This Commentary encapsulates in nontechnical language the best of modern scholarship on the 66 biblical books, plus the Apocrypha. It provides reader-friendly treatment and succinct summaries of each section of the text that will be valuable to scholars students and general readers alike. The primary object is to clarify the meaning of each section of the Bible. It is not a verse-by-verse analysis, but focuses on principal units of meaning - narrative, parable, prophetic oracle, section of argument, and so on - and highlights their interconnectedness with the rest of the biblical texts. The volume also addresses and answers major issues, including the range of possible interpretations, and refers readers to the best of the fuller expositions.