Easy to use, and full of a wealth of information, the Zondervan Compact Bible Dictionary will equip your study of the Bible.The dictionary features:Concise definitions of persons, places, objects, events, and conceptsOver 6,000 entriesSummaries of the books of the BibleInformation about archaeological finds in the Holy LandHundreds of illustrationsMaps of the ancient world from the time of Abraham to the height of the Roman Empire (2000 B.C.-A.D. 117)Conservative scholarship that is comprehensive in scopeIdeal usefulness for laypersons, students, teachers, and pastors

    This new edition includes 200 new words and 850 new citations with 300 new pages.

    McKenzie S. J. and originally published in 1965. Fr. John L. McKenzie, S.J., (1910-1991) was an acclaimed Catholic Scripture scholar who wrote numerous books and was the first Catholic scholar on the Divinity School faculty. He was at one time president of the Catholic Biblical Association of America and president of the Society of Biblical Literature. His Dictionary of the Bible is the best one-volume orthodox Catholic Bible dictionary available in the English language—it’s an essential reference tool that should be on the shelf of every good Catholic library.     A standard reference work, providing concise descriptions of biblical characters, terms, and places, as well as pertinent illustrations and charts, this is “one of the most up-to-date and reliable dictionaries of the Bible in any language.…Magnificent in scholarship, ample in learning, frank and unhesitating in facing all the difficulties and problems, sympathetic with the varieties and diversities of other views” (Religious Education).