EDITORS

Walter A. Elwell, Ph. D.

AND

Philip W. Comfort, Ph. D.

Tyndale House Publishers

WHEATON, ILLINOIS

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Tyndale Bible dictionary / editors, Philip W. Comfort, Walter A. Elwell.

p. cm. — (The Tyndale reference library)

ISBN 0–8423–7089–7 (alk. paper)

1. Bible—Dictionaries. I. Title: Bible dictionary. II. Comfort, Philip Wesley. III.

Elwell, Walter A. IV. Series.

BS440.T96 2001

220.3—dc21 2001034697

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