The United Bible Societies' Old Testament Handbook Series is a comprehensive verse-by-verse
guide to understanding exactly what is being communicated by the author in the original Scriptures. The
Handbooks are detailed commentaries providing exegetical, historical, cultural, and linguistic information on the books of the Bible. They are prepared primarily … Read more…
Nelson's New Illustrated Old Testament Survey allows the reader to quickly summarize or review all the pertinent details about any Old Testament book. More than a Bible handbook but less than a commentary, this handy resource provides a section by section breakdown of issues and topics dealt with in the Hebrew Scriptures.
It includes:
Complete but conc… Read more…
In Nelson's New Testament Survey: Discovering the Essence, Background & Meaning About Every New Testament Book, each book of the New Testament is introduced and investigated with scholarship and biblical faithfulness. This resource includes all the information usually found in a Bible handbook - author, date, historical background, purpose, outline - but it … Read more…
The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia is a practical, authoritative, and complete classic reference
encyclopedia that explains every significant word in the Bible and Apocrypha. It gives detailed information on the language and literature of Bible lands, and the historical and religious environments of the people of the Bible in articles by nearly… Read more…
This is one of the most popular Old Testament commentaries available, created by two scholars who deeply respected the authority of Scripture. It examines the historical and literary aspects of the text as well as grammatical and philological issues. It also makes use of the Hebrew words and grammar; but these have been put into context, making it easy to … Read more…
"For Christians, all facts are friends. We are certain that Christianity is true. All we desire is that the truth should be spread throughout the world." This bold statement from the introduction of The AMG Encyclopedia of Bible Facts underscores the compilers' conviction that Christians need to know the facts about their Bible, its background and what it … Read more…
Idols in the Bible always refer to more than simple statues; they are the false deities created by humankind to replace the worship of the one true God who fashioned the universe and made men and women in his image. The basic condition of the human heart is prone to sin and idolatry. The apostle Paul explains, “For although they knew God, they did not hono… Read more…
Emphasizing the historical distance between the New Testament and our contemporary culture, The Sermon on the Mount by Scot McKnight helps pastors, students, Sunday School teachers, and lay people discern how to live out the biblical text in the world. A highly-anticipated commentary series, The Story of God Bible Commentary will cover both the Old and New T… Read more…
A rich treasury of Bible information! The New Unger's Bible Handbook remains the one book indispensable to quality study, chock-full of color illustrations, photographs, maps, diagrams, charts and more. Now with updated graphics, this classic is sure to be a favorite among the next generation of Bible scholars.… Read more…
Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible was written by David Noel Freedman (editor-in-chief), Allen Myers
(associate editor), and Astrid B. Beck (managing editor), and published in 2000. The Bible dictionary gathers nearly 5,000 alphabetically ordered articles that thoroughly and clearly explain all the books, persons, places, and significant terms found in the … Read more…
Unger's Bible Dictionary has been one of the best-selling Bible dictionaries on the market since its introduction in 1957. Now, this time-honored classic is more valuable than ever. Updated and expanded by respected Bible authorities including R.K. Harrison, Howard F. Vos, and Cyril J. Barber, The New Unger's Bible Dictionary is packed with the most curr… Read more…
Wuest Word Studies are the collected commentary and articles written on the Greek New Testament by Dr. Kenneth Wuest that offer the Bible student who is not conversant in biblical Greek a doorway to the study of the New Testament in its original language.
A three-volume work in print, this electronic version offers detailed commentary focused on the G… Read more…
