Volume 1 of The Cambridge History of the Bible concerns the earliest period down to Jerome.

"'As I read this commentary, I felt nostalgic, imagining our dear New Testament Professor, Christopher Evans, a slight figure standing before his class at King's College, London in the 1960's.He dazzled us as he read fluently in English directly from the Greek text in a tour de force of simultaneous translation. I had come from an oppressive South Africa where the pedagogy set great store by the right answers learnt almost by rote, authoritarian in the extreme.What an exhilarating breath of fresh air to sit at the feet of one who was properly authoritative as is illustrated by this...