Review in: The Expository
Times 2003 114: 132
Review door: I. Howard MarshallGevonden op: http://ext.sagepub.com/content/114/4/132.1.full.pdf+html
A MAJOR
COMMENTARY ON LUKE
The dustcover of
François Bovon, Luke I: A Commentary on the Gospel of Luke 1:1-9:50 (Minneapolis:
Fortress Press, 2002. $49-50. pp. xxxvi + 441. ISBN 0-8006-6004-7) leads off with
the statement: ’In terms of its immense and wide learning, fullness of comment,
and depth of insight, I reckon that this commentary is without rivals.’ I wrote
that comment in a review of the original German publication of this commentary
in the Evangelisch-Katholischer Kommentar series (1989), and I now repeat it.
The editors of the Hermeneia series are to be congratulated on their wisdom in
adopting this commentary for English translation (and likewise the work in the
same series by U. Luz on Matthew). It has been excellently translated by
Christine M. Thomas who has ensured that all words and phrases in other
languages are supplied with English equivalents and, where appropriate,
references given to the English translations of German books. No attempt has
been made to update the volume beyond some bibliographical additions: the
author is still occupied with writing the fourth volume of the German edition.
In its present form this is destined to be the major work on Luke for some time
to come. It is written out of encyclopaedic knowledge of the relevant material,
carefully analysed and lucidly presented. A particular feature of the German
series is the attention given to ’History of Interpretation’
(Wirkungsgeschichte, which really means history of the effect that the text has
had rather than how people have interpreted it); there is not a lot of this in
this first volume of the commentary, but the subsequent volumes will treat it
much more extensively. Otherwise, Bovon tackles all aspects of the text and is particularly
concerned with the theology of the Gospel. He writes both as a scholar and as a
confessed Christian seeking to help Christian readers, and the result is a work
that will aid preachers as well as students.
I. HOWARD MARSHALL
University of Aberdeen
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