This book is based on great knowledge, but it is delightfully clear and helpful and it will be valued by those who seek a short, nontechnical introduction. Dr. Barclay, who is Professor of New Testament in the University of Glasgow, gave some very successful lectures on BBC Television in Scotland in Spring 1965, summing up his longer books such as his two SCM Paperbacks The Mind of Jesus and Crucified and Crowned. This book records what he said then.
William Barclay was an author, radio and television presenter, Church of Scotland minister and Professor of Divinity and Biblical Criticism at the University of Glasgow.
While professor, he decided to dedicate his life to "making the best biblical scholarship available to the average reader". The eventual result was the Daily Study Bible, a set of 17 commentaries on the New Testament, published by Saint Andrew Press, the Church of Scotland's publishing house.
The 17 volumes of the set were all best-sellers and continue to be so to this day. Barclay wrote many other popular books, always drawing on scholarship but written in a highly accessible style.
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