Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780-1867) produced a body of work that strongly appealed to his contemporaries while disconcerting them. The odd qualities of his work continue to fascinate scholars, critics, and artists today. For the most part schol...

"If the Paintings Could Talk" reveals the hidden histories of paintings in the National Gallery, London. With a treasury of fascinating facts, discoveries, and tales, this book describes the flight a work took down a mountainside and the portrait tha...

This new translation of "First Corinthians" includes an introduction and extensive commentary that has been composed to explain the religious meaning of this Pauline epistle. Joseph Fitzmyer discusses all the usual introductory problems associated wi...

Born in Ipswich, Massachusetts, Arthur Wesley Dow (1857-1922) is renowned for his paintings and prints that take their subject matter from nature and reflect the orderly design and fine handcrafting championed by the Arts & Crafts movement. This char...

"II Chronicles" (Volume 13 in the acclaimed "Anchor Bible Commentary" series) is a crucial book for historians of the biblical period and for students of the Bible. Like "I Chronicles", it has been both over- and undervalued. In recent years it has,...

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...

This is a commentary on the history of rabbinical teachings in the Christian era – on the Mishnah, the Tosefta, the Talmuds, and more.