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More  4
Early Church  1
Authenticity  1


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The Best Commentaries on Obadiah

Puritan

Marbury, Edward – A Commentary or Exposition upon the Prophecy of Obadiah  (Edinburgh: James Nichol, 1865)  350 pp.  no ToC

Marbury (1581-1655) was a reformed puritan.

*** – “Far more lively than Rainolds.  His spirituality of mind prevents his learning becoming dull.  He says in the preface, ‘all my desire is to do all the good I can,’ and he writes in that spirit.” – Spurgeon

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1800’s

Douglas, George – The Six Intermediate Minor Prophets: Obadiah  n.d.  in Hand-Books for Bible Classes, eds. Dods & Whyte

Douglas (1826-1904) was a Hebraist in the Free Church of Scotland, having studied under Thomas Chalmers and came to be a Principle of the Free Church College.  “He was a scholarly conservative, skeptical of higher critical views.” – DoSCH&T


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More Commentaries on Obadiah

1500’s

Brasbridge, Thomas – Abdias the Prophet, Interpreted…  (London, 1574)

Brasbridge (1536/7–1593) was an English divine and author.

Pilkington, James – On the Prophet Obadiah  74 pp.

Pilkington (†1576) was a reformed bishop in the Church of England.

** – “Full of the minor as well as the major controversies of the Reformation period, and therefore the less interesting to us.  In its own day it was *the* master-work on the two prophets, Haggai and Obadiah.” – Spurgeon

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1600’s

Rainolds, John – The Prophecy of Obadiah Opened & Applied, in Sundry Sermons  38 pp.

Rainolds (1549–1607) was an English puritan.

** – “Full of classical stories and learned allusions; but more useful when first written than now.  The author was one of the most learned men the world ever produced, but he is not likely to be a favorite with modern readers.” – Spurgeon

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1800’s

Hengstenberg, E.W. – ‘Messianic Predictions in Obadiah’  in The Christology of the Old Testament, vol. 1  (1868), pp. 399-406  Hengstenberg treats of most of Obadiah generally, but verses 17-21 specifically.

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1900’s

Watts, John D.W. – Obadiah  in The Books of Joel, Obadiah, Jonah, Nahum, Habakkuk & Zephaniah  in The Cambridge Bible Commentary on the New English Bible  (Cambridge University Press, 1975), pp. 51-71

‘A brief, scholarly treatment.’ – Cyril J. Barber


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The Early Church on Obadiah

Ferreiro, Alberto – Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture: The Twelve Prophets  Buy


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The Authenticity of Obadiah

Hengstenberg, E.W. – ‘The Prophecy of Obadiah’  in The Christology of the Old Testament, vol. 1  (1868), pp. 399-403

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