Systematic

Any pastor, academic, or student of theology will be impressed with the list of contributors assembled for this project, as many of the authors comprise the foremost names in biblical and theological studies around the world. While not intending to be exhaustive, the OEBT seeks to elucidate biblical persons, places, and themes for their theological significance. This encyclopedia is therefore a reference work with a very particular aim–to thoroughly expound the theological significance of a particular set of central subjects, not to provide a brief definition an exhaustive list of subjects. Since this encyclopedia set covers a variety of subjects, it seems fitting to treat each subject separately as the means of evaluating the work as a whole….