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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
Abravanel, Isaac (A-Z entry)
(1437–1508) a medieval philosopher and biblical commentator. He fled from Portugal to Spain to escape a sentence of death in a supposed plot ...
Source: Oxford Biblical Studies Online
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
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
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
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
Albright, William Foxwell (A-Z entry)
( 1891 – 1971 ), the acknowledged “dean of biblical archaeology.” Born to self-supporting missionary parents in Chile, Albright grew up in a strict, ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Alexander III (“The Great”) (A-Z entry)
Macedonian, born in 356 BCE . After the assassination of his father, Philip II , at Aegae in 336 , Alexander ascended to the ...
Source: The Oxford Companion to the Bible
Alt, Albrecht (A-Z entry)
( 1883 – 1956 ), Hebrew Bible scholar and founder of the discipline of historical geography. Alt was born in Stübach, near Neustadt/Aisch, in ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Andrae, Walter (A-Z entry)
( 1875 – 1956 ), archaeologist , scholar , and museologist . Andrae was born in Anger, near Leipzig, Germany. After finishing school at ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Apelles (A-Z entry)
Warmly greeted by Paul in Rom. 16: 10 . It is known to be a name borne by members of Caesar 's domestic staff; ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
Apostolic Fathers (A-Z entry)
The Apostolic Fathers ( Clement of Rome, Ignatius , Hermas , Polycarp, and Papias ; and the authors of the epistle of Barnabas, the ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
Archelaus (A-Z entry)
Son of Herod the Great, who inherited the territory of Judaea , Samaria , and Idumea , but after popular disturbances was banished to ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
ark (A-Z entry)
The English translates two unrelated Hebrew nouns: The first is that of the vessel of three storeys in which Noah and his family and ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
Ashi, Rabbana (A-Z entry)
(ca. 335–427) Babylonian ʾamoraʾ of the Sura academy; one of the primary editors of the Babylonian Talmud.
Source: Oxford Biblical Studies Online
Baḥya ben Asher (A-Z entry)
(d. 1320) biblical commentator of Spain. He used the Zohar' s method of distinguishing four levels of meaning in Scripture: peshat (contextual sense), ...
Source: Oxford Biblical Studies Online
Bar Kappara (A-Z entry)
3rd century ce scholar; he lived in the land of Israel.
Source: Oxford Biblical Studies Online
Bar-Kochba (A-Z entry)
The name means ‘son of a star’ (from the prophecy in Num. 24: 17 ); he was the leader of guerrilla forces who fought ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
Bar Kokhba, Shimeon (A-Z entry)
(Aram. “son of a star”) sobriquet of Shimeon Bar Kosiba (d. 135 ce), leader of the second Jewish revolt against Rome.
Source: Oxford Biblical Studies Online
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