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B (A-Z entry)
Used in textual criticism to denote Codex Vaticanus, a 4th-cent. parchment MS of the Greek OT and most of the NT, kept in the ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
B. Law (Chapters)
1. Mishnah, Sanhedrin, 4:3–4 : The Great Sanhedrin ( 4:3 ) The Sanhedrin was arranged like half a round threshing-floor so that they might ...
Source: The Oxford Bible Commentary; from chapter Essay with Commentary on Post-Biblical Jewish Literature
Baal (A-Z entry)
A common Semitic word meaning “owner, lord, husband.” As “lord” it is applied to various Canaanite gods, such as the Baal of Peor ( ...
Source: The Oxford Companion to the Bible
Baal (A-Z entry)
Although the word simply means ‘lord’ or ‘master’, it was used as the proper noun for the principal object of Canaanite worship. Baal was ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
Baal‐zebub (A-Z entry)
The Phoenician god at Ekron consulted by King Ahaziah ( 2 Kings 1.2–18 ). The name in Hebrew means “Lord of Flies,” but no ...
Source: The Oxford Companion to the Bible
Baalbek (A-Z entry)
site located in the Biqa῾ (Bekaa) Valley, 85 km (53 mi.) from Beirut, Lebanon, at an elevation of about 12,540 m. The Biqa῾ Valley, ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Bab Edh-Dhra῾ (Image)
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Bab Edh-Dhra῾ (Image)
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Bab Edh-Dhra῾ (A-Z entry)
BAB EDH-DHRA῾. Figure 1. Aerial view of the site . The view looks south at the tower in the northeast corner of the walled ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Babatha (A-Z entry)
a Jewish woman who is the central figure in a group of papyrus documents of the early second century ce found in the Judean ...
Source: Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls
Babel (A-Z entry)
Hebrew for Babylon . According to local tradition the city was founded by the god Marduk; in the OT it is the archetypal place ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
Babel, Tower of (A-Z entry)
Babel is the Hebrew word for Babylon , which the Babylonians themselves explained as meaning “gate of God.” This etymology is probably not original, ...
Source: The Oxford Companion to the Bible
Babel, Tower of (A-Z entry)
This biblical myth in Genesis 11:1–9 , regarding an aspect of humanity's origins, was composed as the Yahwist's (J's) last primeval tale, before the ...
Source: Oxford Encyclopedias of the Bible
Babylon (Image)
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Babylon (Image)
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Babylon (A-Z entry)
Ancient city and kingdom in southern Mesopotamia . In the NT ( 1 Pet. 5: 13 and Rev. 18: 2 where ‘Babylon’ is an ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
Babylon (A-Z entry)
( Map 2:H4 ). Babylon is the rendering of Akkadian Babilum (Babilim), the city that for centuries served as capital of the “land of ...
Source: The Oxford Companion to the Bible
Babylon (A-Z entry)
A Mesopotamian city situated slightly southwest of the convergence of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, Babylon (Babel in Hebrew) is well known from textual ...
Source: Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls
Babylon (A-Z entry)
site located on the bank of one of the branches of the Euphrates River, 90 km (59 mi.) southwest of Baghdad, in modern Iraq ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Babylonia (A-Z entry)
a Mesopotamian world power. It often competed against Assyria, which it conquered in 612 bce. Its major city was Babylon, Akkadian for “gate ...
Source: Oxford Biblical Studies Online
