Product Overview
I Samuel is Volume 8 in theAnchor Bible series of new, book-by booktranslations of the Old and New Testaments and Apocrypha. Inhis series debut, P. Kyle McCarter, Jr., haswritten a volume of interest and value to both thescholar and the generalreader.
McCarter's treatment of I Samuelconsistsof:
Introduction : review of the literary problems andhistorical circumstances surrounding the writing ofthebook.
Translation : fresh and authoratative, this newtranslation of I Samuel fully utilizesfor the first time ancient manuscript fragmentsfound at Qumran.
TextualNotes : for the scholar, technicalinformation on the texts used in thetranslation.
Notes : for the untrainedreader, descriptions of people, places, customs,and unusual features of thelanguage.
Commentary : an explanatorysummary of each passage oftranslation.
Maps : illustrating the book'sdramatic events.
