Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE)
The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia refers to two different revisions of a Bible encyclopedia. The first version was published under the general editorship of the fundamentalist James Orr (1844–1913), among other objectives to counteract the impact of higher criticism.
The original encyclopedia was published by the Howard-Severance Co., Chicago, in 1915. It is in the public domain and can be found freely available at various sites. A revised version, edited by Geoffrey W. Bromiley, was published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. in 1989. It contains articles by nearly 200 evangelical scholars about archaeological discoveries, the language and literature of Bible lands, customs, family life, occupations, and the historical and religious environments of Bible people.
Writing in a 1984 book review for The Churchman, Stephen Motyer said the conservatism of the International Standard Bible Encyclopedia "is that of broad, main-line evangelicalism, although it seems to be slightly more conservative than the work it replaces". He also says it makes "dogmatic use of the Bible", and adds: "sometimes it seems to go over the top somewhat". However, he concludes "The criticisms I have made do not, to my mind, qualify the great solid worth of this production....I...seriously commend this encyclopedia..."
This list of contributors is taken from the Revised Edition. An asterisk (*) indicates that the person contributed an article to the 1915 edition that is still in the Revised Edition. New articles far outnumber older revised articles in the revised version. For some reason many contributors are listed more than once in the revised version. It is likely that the multiple listings is because of the scholar being at different institutions during the long process of revision. A scholar may have been employed at one school when they submitted one article in the beginning of the revision process and by the end they were employed at another school when they submitted their last article. The subject of the revision process and the rationale for retaining and updating some articles from the 1915 version is discussed in the preface and introduction of the revised version.
Feature of Bible Encyclopedia app
1. All chapter and Bible dictionary are in Bible Encyclopedia
2. Navigate between books and chapters easily
3. Beautiful design and great user experiences
4. Track your progress reading book easily
5. Share nice verses with beautiful background image.
6. King James Bible attached book
7. Clickable links to KJV verses!
8.Highlight/underline part of commentary
9.Add notes/bookmarks
Category : Books & Reference
Reviews (30)
Great info. Not able to copy text in Android. In order to share, screen shot, crop, highlight, save as picture.
It is a good portable encyclopedia, it contains most of biblical terms I usually search. 22/05/2021 This encyclopedia is like a dictionary in your hand, you have a bible with you where ever you are. Very good App. Bravo to the developers.
I enjoy reading this dictionary of the Bible which I see it as superb in the kowledge it give me and its sophisticated and at the same time easy to understand. Thank you. Orlando Blancovitch
Very in depth with extra information that really opens and unpacks the word of our living G*D. Would be great if there was a pronunciation link for the original Hebrew and Greek words.
Good, exellent nullifying the bible word by word The application was very good and attractve.
Surprised to see how indepth this app truly is. Each letter leads you to unbelievable Insight. My idea was that this was just another app. What a wonderful surprize Daniel Munoz from San. Francisco,California 10-11-19
easy to understand and extremely helpful while studying the Word. Thank you.
Very helpful. It gives us the chronological evolution of the meaning...
Helpful to analyze the context and background of the text
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Great app, it gives insight to bible study. Wonderful tool for bible students.
Encouraging and happy but would like to have more Hebrew words explained properly.
Very informative and useful and easy to navigate. Thank you for such a great app.
Sincerely, I really love it because is not a denominal application in order to support their doctrine and teaching. Is a denominal free application. Very simple to use. It even has full summary information. Apostle Sorinola H Emmanuel from Nigeria
Very nice but don't give too much details concerning the DeLand.
Very good.Helps to have a deeper understanding of the BIBLE.
i love this app i learned a lot..it helps our bible study easy..thanks a lot.
Excellent for an in depth study. God bless the app creators & the bible students.
Wonderful. instructive informative and accurate.
Very interesting and very good, useful for more studying Thank you very much.
Recommended for Bible students who wants to go deeper in studying the scriptures.
rich in details esp historical and present locationd and distance.
its exciting and it helps in giving deeper understanding.
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Excellent app. The articles are full of unique insight, well-written, well-researched, well-referenced in Scriptures. A great learning tool!