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J A N U A R Y 1 9 , 2 0 1 5
IN THIS ISSUE ▷HAVE MARKETPLACE MEASURES CORRUPTED MISSIONS? ▷ROMANS
▷ A REVEREND’S JOURNEY WITH PARKINSON’S ▷FRESH BIBLE STUDY RESOURCES
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Joseph Barber Lightfoot (1828–1889), also known as J. B. Lightfoot, was an
English theologian and preacher who served as canon of St Paul’s Cathedral and
Bishop of Durham. He was a professor of divinity at Trinity College, editing the
Journal of Classical and Sacred Philology from 1854 to 1859, and he gained enormous
popularity for his work Essays on the Work Entitl ed Supernatural Religion, a defense ofthe New Testament. His writings include essays on biblical and historical subject
matter, commentaries on Pauline epistles and studies on the Apostolic Fathers, as
well as four posthumously published volumes of sermons.
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2 I V P B O O K C L U B . C O M
UNEARTHING A TIMELESS TREASURE
The Acts of the Apostles is the first in a
three-volume set of newly discovered and
previously unpublished material from
J. B. Lightfoot, one of the great biblical
scholars of the modern era.
Among the many pages discovered 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 onActs 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.
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M A I N S E L E C T I O N
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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 histo-
rians 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.
Now on display for all to see, these commen-
tary notes reveal a scholar well ahead of his
time, one of the great minds of his or any gen-
eration. Well over a century later, Lightfoot’s
writings remain a relevant and significant
resource for the church today.
“The discovery of hitherto unknown exegeticalworks by J. B. Lightfoot is a rare gift, full of
potential for fresh insight both about the man himself
(acknowledged worldwide as the leading scholar of his
day) and, as he would have wished, about texts which
he knew so well and which themselves express the
heart of the gospel.”
—N. T. Wright
“J. B. Lightfoot was perhaps the greatest New
Testament exegete in the nineteenth-century English-
speaking world, and his works remain useful today.
The discovery of his previously unpublished research,
which addresses in a balanced and informed way
many issues still debated today, is an epochal event in
New Testament studies.”
—Craig Keener, Asbury Theological Seminary
“Lightfoot is peerless among biblical commentators ofhis day. . . . To watch him work—as in this book
on Acts—is an education in the questions to ask,
approaches to take and ways to draw evidence from
disparate sources together to produce a coherent whole.
We are greatly in debt to Ben Witherington, Todd
Still and their collaborators for bringing this material
to light for our day.” —Steve Walton, Tyndale House, Cambridge
“Everyone who has read J. B. Lightfoot’s great com-
mentaries on the letters of Paul wishes for more. . . .
The publication of Lightfoot’s long-lost commentary is
momentous.”
—Craig A. Evans, Payzant Distinguished
Professor of New Testament, Acadia University
ABOUT THE LIGHTFOOT LEGACY SET
PRAISE FOR THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES
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4 I V P B O O K C L U B . C O M
THE LEGACY LIVES ON
David Congdon, IVP Academic editor for the
project, discussed this exciting publishing event with
editors Ben Witherington III and Todd D. Still.
Congdon: Could you briefly tell me how
this project started?
Witherington: In 1978 I was wandering
around Durham Cathedral Library and saw a
case with handwritten notes on Acts 15 and
assumed there must be more. [After many
years,] I finally went and rummaged through
everything they had, which included some1,500 handwritten pages on Acts, John, 1
Peter and 2 Corinthians—all untranscribed
and all unpublished. I felt like I hit the moth-
er lode since he was the greatest commentator
of the nineteenth century.
Ben Witherington III (PhD, University of Durham) is professor of New
Testament for doctoral studies at Asbury Theological Seminary and on the
doctoral faculty at St Andrews University in Scotland. An ordained pastor
in the United Methodist Church and a popular lecturer, he has written over
forty books, including The Jesus Quest and The Paul Quest .
Todd D. Still (PhD, University of Glasgow) is William M. HinsonProfessor of Christian Scriptures in the George W. Truett Theological
Seminary of Baylor University. He is the author of Conflict at Thessalonica: A
Pauline Church and Its Neighbours and the editor of Jesus and Paul Reconnected: Fresh
Pathways into an Old Debate. He is a licensed and ordained Baptist minister.
A CONVERSATION WITH THE EDITORS
Congdon: After this discovery, what hap-
pened next? Is this where Todd entered the
picture?
Witherington: I examined the extent of
what was in the notebooks. There werealso two large blue loose-leaf binders full
of deteriorating pages. I had to wear gloves
and turn pages on a pillow to prevent
crumbling. On top of all this, once I had
alerted the librarian to what was there,
they took it all away for restoration. One
can only double check the digital images to
see if I transcribed correctly.
Still: Ben and I have been good friends for
a number of years now. Ben shared with me
via email regarding the Lightfoot largess he
had found. In response, I shared with Ben
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M A I N S E L E C T I O N
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that I was something of a “Lightfootphile”
and how over the years I had consulted and
recommended his various commentaries. At
this point, the project began to percolate.
In short order, through the generosity of
Asbury Seminary, Baylor University and my
father (Willard Still), we were able to secure
the monies necessary to digitize all the rel-
evant notebooks and loose-leaf pages that
Ben had identified.
Congdon: Could
each of you tell me
one thing that hasmost surprised you
about these materials?
Witherington: For me it’s that Lightfoot
kept revising and adding to this material,
including adding references to scholarly
literature (for decades!) when he was only
using it for lectures at Cambridge. It is as
if he knew someone might find all this and
one day publish it.
Still: Into his learned exegetical lecture
notes, Lightfoot will sometimes weave
poignant theological and homiletical state-
ments. Encountering such remarks is like
coming across the surprise in a box of
Cracker Jacks!
Congdon: What would you say to the
pastor or the seminarian who is looking
for resources on Acts and who may not
know much about J. B. Lightfoot? What
is the abiding value of this work for the
church today?
Still: Given Lightfoot’s immense erudition,
encyclopedic knowledge and scholarly pro-
ductivity, it is easy to forget that he was,
among other things,
a preacher and min-
ister. The work of
Lightfoot, not least
on Acts, serves as
both a resource and a
model for those who are seeking to divide
rightly the word of truth (2 Tim 2:15).
Witherington: The church today is suf-
fering from a sort of amnesia; it has for-
gotten the rock from which it was hewn,and so it fails to understand its own iden-
tity. The past, as Lightfoot would say, is
not mere prologue; it is the foundation of
our faith and on it we must stand.
Lightfoot kept revising and adding to this
material. . . . It is as if he knew someone
might find all this and one day publish it.
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N E W A L T E R N A T E S
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OVERTURNING TABLESScott A. Bessenecker
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8 I V P B O O K C L U B . C O M
PAUL’S LETTER TO THE ROMANS
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