Evaluating Commentaries on Joshua

4 What is a commentary ?In its most basic sense, a commentary sim-ply makes comments on a text. In the bestcommentaries, these comments are notrandom or impressionistic statements thatmay or may not have a legitimate connec-tion with the meaning of the text at , they focus on the text, and onmaking the text s meaning achieve this goal usingdifferent tools. The first step is determin-ing which text is to be clarified. Manycommentators provide their own originaltranslation and textual notes, which ex-plain which ancient versions are beingfollowed. Others use an established En-glish translation as the basis for their com-ments. The Commentaries written byWoudstra, Butler, Boling, Freedman, andNelson mentioned below provide anoriginal translation, while the others usean existing translation. The best commen-tators always refer to the original lan-guages in their research, however, and allthirteen works evaluated below do whose Hebrew skills are weakor who do not know Hebrew should notdespair.

Joshua to do so. (2) Woudstra, Marten H. The Book of Joshua. New International Commentary on the Old Testament. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1981. Woudstra, a conservative evangelical, is clearly committed to the authority and in-tegrity of the book of Joshua, and his com-mentary focuses on its literary and theological distinctives and message.

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