For For readers wanting a short evangelical commentary on 1 Peter; not for scholars wanting current discussion of authorship and setting.
Should I read this?
For the general reader
3 of 5worth your time
For the researcher
2 of 5useful
Difficulty
2 of 5moderate
A short evangelical commentary on 1 Peter in the first Tyndale series: Stibbs on the text, Walls's introduction on authorship and setting. Accessible and now dated.
How it proceeds
Philosophic1 of 5
Scriptural5 of 5
Experiential2 of 5
Sociological1 of 5
Historical3 of 5
Independent intensities, 0–5 — what the work is made of, not how good it is.
Volume 17 of the original Tyndale New Testament Commentaries, published by the Tyndale Press in London in 1959 (192 pages) and later reprinted by Inter-Varsity Press and Eerdmans. The commentary on the text is by Alan M. Stibbs (1901–1971); the introduction, on the letter's authorship, date and setting, is by Andrew F. Walls, then a young patristics scholar who had recently finished graduate work at Oxford and gone to teach in Sierra Leone.
The First Epistle General of Peter
by Andrew Walls
For For readers wanting a short evangelical commentary on 1 Peter; not for scholars wanting current discussion of authorship and setting.
Should I read this?
A short evangelical commentary on 1 Peter in the first Tyndale series: Stibbs on the text, Walls's introduction on authorship and setting. Accessible and now dated.
How it proceeds
Independent intensities, 0–5 — what the work is made of, not how good it is.
Volume 17 of the original Tyndale New Testament Commentaries, published by the Tyndale Press in London in 1959 (192 pages) and later reprinted by Inter-Varsity Press and Eerdmans. The commentary on the text is by Alan M. Stibbs (1901–1971); the introduction, on the letter's authorship, date and setting, is by Andrew F. Walls, then a young patristics scholar who had recently finished graduate work at Oxford and gone to teach in Sierra Leone.
Catalog ID
W.ZXT659.X