{"collection":"Hypertext Bible","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_bib_ebd_ebd342_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_bib_ebd_ebd342_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_bib_ebd_ebd342_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/ebd/ebd342.htm","summary":"This is a reference work in the genre of a biblical dictionary or encyclopedic concordance, following the tradition of 19th-century Protestant biblical scholarship. The text covers nine entries \u2014 Shunammite through Siddim \u2014 providing geographical, historical, and scriptural context for proper nouns appearing in the Hebrew Bible. The entries blend textual cross-referencing (citing chapter and verse across multiple books) with historical geography, identifying ancient place names with modern ruins, distances, and archaeological findings. Notably, the entry on Shushan (Susa) draws on contemporary archaeological excavations to provide precise architectural measurements of the Persian palace, illustrating how the work attempts to reconcile Scripture with emerging 19th-century fieldwork. The entry on the Vale of Siddim gestures toward an ongoing scholarly dispute about the location of the cities of the plain relative to the Dead Sea. Overall the work is most useful as a quick-reference gazetteer for readers wanting to locate biblical places in real geography and connect scattered scriptural references to a single site or person.","tags":["Biblical Names and Places","Biblical Reference","Easton's Bible Dictionary"],"text":null,"title":"Easton's Bible Dictionary","tradition":"Hypertext Bible","translated_text":null,"word_count":774}