Catholic Bible Dictionary

This accessible, comprehensive, and highly readable guide provides everything the average Catholic needs to know about the Bible and contains more than five thousand entries, including: every book of the Catholic canons of the Old and New Testaments, outlined and explained in their entirety; every significant person in the Bible, historical places, and events; the social conventions and traditions of everyday life in ancient Israel; everything from marriage and religious festivals to music, money, and food; the language and imagery of the Bible; the civilizations that influenced events recorded in the Bible-ancient Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Persia, Greece, and Rome; key archaeological sites and finds; church teaching, doctrine, and theology that relates the reading and interpretation of the Bible to themes ranging from the sacraments to inspiration; and detailed maps of the world in biblical times.
Catholic Bible Dictionary is an invaluable source of information, insight, and guidance for Catholics and others who are interested in enriching their understanding of Sacred Scripture.

General editor Scott Hahn is founder and president of the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology (SalvationHistory.com). A professor at Franciscan University of Steubenville, he also holds the Pope Benedict XVI Chair of Biblical Theology at St. Vincent Seminary in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. He is the author of many books, including The Lamb’s Supper (Doubleday), Kinship by Covenant (Yale), Covenant and Communion: The Biblical Theology of Benedict XVI (Baker Academic), and A Pocket Guide to the Bible (Our Sunday Visitor). His academic work has appeared in Catholic Biblical Quarterly, Journal of Biblical Literature, and Currents in Biblical Research. He is editor of the Ignatius Catholic Study Bible and Letter & Spirit: A Catholic Journal of Biblical Theology.