This volume marks completion of the first half of the planned 30-volume set. Like all volumes, it contains a wide range of entries impressive in their variety and utility. To begin with the relatively mundane, there are articles on basic Bible words or topics such as “Kidney,” “King/Kingship,” “Kingdom/Kingship of God,” “Kiss,” “Kiss of Judas,” “Kneel, Kneeling,” “Koinonia,” and “Laugh, Laughter.” Biblical books covered are 1–2 Kings and Lamentations, the latter complemented by articles on “Lament, Lamentation” and “Lamentation of Jesus.”
Many articles are devoted to biblical topics with pronounced and profound theological implications such as “Katechon” (2 Thess 2:6–7). Paul Metzger canvasses the various opinions of what Paul referred to with this word; he describes the current exegetical consensus in this way: “Rome was considered to be a demonically ruled empire, whose ruler is the κατέχων, and the empire itself constitutes the κατέχον” (col. 83). In “Kenosis,” Eve-Marie Becker...
