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RR 2010/307 The New Interpreters' Dictionary of the Bible. Volume 4 Me-R General Editor Katharine Doob Sankenfeld Abingdon Press Nashville, TN 2009 xxvii + 950 pp. ISBN 978 0 687 33375 2 £56.99; $85.00 (volume price)
Distributed in the UK by Alban Books. Review based on Vol. 4 of a five-volume set; the entire set is also available on CD-ROM, priced at $400
Keywords Christianity, Dictionaries
Review DOI 10.1108/09504121011077101
The Interpreter's Bible series was a Biblical criticism series published in the 1950s. Each volume covered one or more books of the Old Testament, the New Testament or the Apocrypha. The volumes contained in-depth introductions and commentaries, complemented by original translations, with full critical notes. A new edition, called New Interpreter's Bible appeared from 1994 onwards. However, the aims and objectives were revised and the New Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible (NIDB) began to appear in 2006. Publication in five volumes was completed in 2009, with the whole work available on CD-ROM from February 2010.
The New Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible aims to provide high-quality contemporary biblical scholarship on a comprehensive range of topics ranging from the Old and New Testaments, the Apocryphal books, and contextual studies of the ancient Near East to studies of the Greco-Roman worlds and their literatures. The dictionary contains maps, charts, and illustrations to further clarify the written material. The biblical text used is the New Revised Standard Version...