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Best Commentaries on Each Book of the Bible

Best Commentaries

I live in a small house. I work in a small office in a small church. For those reasons and others I will never have a huge library. When I add a book I almost always remove a book, a practice that allows me to focus on quality over quantity. Over the past couple of years I have focused on building a collection of commentaries that will include only the best volumes on each book of the Bible. I know when I’m in way over my head, so before I began I collected every good resource I could find that rated and reviewed commentaries. I studied them and then began my collection on the basis of what the experts told me. Since I did all of that work, and since I continue to keep up with the project, I thought it might be helpful to share the recommendations.

My focus is on newer commentaries (at least in part because most of the classics are now freely or cheaply available) and I am offering approximately 5 recommendations for each book of the Bible.

Old TestamentNew Testament
Best Commentaries on GenesisBest Commentaries on Matthew
Best Commentaries on ExodusBest Commentaries on Mark
Best Commentaries on LeviticusBest Commentaries on Luke
Best Commentaries on NumbersBest Commentaries on John
Best Commentaries on DeuteronomyBest Commentaries on Acts
Best Commentaries on JoshuaBest Commentaries on Romans
Best Commentaries on JudgesBest Commentaries on 1 Corinthians
Best Commentaries on RuthBest Commentaries on 2 Corinthians
Best Commentaries on 1 & 2 SamuelBest Commentaries on Galatians
Best Commentaries on 1 & 2 KingsBest Commentaries on Ephesians
Best Commentaries on 1 & 2 ChroniclesBest Commentaries on Philippians
Best Commentaries on Ezra & NehemiahBest Commentaries Colossians & Philemon
Best Commentaries on EstherBest Commentaries on 1 & 2 Thessalonians
Best Commentaries on JobBest Commentaries on the Pastoral Epistles (1&2 Timothy +Titus)
Best Commentaries on PsalmsBest Commentaries on Hebrews
Best Commentaries on ProverbsBest Commentaries on James
Best Commentaries on EcclesiastesBest Commentaries on 1 Peter
Best Commentaries on Song of SolomonBest Commentaries on 2 Peter & Jude
Best Commentaries on IsaiahBest Commentaries on 1, 2, 3 John
Best Commentaries on JeremiahBest Commentaries on Revelation
Best Commentaries on Lamentations
Best Commentaries on Ezekiel
Best Commentaries on Daniel
Best Commentaries on the Minor Prophets