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Apocalyptic (Chapters)
Introduction The word ‘apocalyptic’ is nowadays used to describe a scenario that heralds the end of the world, or at least the end of ...
Source: The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Studies
Environmental Archaeology (A-Z entry)
Interest in what is now called environmental archaeology was probably stimulated by the long-discredited views of Ellsworth Huntington, who, in the first decade of ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Literacy (A-Z entry)
The subject of literacy in the ancient Near East touches on all major aspects of civilization, not the least being the recording of history, ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Reservoirs (Image)
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Reservoirs (A-Z entry)
A large natural or an artificial underground space enhanced to store large quantities of water, primarily for drinking, is known as a reservoir. Water ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Seafaring (Image)
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Seafaring (Image)
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Seafaring (Image)
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Seafaring (A-Z entry)
By learning to build vessels that could travel over open water and by attaining the knowledge necessary to operate and guide them, sailors in ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Sewers (Image)
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Sewers (A-Z entry)
The development of elaborate drainage systems is an important landmark in the cultural process. Although procedures for evacuating water can be found in the ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Ships and Boats (Image)
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Ships and Boats (Image)
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Ships and Boats (Image)
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Ships and Boats (A-Z entry)
In the ancient Near East, ships and boats were major conveyors of people and goods along inland rivers and over the seas that connected ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Stadiums (A-Z entry)
The stadium (Gk., stadion), a thoroughly Greek institution, was a unit of measure, 600 ancient feet in length (between 177 and 192 meters depending ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
stars (A-Z entry)
In the ancient world of the Near East and in Graeco-Roman societies stars were held to be supernatural beings, and astrologers flourished, as in ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
Time, Units of (A-Z entry)
The universal division of time into past, present, and future is expressed in Hebrew (as in other Semitic languages) by a spatial metaphor. Contrary ...
Source: The Oxford Companion to the Bible
Water Tunnels (A-Z entry)
In the arid climate of the ancient Near East, the need for water was always fundamental and its proximity dictated the location of early ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Weapons and Warfare (A-Z entry)
The earliest weapons found in the Near East are microlithic projectile points from the Mesolithic period, some, at least, of which were used as ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
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