This is a revised fourth edition of the best book to have next to your Bible. "The Lion Handbook to the Bible" was first published in 1973 and has been continuously in print ever since, selling approaching 3.5 million copies worldwide. For this new edition a number of articles will be revised in the light of recent discoveries and developments in scholarship.

PAT ALEXANDER is former editorial director of Lion Publishing. She is also the compiler and author of many books ranging from the best-selling Lion Handbook to the Bible to The Lion First Bible. She lives in Oxford.