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Abba (A-Z entry)
The word for “my father” or “the father.” This Aramaic word appears three times in the New Testament, followed by a translation into Greek: ...
Source: The Oxford Companion to the Bible
Abel, Félix-Marie (A-Z entry)
( 1878 – 1953 ), professor of history and geography at the École Biblique et Archéologique Française in Jerusalem from 1905 to 1953 . ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Abraham's Bosom (A-Z entry)
This expression occurs in the parable of the Rich Man ( Dives ) and Lazarus ( Luke 16.19–31 ); after his death, Lazarus is ...
Source: The Oxford Companion to the Bible
Abyss (A-Z entry)
The abyss, or bottomless depth, appears in biblical tradition in several related senses. In the Hebrew Bible, tĕhôm (NRSV: “the deep”) usually refers to ...
Source: The Oxford Companion to the Bible
Acrostic (A-Z entry)
An acrostic is a poem in which the initial letters of each successive line form a word, phrase, or pattern. Acrostics are found in ...
Source: The Oxford Companion to the Bible
acrostic (A-Z entry)
a poetic form in which the first letter of each new line or series of lines within a larger group follows the order ...
Source: Oxford Biblical Studies Online
The Acts of Andrew and Matthias; The Acts of Peter and Andrew; The Acts of Andrew and Paul (Chapters)
The Acts of Andrew and Matthias among the Cannibals was at one time thought to have belonged to the original Acts of Andrew. This ...
Source: The Apocryphal New Testament
The Acts of Paul (Chapters)
Attestation Tertullian, de Baptismo 17 (ed. A. Reifferscheid and G. Wissowa, CSEL 20 (Prague, Vienna, Leipzig, 1890), p. 215, or ed. J. W. P. ...
Source: The Apocryphal New Testament
Aeneas (A-Z entry)
The hero of the Aeneid , the epic poem in Latin by Virgil. The name was indeed well known in the 1st cent. and ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
Africa (A-Z entry)
Names and Words for Africa. Africa appears throughout the Bible from Genesis 2.11–13 , where the sources of the Nile River are located in ...
Source: The Oxford Companion to the Bible
African American Literature (A-Z entry)
As Laurie Maffly-Kipp ( 2011 ) observes in her history of African American Christianity, African American peoples who entered the New World as slaves ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and the Arts
aggadah (A-Z entry)
(or “haggadah,”possibly from Heb huggad ,“things said” or “what is told”) the nonlegal portions of the Talmud and Midrash (see halakhah ). Aggadah ...
Source: Oxford Biblical Studies Online
Agrapha (Extracanonical Sayings of Jesus) (A-Z entry)
Since the publication of J. G. Körner 's De sermonibus Christi “agraphois” (1778), “agrapha” (literally “unwritten things”) has become the name for sayings attributed ...
Source: The Oxford Companion to the Bible
Aḥad HaʿAm (A-Z entry)
(Heb “one of the people” or “the people are one”) pen‐name of Asher Ginzberg (1856–1927), Zionist writer.
Source: Oxford Biblical Studies Online
Aharoni, Yohanan (A-Z entry)
( 1919 – 1976 ), Israeli biblical archaeologist and historical geographer . Born in Germany, Aharoni went to Palestine as a young man. His ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Ahiram Inscription (A-Z entry)
The sarcophagus of Ahiram found in Byblos, in Lebanon, by French archaeologists In 1923 is one of the most important works of art from ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
ʿAkedah (A-Z entry)
(Heb “binding”) the story of the binding of Isaac (Gen. ch 22).
Source: Oxford Biblical Studies Online
Akiva (Aqiba) ben Yosef, R. (A-Z entry)
(ca. 50–135 ce), rabbi at Lydda, martyred in the Hadrianic persecutions. He played an instrumental role in the task of beginning to assemble ...
Source: Oxford Biblical Studies Online
Akkadian (Image)
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Akkadian (Image)
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
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