The Baker Compact Bible Dictionary - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0801015448 ISBN 13: 9780801015441

Publisher: Baker Books, 2014

Synopsis

What do you do when you need a quick, compact, and convenient resource for helping you understand biblical books, people, places, imagery, or topics? Now readers can turn to The Baker Compact Bible Dictionary. It provides students of the Bible with quick access to the essential information needed to read the Bible with increased understanding and confidence.

Carefully selected and abridged from The Baker Illustrated Bible Dictionary, this dictionary is truly portable, yet packed with more than 1,000 clear and accurate entries that draw on up-to-date evangelical scholarship in biblical studies, archaeology, geography, history, and theology. For anyone who studies the Bible, this little dictionary will prove to be a trove of information to aid in personal study and in preparation for teaching.

About this title

About the Author

Tremper Longman III (PhD, Yale University) is Distinguished Scholar and Professor Emeritus of Biblical Studies at Westmont College. Before coming to Westmont, he taught at Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia for eighteen years. He has served in leadership for the Institute for Biblical Research for many years. Longman is the author of more than thirty books, including biblical commentaries, scholarly works, and popular books on how to interpret the Bible. He is also a senior translator and a member of the Bible Translation Committee for the New Living Translation. He lives in Alexandria, Virginia.

From the Back Cover

More than 1,000 clear and accurate entries for biblical terms, people, and places

The Baker Compact Bible Dictionary provides access to the essential information and key Scripture references needed to read the Bible with increased understanding. Its A-to-Z entries succinctly define biblical terms, events, people, and places.

Carefully selected and abridged from The Baker Illustrated Bible Dictionary, this dictionary is truly portable, yet packed with more than one thousand clear and accurate entries that draw upon up-to-date evangelical scholarship in biblical studies, archaeology, geography, history, and theology. For anyone who studies the Bible, this compact dictionary will prove to be a trove of information to aid in personal study and in preparation for teaching.


Tremper Longman III (PhD, Yale University) is the Robert H. Gundry Professor of Biblical Studies at Westmont College in California. He has authored or coauthored numerous books and commentaries, including Reading the Bible with Heart and Mind, An Introduction to the Old Testament, the NIV Application Commentary on Daniel, and the volumes on Job and Proverbs in the Baker Commentary on the Old Testament Wisdom and Psalms.

Edition details

• Publisher: Baker Books
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0801015448
• ISBN 13: 9780801015441
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 382
• Editor: Tremper Longman III