Features include: Over 7,000 sidebar notes, Nearly 350 articles by top scholars, Article index and expanded subject index, Color-keyed verse numbers that supply instant reference to articles and sidebar notes, Book introductions that identify themes, characters, and events in each Bible book, Over 150 two-color in-text charts, timelines, and maps providing background information readers need to understand different passages, Concordance, dictionary, 16-page full-color map section, 7-page full-color timeline section, and reading plans to assist readers' studies of the Bible