Anchor Bible Series
Template:Short description Template:More footnotes needed Template:BibleHistory The Anchor Bible Series, which consists of a commentary series, a Bible dictionary, and a reference library,<ref name="aybs" /> is a scholarly and commercial co-venture which was begun in 1956, with the publication of individual volumes in the commentary series. Over 1,000 scholars—representing Jewish, Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Protestant, Muslim, secular, and other traditions—have contributed to the project.<ref name="aybs" /> Their works offer discussions that reflect a range of viewpoints across a wide theological spectrum.
Template:As of more than 120 volumes had been published, initially under oversight of the series' founding General Editor David Noel Freedman (1956–2008), and subsequently under John J. Collins (2008–2025). Each volume was originally published by Doubleday (a division of Random House, Inc.), but in 2007, the series was acquired by Yale University Press. Yale now prints all new volumes as the Anchor Yale Bible Series, while continuing to offer all previously published Anchor Bible titles as well.<ref name="aybs">"The Anchor Yale Bible Series", Yale University Press, 2008.</ref><ref>"Yale University Press Acquires Anchor Bible Series from Doubleday" Template:Webarchive, Yale University Press, 2007</ref> In November 2024 Candida Moss was announced as the new general editor of the series.<ref>https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2024/professor-candida-moss-appointed-as-general-editor-of-the-anchor-yale-bible-series</ref>
Anchor Bible Commentary Series
The Anchor Bible Commentary Series, created under the guidance of William Foxwell Albright (1891–1971), comprises a translation and exegesis of the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament and the Intertestamental Books (the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Deuterocanon/the Protestant Apocrypha; not the books called by Catholics and Orthodox "Apocrypha", which are widely unused by Protestants. For each biblical book, the series includes an original translation with translational and text-critical notes; overviews of the historical, critical, and literary evolution of the text; an outline of major themes and topics; a verse-by-verse commentary; treatment of competing scholarly theories; historical background; and photographs, illustrations, and maps of artifacts and places associated with biblical figures and sites. Depending on the size and complexity of the book, some are covered in more than one volume.
The series has produced over 100 titles since the release of the first volume in the early 1960s. Despite boasting at least one volume on every book of the Hebrew Bible, New Testament, and Deuterocanon/Apocrypha, the series remains a work in progress. Revisions and replacements of earlier works continue to be released, and at least a half-dozen volumes are currently under contract or in production.
Anchor Bible Dictionary
The Anchor Bible Dictionary contains more than 6,000 entries from 800 international scholars. It has illustrations and line-art throughout, and is also available for download from Logos Bible Software or Accordance Bible Software. The "Dictionary" includes articles on the Dead Sea Scrolls, early Jewish-Christian relations, the historical Jesus, sociological and literary methods of biblical criticism, feminist hermeneutics, and numerous entries on archaeological sites, as well as bibliographies with citations listed individually at the end of each article.
Anchor Bible Reference Library
The Anchor Bible Reference Library is an open-ended series composed of more than thirty separate volumes with information about anthropology, archaeology, ecology, geography, history, languages, literature, philosophy, religions, and theology, among others.
Works in the Anchor Yale Bible Commentary series
As of 2025, the Anchor Yale Bible Commentary series consists of the following volumes (arranged by their assigned series number, which differs at points from the standard canonical orders):
Hebrew Bible / Old Testament
- Template:Cite book 454 pages.
- Template:Cite book 488 pp.
- In production: Template:Cite book
- Template:Cite book 656 pp.
- Template:Cite book 865 pp.
- In production: Template:Cite book (2 vols. expected)
- Template:Cite book 1085 pp.
- Template:Cite book 656 pp.
- Template:Cite book 720 pp.
- Template:Cite book 544 pp.
- Template:Cite book 624 pp.
- Template:Cite book 480 pp.
- In production: Template:Cite book (2 vols. expected)
- Template:Cite book 376 pp.
- Template:Cite book 600 pp.
- Template:Cite book 440 pp.
- Replaced: Template:Cite book 608 pp.
- Template:Cite book 592 pp.
- Template:Cite book 480 pp.
- Template:Cite book 216 pp.
- Template:Cite book 175 pp.
- Replaced: Template:Cite book 168 pp.
- Template:Cite book 192 pp.
- Template:Cite book 768 pp.
- Template:Cite book 240 pp.
- Template:Cite book 504 pp.
- Template:Cite book 576 pp.
- Template:Cite book 576 pp.
- Template:Cite book 408 pp.
- Template:Cite book 544 pp.
- Replaced: Template:Cite book 336 pp.
- Template:Cite book 608 pp.
- Template:Cite book 312 pp.
- In production: Template:Cite book
- Template:Cite book 360 pp.
- Template:Cite book 504 pp.
- In production: Template:Cite book
- Template:Cite book 507 pp.
- Template:Cite book 384 pp.
- Template:Cite book 432 pp.
- Template:Cite book 544 pp.
- In production: Template:Cite book (3 vols. expected)
- Template:Cite book 257 pages.
- Template:Cite book 720 pp.
- Template:Cite book 704 pp.
- Template:Cite book 448 pp.
- Template:Cite book 544 pp.
- Template:Cite book 432 pp.
- Template:Cite book 368 pp.
- Template:Cite book 304 pp.
- Template:Cite book 524 pp.
- Template:Cite book 960 pp.
- Template:Cite book 672 pp.
- Template:Cite book 656 pp.
- Template:Cite book 416 pp.
- Template:Cite book 372 pp.
- Template:Cite book 368 pp.
- Template:Cite book 360 pp.
- In production: Template:Cite book
- Template:Cite book 720 pp.
- Template:Cite book 1024 pp.
- Template:Cite book 384 pp.
- Template:Cite book 272 pp.
- Template:Cite book 336 pp.
- Template:Cite book 720 pp.
- Template:Cite book 464 pp.
- Template:Cite book 312 pp.
- Template:Cite book 368 pp.
- Template:Cite book 304 pp.
- Template:Cite book 416 pp.
- Template:Cite book 192 pp.
- Template:Cite book 576 pp.
- Template:Cite book 864 pp.
- Template:Cite book 480 pp.
New Testament
- Template:Cite book 576 pp.
- Template:Cite book 592 pp.
- Replaced: Template:Cite book 744 pp.
- Template:Cite book 672 pp.
- Template:Cite book 864 pp.
- Template:Cite book 848 pp.
- Template:Cite book 544 pp.
- Template:Cite book 688 pp.
- Template:Cite book 840 pp.
- Template:Cite book 824 pp.
- Replaced: Template:Cite book 468 pp.
- Template:Cite book 688 pp.
- Replaced: Template:Cite book 408 pp.
- Template:Cite book 648 pp.
- Template:Cite book 640 pp.
- Template:Cite book 832 pp.
- Template:Cite book 608 pp.
- Template:Cite book 832 pp.
- Template:Cite book 464 pp.
- Template:Cite book 849 pp.
- Template:Cite book 552 pp.
- Template:Cite book 138 pp.
- Template:Cite book 384 pp.
- Template:Cite book 512 pp.
- Template:Cite book 640 pp.
- Replaced: Template:Cite book 312 pp.
- Template:Cite book 264 pp
- Template:Cite book 608 pp.
- Template:Cite book 1200 pp.
- Template:Cite book 300 pp.
- Template:Cite book 928 pp.
- Replaced: Template:Cite book 528 pp.
Apocrypha / Deuterocanon
- Template:Cite book 624 pp.
- Template:Cite book 288 pp.
- Template:Cite book 368 pp.
- Template:Cite book 592 pp.
- Template:Cite book 592 pp.
- Template:Cite book 496 pp.
- Template:Cite book 352 pp.
- Template:Cite book 360 pp.
- Template:Cite book 384 pp.
- In production: Template:Cite book
Noncanonical
- Template:Cite book 278 pp.
Works in the Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library
Works in the Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library include:
- Template:Cite book
- Template:Cite book
- Template:Cite book
- Template:Cite book
- Template:Cite book
- Template:Cite book
- Template:Cite book
- Template:Cite book
- Template:Cite book
- Template:Cite book
- Template:Cite book
- Template:Cite book
- Template:Cite book
- Template:Cite book
- Template:Cite book
- Template:Cite book
- Template:Cite book
- Template:Cite book
- Template:Cite book
- Template:Cite book
- Template:Cite book
- Template:Cite book
- Template:Cite book
- Template:Cite book
- Template:Cite book
- Template:Cite book
- Template:Cite book
- Template:Cite book
- Template:Cite book
- Template:Cite book
- Template:Cite book
- Template:Cite book
- Template:Cite book
- Template:Cite book
- Template:Cite book
- Template:Cite book
- Template:Cite book
- Template:Cite book
- Template:Cite book
- Template:Cite book
- Template:Cite book
- Template:Cite book
- Template:Cite book
- Template:Cite book
- Template:Cite book
- Template:Cite book
- Template:Cite book
- Template:Cite book
- Template:Cite book
- Template:Cite book
- Template:Cite book
- Template:Cite book
- Template:Cite book
- Template:Cite book
- Template:Cite book
- Template:Cite book
- Template:Cite book
- Template:Cite book
- Template:Cite book
- Template:Cite book
- Template:Cite book
- Template:Cite book
See also
References
External links
- Yale University Press: The Anchor Yale Bible Series (publisher's page) Template:Webarchive
- New York Times article on the Series