Holman Reference Collection (13 vols.)

Human beings are the only creatures who ask questions. Major questions.

• Can I know that God exists?
• Am I the product of a blind evolutionary process or was I created by God?
• How strong is the evidence for Jesus’ resurrection?
• Is the Bible reliable and true?
• Do I have a destiny beyond my life on earth?
• Can evil be reconciled with belief in God who is both all-powerful and all-loving?

The Apologetics Study Bible is a unique resource designed to help people answer important and life-shaping questions. It provides this wealth of knowledge in one place enabling readers to know the reasons and evidences for the Christian hope and to articulate those reasons to others asking big questions.

Crafted by real people like you who have wrestled with the same questions and doubts you are facing now, the material in The Apologetics Study Bible features some of the leading thinkers of the twenty-first century, including Craig Blomberg, Darrel Bock, Charles Colson, Paul Copan, William Lane Craig, William Dembski, John Frame, Norman L. Geisler, Gary Habermas, Hank Hanegraaff, Philip E. Johnson, Walt Kaiser, Al Mohler, John Warwick Montgomery, J. P. Moreland, Thomas Schreiner, Ravi Zacharias, and many more.

The Holman Illustrated Bible Dictionary sets the standard for what a Bible dictionary should be—a vast storehouse of easy-to-find, easy-to-grasp, useful information. Completely revised and expanded, with more user-friendly features than ever, this edition of the Holman Illustrated Bible Dictionary is designed both for those who need information quickly and those who want in-depth treatments on hundreds of topics. Additionally, hundreds of color photographs, maps, reconstructions and charts illuminate the text in a way you never thought possible. Once you begin reading, you’ll understand why the Holman Illustrated Bible Dictionary has become the gold standard in Bible reference publishing!

This practical tool brings an understanding of the ancient world together with the timeless message of God's Word to expand Biblical insights for the modern readers. The Holman Bible Handbook features:

• Articles, outlines, and commentary from leading evangelical scholars
• Full color photos, illustrations, charts, and maps
• Special section on historical background and recent findings in biblical archaeology
• Notes on theological teaching and the ethical message of the Bible
• Study questions for further reflection

Sometimes a multi-volume commentary tells you more than you need to know. Sometimes you just want one place to go that’s simple and straightforward.

You want the Holman Concise Bible Commentary—where superior Bible scholarship from some of today’s leading evangelical minds comes packaged in helpings much easier to consume.

But don’t mistake concise for incomplete. In addition to getting a feel for the key themes and intentions of all sixty-six books, you’ll also learn from:

• Overviews of large sections, like the Gospels and Paul’s letters
• Maps that put your finger on the path of biblical history
• Charts that organize information for fast retrieval
• Sidebars that take you a little more in-depth

Add an extra level of depth and authority to your lessons, sermons, and personal devotional time with the Holman Concise Bible Commentary!

The Teacher’s Bible Commentary has been one of the widely-used reference tools for Sunday School teachers for over twenty-five years.

From the idea stage, this commentary was designed to meet the week-to-week needs of men and women who have the awesome responsibility of leading others in the study of God’s Word. The contributors to this commentary are competent scholars who are both skilled communicators and loyal to God’s Word.

The Teacher’s Bible Commentary is designed to make it easy for any reader to grasp the central meaning of a passage of Scripture quickly. Difficult passages are dealt with in separate sections, giving the user the option of dealing with the difficulty or moving on.

If you think history is boring, take about three minutes and scan through 131 Christians Everyone Should Know. Zero in on an article, and you may find you can’t read just one!

These sketches have been put together by the editors of Christian History magazine, who have an impressive track record for making history come alive every month for their readers.

Note the diversity in this volume: Menno Simons, a pacifist, and the Roman emperor Constantine, a general. Leaders of the Reformation—Luther, Calvin, Zwingli—and the Counter-Reformation—Ignatius Loyola and Teresa of Avila. Men and women. Teenagers such as Joan of Arc, and aged saints like Polycarp.

History isn’t just dates, statistics, and grand social movements. It’s people—people from many callings:

• Theologians—Athanasius and Jonathan Edwards
• Evangelists and Apologists—Justyn Martyr and Billy Graham
• Pastors and Preachers—John Chrysostom and Richard Baxter
• Musicians—Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frederic Handel
• Artists and Writers—Rembrandt and C. S. Lewis
• Poets—Dante and Fanny Crosby
• Denominational Founders—Richard Allen and Aimee Semple McPherson
• Movers and Shakers—Dominic and John Wycliffe
• Missionaries—Patrick and David Livingstone
• Inner Travelers—Brother Lawrence and Oswald Chambers
• Activists—Sojourner Truth and Lord Shaftesbury
• Rulers—Charlemagne and Henry VII
• Scholars and Scientists—Eusebius of Caesarea and Nicolas Copernicus
• Martyrs—Perpetua and Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Each personality sketch includes a timeline that gives the historical context in which that person lived. The book also contains a topical index that will help you find illustrations for teaching and preaching.

Some time spent with 131 Christians Everyone Should Know will forever enlarge your view of “the church as we see her spread through all time and space and rooted in eternity, terrible as an army with banners” (C. S. Lewis)—a spectacle that will inspire you to deeper thought and greater faithfulness.

Gospel harmonies were inevitable. One of the first impulses of someone studying a teaching or an event in Jesus’ life is to seek as many perspectives on that event as possible. Around A.D. 160 Tatian compiled a single narrative of the four Gospels, reducing the number of verses from 3,780 (four separate Gospels) to 2,769 verses without excluding any event or teaching from the life of Jesus.

This Harmony of the Gospels builds on a tradition of harmonization begun in the nineteenth century by John A. Broadus and continued by his protégé, A. T. Robertson.

The Harmony of the Gospels contains interpretive and clarifying notes by a number of scholars, some with differing views on the relationship between various Gospel accounts. Beyond the harmony, this volume includes articles designed to address issues that arise when one compares the four Gospels and seeks to give an integrated account of the life and teachings of Jesus. This harmony also contains eight four-color maps that illuminate the life and ministry of Jesus. This resource will be valuable to pastors and lay Bible teachers, and will serve well as a primary textbook in college and seminary courses on the Gospels and on the life and teachings of Jesus.

Now, the Holman Treasury of Key Bible Words provides access to insights from Hebrew and Greek even to those who have no knowledge of these languages! This volume has a clearly written explanation for each of the 400 key Bible words—200 Hebrew words from the Old Testament and 200 Greek words from the New Testament. These are the key concepts that repeatedly appear throughout the Scriptures.

Each word study includes:

• The English translation of the key Hebrew or Greek word
• The transliteration of the word
• The associated Strong’s Concordance numbers
• A succinct definition of the word
• Representative examples of how the word is used throughout Scripture
• A list of key Bible passages where the word can be found

The Holman Treasury of Key Bible Words is a resource that every pastor and lay Bible teacher will want to have within easy reach!

The Holman Quick Source Guide to Understanding the Bible is the quickest way to get the big picture!

If you’ve been wanting to get a better handle on the Bible—even if you’ve been reading it for years—the Holman Quick Source Guide to Understanding the Bible pulls the sweeping story, the timeline, the key terms, and much more into a clear, concise, yet surprisingly comprehensive summary of biblical information.

The Holman Quick Source Guide to Understanding the Bible addresses the central questions about the Bible:

• What’s the main idea of each Bible book?
• Where can you quickly locate Christian worldview themes?
• How can the shadow of Christ be seen in the Old Testament?
• What are the big verses that every Bible student needs to know?
• How can you sum up the biblical story in six simple chapters?

The answers to these and many other questions come out page-by-page, book-by-book, one after another as you confidently walk your way to “big picture” Bible understanding.

One-sentence summaries, colorful maps and charts, quick-hitting details on who wrote what and why—you get all this and more with a graphic flow and design that makes the reading easy…and makes the knowledge your own. Make the Holman Quick Source Guide to Understanding the Bible your guide to deeper Bible study!

Visualizing biblical people in the places and events that shaped world history just became easier with the Holman Book of Biblical Charts, Maps, and Reconstructions! This complete set of Bible charts, maps, and artist’s renderings of biblical cities and artifacts opens the eyes of your understanding in a fresh way and provides a deeper dimension to personal and group Bible study.

Special features include:

• 83 pages of full-color Bible charts featuring timelines, the teachings of Jesus, family trees, the lineage of ancient rulers, historical events, and much more!
• 22 pages of carefully detailed full-color maps of Bible lands
• 21 pages of illustrated scale reconstructions of biblical cities and artifacts
• A complete map index
• And much more

Designed for use in churches, schools, and at home, the Holman Book of Biblical Charts, Maps, and Reconstructions is an excellent reference tool for pastors, Bible teachers, students, families, and individuals who appreciate a comprehensive approach to learning.

The Holman Bible Atlas illuminates the Bible for a whole new generation of students and teachers by introducing them to the physical, cultural, and historical settings of the biblical narrative. Integrating insights from physical and historical geography, archaeology, ancient historical sources, and the Bible itself, the Holman Bible Atlas presents 132 newly designed full color maps complete with specific biblical texts to assist teachers and students alike in understanding.

Beginning with the physical geography of the ancient Near East and Palestine, the Holman Bible Atlas illuminates various periods of biblical history by outlining eras from the Patriarchs through the Christian era and Constantine.

By utilizing chart summaries, timelines, and over 100 additional color photographs, this atlas helps readers visual the setting of biblical events.

Other special features include:

• Discussion of great empires influential to the ancient Near East—Egypt, Assyria, Babylonia, Persia, Greece, and Rome
• Insight on Israel’s neighboring people groups—the Aramaeans, Moabites, Edomites, Amorites, and Phoenicians
• Discussion of road systems, economic life, and the recovery of ancient societies by archaeologists