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1) Exploring the unexplained: a practical guide to the peculiar people, places, and things in the Bible
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Have you ever wondered about those giants in Genesis or that reference to Enoch in Jude? Exploring the Unexplained: APractical Guide to the Peculiar People, Places, and Things in the Bible answers all your questions about unusal, hard-to-explain, and difficult-to-understand stories in the Bible. Learn more about people like Enoch, Moses, and the Nephilim. As with other books in Thomas Nelson's A to Z series, Exploring the Unexplained helps you gain...
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Contains over six thousand alphabetically arranged entries that provide information about developments and issues associated with the study of the Bible, covering people and places, versions of the Bible, methodologies of Bible scholarship, and historical and archaeological subjects, and includes illustrations, cross-references, and bibliographies.
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The Zondervan Pictorial Encyclopedia of the Bible, the result of more than ten years of research and preparation, provides Bible students with a comprehensive and reliable library of information. Varying viewpoints of scholarship permit a well-rounded perspective on significant issues relating to doctrines, themes, and biblical interpretation. Well-organized and generously illustrated, this encyclopedia will become a frequently used resource and reference...
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A reference guide designed especially for lay readers of the Bible, featuring nearly three hundred alphabetically arranged entries that offer ideas and facts about people, places, and events mentioned in the Scriptures, each with selected Bible sources and scholarly commentary, and in some cases etymology and archaeological detail. Includes an index.
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"This new reference work allows readers to share in the centuries-old fascination of the study of medicine in the Bible and Talmud. In the Middle Ages, the majority of the best known Jewish thinkers, philosophers, poets and grammarians were physicians by occupation - men like Maimonides, the Ibn Ezras, the Tibbons, and countless others. Since the first systematic treatises on medicine in the Bible and Talmud were published in the seventeenth century,...
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"This outstanding source is the place to find definitions, personal names and their derivation, places, and concepts from the Bible. Six hundred leading scholars from a wide spectrum of theological perspectives have come together to provide almost 5,000 articles that reflect current biblical scholarship, archaeological discoveries, trends, and issues. A must for every library."--"Outstanding Reference Sources," American Libraries, May 2002.
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"The Dictionary of the Old Testament: Historical Books presents articles on numerous historical topics as well as major articles focused on the books of Joshua, Judges, Samuel, Kings, Chronicles, Ezra and Nehemiah. Other articles focus on the Deuteronomistic History as well as the Chronicler's History, the narrative art of Israel's historians, innerbiblical exegesis, text and textual criticism, and the emergence of these books as canonical. One feature...
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