Occasionally history produces an individual who embodies the virtues of his time. Matthew Parker, archbishop of Canterbury, was not merely a product of the Renaissance and Reformation of England during the sixteenth century. He contributed, through his...

The building of the Panama Canal was the greatest engineering feat in history. Although visionaries had dreamed of uniting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans and thus shaving 7,000 miles off the New York-San Francisco route via Cape Horn, only in the 1880s did the...

Matthew by Ben Witherington HI Smyth & Helwys Bible Commentary. Smyth tk Helwys, Macon, Ga., 2006. 568 pp. $60.00 (cloth). ISBN 978-157312-076-0. In THIS HlSTORICAL-CRmCAL commentary, Ben Witherington III offers a thoroughgoing and compelling analysis of the Gospel of Matthew as an expression...