Students, professor and general readers alike have relied upon The OxfordAnnotated Bible for essential scholarship and guidance to the world of the Biblefor nearly four decades. Now a new editorial board and team of contributorshave completely updated this classic work. The result is a volume whichmaintains and extends the excellence the Annotated's users have come to expect,bringing new insights, information, and approaches to bear upon theunderstanding of the text of the Bible.The new edition includes a full index to all of the study material (not justto the annotations), and one that is keyed to page numbers, not to citations.And, to make certain points in the text clearer for the reader, there areapproximately 40 in-text, line drawing maps and diagrams.With the best of the Annotated's traditional strengths, and the augmentationof new information and new approaches represented in current scholarship, theThird Edition will serve as the reader's and student's constant resource for anew century.