"Joshua" began as a collaboration between G. Ernest Wright, the distinguished biblical scholar and archaeologist, and his student, Robert G. Boling. After Wright's death, Professor Boling, who also did the translation and commentary for Judges, finis...

"Judith" is Volume 40 in the acclaimed anchor Bible series of new book-by-book translations of the "Old and New Testaments" and "Apocrypha". In the "Apocrypha", Judith is the saint who murdered for her people. She offered herself to Holofernes, the A...

Jeremiah, long considered one of the most colorful of the ancient Israelite prophets, comes to life in Jack R. Lundbom's "Jeremiah 1-20". From his boyhood call to prophecy in 627 b. c. e. , which Jeremiah tried to refuse, to his scathing judgments ag...

This second book of the three-volume "Anchor Bible Commentary" offers an astute translation and commentary on the middle sixteen chapters of "Jeremiah". Important themes in the present volume include injustice within Judah's royal house, sexual immor...

Stirring words of the most outspoken of the Hebrew prophets are reexamined in this concluding volume of the esteemed "Anchor Bible Commentary" on "Jeremiah". This final book of the three-volume "Anchor Bible Commentary" gives us translation and comme...

In this book, an expert on the Dead Sea Scrolls explains why they are among the most important archaeological finds in history, and explores how they have revolutionized our understanding of Jesus.

This third edition of the "Anchor Bible Book Of Job" (Volume 15 in the series) contains numerous new, revised or augmented notes. Of special interest is the inclusion of readings from the earliest translation of the "Book Of Job", the recently publis...

What a stunning discovery: an old, coded note that actually contains directions for reaching the Earth's very core! And once he finds it, renowned geologist Professor Liedenbrock can't resist setting out with his 16-year-old nephew to go where only o...

Children will delight in this unabridged version of Rudyard Kipling's classics, Jungle Books One and Two! Not only does this attractive volume feature the beloved tales of Mowgli, the "man cub" raised by wolves, and Rikki Tikki Tavi, but also the les...

From 1874 to 1882, John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) produced more than 200 paintings and water-colours aside from portraiture, including figures in landscape settings, architectural studies, seascapes, subject paintings, and studies after old masters....