A Bible dictionary is a reference work containing encyclopedic entries related to the

Bible The Bible is a collection of religious texts that are central to Christianity and Judaism, and esteemed in other Abrahamic religions such as Islam. The Bible is an anthology (a compilation of texts of a variety of forms) originally writt ...

, typically concerning people, places, customs, doctrine and

Biblical criticism Modern Biblical criticism (as opposed to pre-Modern criticism) is the use of critical analysis to understand and explain the Bible without appealing to the supernatural. During the eighteenth century, when it began as ''historical-biblical c ...

. Bible dictionaries can be scholarly or popular in tone. The first dictionary of the Bible in English was the ''Christian Dictionarie'' (1612) of Thomas Wilson.

Bible dictionaries of the 18th century

Bible dictionaries of the 19th century

Bible dictionaries of the 20th century

Bible dictionaries of the 21st century

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New Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible The ''New Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible'' is a five volume dictionary of the Bible. The volumes were released by Abingdon Press from 2006 to 2009. This work contains 8,400 articles written by 900 scholars from forty different countries. Th ...

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References

*''Dictionaries'', article by E. C. Richardson in ''The International standard Bible encyclopaedia'' (Volume 2) (1915) pp. 844–8
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