About: Nelson's New Illustrated Bible Dictionary

Nelson's New Illustrated Bible Dictionary is an up-to-date sourcebook of biblical information that is accurate, thorough, dependable, and easy to understand. More than 7,000 entries on the people, places, things, and doctrines of the Bible appear in the book, making it one of the most comprehensive one-volume Bible dictionaries ever published.

Nelson's New Illustrated Bible Dictionary consists of the most current, dependable findings and insights to enrich one's study and teaching of the Bible. Some of the world's leading evangelical scholars produced articles for the original edition—Nelson's Illustrated Bible Dictionary edited by Herbert Lockyer, Sr., and published in 1986. Drawing upon the groundbreaking work of Dr. Lockyer, F.F. Bruce, R.K. Harrison, and others on that project, Ronald F. Youngblood undertook the general editorship ofhis comprehensive revision. Every entry in the dictionary was reviewed, revised, corrected, replaced, rewritten, and updated as needed to provide the most comprehensive, current, and dependable Bible dictionary available.