Baker Compact Bible Dictionary. This item is unavailable.Baker Compact Bible Dictionary

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.

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.