Dartmouth Bible Issued in Paperback Edition

The Dartmouth Bible, first published by Houghton Mifflin in 1950 and issued in a revised and enlarged edition in 1961, has now come out as Volume 45 of the Houghton Mifflin Sentry Editions (1257 pp., $3.95). This new, inexpensive edition contains the whole of the regular second edition of 1961, printed on paper of good quality and bound in durable fabric rather than paper.

The Dartmouth Bible was prepared by Dr. Roy B. Chamberlin, Fellow in Religion Emeritus, and the late Prof. Herman Feldman of Tuck School, with the counsel of an advisory board of Biblical scholars. In modern English, it was designed as an abridgment of the King James version of the Bible, with aids to its understanding as history and literature, and as a source of religious experience. In preparing the second edition Dr. Chamberlin added a section on the Dead Sea Scrolls and a chapter summarizing Biblical interpretation through the ages. Introductions, prefaces, notes and annotated maps accompany the Old and New Testaments and the Apocrypha.