Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Articles and resources: God's plan of salvation -- Biblical Doctrine : an overview -- True theology : knowing and loving God -- The Bible and revelation -- What it means to know God -- The character of God -- The Trinity -- The person of Christ -- The Holy Spirit -- The work of Christ -- Mankind -- God's relationship with creation -- Sin -- Salvation -- The Church -- Last things -- Biblical Ethics : an overview -- Biblical ethics : an introduction -- The beginning of life and abortion -- Bioethics -- The end of life -- Marrriage and sexual morality -- Divorce and remarrriage -- Homosexuality -- Civil government -- Capital punishment -- War -- Lying and telling the truth -- Racial discriminiation -- Stewardship.

Interpreting the Bible -- Interpreting the Bible : an overview -- Interpreting the Bible : an introduction -- Reading the Bible -- Reading the Bible theologically -- Reading the Bible as literature -- Reading the Bible in prayer -- Reading the Bible for personal application -- Reading the Bible for preaching and worship -- The canon of Scripture : The canon of the Old Testament -- The canon of the New Testament -- The Apocrpha -- The Reliability of Bible Manuscripts : The Reliability of Old Testament Manuscripts -- The Reliability of New Testament Manuscripts.

Archaeology and the Bible : Archaeology and the Old Testament -- Archaeology and the Bible and the New Testament -- The Original Language of the Bible : Hebrew and Arimaic, and how they work -- Transliteration of Hebrew words -- Greek and how it works -- Transliteration of Greek words -- The Septuagint -- How the NT quotes and interprets teh OT -- OT passages cited int he NT -- The Bible in Christianity -- Roman Catholicism -- Eastern Orthodoxy -- Liberal Protestanism -- Evangelical Protestantism -- Evangelica Protestantism and Global Christianity -- The Bible and World Religions : The Bible and contemporary Judaism -- The Bible and other world relitions -- The Bible and Islam -- The Bible and Religious cults : Mormonism -- Jehovah's Witnesses -- Christian Science -- New Age Movement.

History of salvation in the Old Testament -- Concordance -- Daily Bible Reading Plan -- Weights and measures -- Colophon -- Map Supplement : 1. The Middle East today -- The World of the Patriarchs -- The Exodus from Egypt -- The tribal allotments of Israel -- Israel under Saul, David, and Solomon- -- The Kingdoms of Israel and Judah -- The Assyrian and Babylonians Empires -- The Persian and Greek empires -- Israel under the Macabees -- Jerusalem -- Palestine under Roman rule -- The Apostles' early ministry -- Paul's first and second missionary journeys -- Paul's third missionary journey and voyage to Rome -- The Spread of Christianity in the first two centuries.