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Abraham (A-Z entry)

Also known as Abram ; first of the patriarchs of Israel. His kind of life, depicted in Gen. 11–25 , might be that of ...

Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
Abraham (A-Z entry)

(Heb., Avraham Heb., Avram ) is the name of the progenitor of the Hebrew people. At first he is called Abram ( Gn. 11.26–27 ...

Source: Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls
Abraham (A-Z entry)

Abraham is the earliest biblical character who is delineated clearly enough to be correlated, to a limited extent, within world history. His homeland on ...

Source: The Oxford Companion to the Bible
Inspiration and Inerrancy (A-Z entry)

With regard to the Bible, inspiration denotes the doctrine that the human authors and editors of canonical scripture were led or influenced by the ...

Source: The Oxford Companion to the Bible
Judea (A-Z entry)

the Roman name for the area of Judah.

Source: Oxford Biblical Studies Online
Qurʾān and the Bible, The (A-Z entry)

The belief that God speaks through scripture he has inspired is shared by Jews, Christians, and Muslims. In spite of the considerable differences among ...

Source: The Oxford Companion to the Bible
Umayyad Caliphate (A-Z entry)

In 661 ce political power shifted away from family of the prophet Muhammad and passed to the descendants of one of the old Quraysh ...

Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East