The head of the spine is chipped and the head of the front board rubbed; there is minor pencil underscoring throughout the book, else a clean and solid second hand copy.Translated from the second edition "Geschichte Israels" by Stanley Godman. "Martin Noth (3 August 1902 - 30 May 1968) was a German scholar of the Hebrew Bible who specialized in the pre-Exilic history of the Hebrews. With Gerhard von Rad he pioneered the traditional-historical approach to biblical studies, emphasising the role of oral traditions in the formation of the biblical texts." (wikipedia)