{"product_id":"9780814625279","title":"Cultural Dictionary of the Bible","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2000 Catholic Press Association Award Winner!\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInterpreting the Bible respectfully is a cross-cultural enterprise. For those who seek to understand the Bible as a document from the ancient Mediterranean world and communicate it to people in other cultures, \u003ci\u003eThe Cultural Dictionary of the Bible\u003c\/i\u003e is an ideal tool.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eScripture expert John Pilch gives the modern Bible reader an appreciation for the world in which each book of the Bible originated and an in-depth look at the Mediterranean personalities who populate the pages of the Bible. With more than 100 distinctive, Middle-Eastern notions, from Abba\" to \"Work,\" this collection provides a cultural system of shared interpretations of persons, things, and events relating to the Mediterranean region.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy applying a social-scientific approach to interpreting the Bible, Pilch shows how a multi-cultural understanding, enriched with the discoveries and insights taken from contemporary anthropological studies, can bemused to examine the distinctive, Middle Eastern cultural world of the Bible.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince each article discusses a variety of persons, things, and events under its title, the alphabetized tale of contents presents a comprehensive list of these subjects for ready reference. Uppercase entries identify complete articles; lowercase entries list some of the related topics treated in the articles. A bibliography is provided at the end of each major article. A list of basic resources at the end of the volume presents a selection of dictionaries, atlases, and similar books for supplemental information on each topic. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreachers, readers, RCIA participants and students alike will appreciate the index to the Sunday Lectionary readings for the full three-year cycle that is provided and its citation of the words defined in the dictionary that appear in the given readings. Includes illustrations of appropriate entries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEntries include:\u003cbr\u003e ABBA\u003cbr\u003e Agriculture\u003cbr\u003e Alternate Reality\u003cbr\u003e ANGER\u003cbr\u003e Animals\u003cbr\u003e Antonia Fortress\u003cbr\u003e Bailey\u003cbr\u003e Beard\u003cbr\u003e Bread\u003cbr\u003e Blindness\u003cbr\u003e Boat\u003cbr\u003e Burial\u003cbr\u003e Carpenter\u003cbr\u003e Caves\u003cbr\u003e Centurion\u003cbr\u003e Christians\u003cbr\u003e CLOTHES\u003cbr\u003eCOINS\u003cbr\u003e Corban\u003cbr\u003e COSMETICS AND JEWELRY\u003cbr\u003e Culture\u003cbr\u003e DANCE\u003cbr\u003e DEATH\u003cbr\u003e DECEPTION AND LYING\u003cbr\u003e DRINKING AND EATING\u003cbr\u003e Earrings\u003cbr\u003e Eating\u003cbr\u003e Emotions\u003cbr\u003e Evil Eye\u003cbr\u003e Eyes\u003cbr\u003e Fishing\u003cbr\u003e FORGIVENESS\u003cbr\u003e Fortresses\u003cbr\u003e Frankincense\u003cbr\u003e Goats\u003cbr\u003e Good Shepherd\u003cbr\u003e HAIR\u003cbr\u003e Hands\u003cbr\u003e HEALING\u003cbr\u003e Heaven\u003cbr\u003e HOLY MAN\u003cbr\u003e Honey\u003cbr\u003eHonor and Shame\u003cbr\u003e HOUSE\u003cbr\u003e HUMOR\u003cbr\u003e Individualism\u003cbr\u003e Insider\/Outsider\u003cbr\u003e Israelite\u003cbr\u003e Jewelry\u003cbr\u003e JEWS ANDCHRISTIANS\u003cbr\u003e John the Baptist\u003cbr\u003e Judeans\u003cbr\u003e Laughter\u003cbr\u003e Life\u003cbr\u003e Literary Forms\u003cbr\u003e Lying\u003cbr\u003eMILITARY\u003cbr\u003e Milk\u003cbr\u003e MUSIC\u003cbr\u003e Mother\u003cbr\u003e Nazirite\u003cbr\u003eNONVERBAL COMMUNICATION\u003cbr\u003e Oath\u003cbr\u003e Oil\u003cbr\u003e Perfume\u003cbr\u003e Peter's House\u003cbr\u003e Poor\u003cbr\u003e PRAYER\u003cbr\u003e Puns\u003cbr\u003e Rabbi\u003cbr\u003e Revenge\u003cbr\u003e Roads\u003cbr\u003e Salt\u003cbr\u003e Satan\u003cbr\u003e Sea\u003cbr\u003e SECRECY\u003cbr\u003e Shalom\u003cbr\u003e Shame\u003cbr\u003e SHEEP AND GOATS\u003cbr\u003e SICKNESS\u003cbr\u003e Sign\u003cbr\u003e Sin\u003cbr\u003e Singing\u003cbr\u003e SKY\u003cbr\u003e SMELLS AND TASTES\u003cbr\u003e Sorghum\u003cbr\u003e Space\u003cbr\u003e SPIRITS\u003cbr\u003e Stonemason\u003cbr\u003e SYMBOLISM\u003cbr\u003e Tastes\u003cbr\u003e Teeth\u003cbr\u003e Tents\u003cbr\u003e Translation\u003cbr\u003e TRAVEL\u003cbr\u003e Vengeance\u003cbr\u003e Water\u003cbr\u003eWEATHER\u003cbr\u003e Wheat\u003cbr\u003e Wine\u003cbr\u003e Wool\u003cbr\u003e WORK\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJ. Pilch, PhD, teaches Scripture at Georgetown University, Washington, DC. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Cultural World of Jesus Sunday by Sunday: Cycles A, B, C, \u003c\/i\u003eand the leaflet \u003ci\u003eSelecting a Bible Translation, \u003c\/i\u003epublished by The Liturgical Press. Other The Liturgical Press publications include his commentary on Galatians and Romans in the \u003ci\u003eCollegeville Bible Commentary\u003c\/i\u003e series, and articles in \u003ci\u003eThe Modern Catholic Encyclopedia, The Collegeville Pastoral Dictionary of Biblical Theology, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Bible Today.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Liturgical Press, The","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47016782823664,"sku":"9780814625279","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780814625279_p0.jpg?v=1763745286","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780814625279","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}