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Akkade (Image)
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Akkade (A-Z entry)
capital city, location unknown, of the Akkadian Empire ( c. 2290 – 2200 bce ), created and maintained by Sargon and his dynastic successors. ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Alalakh Texts (A-Z entry)
British-led archaeological teams, directed by C. Leonard Woolley from 1937 to 1939 and again from 1946 to 1949 , excavated more than 515 texts ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Ancient Trade Routes (Chapters)
Mention has already been made of the fact that the territory occupied by the Israelites formed a land‐bridge through which routes from Africa and ...
Source: Oxford Bible Atlas
Arabia (A-Z entry)
Arabia is a large, predominately arid peninsula bounded on the east by Mesopotamia and the Persian Gulf, on the north by the Mediterranean coastal ...
Source: The Oxford Companion to the Bible
Artemis of the Ephesians (A-Z entry)
Artemis was the Greek goddess of the woods and hunting, as well as the patron of women in childbirth, identified with the Roman goddess ...
Source: The Oxford Companion to the Bible
beggar (A-Z entry)
Illness or some physical disability such as blindness and lameness made it impossible to earn a living; recourse to people's charity was the only ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
Capitalism (A-Z entry)
Any contemporary consideration of the Bible, ethics, and capitalism must begin with the recognition of the global ascendancy of capitalism. Capitalism is the dominant ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Ethics
Charity (A-Z entry)
See Philanthropy ; and Virtues and Vices .
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Ethics
Class (A-Z entry)
See Adoption ; Children ; Deeds of Sale and Transfer ; Gender ; and Slavery .
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Law
Classes (A-Z entry)
See Social Classes .
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Ethics
Colonization (A-Z entry)
The term colonization has strong semantic associations with imperialism, especially that of nineteenth-century Europe where colonies were the political, military, and economic possessions of ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Communism (A-Z entry)
In the twentieth century, the idea of communism came to be identified with the development of a bureaucratic and totalitarian social order in the ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Ethics
Consumerism (A-Z entry)
See Economics .
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Ethics
customs (A-Z entry)
Under Roman jurisdiction there was a value‐added tax on goods, in Judaea payable to the Roman governor, or in Galilee to Herod Antipas . ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
Debt (A-Z entry)
See Economics .
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Ethics
debt (A-Z entry)
Hebrew laws on debt were humanitarian and recognized that falling into debt was a misfortune. All debts were to be cancelled every seven years ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
Debts, Loans, and Surety (A-Z entry)
Debt has been a reality of economic life since ancient times. The complex laws and traditional practices surrounding debt, loans, surety, and interest are ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Law
Decapolis (A-Z entry)
The Decapolis was a league of ten cities founded by Alexander the Great and his successors around 323 BCE . By the first century ...
Source: The Oxford Companion to the Bible
Decapolis (A-Z entry)
( Gk., “ten cities” ), an administrative district or region of Greek cities located in northern Transjordan, southern Syria, and northern Palestine. The original ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
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