William O. Walker, Jr., General Editor
with the Society of Biblical Literature
The preferred pronunciations for over 7,000 names and other words in the Bible
Bible experts from the Society of the Biblical Literature offer a concise, simple pronunciation guide that can be used with all major translations of the Bible. Students, teachers, preachers, public speakers, and lay readers will find pronunciations for
• All proper names and many other difficult-to-pronounce words found in English Bible translations
• Nonbiblical terms that are important in the study of the Bible
The pronunciation key featured at the bottom of each page utilizes letters in the English alphabet rather than specialized symbols and signs. When disagreement among scholars makes a definitive pronunciation impossible, the editors favor popular usages of words and remain sensitive to common, familiar pronunciations when alternatives are foreign and difficult.
This clear, essential paperback edition puts at your fingertips the preferred pronunciations of more than 7,000 biblical names and terms as well as non biblical words that are used in biblical study.
Editor William O. Walker, Jr., is dean of the Division of Humanities and Arts and professor of religion at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. Associate editors Toni Craven and J. Andrew Dearman are, respectively, professor of Hebrew Bible at Brite Divinity School, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas, and associate professor of Old Testament at the Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, Austin, Texas. The Society of Biblical Literature, under whose aegis this work was prepared, has also co-sponsored Harper’s Bible Dictionary, Harper’s Bible Commentary, and The HarperCollins Study Bible.