New International Encyclopedia of Bible Difficulties Hardcover – August 5, 2001

The author - Gleason L. Archer Jr. (1916-2004 - B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University; B.D., Princeton Theological Seminary; L.L.B., Suffolk Law School) was a biblical scholar, theologian, educator, and author. He served as an assistant pastor of Park Street Church in Boston from 1945 to 1948. He was a Professor at Fuller Theological Seminary for 16 years, teaching New Testament, Greek, Hebrew, and Arabic. From 1965 to 1986 he served as a Professor of Old Testament and Semitics at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield, Illinois. He became an emeritus faculty member in 1989. He also served for many years as a minister of the Evangelical Free Church of America. The remainder of his life was spent researching, writing, and lecturing.Legend has it, (I have not been able to verify whether this is 100% true or not) that he was so gifted in languages that for fun (and as a challenge) he would study the Bible in a different language every year to continue to grow and develop mentally.Archer served as one of the 50 original translators of the NASB published in 1971. He also worked on the team which translated the NIV Bible published in 1978. I give this introduction, because many people are not familiar with Archer (unfortunately), but he was a brilliant Christian scholar who could have excelled as a lawyer (his father was the founder and president of Suffolk Law School), and chose to use his exceptional gifts to defend the inerrancy and integrity of the Scriptures over the span of his entire adult life. I would say that along with Bruce Waltke and Walter Kaiser Jr., he was one of the most elite and influential Old Testament Evangelical Scholars at the end of the Twentieth Century.As for this book - it's simply outstanding. It covers all the thorny issues from Genesis to Revelation in biblical order, and considers questions from the cultural, linguistic, and authorial intent of each passage considered. Of all the books I have on questions, and Bible answers, this is the one I turn to the most. It is extremely thorough and will increase anyone's' belief in the supernatural authorship of the sixty-six books in the Protestant Canon. It is definitely a "must have" for any interpreter/student/teacher of the Bible, or an apologist for the Christian faith.

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Book was exactly what I ordered It was in great shape fairly quick delivery a nice reasonable price happy customer

Just rec’d today and started reading. Helps to explain the difference received different verses in different chapters. So far of what I have read, very good. I recommend .

Beautiful book for research. I find it interesting and I use it when preparing my bible study classes. Only criticism is its a bit sparse for the last few books of the New Testament. The seller was also AWESOME! First delivery never made it, although it said delivered. I explained this and without hesitation they sent a replacement at no cost.

If you are really digging into your Bible, this book is good for studying.

While I feel like some of the proposed solutions are a bit strained, I still feel like there was a honest successful attempt to show that the Bible can take a beating from biased skeptics. It's amazing when you go through a book like this or others defending inerrancy, the things that authors like Archer are responding to (like the mustard seed not technically being the smallest seed...). Now, I know I am biased towards the supernatural but sometimes I think any honest person would be saying, "Come on, give the Bible a break..." I have Geisler's book as well and find it helpful, but prefer Archer's writing and layout of the book to Geisler's, but Geisler's is much more comprehensive...

This book has to be the standard in this category. Clearly presents understandable explanations to clear up what appear to be controversies. Most of us do not have the academic or language background to research or reconcile all these issues. Thank God for learned and dedicated folks like Gleason Archer Jr. Though I was able to read it, I wish they had used a slightly larger font as I have some eye/reading issues.