In lucid, readable style, this illustrated encyclopedia of modern scholarship is an immediate reference for all Bible students. The Dictionary features: * More than 7500 entries, with many terms not found in earlier works * Full length articles on each book of the Bible, the Apocrypha and other extra-canonical books, including the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Gnostic manuscripts; and on great theological concepts and doctrines of the Bible * Pronunciations, Hebrew or Greek origin, derivatives, variant spellings, identification, and occurrences * 24 pages of maps in full color