I don’t think I’ve ever felt like a kid in a candy store in looking through a book as much as I have in looking through An Introduction to the New Testament by David deSilva.

Right now I’m using it for the portion on Matthew because the commentary I’m going through by R.T. France doesn’t have much of an introduction. He wrote a previous book and expects you to buy that. Instead of doing that I wanted something with more bang for the buck.

In looking through it I was so interested in all the stuff it has in it I took quite a while before I got to the point of reading the portion on Matthew. I think it’s very good although I’ll have to forgive him for thinking Q is legitimate.

My library is sorely lacking in reference material and this is a great addition.