The original International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, edited by James Orr: five volumes of conservative-but-scholarly articles whose longer pieces (on the text, the canon, the life of Christ) remain worth reading. Not to be confused with the fully revised ISBE of 1979–1995, which is a different, copyrighted work; the 1915 edition is the public-domain one.
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