"...At the top of the stack of new offerings."
--- Minneapolis Star-Tribune, December 1999
"This handsome volume of 500-plus pages manages to be comprehensive, consice and useful. Paintings, photographs, maps, charts abound, and the articles, including sidebars, are uniformly readable and informative. Even the minor prophets are set forth with clarity."
--- Parade Magazine, December 1999
"A splendidly illustrated companion for the Bible reader."
--- Seattle Times/Post Intelligencer, Dec.6th