OliveTree ebook sale -noteworthy items (this week)

• Here are some (really) cheap offers. Note my comments below. Also, bear in mind that the OliveTree platform isn't so nice (for laptops/PC). 

Pillar New Testament Commentary Set (14 Vols.)

For The Bible Study App

$349.99

US$99.99

Save 71%

The Pillar New Testament Commentary, designed for serious readers of the Bible, seeks above all to make clear the meaning of the text of Scripture as we have it. The scholars of the PNTC volumes interact with the most important, informed contemporary debate yet avoid undue technical detail. Their ideal is a blend of rigorous exegesis and exposition, scholarship and pastoral sensitivity, with an eye alert both to biblical theology and to the contemporary relevance of the Bible.

• around HK$60 each. 
• Mark, Acts, 1Cor, 2Peter&Jude, James, and John are good ones among the series

New American Commentary (NAC) - Old & New Testament Set (38 Vols.)

For The Bible Study App

$799.99

US$189.99

Save 76%

The New American Commentary collects the best in contemporary evangelical scholarship in a series that examines the entire Bible in depth. The New American Commentary – New Testament Set currently offers 15 volumes of commentary on the New Testament.

• obviously the NT ones are not as good as PNTC (the one above) but the OT ones are not bad
• besides it's almost complete except for a few books

UBS Handbooks for New Testament (20 Vols.)

For The Bible Study App

$199.99

US$39.99

Save 80%
The United Bible Societies' New Testament Handbook Series is a comprehensive verse-by-verse guide to understanding exactly what is being communicated by the author in the original Scriptures. The Handbooks are detailed commentaries providing exegetical, historical, cultural, and linguistic information on the books of the Bible. They are prepared primarily to assist Bible translators. The series has been instrumental in shedding light on the Scriptures so that translators all over the world could complete the important task of putting God's Word into the many languages spoken in the world today.
Over the years, church leaders and Bible readers have found the UBS Handbooks to be useful for their own study, since many of the issues Bible translators must address when trying to communicate the Bible's message to modern readers are the ones Bible students must address when approaching the Bible text as a part of their own private study and devotions.

• a good tool for those who like to do Greek exegesis (but don't think that they are commentaries) 
• it's a complete series

monthly Verbum (Catholic version of Logos) free ebook (July)

Thoughts in Solitude

by Thomas Merton

Thoughtful and eloquent, as timely (or timeless) now as when it was originally published in 1956, Thoughts in Solitude addresses the pleasure of a solitary life, as well as the necessity for quiet reflection in an age when so little is private.

Monthly Logos free ebook: on Pentecostalism (July)

Pentecostalism: A Guide for the Perplexed

Wolfgang Vondey

London: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2013.

Pentecostalism is the fastest growing religious movement of our time. The unexpected birth of the modern Pentecostal movement at the doorsteps of the twentieth century is as perplexing as its continuing existence and unprecedented expansion worldwide. Once marginalized from public discourse, Pentecostals have now entered into mainstream culture, religion, politics, academia, and social action. However, the unprecedented growth of Pentecostalism in all its diversity has led to characterizations ripe with platitudes, stereotypes, and misrepresentations.