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Abigail (A-Z entry)
Wife of Nabal; she interceded with David to save her husband's life ( 1 Sam. 25: 23–31 ). Nabal was so shocked by the ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
Ancestors, The (A-Z entry)
Genesis 12–50 relates in the fullest form the traditions about the ancestors of Israel, frequently called the patriarchs ( Abraham , Isaac , and ...
Source: The Oxford Companion to the Bible
Androgyny (A-Z entry)
Androgyny, from Greek andr - (man) + gynē (woman), designates the shared presence of male and female characteristics in one person. Plato presented one ...
Source: Oxford Encyclopedias of the Bible
Animal Studies (A-Z entry)
What does “animal studies” have to do with gender studies? Feminist and animal studies philosopher Kelly Oliver suggests that “In the Judeo-Christian tradition, animal ...
Source: Oxford Encyclopedias of the Bible
Anna (A-Z entry)
An elderly and devout prophetess who greeted the infant Jesus in the Temple ( Luke 2: 36–8 ); a widow with whom many in ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
Aquila and Prisc(ill)a (A-Z entry)
Evicted from Rome in 49 ce when the emperor Claudius expelled Jews after disturbances about Christianity. They met Paul in Corinth ( Acts 18: ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
Asian/Asian American Interpretation (A-Z entry)
Addressing what constitutes Asian/Asian American interpretation is an arduous task, and perhaps an impossible one because of the heterogeneity of practitioners and the fluidity ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Gender Studies
Athens (A-Z entry)
The capital city of Attica, Greece . About the time when Nehemiah was rebuilding the fortifications of Jerusalem, Athens, three miles from the Aegean ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
Authors of Biblical Books (A-Z entry)
To question the gender of the authors of biblical books seems both fantastic and revisionist given that the available history on the Bible states ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Gender Studies
Bathsheba (A-Z entry)
Wife of King David , mother of Solomon . Bathsheba was the wife of Uriah the Hittite , one of David's “mighty men” ( ...
Source: The Oxford Companion to the Bible
Bernice (A-Z entry)
Daughter of Herod Agrippa I , and sister and mistress of Herod Agrippa II , with whom she listened to Paul in Caesarea ( ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
Brothers and Sisters of Jesus (A-Z entry)
Siblings of Jesus are referred to collectively twice in the Gospels. In the account of the “true kindred” ( Matt. 12.46–50 par.), Jesus' mother ...
Source: The Oxford Companion to the Bible
Canon/Canonicity/Canonization (A-Z entry)
Theological scholarship typically defines a canon as “the corpus of scriptural writings that is considered authoritative and standard for defining and determining ‘orthodox’ religious ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Gender Studies
Children (A-Z entry)
This entry contains seven subentries : Ancient Near East ; Hebrew Bible ; Greek World ; Roman World ; New Testament ; Early Judaism ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Gender Studies
Chloe (A-Z entry)
A woman of substance, possibly a Christian, who lived in Corinth . 1 Corinthians was written when Paul learnt of the unsatisfactory state of ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
Creation (A-Z entry)
Stories about the creation of the cosmos and the physical world address existential questions about the origins of the universe and humanity. To varying ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Gender Studies
Deborah (A-Z entry)
A name which means “bee” in Hebrew, Deborah is the name of two women mentioned in the Hebrew Bible. Two passages ( Gen. 35.8 ...
Source: The Oxford Companion to the Bible
Deity (Image)
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Gender Studies
Deity (A-Z entry)
This entry contains six subentries : Ancient Near East ; Hebrew Bible ; Greek World ; Roman World ; New Testament ; and Early ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Gender Studies
Dinah (A-Z entry)
Jacob and Leah 's daughter, Leah's seventh child, born after her six sons ( Gen. 30.21 ; 46.15 ); her name, like that of ...
Source: The Oxford Companion to the Bible
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