Nothing speaks more highly for a commentary than how valuable it is to pastors and scholars, students, and interested readers. By all accounts, Victor Paul Furnish's commentary on "II Corinthians" has become the standard by which others are judged. I...

"II Kings" (Volume 11 in the acclaimed "Anchor Bible") is the chronicle of the raging conflicts that tore the United Kingdom of Israel apart, creating the rival nations of Israel to the north and Judah to the south. It tells of the time of the great...

"II Maccabees" continues the chronicle of the "Time of the Troubles" (167-64 B. C. E. ), begun in "I Maccabees". It recounts the stories of conflict between militant Jews, led by Judas Maccabaeus, and their Hellenistic oppressors. Aside from the stor...

"II Samuel" completes P. Kyle McCarter, Jr. 's study of the book of "Samuel". Based upon the introduction and commentary of his first volume, McCarter continues the discussion of textual and literary sources as they relate to a reconstruction of hist...

When Raymond E. Brown died in 1998, less than a year after the publication of his masterpiece, "An Introduction to the New Testament", he left behind a nearly completed revision of his acclaimed two-volume commentary on the "Gospel of John". The manu...

Writing a commentary on the book of "Isaiah" in the middle of a paradigm shift in biblical studies, and in the study of the prophetic books in particular, is no easy task. The book of "Isaiah" has been the object of more scholarly interest over the p...

Scholars have traditionally isolated three distinct sections of what is known as the "Book of Isaiah", and in "Isaiah 40-55", distinguished biblical scholar Joseph Blenkinsopp provides a new translation and critical commentary on the section usually...

The world's leading authority on the prophet Isaiah brings his distinguished three-volume commentary on the book of "Isaiah" to a conclusion with this new translation and critical discussion of the final eleven chapters. The concluding section of the...

"I and II Esdras" is Volume 42 in the "Anchor Bible" series of new book-by-book translations of the Old and New Testaments and Apocrypha, each by a preeminent scholar. Jacob M. Myers is Professor of Old Testament at the Lutheran Theological Seminary...

In this latest addition to the esteemed "Anchor Bible series", scholar Gary Knoppers examines one of the most neglected books of the Hebrew Bible and establishes its importance to understanding the nation of Israel. What was the place of the monarchy...