Acknowledgements
We gratefully and fully acknowledge the assistance we have received from our co-editors, Dr Rex Mason (for the Old Testament), Professor Martin Goodman (for the Apocrypha), Dr Loveday Alexander and Dom Henry Wansbrough, OSB (for the New Testament). Our thanks are also due to the contributors of the individual articles, and to the expert management and editing team of the Oxford University Press, in particular Hilary O'Shea, the commissioning editor, and Sylvia Jaffrey, to whom we are indebted for her expert copy-editing of such a huge work.
J. B.
J. M.
OXFORD
July 2000