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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages and tabs in excellent condition. Pull out maps are present. No notes or highlighting. Name sticker in front. Cover has some creasing. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> This work is a compact commentary on the whole Bible written by Roman Catholic scholars according to the principles of modern biblical criticism. Its predecessor The Jerome Biblical Commentary which appeared in 1968 embodied the revolution in Catholic biblical studies that took place in the two decades between the appearance of the encyclical Divino Afflante Spiritu of Pope Pius XII in 1943 and the closing of Vatican Council II under Pope Paul VI in 1965. The encyclical had served as a Magna Carta allowing Catholics to use literary and historical criticism that had long been suspect; the Council and Paul VI defended the results achieved by that criticism against a reactionary assault mounted after the death of Pius XII. We editors remain proud of the JBC. Our preface to it stated a modest goal of gathering the new insights into one place where they would be conveniently available to all who were interested. Despite the then- recent entrance of Catholics into biblical criticism the JBC was judged by many non-Catholics to be the best concise commentary in English on the Bible. A circulation of some 200000 copies and translations into Spanish and Italian testified to its ready acceptance. (OS)