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Abraham (A-Z entry)
Abraham is recognized as the forefather of both Judaism and Christianity but for different reasons. Within the Hebrew Bible, Abraham’s true progeny constitutes an ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Theology
Active Intellect (A-Z entry)
in mystical thought, the repository of the intelligible forms that govern the sublunar world.
Source: Oxford Biblical Studies Online
Acts of the Apostles (A-Z entry)
See Luke–Acts .
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Theology
Acts of the Apostles (A-Z entry)
The fifth book of the New Testament in the common arrangement, Acts records certain phases of the progress of Christianity for a period of ...
Source: The Oxford Companion to the Bible
Adam (A-Z entry)
Adam and Eve, the first couple according to biblical tradition, are important not biographically but typologically. As ancestors of all human beings (Gen 5 ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Theology
Adam, Last (A-Z entry)
The figure of Adam is well known as the first created man, shortly to be followed by Eve (Gen 2:7 , 21–23 ) , ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Theology
Adoption (A-Z entry)
Adoption is not a common topic in the Bible. There are no direct references to it in the Hebrew Bible. The term hulothesia (lit. ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Theology
Afterlife and Immortality (A-Z entry)
This entry consists of two articles on views of life after death within the historical communities of Ancient Israel and Second Temple Judaism and ...
Source: The Oxford Companion to the Bible
Allegory and Typology (A-Z entry)
Attempts to define allegory vary. The simplest way to understand it is etymologically: “saying something other” (derived from allos [“other”] and agoreuein [“to declare”]). ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Theology
Amos (A-Z entry)
See Book of the Twelve (Minor Prophets) .
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Theology
Amos (Chapters)
Amos is the earliest of the prophets who have books in their names. In fact, his oracles were transmitted orally and were only collected ...
Source: The Catholic Study Bible
Anathema (A-Z entry)
A Greek word corresponding to Hebr. ḥērem ( See Ban ) and designating an object dedicated or devoted to a deity either for consecration ...
Source: The Oxford Companion to the Bible
Angels (A-Z entry)
This survey focuses on the angelology of the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament, as well as other Second Temple literature, with a brief ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Theology
Anger (A-Z entry)
Yahweh’s dramatic self-revelation to Moses features the expression “slow to anger” ( ʾerek ʾappayim ) in the context of divine mercy, grace, kindness, and ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Theology
annunciation (A-Z entry)
The message brought by the angel Gabriel to Mary recorded only by Luke ( 1: 26–38 ) that she would be the mother of ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
anthropology (A-Z entry)
Usually the study of mankind's cultures, customs, and cults—but in Christian theology it is used for the doctrine that men and women are made ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
Anthropology (A-Z entry)
The question “What is humanity?” dates far back into pre-Hellenistic antiquity. As early as the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia and Egypt, humans have thought ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Theology
Apocalyptic (A-Z entry)
See Paradigms .
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Ethics
Apocalypticism (A-Z entry)
“Apocalypticism” designates a cluster of features that share a family resemblance literarily and notionally and are often thought to originate with groups that share ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Theology
apophatic (A-Z entry)
(from Gk for “deny”) the theology that works by denying likenesses between God and anything that can be conceived, since God transcends all ...
Source: Oxford Biblical Studies Online
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