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Evangelicalism’s most eminent scholars have labored over the Baker Encyclopedia of the Bible to make it an indispensable tool for all who study Scripture. The general editor, Walter Elwell, earned everyone’s respect with his Evangelical Dictionary of Theology. His associate editors are trusted authors and editors in their own right: Peter Craigie, J. D. Douglas, Robert Guelich, R. K. Harrison,...

In Matthew 6:24 and Luke 16:13, “mammon” is personified as a rival to God for the loyalty of the disciple: To which master will obedience be given? In Luke 16:9, 11 the term designates material wealth or property. Mammon itself does not carry a negative value, as the parallel phrasing in Luke 16:11 makes clear: “If then you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will entrust to you the true riches?”
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