together. They regard chapters 1 and 2 as one unit, chapters 3 to 31 as a second, chapters 32 to 37 as a third, chapters 38 to 41 as a fourth and, finally, the closing chapter (42) as a fifth unit. They assume many different authors for the book and deny its unity. The writer of this volume of The People’s Bible rejects such a fragmentary theory. There is significant ancient evidence that the book is a unit. From earliest times scholars generally regarded the book as one work, not the patched-up