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List of Bible dictionaries

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List of Bible dictionaries

A Bible dictionary is a reference work containing encyclopedic entries related to the Bible, typically concerning people, places, customs, doctrine and Biblical criticism. Bible dictionaries can be scholarly or popular in tone.

Contents

The first dictionary of the Bible in English was the Christian Dictionarie (1612) of Thomas Wilson.

Bible dictionaries of the 20th century

  • Barnes's Bible Encyclopedia, Biographical, Geographical, Historical and Doctrinal (1903), edited by Charles Randall Barnes
  • Standard Bible Dictionary (1909), editor Melancthon Williams Jacobus, Jr.
  • Temple Dictionary of the Bible (1910), edited by William Ewing and John Ebenezer Honeyman Thomson
  • Universal Bible Dictionary (1914), edited by Augustus Robert Buckland and Arthur Lukyn Williams
  • International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), editor James Orr
  • A New Comprehensive Dictionary of the Bible (1922), edited by Selah Merrill
  • The Popular and Critical Bible Encyclopaedia and Scriptural Dictionary (1922), edited by Samuel Fallows
  • The New Bible Dictionary (1962)
  • LDS Bible Dictionary (1979)
  • Harper's Bible Dictionary (1985)
  • Anchor Bible Dictionary (1992)

    • Bible dictionaries of the 21st century

  • New Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible (2008)

    • References

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