This complete revision of the acclaimed New English Bible/Oxford Study Edition is the first one-volume resource introduce readers to the Bible by giving a complete overview of biblical history and scholarship as well as direct commentary on the text. Its features include 23 indispensable articles on the history, literary background, and cultural influences of the Bible, the complete text of the acclaimed Revised English Bible with the Apocrypha, fully revised and updated page-by-page textual annotations, a special index to people, places, and themes in the Bible, and full color Bible maps with index.