Harpers Bible Dictionary By Madeleine S Miller

"A Complete Introduction to the Bible is an ideal resource for personal study, as a classroom text, or for use with Bible study groups. Accompanying charts, graphs, maps, and online study-discussion questions for each chapter complement this presentation."--BOOK JACKET.

The Bible is the central text of Western civilization, and an understanding of it is vital to the study of world history and culture. In addition, more and more high school and college students are studying the Bible as literature. Monumental in scope and written especially for high school students and general readers, this encyclopedia surveys the material culture, customs, and beliefs of the biblical world. Included are more than 200 alphabetically arranged entries on the tools, animals, foods, habits, laws, professions, and peoples of the Bible. Each entry provides definitions; scriptural references; etymological, historical, and archaeolgical information; and, when possible, a discussion of the relevance of the topic to modern readers. Entries include cross-references and cite works for further reading, and the encyclopedia is generously illustrated. The Bible is the central text of Western civilization, and an understanding of it is vital to the study of world history and culture. In addition, more and more high school students and undergraduates are studying the Bible as literature. Monumental in scope and written especially for high school students and general readers, this encyclopedia surveys the material culture, customs, and beliefs of the biblical world through more than 200 alphabetically arranged entries on the tools, animals, foods, habits, laws, professions, and peoples of the Bible. Each entry provides definitions; scriptural references; etymological, historical, and archaeological information; and, when possible, a discussion of the relevance of the topic to modern readers. The encyclopedia covers the peoples who were a part of biblical life: the Essenes and Pharisees, the scribes and priests, the neighbors and enemies, and the great powers that enslaved them. In addition, it explains many of the major events in Israel's history, the accepted concept of cosmology and weather, and the common understanding of many details from the Creation to Armageddon.

Preliminary Material /David Edward Aune -- Animals and Symbolism in Luke (Lexical notes on Luke-Acts, IX) /Henry J. Cadbury -- The Text of Matthew 1.16 /Bruce M. Metzger -- Capitalization in english translations of the Gospel of Matthew /Floyd V. Filson -- The Greek new testament with a limited critical Aapparatus: Its nature and Uses /Ernest Cadman Colwell -- The Q-Problem Reconsidered /Olof Linton -- The Christian two ways Tradition: Its Antiquity, Form, and Function /M. Jack Suggs -- Pseudepigraphy and the early Christians /Martin Rist -- Proverbs in the Gospel of Thomas /William A. Beardslee -- The Historical beginnings of the Resurrection Faith /Howard M. Teeple -- Synoptic prophecies on the destruction of Jerusalem /Bo Relcke -- Luke, The Literary Physician /Morton S. Enslin -- The Census in Luke as an Apologetic Device /Horst R. Moehring -- The Israel of God /Kenneth Willis Clark -- Redactions of the Fourth Gospel and the mother of Jesus /Harry M. Buck -- Unsolved questions about early Christianity in Anatolia /Sherman E. Johnson -- The Phenomenon Of early Christian 'Anti-Saoramentalism ' /David E. Aune -- Christians and imperial economic policy in the early Fourth Century /Robert M. Grant -- The concept of the so-called 'Divine Man ' in mark's Christology /Otto Betz -- Christian Baptism and the contribution of Melito of Sardis reconsidered /Gerald F. Hawthorne -- Allen P. Wikgren : Biography and Bibliography /Robert W. Alllson -- Index Of Authors /David Edward Aune -- Index Of References /David Edward Aune.