- The Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary is a six-volume state-of-the-art dictionary of the Bible offering the most up-to-date and comprehensive treatment of biblical subjects and topics. The Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary (AYBD) is one of the gold standard reference works for Biblical studies. With more than 6,000 entries and nearly 1,000 contributors, it offers an interdisciplinary, interfaith exploration of the Bible in terms that are easy to understand and refers readers to deeper scholarship in the field.
The library has recently purchased the Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary. With over 7 million words of authoritative content, the Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary remains the gold standard reference for Biblical Studies. It is an unprecedented interfaith exploration of the Bible that is multicultural and interdisciplinary in scope
- The first major Bible dictionary to be published in America in 30 years that includes six volumes of approximately 1,200 pages each
- More than 6,000 entries, 7,000,000 words, and nearly 1,000 contributors
- Endpaper maps of the Near Eastern world keyed to text for quick location of archaeological and biblical sites
- Articles on pseudepigraphic and apocryphal texts, Nag Hammadi tractates, and individual Dead Sea Scrolls, including the most recently published sectarian Dead Sea Scrolls as well as articles illustrating the literary artistry of the biblical text