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abomination (A-Z entry)
Frequently in AV, and sometimes in NRSV, it describes an action or article incompatible with the true religion of Israel, as in Lev. 7: ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
Abomination of Desolation (A-Z entry)
Used by AV, REB for ‘ the desolating sacrilege ’ of NRSV at Mark 13: 14 etc.
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
Abravanel, Isaac (A-Z entry)
(1437–1508) a medieval philosopher and biblical commentator. He fled from Portugal to Spain to escape a sentence of death in a supposed plot ...
Source: Oxford Biblical Studies Online
Abravanel, Judah (A-Z entry)
(1460–1521) physician, poet, and philosopher, and son of Isaac Abravanel. His Dialogue on Love (published posthumously) argued that love was the structural principle ...
Source: Oxford Biblical Studies Online
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
access (A-Z entry)
When visitors or ambassadors are granted an audience with the pope or a president, a trusted member of the staff shows them the way ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
The Acts of Peter (Chapters)
The figure of Peter gave rise to much apocryphal literature. The Acts and Passion of Peter appear in various forms and in various languages. ...
Source: The Apocryphal New Testament
Acts of the Apostles (A-Z entry)
is the second volume of a two-volume work, Luke-Acts , which relates the story of the early church in ways that are strikingly similar ...
Source: Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls
Acts of the Apostles (A-Z entry)
The fifth book of the New Testament in the common arrangement, Acts records certain phases of the progress of Christianity for a period of ...
Source: The Oxford Companion to the Bible
Acts of the Apostles (A-Z entry)
The fifth book of the NT. Without the Acts it would be impossible to write an account of the Christian Church of the first ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
adoption (A-Z entry)
In the OT children are brought by adoption into families, as Moses ( Exod. 2: 10 ) was by Pharaoh's daughter, and Esther by ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
adoptionism (A-Z entry)
A theory about the Person of Christ associated with the heretic Nestorius ( d. 451 CE ) that Jesus was a man gifted with ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
adoration (A-Z entry)
The loving worship of God in response to his first loving us (1 John 4: 9–10 ). It is described as a ‘sacrifice of ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
advocate (A-Z entry)
A translation of the Greek ‘ Paraclete ’, used in the gospel and first epistle of John for the Spirit ( e.g. John 14: ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
aetiology (A-Z entry)
An aetiological story professes to explain causes. The Pentateuch , especially Genesis, is rich in stories designed to give explanations about the origin of ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
agape (A-Z entry)
Greek noun meaning ‘ love ’ not much used in secular writings but common in the NT for the gracious selfgiving love of God ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
age (A-Z entry)
Human life was expected to end after seventy years, and anyone living for eighty years must have unusual strength ( Ps. 90: 10 ). ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
agony (A-Z entry)
From the Greek for a ‘contest’, meaning the nervous feeling experienced before such a contest. It is in that sense that Jesus was in ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
alcohol (A-Z entry)
Both in the OT and NT ‘wine’ refers to fermented grape juice and always had some alcohol content.
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
alienation (A-Z entry)
The broken relationship between God and mankind by reason of sin. Paul argues that the alienation is healed from the side of God by ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
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