The Editors' Preface To the Reader Alphabetical listing of the Books of the Bible Abbreviations The Hebrew Bible --The Pentateuch --The Historical Books --The Poetical and Wisdom Books --The Prophetic Books The Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical Books Introduction --Books and Additions to Esther and Daniel that are in the Roman Catholic, Greek, and Slavonic Bibles --Books in the Greek and Slavonic Bibles; not in the Roman Catholic Canon --In the Slavonic Bible and in the Latin Vulgate Appendix --In the Appendix to the Greek Bible The New Testament --The Gospels --The Acts of the Apostles --Letters/Epistles in the New Testament --Revelation General Essays, Tables --The Canons of the Bible --Textual Criticism --Translation of the Bible into English Interpretation --The Hebrew Bible's Interpretation of Itself --The New Testament Interprets the Jewish Scriptures --Jewish Interpretation in the Premodern Era --Christian Interpretation in the Premodern Era --The Interpretation of the Bible: From the Nineteenth to the Mid-twentieth Centuries --Contemporary Methods of Biblical study --The Geography of the Bible Cultural Contexts --The Ancient Near East --The Persian and Hellenistic Periods --The Roman Period Tables --Timeline --Chronological Table of Rules --Weights and Measures --Calendar --Parallel Texts Translations of Ancient Texts Glossary Index to the Study Materials Concordance Color Maps.