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Article: The Oxford Companion to the Bible.

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April 22, 1994
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I received the galleys of the Oxford Companion to the Bible a month or so before a new semester was to begin. Rather than browse through it ad libitum, which is my usual style, I decided to look up pertinent entries as I reworked my class notes for an introductory Bible course I teach. Large entries were first target: Genesis/Exodus/Wisdom Literature/ect. These drew me to ones near them and to the cross references. I found the material well writen, cautiously fair in its judgment, and comprehensive in scope.

Unlike the estimable Harper and Row Dictionary of the Bible (1985), the Oxford volume deals not only with key ideas, names, and phrases but with a whole ...

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