Encyclopaedia Biblica

Encyclopaedia Biblica A Critical Dictionary of the Literary, Political and Religion History, the Archeology, Geography and Natural History of the Bible, edited by Thomas Kelly Cheyne and J. Sutherland Black, is a critical encyclopedia of the Bible. In Theology Biblical studies, it is often referenced as Enc. Bib., or as Cheyne and Black.An image illustrating the article Ethiopia one of the Nubian pyramids at Meroe It has an article for every single name and place both in the Bible and in its traditional Apocrypha, as well as for each of the books of these, together with many improper nouns appearing in these and other more general subjects. Many of these articles are given in great detail, and usually include mention of the various spellings for each word as used by the Masoretic Text, Septuagint, and by other ancient versions; the largest article is that on the Gospels, which is over 5 MB in size, despite being almost completely plain text. It is thus an extremely large work - in PDF form it constitutes a total of about 190 MB of mostly plain text

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Michael Hallett, PhD is a photographic historian, photographer and teacher. While as a historian he is concerned with images of others, with his photo constructions and extended SEASIDE project he is increasingly involved with his own photography.