This is the only complete and up-to -date dictionary of the BIble in English in many years - The Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible, an illustrated encyclopedia more than five years in the making. Never before has there been a dictionary like this: all the knowledge of modern scholarship set forth in a lucid, readable style; an immediate reference for all Bible students.
With this dictionary words and phrases, places, people, and things in the Bible gather light and meaning. Difficult passages are clarified by the help of this biblical resource.
Here are some of the outstanding features of this magnificent work:
- More than 7,500 entries, with many terms not found in earlier works.
- Pronunciations, Hebrew or Greek original, derivation, variant spellings, identification, and biblical occurences of each proper name and distinctive term. Liberal cross references. Bibliographics following major articles.
- Each volume includes eight full-color pages showing photographs of important manuscripts, flowers and trees, jewels and precious stones, and landscapes. These are in addition to the more than one thousand black-and-white illustrations of weapons, musical instruments, household utensils, tools, ruins, sites, seals, inscriptions, building areas, archeological discoveries.
- In additional to those in black and white are twenty-four pages of maps in full color, selected from authoritative West-
minster Maps. In all there are 163 maps, including many countries, neighborhoods, and cities.
- Full-length articles on each book of the Bible; on the Apocrypha and other extra-
canonical books, including the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Gnostic manuscripts; and on great theological concepts of the Bible.