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Aaron (A-Z entry)
A major figure in Israel's origins and the first of its high priests . In very ancient narratives, he appears without specifically priestly features, ...
Source: The Oxford Companion to the Bible
Aaron (A-Z entry)
Moses' elder brother (according to Exod 6:20 ; 7:7 ), his close associate in leading the Israelites out of Egyptian bondage, and eponymous ancestor ...
Source: Oxford Encyclopedias of 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
Abiathar (A-Z entry)
A priest in the army of King David ( 2 Sam. 20: 25 ), who later supported Adonijah's unsuccessful bid for the throne against ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
Abigail (A-Z entry)
Wife of Nabal; she interceded with David to save her husband's life ( 1 Sam. 25: 23–31 ). Nabal was so shocked by the ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
Abijah (A-Z entry)
The best-known of four OT characters of this name was the son and successor of Rehoboam . He was king of Judah ( 911 ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
Abimelech (A-Z entry)
Son of Gideon (or Jerubbaal) and a concubine from Shechem . Upon the death of Gideon, Abimelech got himself proclaimed king at Shechem ( ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
Abinadab (A-Z entry)
Man at whose house on a hill in Kiriath-jearim the ark of the covenant was lodged after its return to Israel by the Philistines ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
Abraham (A-Z entry)
Abraham is the earliest biblical character who is delineated clearly enough to be correlated, to a limited extent, within world history. His homeland on ...
Source: The Oxford Companion to the Bible
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
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
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
Achan (A-Z entry)
Son of Carmi ( 1 Chron. 2: 7 ). After the destruction of Jericho ( Josh. 6: 24 ) some of the booty reserved ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
Acts (Chapters)
Before Beginning … Acts continues the story that began with Luke's Gospel. What began with Jesus' life did not end on Easter. God's plan ...
Source: The Catholic Study Bible
Adam (A-Z entry)
Adam (possibly meaning “ruddy” or “earth”) is the common noun in Hebrew for “human(‐kind)”; only in Genesis 1–5 (when used without the article) and ...
Source: The Oxford Companion to the Bible
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
Agabus (A-Z entry)
One of several Christian prophets resident in Jerusalem who visited the Church at Antioch and predicted a severe famine ( Acts 11: 28 ) ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
Agag (A-Z entry)
King of the Amalekites , whose life was spared by Saul after Israel's victory. For this act of mercy he was denounced by the ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
Agrapha (Chapters)
This inappropriate word is used conventionally to refer to sayings of Jesus not found in the canonical Gospels. Collections of agrapha have included words ...
Source: The Apocryphal New Testament
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