Dictionary of images and symbols of the Bible discovers the vast symbolic world of the Bible in a comprehensible and well-founded language, with the help of an alphabetical index of definitions, of numerous references combined and the support of recent scientific knowledge, on which it informs the bibliography added to each entry. While today we try to understand the universe through measurements and calculations, the ancient peoples used images for this: from this world captured with the imagination, man was presented with the divine. This is demonstrated in the readings of Sacred Scripture, whose texts are loaded with symbols and images. This dictionary gathers all these graphic-symbolic conceptions, converting it in this way into an indispensable book for the library of all those readers interested in the language of the symbols and myths of antiquity, as well as religious and inte...read more