THE NIV THEOLOGICAL DICTIONARY OF NEW TESTAMENT WORDS
By Verlyn D. Verbrugge
Zondervan / Paternoster. 1544 pages
ISBN 1 84227 076 1
This is a reference book. It is an abridgement of the popular New International Dictionary of New Testament Theology (NIDNTT), edited by Colin Brown, which itself was based on a German work which appeared during the 1960s and 70s.
The NIDNTT is arranged under English topics. This new shortened volume is arranged under Greek words and this allows a better discussion of the interrelationship of Greek words within a semantic field. The word groups are analysed under Old Testament and New Testament usage with sometimes a reference to classical Greek. The material deleted from the NIDNTT includes basically a number of topical articles and references to secondary literature.
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