<p><em>A Newcomer's Guide to the Bible </em>serves readers whom other guides to the Bible overlook. Many introductory studies presume that their readers already possess a rudimentary knowledge of the Bible.But today even the most commonBiblical terms are unfamiliar to broad segments of the population.When people like this develop an interest in Christianity as mil-lions do they find that the averageBible class is over their heads.They also discover that basic reference materials about the Bible may exceed their level of understanding. <em>A Newcomer's Guide to the Bible</em> was written with these very people in mind.</p>