Anchor Bible Dictionary
The Anchor Bible Dictionary (ABD) is an English-language theological- exegetical dictionary of the Bible published by David Noel Freedman from the Anchor Yale Bible project .
meaning
The Anchor Bible Dictionary was the most comprehensive academic Bible dictionary to date into the 21st century. It consists of six volumes with more than 1,000 pages each and contains a total of more than 6,000 articles by 800 international scholars from biblical studies and related research disciplines . Walter Harrelson described it as an encyclopedia that goes far beyond a dictionary.
The ABD was first published in 1992 by Doubleday ( New York / London ) and was reprinted unchanged in Yale University Press ( New Haven / London) in 2008 under the title Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary . It is also available in a CD-ROM version and in a download version. The Anchor Yale Bible project also includes the commentary series The Anchor Bible and the monograph series The Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library .
The Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception (EBR, in English) and the Scientific Biblical Dictionary on the Internet (WiBiLex, in German) are currently two even more extensive scientific reference works on the Bible. In comparison to these, however, the Anchor Bible Dictionary is not only of importance for research history. It is often even more detailed than the EWC, especially on locations, and it still contains significantly more articles than the WiBiLex and is more internationally oriented.
editor
Editor-in-chief
- David Noel Freedman (Editor-in-Chief)
- Gary A. Herion (Associate Editor)
- David F. Graf (Associate Editor)
- John David Pleins (Associate Editor)
- Astrid B. Beck (Managing Editor)
Expert advisor
- Hans Dieter Betz , University of Chicago : Greek and Roman Religion
- James H. Charlesworth , University of Chicago : Apocrypha and Pseudepigraphs
- Frank Moore Cross , Harvard University : Old Testament
- William G. Dever , University of Arizona : Archeology
- A. Kirk Grayson, University of Toronto : Mesopotamia and Assyriology
- Peter Machinist , Harvard University : Bible and the Ancient Orient
- Abraham J. Malherbe, Yale University : New Testament
- Birger A. Pearson, University of California, Santa Barbara : Early Christianity
- Jack M. Sasson, University of North Carolina : Bible and the Ancient Orient
- William R. Schoedel, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign : Early Christian Literature
Volumes
- Volume 1, letters A – C, LXXXVIII and 1232 pages, ISBN 0-385-19351-3 (1992) and ISBN 978-0-300-14001-9 (2008)
- Volume 2, letters D – G, XXXV and 1100 pages, ISBN 0-385-19360-2 (1992) and ISBN 978-0-300-14002-6 (2008)
- Volume 3, letters H – J, XXXII and 1135 pages, ISBN 0-385-19361-0 (1992) and ISBN 978-0-300-14003-3 (2008)
- Volume 4, letters K – N, XXXV and 1162 pages, ISBN 0-385-19362-9 (1992) and ISBN 978-0-300-14004-0 (2008)
- Volume 5, letters O – Sh, XXXIV and 1230 pages, ISBN 0-385-19363-7 (1992) and ISBN 978-0-300-14005-7 (2008)
- Volume 6, letters Si – Z, XXXV and 1176 pages, ISBN 0-385-26190-X (1992) and ISBN 978-0-300-14006-4 (2008)
literature
- Harrelson, Walter J .: The Anchor Bible Dictionary: An Encyclopedia of the Ancient Near Eastern World . In: Journal of biblical literature 113 (1994), pp. 299-310.