Pocket Dictionary of Biblical Studies

"I sat through my first biblical studies class wondering just what the professor was talking about!"

Have you ever heard that line? It happens, and it could happen to you. So many words about the Word. The study of anything seems to generate its own special vocabulary. Biblical studies is no different, and it's got nearly a two-thousand-year lead on you! How to catch up? That's the question.

If you are puzzled by parataxis or rankled by recensions, the Pocket Dictionary of Biblical Studies is just the thing for you. Whether you are studying Old Testament or New Testament or both at once, this is your private tutor, your ever-ready guide to over three hundred biblical-studies terms. Here's your glossary for reading those textbooks, a decoder for listening to lectures, a review sheet for cramming for finals and a "help" key for writing those papers.

Among the over 300 terms defined you'll find:

- types of biblical criticism, from genre criticism to tradition criticism
- Greek and Latin terms, from agrapha to vaticinium ex eventu
- German terms, from Frühkatholizismus to Wissenschaft
- ancient texts, from Aleppo Codex to Zadokite Document
- literary features, from acrostic to woe oracle
- theories, from the Augustinian hypothesis to the Yahwist source
- textual criticism terms, from codex to Western text

About the authors: Arthur G. Patzia (Ph.D., McMaster University) is professor of New Testament at Fuller Northern California. Anthony J. Petrotta (Ph.D., University of Sheffield) teaches Old Testmant at Fuller Northern California.