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| Gordon Fee |
The news was released yesterday that Eerdmans publishing house has chosen Fuller Seminary's
Joel Green to replace Gordon Fee as editor of the
New International Commentary on the New Testament series.
Fee, emeritus professor of New Testament at Regent College, has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's.
In addition to editing the series for twenty years, Fee wrote three of the commentaries (1 Corinthians, Philippians, and the Thessalonian letters).
Fee's most recent publication,
The Eerdmans Companion to the Bible (co-edited with Robert L. Hubbard Jr.), was released last month. New Testament scholar Nijay Gupta has written a brief, but very helpful, review of it. You can read it on his
blog.
Green, author of NICNT's volume on Luke, wrote warmly of the impact of Fee's scholarship on
Eerdmans' blog yesterday:
"... Gordon Fee published what would quickly set the bar for the evangelical community, his NICNT volume on 1 Corinthians: clearly written, eminently readable, a model of exegesis in the service of the biblical text, biblical interpretation for the church .... Gordon has stood tall at the helm for more than twenty years, and I for one am immensely grateful to him for his service as editor of the NICNT .... Gordon's fingerprints will remain on the series for years to come. New volumes will appear soon, written by authors he has recruited. These include commentaries on Hebrews, for example, as well as on the Gospel of Mark and Galatians."
Scot McKnight, also an author in the series (the James volume), commented on
his blog yesterday about Green's appointment.
A brief tribute to Fee's career was published on this blog in
July 2008.
Charisma magazine featured him in its
September 2010 issue.
