The Illustrated Dictionary and Concordance of the Bible

by Reader's Digest Association (Editor), Geofrey Wigoder

A single-volume Bible desk reference, based on the King James edition, features an alphabetical listing of important words with cross-referencing, illustrations, definitions of 3,500 biblical names, and more.

Genres: Reference, Religion

1070 pages, Hardcover

First published April 1, 1992

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Reviews

[John Wilson · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is not the most comprehensive Concordances available though it is useful for a quick lookup and the illustrations alone help in the clarification of some of the meanings, writers and books of the Bible. It helps to clarify the reality that individual books of the Bible were rarely written by only one person and drew from manuscripts and oral histories now lost to us. And all, including the 4 Gospels were written to and for people of particular churches under one form of stress or another. For example the Gospel of John was written a the time when the final split of synagogue and church occurred in Palestine which he blames on those in power in Judea...the Jews. He doesn't condemn all Hebrews/Jews just those with whom his and other churches were quarreling. Shortly after the Diaspora would occur when the Romans literally flattened Jerusalem and destroyed the last major source of Jewish resistance at Masada.
The Jews adopted the way of the Pharisee Rabbi's while Christianity would base it's cultic tradtitions and worship largely on the Temple modifying it somewhat as the Catholic (Universal) Church as establishing itself. After John's Gospel was written the John of Patmos wrote Revelations which owes much to apocalyptic Old Testament works such as Daniel and Prophets who were looking for ways of explaining the recent past and offer hope for God's assistance to redress the wrong the Hebrews suffered at the hands of other peoples such as that found in 1st, 2nd and 3rd Isiah where God remains a firmly tribal God at the start and at the end is the universal God we now know and was preached by Jesus, his followers the Christians and Rabbi's to this day.

Sometimes I just flip it open to see where it leads me.