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Aqedah (A-Z entry)
The Hebrew word for “binding,” and the common designation for Genesis 22.1–19 , in which God tests Abraham by commanding that he sacrifice his ...
Source: The Oxford Companion to the Bible
Art and the Bible (A-Z entry)
Early Art. Stories from the Bible had become the subject of a developed narrative art by the middle of the third century CE in ...
Source: The Oxford Companion to the Bible
῾Ein-YA'el (Image)
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
῾Ein-YA'el (Image)
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
῾Ein-YA'el (A-Z entry)
terraced farm at a hand-dug spring in the Rephaim Valley, 3 km (5 mi.) southwest of Jerusalem. The ancient name of the site is ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Fatimid Dynasty (A-Z entry)
Shi῾i in origin, the Fatimid dynasty takes as its eponym Fatimah, the daughter of the prophet Muhammad and the wife of ῾ Ali , ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Madaba (Image)
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Madaba (Image)
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Madaba (A-Z entry)
city located in central Jordan, 30 km (19 mi.) south of Philadelphia/Amman (map reference 2256 × 1249). The city of Madaba was built on ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Popular Culture and the Bible (A-Z entry)
The Bible has been a fixture in American popular culture from the first European settlements to the present. Mentioning only a few random facts ...
Source: The Oxford Companion to the Bible
(Simon) Peter (A-Z entry)
( ca. 5 – 64 c.e. ) the most prominent disciple of Jesus of Nazareth, who became the leader of Jesus' followers after the ...
Source: Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible
Umm er-Rasas (Image)
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Umm er-Rasas (A-Z entry)
site located 30 km (18 mi.) southeast of Madaba in Jordan (31°30′ N, 35°55′ E; map reference 2374 × 1010). The extensive and well-preserved ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
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