Awards Christian Retailing's Best Description 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.
About the author Tremper Longman III (PhD, Yale University) is the Robert H.
Gundry Professor of Biblical Studies at Westmont College in California.
He has authored or coauthored numerous books and commentaries, including the volumes on Job and Proverbs in the Baker Commentary on the Old Testament Wisdom and Psalms, the NIV Application Commentary on Daniel, and Introduction to the Old Testament .
Baker Books The baker compact bible dictionary, paperback/tremper iii longman
