In 1965 Indonesia had the largest communist movement in the world outside of the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China. Indonesian President Sukarno supported the movement and was edging Indonesia towards socialism, when a mutiny coordinate...

Baruch A. Levine has written a masterful study of the first half of the "Book Of Numbers" for the "Anchor Bible Commentaries". "The Book of Numbers" – from the numbering or census of the people in the opening chapters – is a much-neglected part of th...

"The Book of Numbers" is an account of how the Israelites wandered in the wilderness after receiving the Ten Commandments of Mount Sinai. Through this time of testing, while facing an uncertain future, the people complained repeatedly to Moses and to...

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...

Never particularly keen on exhibiting his work, British artist Euan Uglow (1932-2000) maintained a lower profile than other artists of his generation and kept many of his paintings out of the public view. Even so, his name is increasingly well known,...

This sixth volume of the "Buildings of Wales" series covers two counties, Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion (formerly Cardiganshire) in the South-west of Wales. Like the same authors' Pembrokeshire, the volume covers an architecture still little known,...

This instalment in the acclaimed "In Focus" series examines the life and career of Dorothea Lange (1895-1965), who is most recognized for her social documentary work during the Great Depression of the 1930's The Getty Museum holds nearly one hundred...

Shortly after the dawn of photography, the unlikely partnership between the respected painter David Octavius Hill and the young engineer Robert Adamson produced some of the most important photographs in the history of the medium. Their alliance began...