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P (A-Z entry)
Symbol used by OT scholars to designate the Priestly source or Priestly Writer who is regarded by the majority of OT scholars as being ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
P (A-Z entry)
The abbreviation for the Priestly source in the Pentateuch . Definitively identified in the nineteenth century, P is classically described as a creation of ...
Source: The Oxford Companion to the Bible
The P Source (Chapters)
The Tetrateuch contains a great deal of material that does not belong either to J or to E in terms of its literary style, ...
Source: The Oxford Study Bible
Pacifism (A-Z entry)
See Peace and War .
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Ethics
Pagan Critiques of Scripture (Chapters)
Christian commentators were also pushed by pagan scholars hostile to their religion to examine several problematic aspects of Scripture. Three pagan critics were particularly ...
Source: The Oxford Study Bible; from chapter Biblical Interpretation in the Early Church
Painting (Image)
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt
Painting (Image)
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt
Painting (A-Z entry)
was used in ancient Egypt from the Predynastic era through the Roman period. It enhanced almost every surface in Egyptian art: tomb and temple ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt
Palace (Image)
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Palace (Image)
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
palace (A-Z entry)
There is plenty of archaeological evidence that royal residences were richly decorated and well fortified. The OT gives details of Solomon 's palace ( ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
Palace (A-Z entry)
As the house of the king, his customary residence, the palace contains everything that concerns the activities of daily life in any house, although ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Palaces (A-Z entry)
From the Early Dynastic period until the late New Kingdom, Egyptian palaces, temples, and royal tombs are closely related through the concepts of the ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt
palaeography (A-Z entry)
From Greek words ‘old’ and ‘writing’; it is the rigorous discipline of deciphering ancient handwriting on codices and papyri. The styles of writing determine ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
Paleo-Hebrew (A-Z entry)
See Paleography .
Source: Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls
Paleobotany (A-Z entry)
To study the interrelationship between humans and plants through time, paleobotany (or paleoethnobotany), recovers and analyzes both macroscopic and microscopic botanical remains. In the ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction (A-Z entry)
The foundation for paleoenvironmental studies in archaeology was laid in the early nineteenth century by European geologists such as James Hutton , Ignaz Venetz ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Paleography (A-Z entry)
is the study of ancient writing, and, especially, the science of dating alphabetic letters and scripts by the stage of their evolution, or, in ...
Source: Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls
Paleopathology (A-Z entry)
The scientific study of ancient disease, which has historical and medical implications for human, animal, and plant evolution, began in the late nineteenth century. ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Paleozoology (A-Z entry)
The study of animal remains from archaeological sites is known as zooarchaeology, archaeozoology, and faunal analysis as well as paleozoology. As a field it ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
