A Dictionary of the Bible (Oxford Paperback Reference) - Softcover

Browning, W. R. F.

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9780198608905: A Dictionary of the Bible (Oxford Paperback Reference)

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ISBN 10: 019860890X ISBN 13: 9780198608905

Publisher: OUP Oxford, 2004

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As well as providing helpful information about important places and personalities, it is particularly concerned to expound the themes and doctrines of the Bible and to indicate their status in the light of modern scholarship. With entries ranging from earthquakes and mice to feminism and the Dead Sea Scrolls, the dictionary is a lively and absorbing reference work for all readers of the Bible. Includes over 2,000 entries, from Adam to Zechariah.

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Canon Browning has produced an excellent book. (Laszlo T. Simon, Ecclesia Orans)

About the Author:

W. R. F. Browning has been a Canon Residentiary of Blackburn Cathedral and of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford. He is now an honorary canon and an honorary priest in west Oxford. He was for thirteen years a lecturer in New Testament Studies at Cuddesdon College, Oxford, and at the Oxford University Department for Continuing Education. His books include Commentary on St Luke's Gospel (1960; 6th edn 1981), Meet the New Testament (1965), The Anglican Synthesis (1965), and Handbook of the Ministry (1985).

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