Dictionary of the Old Testament: Pentateuch

Dictionary of the Old Testament: Pentateuch
2002 Logos Book Award Winner and ECPA Gold Medallion Finalist

The Dictionary of Old Testament: Pentateuch is designed to be your first stop in the study and research of the first five books of the Bible. This encyclopedic work is characterized by close attention to the text of the Old Testament and the ongoing conversation of contemporary scholarship. In exploring the major themes and issues of the Pentateuch, editors T. Desmond Alexander and David W. Baker, with an international and expert group of scholars, inform and challenge through authoritative overviews, detailed examinations and new insights from the world of the ancient Near East.

Unique Features:

• Explores the major themes and contours of the Pentateuch
• Examines and weighs the historical issues surrounding the Pentateuch and poses possible solutions
• Offers an assessment of the questions surrounding Mosaic authorship and considers some possible ways forward for evangelical scholarship

Shed new light on your Old Testament Study with this Up-to-Date and Critically-Acclaimed Dictionary Collection!

New archaeological findings. Ongoing conversations about history. Challenges to what has been accepted about Biblical texts. The of the IVP Old Testament Dictionary Collection gives you up-to-date scholarship on foundational concepts and timely debates about the Hebrew Scriptures. You get hundreds of in-depth articles from hundreds of expert scholars around the world sure to aid your study and research, equip your preaching and teaching and enrich your understanding of the Old Testament.

Features:

• Informed reading and research of the Old Testament
• In-depth articles
• Traditional and contemporary topics
• Authoritative overviews, detailed examinations and new insights
• Up-to-date biblical scholarship
• Accessible and original
• Evangelical in perspective and commitment
• Written by acknowledged experts from North America, the United Kingdom, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Asia
• Valuable and extensive bibliographies

This Two-Volume Collection includes:

• Dictionary of the Old Testament: Pentateuch
• Dictionary of the Old Testament: Historical Books

New Testament Dictionaries in this series
If you have not yet purchased the New Testament Dictionary Collection , you may be interested in the six-volume collection. You will receive the two Old Testament volumes described above, and the New Testament volumes of:

• The Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels
• The Dictionary of Paul and His Letters
• The Dictionary of the Later New Testament & Its Developments
• The Dictionary of New Testament Background