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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
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
Abortion (A-Z entry)
Abortion as such is not discussed in the Bible, so any explanation of why it is not legislated or commented on is speculative. One ...
Source: The Oxford Companion to the Bible
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
Adultery (A-Z entry)
Adultery is voluntary sexual intercourse by either a married man or a married woman with someone other than his or her spouse. In ancient ...
Source: The Oxford Companion to the Bible
Afterlife and Immortality (A-Z entry)
This entry consists of two articles on views of life after death within the historical communities of Ancient Israel and Second Temple Judaism and ...
Source: The Oxford Companion to the Bible
Agrippa (A-Z entry)
Herod Agrippa I , grandson of Herod the Great; the name ‘Agrippa’ was assumed on account of a friendship with Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa , ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
Ahaz (A-Z entry)
King of Judah , 735 – 715 bce . The Assyrians were dominant, and Syria and Ephraim resolved to arrest their eastward expansion and ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
Akkadian (Image)
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Akkadian (Image)
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Akkadian (Image)
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Akkadian (A-Z entry)
The language of the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians of Mesopotamia, Akkadian, subsumes both Assyrian and Babylonian dialects within it. The earliest attested Semitic language, ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Alexander's Empire and its Aftermath: The Hellenistic Period (Chapters)
It was the rise to power of Alexander the Great of Macedon which brought about the downfall of the Persian Empire. In 334 he ...
Source: pageId="iii"Oxford Bible Atlas
Amarna Letters (A-Z entry)
Discovered in 1887 , the archive of El‐Amarna in Egypt has yielded 379 cuneiform tablets that are among the most precious finds of Near ...
Source: The Oxford Companion to the Bible
Amarna Tablets (A-Z entry)
Tell el-Amarna (ancient Akhenaten) in middle Egypt was, in the fourteenth century bce , the capital city of Akhenaten, or Amenophis IV. In 1887 ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
ambassadors (A-Z entry)
‘Servants’ (AV, NRSV), ‘envoys’ (REB), ‘an embassy’ (NJB) sent on a goodwill visit to another country ( 1 Kgs. 5: 1 ) or to ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
Ancient Near Eastern Studies: Mesopotamia (Chapters)
The idea that understanding of the Hebrew Bible can be helped by study of other ancient Near Eastern documents is nothing new. In the ...
Source: The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Studies
apodictic law (A-Z entry)
Divine law in the OT expressing absolute prohibitions or injunctions, as in the Ten Commandments (‘You shall not make an idol’, Exod. 20: 4 ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
Aram (A-Z entry)
Aram is a name of both places and persons. As a place name it refers usually to Aram‐Damascus ( Map 1:Z2 ), a powerful ...
Source: The Oxford Companion to the Bible
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