[B-Greek] Patrisitic commentaries

James Ernest j.d.ernest at bc.edu
Mon Jun 16 23:25:45 EDT 2008


John,

You can find many Greek texts in TLG and Latin texts in the PHI or the
Patrologia Latina database. Many works are unavailable in English
translation, and of the works that have been translated in recent decades
relatively few are available in electronic form. Even if you can use Greek
or Latin texts in electronic databases, these omit the apparatus criticus.

For extensive engagement with patristic exegesis, you'll still need
libraries and books. For help locating patristic commentaries on particular
books of the bible, see the survey by David Balás and D. Jeffrey Bingham,
available as "Patristic Exegesis of the Books of the Bible" in The
International Bible Commentary, edited by William R. Farmer (Collegeville:
The Liturgical Press) and as chapter 4 in Charles Kannengiesser's Handbook
of Patristic Exegesis (Brill).

For selections in English, you probably know about the IVP and Eerdmans
series in progress that are publishing excerpts from patristic commentary:
The Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture from IVP and The Church's
Bible from Eerdmans. Older than these, and still useful, is a set called
Sunday Sermons of the Great Fathers, organized according to the lectionary.

James D. Ernest, PhD
Editor, Baker Academic



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