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

Editions

First edition

Peake's commentary was first published in 1919 as A Commentary on the Bible, edited by Arthur Samuel Peake (1865-1929) with the assistance of A. J. Grieve for the New Testament. There were 61 contributors, writing 96 articles. Its length was 1014 pages + 8 maps. Biblical quotation in this edition was from the Revised Version of the Bible.

• first edition: T.C. and E.C. Jack, London, 1919
  • Publication passed to Nelson by 1920
• reprinted with a 40-page supplement edited by A. J. Grieve (after Peake's death) in 1937

Revised edition

The revised 1962 edition was edited by Matthew Black (1908-1994), the General and New Testament Editor and Harold Henry Rowley (1890-1969), the Old Testament editor. This edition was completely rewritten but on the same plan as its predecessor, including 103 articles. 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." Its length was 1126 pages + 16 maps. The new 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".

• completely revised edition, ed. M. Black, H. H. Rowley, Nelson (1962),
  • Republished by Routledge, ISBN 0-415-05147-9
• paperback edition (2001), Routledge, ISBN 0-415-26355-7

References

• Peake's commentary on the Bible (1962) by Matthew Black, Harold Henry Rowley, and Arthur Samuel Peake - Thomas Nelson (publisher)