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Essential figures in the Bible / Ronald L. Eisenberg.
- Title
- Essential figures in the Bible / Ronald L. Eisenberg.
- Author
- Eisenberg, Ronald L.
- Publication
- Lanham, Md. : Jason Aronson, c2013.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | BS570 .E37 2013 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xv, 229 p.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Essential Figures in the Bible compiles thorough but manageable entries on the figures most vital to an understanding of the Bible and its teachings. In this valuable reference, Dr. Ronald L. Eisenberg catalogs and explains the importance of more than 250 figures who are most vital to an understanding of the Hebrew Bible and its teachings. For these figures selected from the more than 3,000 names found in the Hebrew Bible, Eisenberg provides summaries of the narratives relevant to each figure discussed along with illustrative quotations from the Bible and supplementary material from rabbinic literature when appropriate.
- Subject
- Bible. > Dictionaries
- Genre/Form
- Biographies – Dictionaries
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- List of abbreviations -- Essential figures in the Bible -- Appendix: chronological listing of figures according to first Biblical appearance -- Glossary.
- ISBN
- 9780765709394 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0765709392 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780765709400 (ebook)
- 0765709406 (ebook)
- LCCN
- ^^2012021305
- OCLC
- 794363237
- SCSB-11382196
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library