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Bible Dictionaries

Bible dictionaries and encyclopedia provide general information about books of the Bible, biblical characters and places, and related topics.  They are an excellent source of retrospective bibliography for further study.

The AMBS Library Reference Room contains a wide variety of dictionaries and encyclopedias (REF 220.3).  Older publications of this type may be found in the circulating collection at the same number.

Recommended titles, recently published:

The Anchor Bible Dictionary, 6 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1992.  (R 220.3 A53)
Eerdman's Dictionary of the Bible. Grand Rapids; Eerdman', 2000. (REF 220.3 E665)
New Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible.  Nashville: Abingdon, 2006-. (REF 220.3 H23a 1996)

 

Older, but still respected:

The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, 4 vols. Grand Rapids, Eerdmans, 1979-88. (R 220.3 I61 and 220.3 O75 in the lower book stacks)
The Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible, 5 vols. Nashville/New York; Abingdon: 1976.  (R 220.3 In8 and 220.3 In8 in the lower book stacks)

 

iPreach provides online access to several reputable Bible dictionaries:

Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible (Abingdon, 1962)

Dictionary of Biblical Interpretation (Abingdon, 1999)
To access iPreach, off campus users must enter their AMBS Library barcode number and the first five letters of their last name.

Some free Internet resources:

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

More than 2,500 Bible and Bible-related proper names and their meanings.

Bible Study Tools at crosswalk.com

A commercial site with a word search tool for various versions of the Bible as well as commentaries, concordances, dictionaries and lexicons.