{"title":"Bible Reference Books","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"rte\" style=\"margin-top:1rem\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGood reference books make Bible study sharper. Start with IVP's \u003ca href=\"\/products\/dictionary-of-jesus-and-the-gospels-joel-b-green-jeannine-k-brown-nicholasperrin-9780830824564\"\u003eDictionary of Jesus and the Gospels\u003c\/a\u003e or the \u003ca href=\"\/products\/dictionary-of-the-new-testament-use-of-the-old-testament-9781540960047\"\u003eDictionary of the New Testament Use of the Old Testament\u003c\/a\u003e. For original-language work, \u003ca href=\"\/products\/greek-english-lexicon-of-the-new-testament-and-other-early-christian-literature-walter-bauer-9780226039336\"\u003eBDAG\u003c\/a\u003e remains the standard Greek lexicon.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor more tools, browse \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/original-languages\"\u003eoriginal languages\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/greek-language-resources\"\u003eGreek\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/hebrew-language-resources\"\u003eHebrew\u003c\/a\u003e resources and \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/commentaries\"\u003eBible commentaries\u003c\/a\u003e. Looking for a reference Bible instead? See \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/reference-bibles\"\u003ereference Bibles\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"concise-hebrew-and-aramaic-lexicon-of-the-old-testament-william-holladay-9780802834133","title":"Concise Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament","description":"\u003cp\u003eBased on the First, Second, and Third Editions of the Koehler-Baumgartner \u003ci\u003eLexicon in Veteris Testamenti Libros\u003c\/i\u003e, this abridgment—which eliminates bibliographical references and technical information intended for specialists and judiciously trims biblical citations—provides everything the student needs to translate an Old Testament passage.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWilliam L. Holladay, Professor Emeritus of Old Testament at the Andover Newton Theological School. He received his BA degree from the University of California, and graduated (summa cum laude) with a BD degree from the Pacific School of Religion in 1951. His ThD was granted by the University of Leiden in the Netherlands, in 1958.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Eerdmans Publishing Company","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover \/ Single","offer_id":9782054027311,"sku":"SHOLLAWILCONCISEHEBREWANDARAM9780802834133","price":44.33,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0021\/5210\/3983\/products\/0802834132.jpg?v=1566439638"},{"product_id":"greek-english-lexicon-of-the-new-testament-and-other-early-christian-literature-walter-bauer-9780226039336","title":"Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature (BDAG)","description":"\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRecommended by Vern S. 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Including entries for many more words, the new edition also lists more than 25,000 additional references to classical, intertestamental, Early Christian, and modern literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this edition, Frederick W. Danker's broad knowledge of Greco-Roman literature, as well as papyri and epigraphs, provides a more panoramic view of the world of Jesus and the New Testament. Danker has also introduced a more consistent mode of reference citation, and has provided a composite list of abbreviations to facilitate easy access to this wealth of information.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePerhaps the single most important lexical innovation of Danker's edition is its inclusion of extended definitions for Greek terms. For instance, a key meaning of \"episkopos\" was defined in the second American edition as \u003ci\u003eoverseer\u003c\/i\u003e; Danker defines it as \"one who has the responsibility of safeguarding or seeing to it that something is done in the correct way, \u003ci\u003eguardian\u003c\/i\u003e.\" Such extended definitions give a fuller sense of the word in question, which will help avoid both anachronisms and confusion among users of the lexicon who may not be native speakers of English.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDanker's edition of Bauer's \u003ci\u003eWörterbuch\u003c\/i\u003e will be an indispensable guide for Biblical and classical scholars, ministers, seminarians, and translators.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1188 pages\u003cbr\u003ePublished 2001\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"University of Chicago","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover \/ Single","offer_id":9782060908591,"sku":"FBAUER9780226039336","price":165.09,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0021\/5210\/3983\/products\/0226039331.jpg?v=1543332611"},{"product_id":"handbook-on-the-new-testament-use-of-the-old-testament-g-k-beale-9780801038969","title":"Handbook on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament: Exegesis and Interpretation","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis concise guide by a leading New Testament scholar helps readers understand how to better study the multitude of Old Testament references in the New Testament. 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First, this book lists the vast majority of Greek prepositions, adverbs, particles, relative pronouns, conjunctions, and other connecting words that are notorious for being some of the most difficult words to translate. For each word included, page references are given for several major lexical resources where the user can quickly go to examine the nuances and parameters of the word for translation options. This book will save considerable time for students of the Greek New Testament text. For example, for the Greek preposition en (occurs 2,750 times in the New Testament) covers four pages of small print in the Bauer-Danker lexicon (BDAG). But Interpretive Lexicon digests those pages in just a few lines, with the page numbers and section references given for A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, 3rd Edition (BDAG, 00) and 2nd Edition (BAGD, 79), Greek Grammar Beyond the Basics (Daniel B. 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