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Abaddon (A-Z entry)
Meaning literally, “place of destruction,” Abaddon refers to the realm of the dead in the Hebrew Bible. Occurring mainly in wisdom literature , Abaddon ...
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
Achaia (A-Z entry)
The southern part of Greece made into a province by the Romans in 27 bce . In the time (5th cent. bce ) of ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
Adramyttium (A-Z entry)
Port on the NW coast of modern Turkey. Paul was put on board a ship from Adramyttium at Caesarea on his way to Rome ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
Adria, Sea of (A-Z entry)
In the 1st cent. ce the name was applied not only to the modern Adriatic (between Italy and the Balkan peninsula) but also southwards ...
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
῾Amuq (A-Z entry)
a well-watered and extremely fertile plain more than 1,400 sq km (868 sq. mi.) in area, bounded on the north by the Taurus Mountains ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Anatolia (A-Z entry)
[ This entry provides a broad survey of the history of Anatolia as known primarily from archaeological discoveries. It is chronologically divided into four ...
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
Arabah (A-Z entry)
The desert valley which runs from the Sea of Galilee to the Red Sea was an important trade route from north to south. In ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
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
Asia (A-Z entry)
In the Hellenistic period, Asia is a term for the Seleucid Empire ( Map 11 ; e.g., 1 Macc. 11.13 ; 13.32 ). In ...
Source: The Oxford Companion to the Bible
Attalia (A-Z entry)
A port where Paul and Barnabas embarked, in Pamphylia , on the southern coast of Asia Minor, on their way to Antioch ( Acts ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
Canaan (A-Z entry)
An ancient name for the region occupied today by Lebanon and Israel ( Map 1 ). The origin of the term “Canaan” is obscure. ...
Source: The Oxford Companion to the Bible
Canaan (A-Z entry)
In Hebrew, Ugaritic, and Phoenician/Punic Canaan is spelled kn῾n , in Akkadian cuneiform it is spelled ki-na-aḫ-nu(m) (at Mari, Byblos, and Tyre), ki-in-a-nim (at ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Carmel Caves (A-Z entry)
Mount Carmel is a limestone mountainous block that stretches as a triangular mass over about 350 sq km. It was surveyed intensively and all ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Central Moab (A-Z entry)
The region immediately east of the Dead Sea, known as Moab in ancient times, consists of a narrow strip of cultivable land between the ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Chaos (A-Z entry)
The Hebrew word tōhû is generally translated in two ways. It can denote the arid wilderness , where wadis disappear ( Job 6.18 ), ...
Source: The Oxford Companion to the Bible
Coele-Syria (A-Z entry)
the Greek name (“hollow Syria”) for the Biqa῾ Valley in southern Syria, between the Lebanon and Anti-Lebanon ranges north of Palestine (i.e., in modern ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Conquest of Canaan (A-Z entry)
The biblical story of the conquest of Canaan is found in Joshua 1–11 and Judges 1 . The Joshua account continues the story of ...
Source: The Oxford Companion to the Bible
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