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Ta῾anach (A-Z entry)
site located on the southwest flank of the Jezreel plain about 8 km (5 mi.) southeast of Megiddo. Although springs are common along the ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
tabernacle (A-Z entry)
A portable sanctuary . There are instructions to build a tabernacle in Exod. ( 25: 8 ff.) and it is duly built ( Exod. ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
Tabernacle (A-Z entry)
The portable sanctuary constructed by Moses at Sinai and primarily associated with the people's wilderness wandering. Various expressions are used in referring to this ...
Source: The Oxford Companion to the Bible
Tabernacles, feast of (A-Z entry)
An autumn festival of ingathering lasting eight days; people were instructed to ‘dwell in succoth ’ ( Lev. 23: 42 ; ‘booths’ is an ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
Tabgha (A-Z entry)
( Ar., eṭ-Ṭabgha, a version of the Greek name Heptapegon , “seven springs” ), site located on the northwest shore of the Sea of ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Tabitha (A-Z entry)
The Aramaic form of the Greek Dorcas ( Acts 9: 36 ), meaning ‘gazelle’, the name of a woman much given to works of ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
The Table of Nations (ch. 10). (Image)
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Books of the Bible
The Table of Nations (ch. 10). (Image)
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Books of the Bible
tables (A-Z entry)
The ‘tables of the law’ ( Exod. 24: 12 ) were the two stones on which the Ten Commandments were carved on Mount Sinai ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
Tablet (Image)
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Tablet (A-Z entry)
The clay tablet was in use for three millennia (although in different chronological distributions), the carrier par excellence for cuneiform writing in Mesopotamia, Elam ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Tabor, Mount (A-Z entry)
In the plain of Esdraelon , and the scene in the OT of Barak 's assembly of his forces ( Judg. 4: 6 ) ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
Tabor, Mount (A-Z entry)
peak rising 588 m above sea level in the midst of the Jezreel Valley in northern Israel (map reference 186 × 232). It is ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
tabret (A-Z entry)
A musical instrument ( 1 Sam. 10: 5 , AV), called a ‘tambourine’ (NRSV, NJB), a ‘drum’ (REB).
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
Tabun (A-Z entry)
cave formed in the limestone of the western face of the Mt. Carmel promontory, approximately 18 km (11 mi.) south of Haifa, Israel, about ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Tahpanhes (A-Z entry)
A city in Egypt to which Jews fled in 586 bce from the wrath of the Babylonians, taking Jeremiah with them ( Jer. 43: ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
tale (A-Z entry)
The word used as a technical term in Form Criticism as the English translation of German Novelle —nine miracle stories in Mark and five ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
The Tale of King Cheops’ Court (Chapters)
Introduction This entertaining Tale tells of wonders from the fabulous past, some seven centuries before its composition in the late Middle Kingdom. It consists ...
Source: The Tale of Sinuhe and Other Ancient Egyptian Poems 1940–1640 BC
The Tale of King Cheops’ Court (Chapters)
……………………………]’ 1 1.12 And the Majesty of the Dual King [Che]ops, the justi[fied], said, [‘Let an offering be made of a thousand loaves,] a ...
Source: The Tale of Sinuhe and Other Ancient Egyptian Poems 1940–1640 BC; from chapter The Tale of King Cheops’ Court
The Tale of Sinuhe (Chapters)
Introduction The Tale of Sinuhe is a tale of adventure in foreign lands, but one which encourages reflection on the nature of Egyptian life, ...
Source: The Tale of Sinuhe and Other Ancient Egyptian Poems 1940–1640 BC
