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Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary
With over 7 million words of authoritative content, the Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary remains the gold standard reference for Biblical Studies. It is an
unprecedented interfaith exploration of the Bible that is multicultural and interdisciplinary in scope.
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Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary
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Content Highlights
- The first major Bible dictionary to be published in America in 30 years that includes six volumes of approximately 1,200 pages each
- More than 6,000 entries totaling more than 7,000,000 words
- Nearly 1,000 contributors
- An unprecedented interfaith exploration of the Bible that is multicultural and interdisciplinary in scope
- Illustrated throughout with easy-to-find references
- Endpaper maps of the Near Eastern world keyed to text for quick location of archaeological and biblical sites
- Articles on pseudepigraphic and apocryphal texts, Nag Hammadi tractates, and individual Dead Sea Scrolls, including the most recently published sectarian Dead Sea Scrolls as well as articles illustrating the literary artistry of the biblical text
Features and Benefits for Research and Learning
- "Minor entries" on personal and place-names that go well beyond the one- or two-sentence descriptions found in other Bible dictionaries
- Outstanding summaries of the latest research on the historical Jesus
- Fascinating new articles discussing the growing reappraisal of early Christianity's relationship to Judaism (Was Christianity an "offspring" or "sibling" of rabbinic Judaism?)
- A richness of information unequaled in the history of biblical studies
