Feasting on the Word: Year A: Pentecost and Season After Pentecost 1 (Propers 3-16) (Feasting on the Word) [Hardcover]

David L. Bartlett (Editor), Barbara Brown Taylor (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 27, 2011 | Series: Feasting on the Word (Book 3)

With the twelve-volume series Feasting on the Word, Westminster John Knox Press offers one of the most extensive and well-respected resources for preaching on the market today. When complete, the twelve volumes will cover all of the Sundays in the three-year lectionary cycle, along with moveable occasions.

The page layout is truly unique. For each lectionary text, preachers will find brief essays--one each on the exegetical, theological, pastoral, and homiletical challenges of the text. Each volume will also contain an index of biblical passages so that nonlectionary preachers may make use of its contents.

The printed volumes for Ordinary Time include the complementary stream during Year A, the complementary stream during the first half of Year B, the semicontinuous stream during the second half of Year B, and the semicontinuous stream during Year C. Beginning with the season after Pentecost in Year C, the alternate lections for Ordinary Time not in the print volumes will be available online at feastingontheword.net.

Editorial Reviews

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"Wonderfully organized and intelligently shaped, these reflections on Scripture are sure to be a valuable aid for those in ministry." Stanley Hauerwas, Gilbert T. Rowe Professor of Theological Ethics, Duke University Divinity School

"David Bartlett and Barbara Brown Taylor are to be congratulated for creating a unique and remarkable commentary that stands head and shoulders above the rest." The Living Church

"The most ecumenical and comprehensive of the lectionary commentaries." Thomas G. Long, Bandy Professor of Preaching, Candler School of Theology, Emory University, Atlanta

"A monumental contribution. These substantial and beautifully produced volumes address the reader with all the gravitas and grace that preaching deserves (and requires). Feasting on the Word will richly repay your investment." The Christian Century

About the Author

David L. Bartlett is Professor of New Testament, Columbia Theological Seminary, coeditor of the Westminster Bible Companion series, and author of What's Good about This News?

Barbara Brown Taylor is a popular preacher, prolific author, and Adjunct Professor of Christian Spirituality, Columbia Theological Seminary, and Butman Professor of Religion, Piedmont College. She is the author of many books, including Seeds of Heaven, Leaving Church, and An Altar in the World.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 408 pages
• Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press (January 27, 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0664231063
• ISBN-13: 978-0664231064
• Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 7.2 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #390,423 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Feasting on the Word Year A, May 27, 2011

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This review is from: Feasting on the Word: Year A: Pentecost and Season After Pentecost 1 (Propers 3-16) (Feasting on the Word) (Hardcover)

Best commentaries for preaching that have come out in years. I especially appreciate the four approaches on each text...well worth the purchase...I plan to buy the whole 3 year series.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Perfect supplement to the RCL, June 21, 2011

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This review is from: Feasting on the Word: Year A: Pentecost and Season After Pentecost 1 (Propers 3-16) (Feasting on the Word) (Hardcover)

If you are new to the Revised Common Lectionary or have been using it for years, this book,and its companion volumes, will prove to be an invaluable tool for you for many years. It explores each reading for every Sunday of the Liturgical year from four perspectives: theological, pastoral, exegitical and homiletical and in doing so provides a wealth of information for the preparation of liturgies and sermons that reflect the sense of the scriptures for that day. I have been using these volumes for 3 years now, and have recommended them to sermon study groups and to my brothers and sisters in the ordained ministry since I first opened the first volume. Many thanks to David Bartlett and Barbara Brown Taylor for their excellent editorial work and for making these books available to preachers and students.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars No better single volume lectionary resource!, April 8, 2011

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G. Douglas Eddy "Doug Eddy" (Edenton, NC United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Feasting on the Word: Year A: Pentecost and Season After Pentecost 1 (Propers 3-16) (Feasting on the Word) (Hardcover)

Feasting on the Word, Year A Volume 1. What a resource. Each of the texts form a self contained section with the texts printed at the start of the section. Then there is a division into Theological, Pastoral, Exegetical and Homiletical Perspectives for the passage running in parallel columns down the page. These perspectives are rich and broad in perspective - brief yet packed with many ideas and facts about the particular text. The whole section provides a full "meal" (pun intended) on the text that is incredibly useful for bible studies, personal reflection and sermon preparation.

I have shelves full of commentaries, many very useful, others excellent paperweights. The quality of scholarship, the multiple themes and suggestions available for each text, and the accessibility of the material make this series a great choice for layperson and clergy. The concise and insightful perspectives packed into one book gives me easy access to start my preparations, and a highly portable means to take my work with me (story of the preacher's life, I guess). My only regret is that it is not also in Kindle form - which would make it LIGHT as well as portable.

Having been in the ministry nearly 40 years, I believe I have a good sense of resource quality - these books are excellent. The commentators are excellent. The usefulness of the work is excellent. Even the quality of the physical book is excellent - attractive yet designed for much handling. I highly recommend this series. I am into Year A, Volume 2 now and it is every bit as good as 1.

Did I say I highly recommend this series? I DO!