Tyndale Bible Dictionary (Tyndale Reference Library) (Hardcover)

by Walter A. Elwell (Editor), Philip W. Comfort (Editor)

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Product Description
The Tyndale Bible Dictionary is the core product in the new Tyndale Reference Library. Featuring over 1000 articles and over 200 pictures covering everything from the Aaronic priesthood to the Wilderness of Zin, it is the most comprehensive, up-to-date, single-volume Bible dictionary available.

Teachers, pastors, and anyone wanting to learn more about the Bible will rely on the Tyndale Reference Library for solid, evangelical scholarship packed into concise, user-friendly reference works.

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A comprehensive guide to the people, places, and important words of the Bible

Editors
Walter A. Elwell, Ph.D.
Philip W. Comfort, Ph.D.

--This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 1352 pages
• Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers; First Edition edition (October 4, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0842370897
• ISBN-13: 978-0842370899
• Product Dimensions: 10.3 x 7.5 x 2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,401,044 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent desk reference, December 6, 2002

By	T. Clapp (Texas, United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The Tyndale Bible Dictionary is an excellent quick reference to most things Biblical. Unlike most of the popular pictorial dictionaries, Tyndale's Dictionary focus more on the content and less on the visual appeal. Don't get me wrong, it's a high quality printing, easy to read font, etc. You will find most of the articles are more detailed than many of the other Bible Dictionaries out there. No knowledge of Greek or Hebrew are necessary, though you will find some references to the original languages.

I can recommend this book to just about anyone who would like a good, consise Bible reference work.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not bad, but not the best either., July 9, 2008

By	Sam Booksmith - See all my reviews

This review is from: Tyndale Bible Dictionary (Tyndale Reference Library) (Hardcover)

This Bible dictionary is very conservative evangelical. It starts right off discussing Adam as a historical person, and you will find the same treatment of Noah and the flood. Eerdman's Dictionary of The Bible (edited by the great David Noel Freedman), HarperCollins Bible Dictionary and The Oxford Companion To The Bible offer a wider range of theological opinion. Other than Gordon Wenham, John Piper and the editors themselves, the other scholars listed as contributors appear to me to be unknown or little known. Eerdman's Dictionary is much more comprehensive with 5000 articles, and would be my first recommendation for your first Bible dictionary. However, many Christians would be completely satisfied by the solid evangelical commentary in this book. And I do agree with the other reviewers that there are some very in-depth and well-written articles here.

6 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Too Preachy, August 5, 2003

By	Richard S. Mitnick (Highland Park, NJ USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is an excellent bible dictionary the value of which is reduced by its preachiness. A dictionary is an academic reference, not a tool for evangelizing or prosyletizing.

This dictionary has excellent articles on difficult subjects such as apocryphal texts. It does lack good attribution of scholarship. A list of writers, none of whom are acknowledged scholars, is not sufficient. With the variations of subject matter in a dictionary, each article needs attribution.

The editors shoot themselves in the feet by admonishments of a sectarian nature.

Also not acceptible in an academic instrument is the use of BC/AD. This is disrespectful to those who use the dictionary who are not Christian. The accepted practice in academic circles is BCE/CE. This is not a small point.

None of the above problems exist in the Eerdmans Bible Dictionary. Eerdmans is respectful of what a dictionary is.

However, Eerdmans lacks the depth in the harder articles (eg Gnosticism) to be found in Tyndale.