Bible Reference

The Concise Concordance is a useful word index to all 73 books of the New American Bible Revised Edition. Arranged in alphabetical order, it shows the book, chapter, and verse location of the most prominent words in the NABRE and supplies several words of the context in which each word is found.

This volume is the perfect accompaniment for anyone studying the NABRE. It provides helpful access to texts most significant to personal and professional Scripture research, regardless of the reader's familiarity with this particular translation.

The New American Bible Revised Edition:

The New American Bible Revised Edition (NABRE) brings to culmination the work of nearly 100 scholars, including translators, editors, and a subcommittee of Catholic bishops who provided extensive review of the biblical text over a period of many years. The NABRE is the first major amendment to the New American Bible translation since 1991. It features:

*The first update of the Old Testament since 1970, taking into account recent archaeological and textual discoveries.
*Complete revision of the Psalter.

Here's a concise, easy-to-use Bible reference book especially for students of all ages who seek to learn more about the Bible and its times. The Student Bible Dictionary features definitions and explanations of hundreds of Bible words, names, places, and concepts. Scores of full color charts, maps, photographs, and illustrations help to clarify the text, and add visual appeal. Special color coding, meanwhile, adds special emphasis to important topics-which feature additional information geared toward the student reader. From AARON (AIRn). Older brother of and early spokesman for Moses (Ex. 4:14-16). Became Israel's first high priest. The Aaronic priesthood (priests of the tribe of Levi) was named for him (ex. 28:1; 29; Lev. 8; Num. 18) to ZIPPORAH (zip POH ruh). Wife of Moses and daughter Jethro, also called Reuel, priest of Midian (ex. 2:16-21; 3:1)the Student Bible Dictionary is a whole library of accessible, useful information!

Winner of an Honorable Mention in the 2003 Chicago Book Clinic awards! The best scholarship. The most up-to-date information. Useful. Fascinating. Easy. Now. Other CD-ROM reference libraries today make you pay for dozens of out-of-date, public-domain books that do not give you the best and most recent scholarship--the timely and reliable information you want and need. By contrast, The Essential IVP Reference Collection includes only work from the best of today's biblical and theological scholars. Version 3.0 offers the same great content as 2.0 but with a new Libronix platform. You'll have instant access to InterVarsity Press's award-winning New Testament dictionary series (Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels, Dictionary of Paul and His Letters, Dictionary of the Later New Testament & Its Developments and Dictionary of New Testament Background), the immensely popular Bible background commentaries (The IVP Bible Background Commentary: Old Testament and The IVP Bible Background Commentary: New Testament), and the New Bible Dictionary and New Bible Commentary, which have set the standard for Bible reference books for over a generation. And that's just the beginning! Does a particular verse trouble you? Hard Sayings of the Bible gives in-depth explanations of over 500 of the most difficult passages in the Old and New Testaments. Are you interested in the meaning of recurring images in Scripture? The Dictionary of Biblical Imagery will aid your exploration of the themes, metaphors, imagery and patterns of Scripture. New Bible Atlas, New Dictionary of Biblical Theology and New Dictionary of Theology will help round out your study of the places, peoples, interpretations and implications of biblical teaching. Finally, four convenient "pocket" dictionaries offer a quick-reference resource covering biblical studies, the study of New Testament Greek, theological terms, and apologetics and the philosophy of religion. On this single CD-ROM you'll find

• over a dozen of InterVarsity Press's award-winning reference books
• the equivalent of over 12,000 pages of printed material
• over 10 million words of the most up-to-date information on the Bible, Bible history, cultural background and theology
• the authoritative work of hundreds of today's leading biblical and theological scholars from all over the world
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• unlockable NIV, NRSV, RSV, NASB, NLT and The Message
• unlockable Complete Works of Josephus and Works of Philo
• complete user's manual included right on the CD-ROM for easy access
• every book interconnected to work as a single reference source

This exclusive collection includes works you'll find nowhere else on CD-ROM. The Essential IVP Reference Collection is ideal for pastors, scholars, students, Sunday school teachers and anyone who is serious about studying the Bible! NOTE: This reference collection is built on the Logos Library System. Logos has during summer 2002 upgraded and rereleased the Libronix Digital Library System and current customers may get the free upgrade from their website. System requirements: Windows 98/Me/NT4.0 (SP6a)/2000/XP, 500 MHz Pentium II (1 GHz Pentium 3 recommended), 128 MB RAM (512 MB recommended), 550 MB hard drive space, CD-ROM or DVD drive, 800 x 600 display (1024 x 768 recommended), Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or later. If you notice performance problems, please contact Logos Research Systems, Inc. online or at 800-875-6467. AND UPDATE YOUR CD-ROM! If you were one of the first in line to buy our Essential IVP Reference Collection, you may have noticed a problem with the list of articles for the New Dictionary of Theology. You can now download a patch from our website that will fix this problem. If you notice other performance problems, please contact Logos Research Systems, Inc. online or at 800-875-6467.

A quality guidebook that opens up new vistas and insights into the whole Bible

Marked by a broad evangelical perspective, up-to-date research, and contributions from respected biblical scholars, The Eerdmans Companion to the Bible offers a reliable and illuminating guide to the entire Bible. Whether readers find the Bible familiar or foreign, they will appreciate the Companion’s informative articles and its commentary by Connie Gundry Tappy on all of the Old and New Testament books. This comprehensive reference work promises to make the Word of God come alive as never before.

• Compiled by some of the foremost biblical scholars in the world today
• New articles by sixty expert authors on many pertinent biblical topics
• Well-written background information and commentary on every book of the Bible
• Illustrated with maps, photos, and charts throughout

Now in a flexiback softcover. With over three million copies sold, this handbook has earned an outstanding reputation as the most helpful and accessible guide to the Bible and has been called 'the best book to have next to the Bible.' Readers will discover fascinating, thorough, and enriching insights into the Bible with the best-selling and internationally acclaimed Zondervan Handbook to the Bible, now in a smaller and more manageable softcover edition. From the history and design of the temple in Jerusalem to God's relationship to the universe, you'll find it here. The land, cultures, battles, feast days, heroes, and villains of Scripture come alive through spectacular color-filled articles and images of meticulous clarity and detail. Special features include: * Four-color guide to all the books of the Bible * 119 articles by an international team of experts * Over 500 color photographs * 68 maps, 30 charts * Complete 'Rapid Fact-Finder' reference section

The first and only concordance for the Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (RSV-CE) of the Bible. This exhaustive reference tool contains over 15,000 words and 300,000 entries, and has listings for both the first and second editions of the RSV-CE. As easy to use as a dictionary, keywords and passages makes Scripture accessible to people of all walks of life.