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Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament: Two Volume Set

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Hebrew Definitions of over 3000 words

More than 1,400 articles written by 43 Old Testament scholars

Special section of Aramaic words used in the Old Testament

Named by the R. C. Ryan Center for Biblical Studies as one of the Best Tools for Preaching and Teaching

Named as one of the 850 Books for Biblical Expositors by the Master's Seminary

Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament follows a practical and less exhaustive viewpoint than the other major studies. The busy pastor or earnest Christian worker who has neither the time nor background for detailed technical study should yet have a tool for the study of the significant theological words of the Hebrew Bible. The editors are of the conviction that essential to the right understanding of the theological terms of the Old Testament is a belief in the Bible's truth. Spiritual things are 'spiritually discerned' (1 Cor. 2:14). Therefore, about thirteen years ago, they enlisted the help of some forty evangelical scholars who would write essay definitions of the important theological terms in the Old Testament that would be helpful to their brothers in the work of interpreting Scripture.

Often it was not easy to decide which words would be defined, and of those, which ones would receive lengthy discussion. It was decided to include also the vocables not chosen for essay treatment and give them one-line definitions-usually following the lead of the long-time standard, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament, by Francis Brown, S. R. Driver, and C. A. Briggs.

In order to make the material in the Wordbook more accessible, there is a numerical index which correlates the numbers of the Hebrew words as given in Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible with the numbers of the roots and derivatives as given in the Wordbook. A link to this index is displayed at the beginning of each article. If a word is being studied in any verse of the Old Testament, that word can easily be found in Strong and its Hebrew number noted. Then one may enter the index (TWx in the Lang section of the WORDsearch bookshelf), easily access the appropriate Strong's number, and follow the link to the desired TWOT number. For further details, consult the heading of the Index. The Strong numbers of names are normally omitted, but the Strong entries marked 'Chaldee' (i.e. Aramaic) are listed.

About the Editors

Robert Laird Harris was born near Upper Makefield Township, Pennsylvania in 1911. He earned a B.S. from the University of Delaware, a Th.B. and a Th.M. from Westminster Theological Seminary, an A.M. from University of Pennsylvania , and a Ph.D. from Dropsie College.

He was licensed as a minister in the Presbyterian Church in 1935, joined to the newly formed Orthodox Presbyterian Church (then called Presbyterian Church of America) in 1936, joined those forming the Bible Presbyterian Church in 1937, and was in 1956 moderator of a new off-shoot denomination, the Bible Presbyterian Synod (BPS). He was involved on the committee that brought about the merger of the BPS with another denomination to become the Reformed Presbyterian Church, Evangelical Synod (RPCES) in 1965, and then the RPCES, along with its education institutions Covenant College and Covenant Theological Seminary, became part of the Presbyterian Church in America in 1982, at which time Harris was elected moderator of the 10th General Assembly of that body.

He was part-time instructor in Hebrew at the University of Pennsylvania (1946-1947) and then taught for twenty years at Faith Theological Seminary (1937-1956). He resigned from that institution and he then helped found the Covenant Theological Seminary, where he was chairman of the Old Testament department until he retired in 1981. He taught as an adjunct professor of Old Testament at Knox Theological Seminary at its founding in 1989. He served as chairman of the Committee on Bible Translation for the New International Version. Harris passed away after his ninety-seventh birthday in 2008.

Gleason Leonard Archer, Jr. was born in 1916. He graduated in 1938 with a B.A. from Harvard University and received an LL.B. from Suffolk Law School in 1939, the same year he was admitted to the Massachusetts bar. In 1940 he received a masters degree and in 1944 he was awarded a Ph.D. at Harvard University in Classics. Finally

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