The International critical commentary on the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments (International Critical Commentary or ICC) is a series of commentaries in English on the text of the
Old Testament
The Old Testament (OT) is the first division of the Christian biblical canon, which is based primarily upon the 24 books of the Hebrew Bible, or Tanakh, a collection of ancient religious Hebrew and occasionally Aramaic writings by the Isr ...
and
New Testament
The New Testament (NT) is the second division of the Christian biblical canon. It discusses the teachings and person of Jesus in Christianity, Jesus, as well as events relating to Christianity in the 1st century, first-century Christianit ...
. It has been published by
T&T Clark, now an imprint of
Bloomsbury Publishing
Bloomsbury Publishing plc is a British worldwide publishing house of fiction and non-fiction. Bloomsbury's head office is located on Bedford Square in Bloomsbury, an area of the London Borough of Camden. It has a US publishing office located in ...
.
Initially started in 1895,
the International Critical Commentary series is a highly regarded academic-level commentary on the Bible. The ICC is described as "a venerable institution in biblical study and interpretation",
"known for its detailed, critical, and theological interpretation"
and "the gold standard of critical commentaries for the last century".
It aims to marshall all available aids to exegesis: linguistic, textual, archaeological, historical, literary and theological. No unifying scheme is sought but each scholar has been free to express their expertise.
Many of its volumes are continue to be cited as among the best commentaries on their respective books, decades after they were written.
The original editors of the series were
Samuel Rolles Driver,
Alfred A. Plummer and
Charles Augustus Briggs
Charles Augustus Briggs (January 15, 1841 – June 8, 1913), American Presbyterian (and later Episcopal Church (United States), Episcopalian) scholar and theologian, was born in New York City, the son of Alanson Briggs and Sarah Mead Berrian. He ...
.
The series has been in the hands of various editors since. A new series began with
C. E. B. Cranfield's commentary on Romans in 1975 under the editorship of Cranfield,
John Emerton and
Graham Stanton
Graham Norman Stanton (1940–2009) was a New Zealand biblical scholar who taught at King's College, London, and as Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge. A New Testament specialist, Stanton's special interests we ...
.
As of the 2020s, the editors are
Stuart Weeks,
Christopher M. Tuckett, and
Jacqueline Vayntrub.
Volumes
* 552 pages
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* 489 pages
* 434 pages][
* 476 pages
* 421 pages
* 574 pages
* 534 pages
* 384 pages
* 334 pages][
* 368 pages
* 740 pages
* 740 pages
* 692 pages
* 1,272 pages
* 450 pages][
* 480 pages
* 496 pages
* 424 pages
* 404 pages
* 978 pages
* 978 pages][
* 685 pages][
* 497 pages][
* ]
See also
* Anchor Bible Series
The Anchor Bible Series, which consists of a commentary series, a Bible dictionary, and a reference library, is a scholarly and Commerce, commercial co-venture which was begun in 1956, with the publication of individual volumes in the List of bib ...
* Exegesis
Exegesis ( ; from the Ancient Greek, Greek , from , "to lead out") is a critical explanation or interpretation (philosophy), interpretation of a text. The term is traditionally applied to the interpretation of Bible, Biblical works. In modern us ...
* Textual criticism
Textual criticism is a branch of textual scholarship, philology, and literary criticism that is concerned with the identification of textual variants, or different versions, of either manuscripts (mss) or of printed books. Such texts may rang ...
* List of Biblical commentaries
This is an outline of commentaries and commentators. Discussed are the salient points of Jewish, patristic, medieval, and modern commentaries on the Bible. The article includes discussion of the Targums, Mishna, and Talmuds, which are not regard ...
References
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Biblical commentaries
Series of non-fiction books