James (ICC) - (International Critical Commentary) by Dale C Allison (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

For over 100 years the International Critical Commentary has had a special place amongst works on the Bible. This new volume on James brings together all the relevant aids to exegesis - linguistic, textual, archaeological, historical, literary and theological - to enable the scholar to have a complete knowledge and understanding of this old testament book. Allison incorporates new evidence available in the field and applies new methods of studies. No uniform theological or critical approach to the text is taken.

Review Quotes

A monumental commentary.
Biblica (Bloomsbury translation)

The appearance of the second ICC commentary on James, almost 100 years after the publication in 1916 of the first by James Hardy Ropes is an event worthy of comment ... Allison has certainly ... given ample expression to the multiple skills a successful commentator requires, whether philological, historical, or interpretative, all of which built upon a range of knowledge and a sensitivity to the wider religious setting.
Early Christianity Vol. 5

This substantial commentary on James from Allison is superior to other works due to its breadth and thoroughness ... The textual interpretation is conventional in the best sense ... and the documentation and development of secondary literature in the footnotes is immense, a rare and unique resource.
Theologische Literaturzeitung (Bloomsbury translation)

About the Author

Dale C. Allison Jr. is Errett M. Grable Professor of New Testament Exegesis and Early Christianity, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, and is the author of The Intertextual Jesus and, with the late W.D. Davies, the ICC volumes on Matthew.