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Ahikar (A-Z entry)
(uh‐hee′‐kar) an ancient Near Eastern story of Ahikar, the prime minister to the king of Assyria, who is betrayed by an ungrateful nephew, ...
Source: Oxford Biblical Studies Online
The Apocalypse of Abraham (Chapters)
Both the pseudo-Athanasian Synopsis and the Stichometry of Nicephorus include ‘Abraham’ in their lists of apocryphal books; but whether they are referring to our ...
Source: The Apocryphal Old Testament
Apocalyptic (Chapters)
Introduction The word ‘apocalyptic’ is nowadays used to describe a scenario that heralds the end of the world, or at least the end of ...
Source: The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Studies
Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha (A-Z entry)
The word Apocrypha means “hidden things,” but the term is used traditionally to refer to those books included in the Old Testament of the ...
Source: Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls
Apostolic Constitutions (A-Z entry)
Near the end of the fourth century ce an anonymous author, perhaps living in Syria (not ancient Palestine), collected into one work diverse laws ...
Source: Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls
Barnabas, epistle of (A-Z entry)
A pseudonymous Christian tract written in Alexandria at the end of the 1st cent. CE decrying the value of the literal observance of Jewish ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
2 Baruch, 3 Baruch (A-Z entry)
The Syriac Apocalypse of Baruch and the Greek Apocalypse of Baruch are translations of a pseudobiographical work probably written in Hebrew in the first ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
The Bible in the Jewish Philosophical Tradition (Chapters)
Understanding what the Bible says and means has been the central concern of the Jewish philosophical tradition. Jewish philosophers have assumed that the biblical ...
Source: The Jewish Study Bible
The Canonization of the Bible (Chapters)
Canonization, broadly construed as the process through which the Bible became the Bible, is only vaguely understood. We do not know exactly how various ...
Source: The Jewish Study Bible
Daniel, book of (A-Z entry)
Daniel is a legendary figure of wisdom and righteousness who features in Ezek. 14: 14 along with the OT characters Noah and Job. The ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
Daniel, Book of (A-Z entry)
[ This entry comprises three articles: Hebrew and Aramaic Text; Greek Additions; and Pseudo-Daniel.] Hebrew and Aramaic Text The figure of Daniel and the ...
Source: Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls
Dead Sea scrolls (A-Z entry)
Documents first discovered accidentally in 1947 on the west side of the Dead Sea, in what was the country of Jordan and which has ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
Dead Sea Scrolls (A-Z entry)
Since 1947 , hundreds of Hebrew and Aramaic scrolls have been discovered near the Dead Sea , at first in unorganized searches by Bedouins ...
Source: The Oxford Companion to the Bible
Dead Sea Scrolls (A-Z entry)
The phrase Dead Sea Scrolls is used in two senses, one generic and one particular. In the generic sense the phrase denotes documents and ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
doxology (A-Z entry)
(Gk “word of glory”) a prayer of praise to God, or one glorifying God
Source: Oxford Biblical Studies Online
Early Nonrabbinic Interpretation (Chapters)
A variety of extrabiblical texts preserve ancient interpretations of biblical law and narrative. Many motifs from these interpretations are found in later rabbinic (as ...
Source: The Jewish Study Bible
Enoch (A-Z entry)
the seventh antediluvian forefather according to the genealogy in Genesis 5 . The terse account of Enoch's life ( Gn. 5.21–24 ) diverges from ...
Source: Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls
Enoch and the Books of Enoch (A-Z entry)
Of Enoch, son of Jared and father of Methuselah (not to be confused with Enoch, son of Cain , mentioned in Gen. 4.17 ), ...
Source: The Oxford Companion to the Bible
The Growth of the Apocrypha (Chapters)
Introduction The term ‘apocrypha’ is derived from Greek, and means ‘hidden away’. It is applied to those books of the Bible that Judaism as ...
Source: The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Studies
Introduction (Chapters)
Second Chronicles is a continuation of First Chronicles, and the two originally formed one book, as they still do in the traditional Hebrew text. ...
Source: The New Oxford Annotated Bible
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