2000 Catholic Press Association Award Winner! Interpreting the Bible respectfully is a cross-cultural enterprise. For those who seek to understand the Bible as

Consumers of culture in the modern world - whether high culture or popular culture - discover before long that the Bible, its tales and its characters and its i

The Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible gathers nearly 5,000 alphabetically ordered articles that thoroughly yet clearly explain all the books, persons, places, an

Provides a description of the element or image, shows examples of how it is used in the biblical text, and presents photographs and maps that further illustrate

This reference work explores the images, symbols, motifs, metaphors, figures of speech, and literary patterns found in the Bible. With over 800 articles by over