The Mercer Dictionary of the Bible includes more than 1,000 pages of original materials relating to every aspect of biblical studies. The 1,450 articles are written by members of the National Association of Baptist Professors of Religion. It contains 64 pages of four-color maps, charts, and photographs and 156 black-and-white illustrations throughout the text. An outline of each canonical books is also available in this volume.
Reviews
[The contributors are] first-rate scholars who hold in effective relation their faith and their impressive critical learning. In the midst of current controversy about the Bible, this publication stands boldly for sanity, intelligence, and moderation.
—Walter Brueggemann
Columbia Theological Seminary
A modern, critical…one-volume Bible dictionary....Compared with [other Bible dictionaries] buyers will find some additional entries…as well as articles on virtually every noncanonical work included in recent standard collections. Some of the articles have helpful bibliographies, occasionally longer and more up-to-date than those of [other dictionaries]. If you feel you should buy just one,…take the Mercer Dictionary.
—International Review of Biblical Studies
Biblical Archaeologist ranks the Mercer Dictionary of the Bible as the “Best One-Volume Bible Dictionary” in its category:
This [Bible dictionary] is designed for students and the classroom, and it succeeds well with that audience. It has the best coverage of extrabiblical literature, and its articles are generally longer and supplemented with helpful bibliographies.
1990 LMP AWARD
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