📚 Commentaries

Books with commentaries on their catalogue record, first published between 1482 and 2006, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject commentaries in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 94,143 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	A critical and exegetical commentary on the Book of Job, together with a new translation	S. R. Driver	1895	53
	Catena aurea	Thomas Aquinas	1482	45
	Yalḳuṭ perushim	Yehoshuʻa Shḳlar	1969	45
	Life Lessons	Max Lucado	1996	32
	Expositions of Holy Scripture	Alexander Maclaren	1900	28
	The Entire Works of the Rev. C. Simeon	Charles Simeon	1833	24
	The Treasury of David	Charles Haddon Spurgeon	1881	23
	The Zohar: By Rav Shimon Bar Yochai: From the Book of Avraham	Michael Berg	2003	21
	The MacArthur Bible Studies	John MacArthur	2006	19
	The Holy Qur'an	Abdullah Yusuf Ali	1977	17
	Exposition of the Gospel According to Mark	William Hendriksen	1953	16
	Romans	Gerald Lewis Bray	2000	15
	The Pentateuch and Haftorahs	Joseph H. Hertz	1929	12
	A Commentary on St. Paul's Epistle to the Galatians	Martin Luther	1760	11
	Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible	Matthew Henry	1979	11
	Understanding the Bible	Harris, Stephen L.	1980	11
	The Minor Prophets	James Montgomery Boice	1983	10
	Epistle to the Romans	Karl Barth	1932	9
	The First epistle of Paul to the Corinthians	Leon Morris	1958	9
	Jon Courson's Application Commentary	Jon Courson	2003	9
	The new Bible commentary	Francis Davidson	1953	8
	Genesis 1-11	Claus Westermann	1972	8
	The Bhagavad Gita	Yogananda Paramahansa	1995	8
	A commentary on the Epistle to the Romans	C. K. Barrett	1957	7
	The Proverbs	Derek Kidner	1964	7
	Transformation and healing	Thích Nhất Hạnh	1990	7
	The Pastoral Epistles	Donald Guthrie	1957	6
	The Book of Revelation	Leon Morris	1987	6
	The Bible Exposition Commentary	Warren W. Wiersbe	1989	6
	The message of Isaiah	Barry G. Webb	1996	6

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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