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῾Abbasid Caliphate (Map)
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
῾Abbasid Caliphate (A-Z entry)
As the result of a revolution that culminated In 750 ce in the defeat of the last Umayyad caliph, Marwan ibn Muhammad , on ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Acts of a Greek King (A-Z entry)
The scroll fragment Acts of a Greek King (4Q248), previously also Pseudohistory, is now called Historical Text. It is approximately 8 by 8 centimeters ...
Source: Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls
Adullam (A-Z entry)
A place in the hills of Judah . When David fled from Saul he hid in a cave nearby and there gathered a supportive ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
Aemilius Scaurus, Marcus (A-Z entry)
first-century bce Roman aristocrat; Pompey's quaestor during the annexation of Syria and conquest of Judea, also Pompey's brother-in-law and husband of Pompey's (divorced) third ...
Source: Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls
Antiochus IV Epiphanes (A-Z entry)
son of Antiochus III “the Great,” succeeded his brother Seleucus IV as king of the Seleucid empire in 175 bce , and ruled over ...
Source: Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls
Archbishop Oscar Romero (Image)
Undated picture of Archbishop Oscar Romero, who was assassinated while celebrating Mass in a church in San Salvador on 24 March 1980. Romero was ...
Source: The Oxford Illustrated History of the Bible
Bartolomé de Las Casas (1474–1566) (Image)
Bartolomé de Las Casas (1474–1566), called the ‘Apostle of the Indians’ for trying to humanize the colonization of Southern America by the Spanish. The ...
Source: The Oxford Illustrated History of the Bible
Base Community (A-Z entry)
a translation of a Spanish term, comunidad de base: “basic or foundational society,” for certain popular church groups in Central and South America ...
Source: Oxford Biblical Studies Online
Development and Archaeology (A-Z entry)
Nowhere has the dialogue between the past and the present had a greater impact on current economic, political, and religious realities than in the ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
French Archaeological Missions (A-Z entry)
In France, the archaeology of the Near East has long been a concern of the state. Since the nineteenth century, French political authorities have ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Holiness Code (A-Z entry)
the ritual and ethical laws in Lev 17–26, named from the repeated exhortation to the Israelites to be holy. The authors of this ...
Source: Oxford Biblical Studies Online
Israel, History of (A-Z entry)
The Biblical Story of Israel. Genesis 32.28 reports God's words to Jacob : “You shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel, for you ...
Source: The Oxford Companion to the Bible
Israel, Religion of (A-Z entry)
Ancient Israel and Its Ancient Near Eastern Setting. Scholarship on ancient Israelite religion seems to swing back and forth, as if attached to a ...
Source: The Oxford Companion to the Bible
Jew (A-Z entry)
The English word “Jew” is derived from Hebrew yĕhûdî ( fem. yĕhûdît , “Judith”; see Gen. 26.34 ; also the book of Judith), meaning ...
Source: The Oxford Companion to the Bible
Joseph's Story in Egypt (Image)
Joseph's Story in Egypt , a linocut by John Muafengejo, portrays the events of Genesis 37. The subject of slavery has a particular resonance ...
Source: The Oxford Illustrated History of the Bible
liberation theology (A-Z entry)
Several Roman Catholic theologians working in impoverished communities in Latin America have emphasized that both in the OT and in the NT injustice and ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
Liberation Theology: Africa and the Bible (Chapters)
Introduction ‘Further developments in African Christianity will test the depth of the impact that the Bible has made upon Africa’, says Kwame Bediako in ...
Source: The Oxford Illustrated History of the Bible
Liberation Theology: Europe (Chapters)
By ‘liberation theology’ I understand theology that arises from the processes of liberation in social communities. The interpretation of the Bible from the perspective ...
Source: The Oxford Illustrated History of the Bible
Liberation Theology: Latin America (Chapters)
Fundamental Commitments Latin American liberation theology conceives of its primary responsibility as doing theology from a lived experience with the poor in solidarity with ...
Source: The Oxford Illustrated History of the Bible
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