Title: Will you get what you pay for?
Product review: Though part of an "exegetical series", this book is largely a pastoral and homilectic commentary on 1 Cor 5. Anyone looking for a serious exegetical examination of 1 Cor 5 will be dissappointed with this book. Apart from some lexical insights, there is no exegesis going on here and no dialogue with any recent (i.e. the past 30 years)literature, Most of the author's own bibliography is very, very dated and his claim that little scholarly attention is devoted to this chapter is simply inaccurate. A quick review of current literature on 1 Corinthians will show that a number of scholarly articles take up the issues addressed in 1 Cor 5 and a number of monographs treat the chapter quite extensively. Readers looking for a more complete exegetical and theological treatment of the issues in 1 Cor 5 would do well to look elsewhere.
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