Immense is really development that have reached the biblical sciences. Well aware of subject specialists and teachers in general church. Bible researchers have no choice but to be limited to a single plot of the vast field of Holy Scripture. But at the same time, they need to have on hand at any given time, reliable information about any other non-biblical plot they grow. Lay readers also need a brief biblical manual, but surely they can find, at a time, the biblical data that interests them. Clearly, therefore, the real need of a work of encyclopedic character, which all make great affordable knowledge base achieved to date by the scriptural science. And for such a work of authenticity reflects the current state of these sciences, it is essential that it is designed in a uniform, not unaware of the latest developments in the field and even the theories thrown by some and by others who expose all this knowledge in a systematic and appropriate, and will always remain faithful to Catholic orthodoxy. To meet these demands appeared this Dictionary of the Bible, written primarily by a competent group of Dutch and Belgian Catholic biblical scholars, later adapted into German and completed again by the first editors. Today circulating and in Dutch, German, Italian and French. And this is already the ninth edition in Castilian. The richness and variety of the topics chosen exegesis not only itself but also its many related and auxiliary sciences, the competence of their directors, as well as employees, have attended to this dictionary it an ideal reference work . In a first appendix provides the reader with a brief information on the excavations in Palestine, accompanying it with the corresponding map. In the second appendix offers an overview of the measures, weights and coins, with its modern and biblical nomenclature. The third appendix presents, in synchronous frame, the chronology of the Ancient Orient related to the Bible, since before the patriarchs to the end of the apostolic age.