Peake's commentary on the Bible

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Peake's commentary on the Bible is a one volume commentary on the Bible, giving special attention to Biblical archaeology and then-recent discoveries of biblical manuscripts.

'Peake's Commentary' was first published in 1919 in two volumes as A Commentary on the Bible, written by Arthur Samuel Peake (1865-1929) with the assistance of A. J. Grieve for the New Testament. Biblical quotation in this edition was from the Revised Version of the Bible.

The revised 1962 edition is a single volume edited by Matthew Black (1908-1994), the General and New Testament Editor) and H[arold]. H[enry]. Rowley (1890-1969), the Old Testament editor. There were 62 contributors to this more encyclopedic edition - though Black's Preface pays tribute to the original; "About one thing there was no question: there could be no departure from the Peake tradition of accurate and reliable popular scholarship." The updated edition is based on the Revised Standard Version. The 62 contributors are from all branches of Protestantism in Europe and America. Its aim is to present to the layperson the "generally accepted results of Biblical Criticism, Interpretation, History and Theology".

  • first edition: T.C. and E.C.Jack, London, 1919
    • Publication passed to Nelson by 1920
  • reprinted with a supplement edited by A. J. Grieve in 1937
  • completely revised edition, ed. M. Black, H. H. Rowley, Nelson (1962),
  • paperback edition (2001), Routledge, ISBN 0415263557