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Agriculture (Image)
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Agriculture (Image)
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Agriculture (Image)
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Agriculture (A-Z entry)
In the Bible agriculture and religion are intimately connected. Of the three major festivals two were clearly connected with the agricultural year. The Feast ...
Source: The Oxford Companion to the Bible
Agriculture (A-Z entry)
The broad array of activities and knowledge whereby human communities exploit plants to produce food and other crops (fibers and oils), agriculture, literally means ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
amanuensis (A-Z entry)
Latin for a secretary. Paul dictated letters to Tertius ( Rom. 16: 22 ), who wrote on his behalf. It is sometimes held that ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
ambassadors (A-Z entry)
‘Servants’ (AV, NRSV), ‘envoys’ (REB), ‘an embassy’ (NJB) sent on a goodwill visit to another country ( 1 Kgs. 5: 1 ) or to ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
ʾamoraʾ (A-Z entry)
(Aram. “speaker”; pl. ʾamora ʾ im ) a rabbinic teacher of the talmudic period. The name is used in both Babylonia and the ...
Source: Oxford Biblical Studies Online
Animal Husbandry (A-Z entry)
The domestication of animals is a component of the “Neolithic Revolution” and a process that had an impact both on the biology of the ...
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
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
asiarchs (A-Z entry)
Officials (NRSV) in the Roman province of Asia. They were well disposed towards Paul at Ephesus ( Acts 19: 31 —‘dignitaries of the province’, ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
Augustan cohort (A-Z entry)
A cohort consisted of 600 soldiers, and to bear the name of an emperor was an honour.
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
Baruch (A-Z entry)
The book is named for Baruch, the son of Neriah and scribe of the prophet Jeremiah ( see Jer 32:12 ; 36:4 ). The ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Books of the Bible
beggar (A-Z entry)
Illness or some physical disability such as blindness and lameness made it impossible to earn a living; recourse to people's charity was the only ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
carpenter (A-Z entry)
Worker in timber. Carpenters from abroad were employed in the building of Solomon 's Temple ( 1 Kgs. 5: 6 ) but by the ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
concubine (A-Z entry)
A secondary wife on whom Hebrew law conferred certain minimal rights ( Deut. 21: 15–17 ). Sarah and Rachel gave their handmaidens to their ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
Cordovero, Moses ben Jacob (A-Z entry)
(Moshe ben Yaʿakov; 1522–1570) kabbalist, of Spain. Cordovero wrote commentaries on the Bible and on kabbalistic works; his interests were philosophical, but ultimately ...
Source: Oxford Biblical Studies Online
Crafts (A-Z entry)
The crafts were critical to the needs of the community. Aristocrats may have looked down on craftspersons, but they paid tribute to their necessity ...
Source: The Oxford Companion to the Bible
cult (A-Z entry)
the rituals and religious practices at a temple or other place of worship. For instance, the cult of the Jerusalem Temple means the ...
Source: Oxford Biblical Studies Online
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