The best biblical scholarship right at your fingertips.Whether you're preparing a Sunday sermon, planning a weekly Bible study, or looking for some context to enhance your personal Scripture reading, the Tyndale Bible Dictionary is designed to bring God's Word to life and make understanding the Bible straightforward.This Bible handbook features the work of 139 Bible scholars in more than 1,000 informative, in-depth articles. Thousands of cross-references enable users to find additional information and details about other topics that are most important to them. Hundreds of pictures, Bible maps, and illustrations help you visualize historical places and cultures.Thorough and approachable, the Tyndale Bible Dictionary offers you insight on topics like: Manuscripts and translations of the BibleTheological concepts such as justification, redemption, and propitiationThe history of ancient cultures, locations, and objectsOverviews of the canonical books of the Bible as well as the apocryphal and pseudepigraphical booksWith the very best evangelical scholarship on the Bible, this comprehensive, single-volume Bible dictionary is the principal book in the Tyndale Reference Library and will be an important addition to any Christian's Bible reference collection.