title: The Living Bible Encyclopedia in Story and Pictures (Art Treasure Edition, Complete 16 Volume Set)
author: Zondervan
description: This set is a family library serving both adult and younger readers. It combines The Zondervan Pictorial Bible Dictionary, stories and narrative accounts from the Know Your Bible Program, a gallery of 480 paintings based on contemporary scenes and archaeological finds in the Holy Land.
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  Ron Rhodes
  
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  To Bible lovers everywhere!
  
    
  
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  A special thanks to the team at Harvest House Publishers for their creative
  input on this book. And, as always, a deeply heartfelt thanks to my wife,
  Kerri, and our two children, David and Kylie, for their never-ending love and
  support.
  
    
  
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  Many Bible encyclopedias contain well over 5000 articles, and most of them are
  in small print (hard to read). Besides covering a variety of articles of
  interest, they also contain a multitude of obscure place names and people
  names-which, in my experience, are rarely read.
  
  The "handy" encyclopedia you are holding in your hands is different. It does
  not contain obscure place names and people names, and the print is very user-
  friendly (easy to read). This Understanding the