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Absalom (A-Z entry)
A son of David ; good-looking and ambitious; he gathered round himself a band of disaffected people who were prepared to overthrow David. He ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
Absalom (A-Z entry)
Third son of King David ( 2 Sam. 3.3 ). The story of Absalom is presented as a subplot of the life of David, ...
Source: The Oxford Companion to the Bible
Absalom, House of (A-Z entry)
The only reference to the phrase house of Absalom in the Dead Sea Scrolls appears in Pesher Habakkuk (1QpHab v.9), where its position in ...
Source: Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls
Abu Ḥamid, Tell (Image)
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Abu Ḥamid, Tell (A-Z entry)
site located in the Jordan Valley, at 240 m below sea level, on Lisan marl deposits between two small wadis (32°19′ N, 35°33′ E). ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Abu Hawam, Tell (A-Z entry)
10-acre mound on the Mediterranean coast near where the Kishon River empties into the bay of Haifa (map reference 151 × 144). It may ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Abu Salabikh (A-Z entry)
( modern name, Ar., Tell or Īšān Abū eṣ-Ṣalābīḫ [“father of clinker”] ), city of the fourth and third millennia in southern Iraq, located ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Abu Simbel (A-Z entry)
colossal temple complex located in the northern Sudan about 200 km (186 mi.) up the Nile from Aswan (22°21′ N, 31°38′ E). Built in ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Abulafia, Abraham ben Shemuel (A-Z entry)
(13th century) a leading kabbalist and mystic of Spain. Abulafia taught a method of mystical insight that involved contemplating the letters of the ...
Source: Oxford Biblical Studies Online
Abydos (A-Z entry)
one of ancient Egypt's most sacred sites, located in the eighth Upper Egyptian nome, or province (26°11′ N, 31°55′ E). Archaeological survey indicates that ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Abyss (A-Z entry)
The abyss, or bottomless depth, appears in biblical tradition in several related senses. In the Hebrew Bible, tĕhôm (NRSV: “the deep”) usually refers to ...
Source: The Oxford Companion to the Bible
abyss (A-Z entry)
The depths of the sea. Because the Hebrews disliked the sea (cf. Rev. 21: 1 ), deep waters were regarded as the abode of ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
Accents (Chapters)
The accent signs are marked above and below the words in the Tiberian Masoretic text. They represent the musical motifs to which the biblical ...
Source: The Oxford Illustrated History of the Bible; from chapter The Hebrew Bible
accession (A-Z entry)
the act of taking one's place as a ruler
Source: Oxford Biblical Studies Online
Aceldama (A-Z entry)
(AV) Aramaic for ‘Field of Blood’ and rendered Hakeldama by NRSV; ‘Aceldama which means “Blood Acre”’ by REB ( Acts 1: 19 ): the ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
Achaemenid Dynasty (A-Z entry)
See Persians .
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Achaia (A-Z entry)
The southern part of Greece made into a province by the Romans in 27 bce . In the time (5th cent. bce ) of ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
Achan (A-Z entry)
Son of Carmi ( 1 Chron. 2: 7 ). After the destruction of Jericho ( Josh. 6: 24 ) some of the booty reserved ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
Achor (A-Z entry)
The valley in which Achan was stoned ( Josh. 7: 25–6 ); the name in Hebrew = ‘trouble’. But Hosea ( 2: 15 ) ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
Achziv (A-Z entry)
( or Akhzib; Ar., Ez-Zib; Assyr., Accipu ), site located on the Mediterranean coast of Israel, 15 km (9 mi.) north of Akko and ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
