F. F. Bruce Collection

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Description

F.F. Bruce was one of Britain’s most influential biblical scholars. He approached the Bible from his background as a classicist — studying Latin and Greek — instead of the more traditional route of studies in theology. Professor Bruce authored more than fifty books and nearly 2,000 articles and reviews. In this collection, we present 23 of his best works at one low price.

Bundle Contents

Contains these 23 works by author F. F. Bruce:

• Acts: Bible Study Commentary
• The Books and the Parchments: The Original Languages, the Canon, Transmission and How We Got Our English Bible
• The Deity of Christ
• Defending First-Century Faith
• Discovering the Message of the Bible
• Epistle to the Ephesians
• Epistles of John: Introduction, Exposition, and Notes
• The Gospel of John: Introduction, Exposition, and Notes
• Israel and the Nations: The History of Israel from the Exodus to the Fall of the Second Temple
• In Retrospect
• The Letters of Paul: An Expanded Paraphrase
• Matthew: Open Your Bible Commentary
• The New Testament Development of Old Testament Themes
• The New Testament Documents: Are They Reliable?
• New Testament History: Open Your Bible Commentary
• Paul: Apostle of the Free Spirit
• The Pauline Circle
• Paul and His Converts: How Paul Nurtured the Churches He Planted
• Peter, Stephen, James, and John: Studies in Non-Pauline Diversity in the Early Church
• Second Thoughts on the Dead Sea Scrolls
• The Spreading Flame: The Rise and Progress of Christianity from its First Beginnings to Eighth-Century England
• Understanding Biblical Criticism
• What the Bible Says About the Work of Christ

About the Author(s)

Frederick Fyvie Bruce (1910-1990) was born in Scotland, the son of a Christian Brethren (Plymouth Brethren) preacher. He studied at the University of Aberdeen (where he met his future wife, Betty), Cambridge, and the University of Vienna. He taught at the universities of Edinburgh (where he and Betty married) and Leeds before becoming department head at the University of Sheffield and later professor at the University of Manchester.

His significance, however, cannot be found in a list of his academic positions or his amazing output from popular articles to scholarly commentaries. His significance is that "at a time when both tasks seemed impossible, he persuaded evangelicals to think differently about scholarship, and scholars to think differently about evangelicalism," said Peter Oakes of the University of Manchester.

F.F. Bruce let the Bible speak freely and did not make it fit a particular system of theology. He was humble and gentle, and he respected those with whom he disagreed. He was a superb scholar, and his scholarship had the purpose of helping people encounter Jesus Christ.

His colleague I. Howard Marshall summarized Professor Bruce’s career, "[He] will obviously be remembered first of all for his highly distinguished academic career as a university teacher and a prolific writer who did more than anybody else in this century to develop and encourage conservative evangelical scholarship. Possessed of outstanding intellectual ability, a phenomenal memory, and encyclopedic knowledge, a colossal capacity for work, and a limpid style, he produced a remarkable output of books and essays which will continue to be read for years to come, and he trained directly or indirectly many younger scholars now working in all parts of the world."

To which J.I. Packer adds, "No Christian was ever more free of narrow bigotry, prejudice and eccentricity in the views he held and the way he held them; no man did more to demonstrate how evangelical faith and total academic integrity may walk hand in hand."

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