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This has been one of the best-selling Bible dictionaries on the market since its introduction almost 50 years ago. Now, this time-honored classic is more valuable than ever. Packed with current scholarship, more than 67,000 entries are supplemented with detailed essays, colorful photography and maps, and dozens of charts and illustrations to enhance your understanding of God's Word.

Now in a handy pocket-edition, this easy-to-read reference covers 500 of the most important people and places of Scripture, from Aaron to Zacchaeus and Babylon to the Sea of Galilee. Full color.

This text showcases the amazing lucidity and precision of C.S. Lewis's thoughts and writings, with entries on prayer, faith, love, virtue, greed, lust, church, the Trinity, creeds, doctrine, hell, heaven, miracles, suffering, joy, and more.

No one familiar with the Bible needs to be told that it is a truly remarkable work. But it takes help to understand this ancient collection of diverse forms of literature written by different people across many centuries. The "Eerdmans Commentary on the Bible" (ECB) is the finest, most up-to-date single-volume Bible handbook now available.

Written by world-class Bible scholars, the ECB encapsulates in nontechnical language the best of modern scholarship on the sixty-six biblical books plus the Apocrypha. The only one-volume Bible commentary to cover "all" the texts

"The Complete Book of Hymns" brings to life the stories behind more than 600 hymns and worship songs. With background on the composer, the inspiration behind the lyrics, scriptural references for devotional consideration, and a sampling of the song lyrics, this book brings forth the message of these great songs of the faith like never before!

A series of brief reference books for laypeople designed to be read in units of one or two pages