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Friday, December 31, 2004

17th century commentary added to Southwestern collection

http://www.bpnews.net/bpnews.asp?ID=19805

[Baptist Press News] December 29, 2004--Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary’s rare book collection recently was enriched by the donation of a historically significant New Testament commentary. E. Earl Ellis, research professor of theology emeritus at the seminary, donated a first edition volume of Henry Hammond’s “A Paraphrase and Annotations upon All the Books of the New Testament," which was was printed in London in 1653. Although Hammond (1605-1660) may be obscure to some people, historians alternatively refer to him as either the father of English commentators or the father of English exegesis....

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