Bible Dictionary Articles
Four years in the making, the Mercer Dictionary of the Bible includes 1500 articles on biblical books and characters, significant biblical concepts and terminology, as well as articles on the latest methods and theories developed for their interpretation. Attention is also given to documents discovered at Qumran and Nag Hammadi, as well as to the New Testament Apocrypha and early patristic texts. I was asked to contribute two large and two small articles to the dictionary. What the reviewers are saying: The contributors are “first-rate scholars who hold in effective relation their faith and their impressive critical learning. In the midst of current controversy about the Bible, this publication stands boldly for sanity, intelligence, and moderation.” — Walter Brueggemann, Columbia Theological Seminary “Mercer Press is to be congratulated for its role in making available to the public this comprehensive and trustworthy scholarly aid to scriptural study. The Mercer Dictionary of the Bible surpasses existing one-volume dictionaries in scope and depth. . . . The editors have insured that this would be not only a scholarly dictionary of the Bible, but an encyclopedia of biblical scholarship as well.” — Harold H. Oliver, Boston University “The Mercer Dictionary of the Bible is an up-to-date, thorough, one-volume dictionary of the Bible and related subjects and literature. Encyclopedic in scope, it covers each book of the Bible (including the deuterocanonical books) and most of the Bible’s apocryphal, pseudepigraphical, archaeological, and philosophical/theological background. The quality of the articles is first-rate.” — George Howard, University of Georgia
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“Lord in the New Testament,” “Messiah/Christ,” “Hypocrisy,” and “Jude.” Mercer Dictionary of the Bible. Macon, GA: Mercer UP, 1990.
