There are many ways of studying the scriptures. When the reader comes to the Bible with the sole aim of securing spiritual guidance, he will ponder it from a devotional point of view. His principal…
The book offers a comprehensive survey of ancient and more recently discovered manuscripts, and considers the science and art of textual criticism. It covers a variety of textual problems and offer…
The book of Revelation contains passages of great beauty and comfort, as well as passages that strike the casual reader as bizarre, bewildering, and sometimes frightening. How are readers today to …
For nearly two millennia, the Bible has been the cardinal text for Judaism and Christianity. Its stories and characters are part of both the repertoire of Western literature and the vocabulary of e…
This is a comprehensive and concise examination of the books of the Apocrypha, their history and their significance, based upon the Revised Standard Version of the Apocrypha. It is the author's con…
The Bible has been translated more often than any other piece of literature and is currently available in over two thousand languages, with several languages having numerous versions. Outlined here…