0 a short piece of writing at the beginning of a book, sometimes praise by a famous person or someone who is not the writer
1 an introduction to a book, sometimes by someone who is not the person who wrote the book
The book itself is almost eight hundred pages, when one includes the scene-setting foreword, the intricate afterword, the chronological tables and cross-references, the bibliography, the biblical citations, the indices.
This work will assist the debate, and it is hoped that more than a few readers will move from the foreword to the judicious introduction and the painstakingly edited texts.
This omission if foreshadowed in the foreword where he admits that his dominant interpretive framework is the pragmatic model of incremental change punctuated by sudden bursts of radical reform.
The view reached is best summed up by the book's foreword, as a conclusion to draw the strands of analysis and argument together is sadly lacking.
The book begins with an interesting foreword, which provides a history of the development of the database and an informative, readable introduction outlining the main segments of the book.
His being asked to write the foreword exemplifies his paradoxical standing as icon and as outsider.
They also include a foreword, explanation of transcription conventions, appendix, notes, references, author index, and subject index.
The editorial foreword is concise and gives a well written outline of how the chapters contribute to these topics.
