Published more than 30 years ago and billed as “the Pentecostal Study Bible,” Dake’s has seen an upsurge in popularity in recent years, selling more than 30,000 copies in 1992, perhaps due to its embrace by leading Word-Faith teachers such as Kenneth Copeland, Kenneth Hagin, and Benny Hinn. Theologians, apologists, and scholars are taking a stand against teachings found in the Dake’s Annotated Reference Bible, which they claim are aberrational and unorthodox.
Questionable reference work gains in usage thanks to appropriation by Word-Faith teachers.
