Objective, balanced, packed with references. One of those must-have books. Even if you disagree with some of Hoehner's conclusions (like I), you will meet with one of the great minds of Biblical chronology. It is a wonder when you come across gems like this book.

If you are interested in the date of the nativity, other books that will delight and perhaps frustrate you: both volumes of "Chronos, Kairos, Christos." These two rare books are simply invaluable to a researcher. Volume II includes David W. Beyer's hard-to-find essay which powerfully supports a 1 BC dating for the death of Herod the Great (contra Hoehner, who wrote Chronological Aspects before Beyer published). Beyer's work is so persuasive that it caused the late great chronologist Jack Finegan to embrace this new (actually, ancient) view. This new chronology is used on bethlehemstar.net.

Amazingly Dr. Hoenher evaluates the Pro's and Con's of many siginficant issues concerning the chronology of the life of Jesus, e.g. the day of the Lord's crucifixion; He does a good job and does not fail to do justice about opposing views. Truely this is a scholastic material on these seemingly tedious details.

I have read this book once it was published. I want to comment in particular on the remarkable result of its research result on the exact dates of, according to Daniel 9, re-construction of the temple, the triumphant entry of Christ into Jerusalem, and the cruxification of Christ.

This important piece of information helps clarify the unsatisfactory loophles of Sir Robert Anderson's in his classic book "The Coming Prince" on the same subject, in which according to Hoebner, Anderson was wrong.

Besides, Hoebner's appraoch to research on this matter was scientific.

I purchased Hoehner's commentary on Ephesians with reservation. I knew he'd be a solid, evangelical scholar (he's a distinguished prof at Dallas); I knew this would be a solid, thorough treatment of Ephesians. The thing is over 900 pages long, after all. But I wanted a commentary that would "preach." All too many scholarly commentaries are dry-as-dust, verse-by-verse affairs that frankly don't help a pastor put together a sermon.
This commentary by Dr. Hoehner was a wonderful surprise. Hoehner provides an outline of each unit of text which is built right into his commentary section. And he provides summaries and conclusions which contain the "Big Idea" (or Central Truth, or whatever you prefer to call it)of that unit of text. Why don't more scholars do this in commentaries?
And Dr. Hoehner helps you swim through the Greek like a duck through water; he provides his own translation, and he constantly provides necessary parsing for the reader. But most important of all, he has the best discussion of grammatical categories that I have ever seen, translating a phrase as it would be if it were instrumental, or cause, or sphere, etc., so that you can follow his argument. He lovingly mines the Greek text for everything it can yield, and he actually brings his reader right along with him!
I can't even begin to tell you how much I love this commentary. This is the fruit of an outstanding scholar who has prayed and studied and labored over Ephesians for years.

A good book that breaks down the life and politics behind one of leaders who had a hand in Jesus' death. I liked the way that this book was written. It was very easy to read, although about 1/2 of each page was dedicated to footnotes. The author does a good job of using critical analysis when agreeing with historical documentation and when he varies from it.