Concise yet comprehensive, manageable and affordable, T&amp;T Clark Study Guides are an invaluable resource for students, preachers and Bible study leaders. Each book in the series gives the reader a thorough introduction to a particular book of the Bible or the Apocrypha and includes:<br><br>• An introduction to the contents of the particular biblical book<br>• A balanced survey of the important critical issues<br>• Attention to literary, historical, sociological, and theological perspectives<br>• Suggestions about critical appropriation of the text by the contemporary reader<br>•Reference to other standard works through annotated bibliographies.<br><br>All the books in the series, formerly published by Sheffield Academic Press, are by leading <br>biblical scholars and the authors have drawn on their scholarly expertise as well as their experience as teachers of university and college students.