Provides information on the people, places, events, books, institutions, religious beliefs, and secular influence of the Bible.

After the Bible itself, this is the ideal Companion to give those in our armed forces information on the central book of Western culture.

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Bruce M. Metzger is George L. Collard Professor Emeritus of New Testament Language and Literature, Princeton Theological Seminary. A recognised authority on the text of the New Testament, he was chairperson of the NRSV Bible Committee, which produced the New Revised Standard Version, and he was co-editor (with Roland E. Murphy) of The New Oxford Annotated Bible. Michael D. Coogan is Professor of Religious Studies at Stonehill College.

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Zusammenfassung
A one-volume encyclopedia covering all aspects of the Bible - key persons, places, events, concepts, institutions, and realities of biblical times.