Matthew

W. D. Davies was a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Emeritus Professor of Christian Origins, Duke University. Dale C. Allison is Errett M. Grable Professor of New Testament Exegesis and Early Christianity, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary.

• Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction; Commentary; Bibliography; Index

Readers will generally gain a good understanding of the basic issues of interpretation of the individual pericopes as they work through each section.  In this regard, Allison's Shorter Commentary is a welcome edition, particularly for beginning students and busy ministers who will not only benefit from consulting it but can now afford to own a copy of their own.  As they read it, moreover, they can do so with the assurance that its present humble form has as its basis a colussus of demonstrated learning in its three-volume predecessor.