Essential figures in the Bible
By: Ronald L. Eisenberg
Publisher: Jason Aronson
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
ISBN-13: 9780765709394; 9780765709400
Subjects: Bible; Dictionaries; Biography
Description: Essential Figures in the Bible compiles thorough but manageable entries on the figures most vital to an understanding of the Bible and its teachings. In this valuable reference, Dr. Ronald L. Eisenberg catalogs and explains the importance of more than 250 figures who are most vital to an understanding of the Hebrew Bible and its teachings. For these figures selected from the more than 3,000 names found in the Hebrew Bible, Eisenberg provides summaries of the narratives relevant to each figure discussed along with illustrative quotations from the Bible and supplementary material from rabbinic literature when appropriate.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: List of abbreviations; title: Essential figures in the Bible; title: Appendix: chronological listing of figures according to first Biblical appearance; title: Glossary.