Lion Handbooks
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The Lion Handbook to the Bible was first published in 1973 and has been continuously in print ever since, selling over 3 million copies worldwide. This fascinating guide to the book that has intrigued and inspired millions of people for thousands of years comprises an authoritative yet accessible commentary on the Bible, book by book and chapter by chapter, alongside over 100 articles by leading scholars around the world on areas of special interest. Beautifully illustrated throughout with more than 600 photographs, maps and illustrations, the Handbook is a pleasure to browse and read, and a mine of information and insight about this crucially important book. For this new edition, a number of articles have been revised in the light of recent discoveries and developments in scholarship. New photographs have also been added where available.
This comprehensive guide to the world's religions past and present is a revised edition which concludes with an additional section looking at today's world and questions facing religion today - relativism, syncretism, pluralism, fundamenetalism and nationalism, secularization, Church and state. The quick reference "Rapid factfinder" has been fully updated. So too has the whole text, along with new specially commissioned charts and graphics.