NEW BIBLE

DICTIONARY

THIRD EDITION

ORGANIZING EDITOR (FIRST EDITION)

J. D. Douglas

Lecturer, Singapore Bible College

REVISION EDITOR (SECOND EDITION)

N. Hillyer

formerly Librarian, Tyndale House, Cambridge

REVISION EDITOR (THIRD EDITION)

D. R. W. Wood

Senior Editor, Inter-Varsity Press

CONSULTING EDITORS FOR THE THIRD EDITION

I. H. Marshall

Professor of New Testament Exegesis, University of Aberdeen

A. R. Millard

Rankin Professor of Hebrew and Ancient Semitic Languages, University of Liverpool

J. I. Packer

Professor of Theology, Regent College, Vancouver

D. J. Wiseman

Emeritus Professor of Assyriology, University of London

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Library of Congress Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

New Bible Dictionary / revision editor, D. R. W. Wood: consulting editors, I. H. Marshall … [et al.]—3rd ed.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 0-8308-1439-6 (cloth: alk. paper)

1. Bible—Dictionaries. I. Wood., D. R. W. II. Marshall, I. Howard.

BS440N42 1996

220.3—dc20

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