The New Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible - v. 1, A-C

"The New Interpreter's[registered] Dictionary of the Bible" (in five volumes) provides the best quality in contemporary biblical scholarship on a comprehensive range of topics from the Old and New Testaments, the Deuterocanonical books, and from contextual studies of the ancient Near East and the Greco-Roman worlds and their literatures.

The dictionary contains maps, charts, and illustrations to further clarify the written material.

Volume 5 will include a CD with full-color illustrations and the entire text of the volume, fully searchable.

The biblical text used is the NRSV translation.