Dictionary of the Bible Dealing with its Language, Literature, and Contents by James Hastings

The most downloaded book at the CCEL so far this year is the Dictionary of the Bible Dealing with its Language, Literature, and Contents by James Hastings. The book is divided into 4 volumes, and all 4 volumes are at the top of our 2011 downloaded book list. Copyrighted in 1898, each of these volumes contain nearly 1,000 pages of information about the Old and New Testaments. Hastings, in his preface to volume 1, writes, Articles have been written on the names of all Persons and Places, on the Antiquities and Archeology of the Bible, and its Ethnology, Geology, and Natural History, on Biblical Theology and Ethic, and even the obsolete or archaic words occurring in the English Versions. With so much information readily available and accessible, it’s not too surprising that this dictionary is so popular with CCEL users. James Hastings is also the editor of another of our popular books: Dictionary of Christ and the Gospels (in 2 volumes).

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