Description: 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.

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