. Cullmann zu seinem 60. Geburtstag überreicht. NovTSup 6. Leiden: Brill, 1962.

Commentaries on Other NT Books

Bruce, F. F. The Epistle to the Galatians. NIGTC. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1982.

———. 1 & 2 Thessalonians. WBC 45. Waco, Tex.: Word, 1982.

Burton, Ernest D. A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians. ICC. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1921.

Haenchen, Ernst. The Acts of the Apostles. Translated by B. Noble and G. Shinn. Oxford: Blackwell, 1971. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1971.

Swete, Henry B. The Gospel according to St. Mark. 3rd ed. London: Macmillan, 1909. Grand Rapids: Kregel, 1978

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