Great Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Bible, Alfonso Ropero, hardcover, third edition

The books of the Bible, canonical, deuterocanonical and some apocrypha. · Toponyms, towns, cities and most representative settings of sacred history, according to the most recent results of archaeology. · Characters from the OT, the NT and the intertestamental period of biblical history, and complete and extensive information on the female figures. · The town's trades, objects of daily life, housing and its components. Private life, the education of children, masculine and feminine adornments, and kinship relationships. · Biblical geography and its accidents: roads, mountains, rivers, lakes, valleys, etc. Flora and fauna, both wild and domestic. . The history of the cities, kingdoms and empires of biblical times; its political institutions and social structures, from nomadism to monarchy. ·

The religion of the neighboring towns, their divinities, forms of worship and places of worship. · Biblical languages; papyrology, and the Qumran and Nag Hammadi manuscripts. Jewish and Christian exegetical methods; the traditional books of Judaism and currents that are behind Christianity: Hellenism, apocalypticism, Gnosticism, etc. · Old translations and versions of the Bible; from the Septuagint in Greek, to the modern versions in Spanish.