Flashcards: Bible commentators

Baruch Epstein or Baruch ha-Levi Epstein (1860–1941) (Hebrew: ברוך הלוי אפשטיין) was a Lithuanian rabbi, best known for his Torah Temimah commentary on the Torah.

Franz Delitzsch (Leipzig, 23 February 1813 – Leipzig, 4 March 1890) was a German Lutheran theologian and Hebraist.

Samuel ben Meir (Troyes, c. 1085 – c. 1158) after his death known as "Rashbam", a Hebrew acronym for: RAbbi SHmuel Ben Meir, was a leading French Tosafist and grandson of Shlomo Yitzhaki, "Rashi.

Moses Kimhi (c. 1127 – c. 1190) was a medieval Jewish biblical commentator and grammarian.

Ralph Philip Martin (4 August 1925 – 25 February 2013 ) was a British New Testament scholar.

Shlomo Ganzfried (or Salomo ben Joseph Ganzfried; 1804 in Ungvar – 30 July 1886 in Ungvar) was an Orthodox rabbi and posek best known as author of the work of Halakha (Jewish law), the Kitzur Shulchan Aruch (Hebrew: קיצור שולחן ערוך, "The Abbreviated Shulchan Aruch"), by which title he is also known.

Walter A. Elwell (born April 29, 1937) is an evangelical theological academic.

Ronald Y. K. Fung (born 1937) was professor of Biblical Studies at China Graduate School of Theology.

Murray J. Harris (born August 18, 1939) is professor emeritus of New Testament exegesis and theology at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois.

George Raymond Beasley-Murray (October 10, 1916 – 23 February 2000) was an evangelical Christian, scholar and professor of New Testament Interpretation at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.

Tobiah ben Eliezer (Hebrew: טוביה בר אליעזר) was a Talmudist and poet of the 11th century, author of the Leḳaḥ Ṭov or Pesiḳta Zuṭarta, a midrashic commentary on the Pentateuch and the Five Megillot.

Rabanus Maurus Magnentius (c. 780 – 4 February 856), also known as Hrabanus or Rhabanus, was a Frankish Benedictine monk and theologian who became archbishop of Mainz in Germany.

Frederick Fyvie Bruce FBA (12 October 1910 – 11 September 1990), usually cited as F.

Rabbi Abraham Ben Meir Ibn Ezra (Hebrew: אַבְרָהָם אִבְּן עֶזְרָא or ראב"ע‎‎, Arabic: ابن عزرا‎‎; also known as Abenezra or Aben Ezra, 1089–1167) was born in Tudela, Navarre in 1089, and died c.

John Fullerton MacArthur Jr.

Allan Macdonald Harman, OAM, RFD (born 7 June 1936) is an Australian Presbyterian theologian and Old Testament scholar.

Avigdor Cohen ben Elijah of Vienna (fl. mid-13th century) was the earliest of the great Talmudists of Austria.

John Edgar Goldingay (born 20 June 1942 in Birmingham, United Kingdom) is the David Allan Hubbard Professor of Old Testament in the School of Theology of Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California.

John Painter FAHA (born 22 September 1935 in Bellingen, New South Wales) is an Australian New Testament scholar.

Joseph Addison Alexander (24 April 1809 – 28 January 1860) was an American biblical scholar.

Jacques Bonfrère (12 April 1573, Dinant, Belgium – 9 May 1642, Tournai, Belgium) was a Jesuit priest, Biblical scholar and leading commentator on the Old Testament.

Moses B. Stuart (March 26, 1780 – January 4, 1852, age 71), an American biblical scholar, was born in Wilton, Connecticut.

Paul R. House (born 1958) is an American Old Testament scholar, author, and seminary professor who served as 2012 president of the Evangelical Theological Society.

Thomas R. Schreiner is an American New Testament scholar.

Ezra Palmer Gould (February 27, 1841 – August 22, 1900) was a Baptist and later, Episcopal, minister, He graduated Harvard University in 1861 and subsequently served in the Civil War.

Joseph ibn Abitur was a Spanish rabbi of around the 10th century.

Gabriel Esperanssa, also spelled Esperanza or Esperança, was a 17th-century rabbi at Safed.

Moses Schreiber (1762–1839), known to his own community and Jewish posterity in the Hebrew translation as Moshe Sofer, also known by his main work Chatam Sofer, Chasam Sofer or Hatam Sofer, (trans. Seal of the Scribe and acronym for Chiddushei Torat Moshe Sofer), was one of the leading Orthodox rabbis of European Jewry in the first half of the nineteenth century.

Jacob ben Asher, also known as Ba'al ha-Turim as well as Rabbi Yaakov ben Raash (Rabbeinu Asher), was probably born in the Holy Roman Empire at Cologne about 1269 and probably died at Toledo, then in the Kingdom of Castile, about 1343.

Sidney Greidanus (born 1935) is an American pastor and biblical scholar.

Frederik Willem Grosheide (25 November 1881 – 5 March 1972) was a Dutch New Testament scholar.

Daniel Isaac Block (born 1943) (D.Phil., School of Archaeology and Oriental Studies, University of Liverpool) is an American Old Testament scholar.

Peter Hugh Davids (born 22 November 1947) is a Canadian New Testament scholar.

Mark A. Seifrid, is a scholar of the New Testament letters of Paul, currently working at Concordia Seminary, St.

Tatian of Adiabene, or Tatian the Assyrian (/ˈteɪʃən, -iən/; Latin: Tatianus; Ancient Greek: Τατιανός; Syriac: ܛܛܝܢܘܣ‎; c. 120 – c. 180 AD) was an Assyrian early Christian writer and theologian of the 2nd century.

Jan Ridderbos (24 November 1879, Bedum – 4 July 1960) was a minister in the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands and since 1912 professor of Old Testament at the Theological College (Old Street) in Kampen.

Leslie C. Allen is an Old Testament scholar.

Barry G. Webb is a scholar and Senior Research Fellow in Old Testament at Moore Theological College.

Seakle Greijdanus (1 May 1871 – 19 May 1948) was a Reformed theologian in the Netherlands, who first served in the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands and later in the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands (Liberated).

Jacob Martin Myers (October 25, 1904 – September 15, 1991) was a Bible commentator and senior lecturer in Professor of Hebrew and Old Testament at the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

J. Ramsey Michaels (Th.D., Harvard) was for many years professor at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and Southwest Missouri State University.

Donald Arthur Carson (born December 21, 1946) is a Canadian-born, Reformed Evangelical theologian and professor of the New Testament.

Ronald Ernest Clements (born 1929) is a British Old Testament scholar.

Roland Kenneth Harrison (4 August 1920 – 2 May 1993) was an Old Testament scholar.

Ovadia ben Jacob Sforno (Obadja Sforno, Hebrew: עובדיה ספורנו) was an Italian rabbi, Biblical commentator, philosopher and physician.

David John Alfred Clines (born 21 November 1938 Sydney, Australia) is a biblical scholar.

Isaac Halberstam (1810–1880) was the father of Solomon Joachim Halberstam and author of Siaḥ Yiẓḥaḳ (or Siach Yitzchak) Lemberg, 1882, which contains insights on the Pentateuch and notices on the genealogy of the Halberstam family, published after his death by his son.

Charles Kingsley Barrett FBA (4 May 1917 – 26 August 2011) was a British biblical scholar.

Joyce G. Baldwin (1 August 1921 – 30 December 1995) was an English evangelical biblical scholar and theological educator who became one of the leading women in the field of biblical scholarship in her day.

Iain William Provan (born 6 May 1957) is a British Old Testament scholar, now living in Canada.

Peter Thomas O'Brien (born 6 November 1935) is an Australian New Testament scholar.

Jacob Vita Pardo (Hebrew: יעקב חי פארדו‎‎) was an author and preacher.

Arthur Walkington Pink (1 April 1886 – 15 July 1952) was an English Bible teacher who sparked a renewed interest in the exposition of Calvinism.

John Gill (23 November 1697 – 14 October 1771) was an English Baptist pastor, biblical scholar, and theologian who held to a firm Calvinistic soteriology.

Leon Lamb Morris (15 March 1914 — 24 July 2006) was an Australian New Testament scholar.

Peter J. Leithart (born 1959) is an American author, minister, theologian and president of Theopolis Institute for Biblical, Liturgical, & Cultural Studies in Birmingham, Alabama.

Prof. William Henderson (1810 – 1 April 1872) was a conventionally trained Scottish physician who became an influential advocate for homeopathy in Great Britain.

William Hendriksen (18 November 1900 – 12 January 1982) was a New Testament scholar and writer of Bible commentaries.

William L. Lane (1931–1999) was an American New Testament theologian and professor of biblical studies.

Dr. Colin Kruse is a bible commentator and senior lecturer in New Testament at the Melbourne School of Theology.

Aaron Ben Asher of Karlin (June 6, 1802 – June 23, 1872), known as Rabbi Aaron II of Karlin, was a famous rabbi of the Ḥasidim in northwestern Russia.

Arthur Samuel Peake (1865–1929) was an English biblical scholar, born at Leek, Staffordshire, and educated at St John's College, Oxford.

Shlomo Ephraim ben Aaron Luntschitz (1550 – 21 April, 1619) was a rabbi and Torah commentator, best known for his Torah commentary Keli Yekar.

Henry Hampton Halley (April 10, 1874 – May 23, 1965) was an American Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) minister and religious writer.

Hillel ben Naphtali Zevi (Hebrew: הלל בן נפתלי צבי‎‎) was a Lithuanian rabbi.

Richard Linwood Pratt, Jr.

Manoel Dias Soeiro (1604 – November 20, 1657), better known by his Hebrew name Menasseh ben Israel (מנשה בן ישראל), also, Menasheh ben Yossef ben Yisrael, also known with the Hebrew acronym, MB"Y, was a Portuguese rabbi, kabbalist, writer, diplomat, printer and publisher, founder of the first Hebrew printing press (named Emeth Meerets Titsma`h) in Amsterdam in 1626.

Ḥayyim ben Moshe ibn Attar also known as the Or ha-Ḥayyim after his popular commentary on the Pentateuch, was a Talmudist and kabbalist; born at Meknes, Morocco, in 1696; died in Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire on 7 July 1743.

Samuel ben Hayyim Vital (1598 – 1677) was a Kabalist born in Damascus in the latter half of the sixteenth century.

Samson ben Pesah Ostropoli (died July 15, 1648), was a Polish rabbi from Ostropol who was martyred at Polonnoye, Volhynia, during the Khmelnytsky Uprising.

Meir Simcha of Dvinsk (1843–1926) was a rabbi and prominent leader of Orthodox Judaism in Eastern Europe in the early 20th century.

Rabbi Sa'adiah ben Yosef Gaon (Arabic: سعيد بن يوصف الفيومي‎‎ / סעיד בן יוסף אלפיומי Saʻīd bin Yūsuf al-Fayyūmi, Sa'id ibn Yusuf al-Dilasi, Saadia ben Yosef aluf, Sa'id ben Yusuf ra's al-Kull; Hebrew: רבי סעדיה בן יוסף אלפיומי גאון' or in short: סעדיה גאון; alternative English Names: Saadia b. Joseph, Saadia ben Joseph or Saadia ben Joseph of Faym or Saadia ben Joseph Al-Fayyumi; b. Egypt 882/892, d. Baghdad 942) was a prominent rabbi, Jewish philosopher, and exegete of the Geonic period who was active in the Abbasid Caliphate.

Adam Clarke (b. 1760–1762, d. August 28, 1832) was a British Methodist theologian and biblical scholar.

Paul Joüon (1871 – 1940 in Nantes) was a French Jesuit priest, hebraist, Semitic language specialist, and member of the Pontifical Biblical Institute.

Richard Thomas France (2 April 1938 – 10 February 2012) was a New Testament scholar and Anglican cleric.

R' Chaim Dov Rabinowitz (1909–2001) was a Lithuanian born rabbi who authored a monumental commentary on the Hebrew Bible (Daat Soferim) and a history of the Jewish people (From Nechemia to the Present).

Charles Bridges (1794–1869) was a preacher and theologian in the Church of England, and a leader of that denomination's Evangelical Party.

Donald John Wiseman OBE FBA FSA (25 October 1918 – 2 February 2010) was a biblical scholar, archaeologist and Assyriologist.

Matthew Henry (18 October 1662 – 22 June 1714) was a Nonconformist minister and author, born in Wales but spending much of his life in England.

Tremper Longman, III (born 8 September 1952) is an Old Testament scholar, theologian, professor and author of several books, including 2009 ECPA Christian Book Award winner Dictionary of the Old Testament: Wisdom, Poetry & Writings.

Albert Barnes (December 1, 1798 – December 24, 1870) was an American theologian, born in Rome, New York.

Craig S. Keener is a North American academic and professor of New Testament at Asbury Theological Seminary.

Frank Derek Kidner (September 22, 1913 – November 27, 2008) was a British Old Testament scholar.

Derek W. H. Thomas is a reformed pastor and theologian known for his teaching, writing and editorial work.

Edward Joseph Young (November 29, 1907 – February 14, 1968) was a Reformed theologian and an Old Testament scholar at Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from 1936 until his death.

James Montgomery Boice, Th.