The Jerome Biblical Commentary Volume I The Old Testament/ Volume II The New Testament And Topical Articles

The Jerome Bibical Commentary The Jerome Biblical Commentary is really a monumental work and not just in the physical sense. It is the work of Catholic biblical scholarship. The editors did realize that ecumenism has been commonplace in the biblical field for some time. But the question of the catholic interpretaation constantly reappears. It seemed to the editors that the best way to expose the misunderstanding implicit in this question was to produce a commentary written entirely by Catholics. In the JBC, though you will find sincere acknowledgment of and gratitude for the work done by the scholars of other churches. If Catholic bible scholarship was a hard qualifier for the Anglo-American biblical expert's map before, the JBC puts it there now, more firmly and securely than any individual genious could have done. Arrangement of commentaries on the individual books coupled with special and topical articles has proven to be more advanced and comprehensive being 500 pages longer then Peake's commentary on the Bible, a tremendously successful book of that era.