| Description |
1 online resource (xxii, 374 pages) : 14 color maps |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-355) and indexes. |
| Summary |
Provides more than 300 articles that cover everyone from Adam and Eve to Jesus Christ and everywhere from the Garden of Eden to Golgotha and Gethsemane. Includes entries on Hebrew Bible figures such as Cain and Abel, Noah and Methuselah, Abraham and Isaac, David and Goliath, Solomon and Sheba, Moses and Aaron, Naomi and Ruth, and Samson and Delilah. Also covers the New Testament with pieces on Peter and Paul, John the Baptist and Mary Magdalene, the apostles (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John), Pontius Pilate and Judas Iscariot, and of course Jesus, Mary, and Joseph. Provides entries on groups of people who figure in the Bible, such as angels, archangels, and demons, the Magi, the tribes of Israel, and women. Looks at significant places of the Bible, both ancient and modern, including kingdoms and countries (Egypt, Assyria, Mesopotamia) and cities (Bethlehem, Jerusalem, Sodom and Gomorrah), as well as geographical features such as the Sea of Galilee and Mount Hebron. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Bible -- Biography -- Encyclopedias.
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Bible. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Encyclopedias.
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| Subject |
Bible -- Geography -- Encyclopedias.
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Geography. |
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Bible -- Biography -- Encyclopedias -- Geography. |
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Bible. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Encyclopedias.
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Biographies.
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| Added Author |
Metzger, Bruce M. (Bruce Manning), 1914-2007.
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Coogan, Michael David.
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Oxford University Press.
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| Note |
Available from some providers with title: Oxford guide to people and places of the Bible |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Oxford guide to people & places of the Bible. Oxford, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, ©2001 0195146417 (DLC) 00066900 (OCoLC)45439956 |
| ISBN |
0199891281 (electronic book) |
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9780199891283 (electronic book) |
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9780199760572 (electronic book) |
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0199760578 (electronic book) |
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0195146417 (alkaline paper) |
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9780195146417 (alkaline paper) |
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0425180670 (paperback) |
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9780425180679 (paperback) |
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0195176103 (2004 printing) |
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9780195176100 (2004 printing) |
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