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Abravanel, Judah (A-Z entry)
(1460–1521) physician, poet, and philosopher, and son of Isaac Abravanel. His Dialogue on Love (published posthumously) argued that love was the structural principle ...
Source: Oxford Biblical Studies Online
Absalom (A-Z entry)
A son of David ; good-looking and ambitious; he gathered round himself a band of disaffected people who were prepared to overthrow David. He ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
Absalom (A-Z entry)
Third son of King David ( 2 Sam. 3.3 ). The story of Absalom is presented as a subplot of the life of David, ...
Source: The Oxford Companion to the Bible
Absalom, House of (A-Z entry)
The only reference to the phrase house of Absalom in the Dead Sea Scrolls appears in Pesher Habakkuk (1QpHab v.9), where its position in ...
Source: Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls
Abu Ghurob (A-Z entry)
a New Kingdom site, situated in Middle Egypt at the edge of the Faiyum, 3.75 kilometers (about 2.5 miles) due west of the point ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt
Abu Ḥamid, Tell (Image)
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Abu Ḥamid, Tell (A-Z entry)
site located in the Jordan Valley, at 240 m below sea level, on Lisan marl deposits between two small wadis (32°19′ N, 35°33′ E). ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Abu Hawam, Tell (A-Z entry)
10-acre mound on the Mediterranean coast near where the Kishon River empties into the bay of Haifa (map reference 151 × 144). It may ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Abu Rowash (Image)
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt
Abu Rowash (A-Z entry)
located in the continuation of Gebel el-Ghigiga, the western fringe of the Nile Valley (30°2′N, 31°4′E). The archaeological area of Abu Rowash, which belongs ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt
Abu Salabikh (A-Z entry)
( modern name, Ar., Tell or Īšān Abū eṣ-Ṣalābīḫ [“father of clinker”] ), city of the fourth and third millennia in southern Iraq, located ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Abu Simbel (Image)
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt
Abu Simbel (A-Z entry)
site south of Aswan, on the western bank of the Nile River in what was Nubia (now near Egypt's border with Sudan). It has ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt
Abu Simbel (A-Z entry)
colossal temple complex located in the northern Sudan about 200 km (186 mi.) up the Nile from Aswan (22°21′ N, 31°38′ E). Built in ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Abulafia, Abraham ben Shemuel (A-Z entry)
(13th century) a leading kabbalist and mystic of Spain. Abulafia taught a method of mystical insight that involved contemplating the letters of the ...
Source: Oxford Biblical Studies Online
Abusir (Image)
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt
Abusir (A-Z entry)
an archaeological locality on the western bank of the Nile River, approximately 25 kilometers (15 miles) southwest of Cairo (29°56′N, 31°13′E). Its name was ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt
Abydos (Image)
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt
Abydos (Image)
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt
Abydos (A-Z entry)
a site, ancient ʒbḏw , situated in the ancient Thinite nome (eighth Upper Egyptian nome) in southern Egypt (26°11′N 31°55′E). On the western side ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt
