Archive.org is offering a special collection of digitized books called the opens new windowNational Emergency library, which offers selected books that may be borrowed on a temporary basis during the COVID-19 crisis. Among them are Luke and Acts commentaries which may be found by searching for either <Luke commentary> or <Acts commentary>.

Before you can borrow a book from this collection, you must first set up an account in Archive.org. Here are three of the commentaries that may help you with the research paper for this course:

• opens new windowFitzmeyer, Joseph A. The Acts of the Apostles: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary. The Anchor Bible. New York: Doubleday, 1998.
• opens new windowMarshall, I. Howard. The Gospel of Luke: A Commentary on the Greek Text. The New International Greek New Testament. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1978.
• opens new windowPervo, Richard I. Acts: A Commentary. Hermeneia. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2009

As a courtesy to your classmates, please use just one of the commentaries at a time and return it as soon as you are finished with it for the day. To return a book, just click the return button.

To identify the more scholarly Bible commentaries, use the Bible commentaries series chart in the Bible Commentaries Plus guide. The chart categorizes the commentaries as devotional, pastoral, or academic, with the academic category generally being the most scholarly and therefore the most desirable for use in college research papers.

See also David Bauer's opens new windowEssential Bible Study Tools for Ministry, especially the "Highly Recommended" sections of his selected lists of commentaries for each book of the Bible. The print edition of Bauer's book is kept at the Library Services Desk on the "Quick Reference" shelf.