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Preaching 's Survey of Bibles and Bible Reference Biblical Foundations Award Winner InterVarsity Press is proud to present The Lightfoot Legacy, a three-volume set of previously unpublished material from J. B. Lightfoot, one of the great biblical scholars of the modern era. In the spring of 2013, Ben Witherington III discovered hundreds of pages of biblical commentary by Lightfoot in the Durham Cathedral Library. While incomplete, these commentaries represent a goldmine for historians and biblical scholars, as well as for the many people who have found Lightfoot's work both informative and edifying, deeply learned and pastorally sensitive. Among those many pages were two sets of lecture notes on the Acts of the Apostles. Together they amount to a richly detailed, albeit unfinished, commentary on Acts 1-21. The project of writing a commentary on Acts had long been on Lightfoot's mind, and in the 1880s he wrote an article about the book for the second British edition of William Smith's Dictionary of the Bible . Thankfully, that is not all he left behind. Now on display for all to see, these commentary notes reveal a scholar well ahead of his time, one of the great minds of his or an
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- Author
- J. B. Lightfoot [Lightfoot, J. B.]
- Publisher
- IVP Academic, an imprint of InterVarsity Press
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781514004043
- Category
- reference
- Subjects
- History, Christian, Reference
- Rating
- 5 / 5 (1 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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