The New Testament Commentary is a completed series of 24 commentaries on the writings of the New Testament. The literature regularly refers to this series with the abbreviation CNT or CNT-3 (the 3 then stands for the third comment that appears in the Netherlands under this name).
Chief editor of the series was Jakob van Bruggen, leading professor at Theological University Kampen (Broederweg). He took care of eight parts himself. Other authors are Rob van Houwelingen, John van Eck, H.R. van de Kamp, Theo van Spanje, P.J. Lalleman, Dean Anderson and L. Floor (all newly-promoted New Testament scholars). Upon completion in 2010, the publication Open Testament: Profile of a Commentary was published, in which a few underlying choices of the comments are justified.
A special feature of the series is the historical approach (generally based on the historical reliability of the New Testament texts) and at the same time a connection with contemporary research. Moreover, four thematic parts appeared: about the person of Jesus, his ideas, the apostle Paul and the other apostles. What is more striking is the pursuit of historical harmony between the four gospels and the biographical information about Paul, as well as the retention of the traditional authors of the writings (all thirteen Pauline letters are attributed to the apostle Paul, the Johannine letters to the apostle John, etc.).
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