Description: This commentary situates Paul's first letter to the Corinthians within his larger theological vision, showing how the Bible's story helps us bridge the Corinthians' circumstances and our own so that we might faithfully inhabit our own context in redemptive history.
Brief description: David I. Starling (PhD, University of Sydney) is academic vice principal and lecturer in New Testament at Morling College, Sydney, Australia. He is the author of Hermeneutics as Apprenticeship: How the Bible Shapes Our Interpretive Habits and Practices, Reading Ephesians and Colossians: A Literary and Theological Commentary, and UnCorinthian Leadership: Thematic Reflections on 1 Corinthians. Starling is also the New Testament book review editor for Themelios.
Review Quotes:
"A rare combination of learned interaction with primary source material, sensible exegetical judgments and also the joy that the engagement with Scripture elicits."
--Simon Gathercole, University of Cambridge
"An up to date and detailed commentary based on considerable scholarship and an impressive command of both the Greco-Roman and Jewish background to 1 Corinthians."
--Alanna Nobbs, Macquarie University