This giant volume has an easy-to-use format and includes interpretations from 70 Protestant, Roman Catholic, and Jewish scholars. Designed for use by laypersons, ministers, librarians, college and seminary professors and students--anyone who enjoys studying the Bible. This commentary features: commentary on each book of the Old and New Testaments and the Apocrypha, 43 up-to-date articles, 140 photographs, 16 pages of newly revised maps, special reader helps on chronology and measures and money, index of Scripture references and an index of subjects.