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Pocket Dictionary of Biblical Studies

Arthur G. Patzia and Anthony J. Petrotta

Pocket History of the Church

D. Jeffrey Bingham

Matthew 14-28

Edited by Manlio Simonetti

Pocket Dictionary of Apologetics & Philosophy of Religion

C. Stephen Evans

Matthew 1-13

Edited by Manlio Simonetti

Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy

Edited by Joseph T. Lienhard

Pocket Dictionary for the Study of New Testament Greek

Matthew S. DeMoss

Genesis 1-11

Edited by Andrew Louth

Dictionary of New Testament Background

Edited by Craig A. Evans and Stanley E. Porter

The IVP Bible Background Commentary: Old Testament

John H. Walton and Victor H. Matthews and Mark W. Chavalas

New Dictionary of Biblical Theology

James, 1-2 Peter, 1-3 John, Jude

Edited by Gerald Bray

Colossians, 1-2 Thessalonians, 1-2 Timothy, Titus, Philemon

Edited by Peter J. Gorday

Pocket Dictionary of Theological Terms

Stanley J. Grenz and David Guretzki and Cherith Fee Nordling

The Prophecy of Isaiah

J. A. Motyer

Dictionary of Biblical Imagery

Edited by Leland Ryken and James C. Wilhoit and Tremper Longman III

Dictionary of the Later New Testament & Its Developments

Edited by Ralph P. Martin and Peter H. Davids

New Bible Dictionary

Donald J. Wiseman

New Bible Commentary

Edited by Gordon J. Wenham and J. A. Motyer and D. A. Carson and R. T. France

Hard Sayings of Jesus

F. F. Bruce