Archaeological Coverage in Recent One-Volume Bible Dictionaries

One-volume Bible dictionaries are big sellers, with total sales estimated at nearly 250,000 each year. In a follow-up to their 1985 article, The Use and Abuse of Archaeology in Current One-Volume Bible Dictionaries (Biblical Archaeologist 48: 222-37), which evaluated more than 20 such dictionaries from the perspective of their archaeological coverage, the authors examine eight new or revised one-volume Bible dictionaries that have since appeared. Should any of these dictionaries replace the Harper\u27s Bible Dictionary and the New Bible Dictionary, the top rated one-volume Bible dictionaries in 1985