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Valley Festival (A-Z entry)
See Festivals .
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt
Valley of the Kings (Image)
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt
Valley of the Kings (A-Z entry)
The East and West Valleys of the Kings, to use the more correct names, were the burial places for the pharaohs of Egypt's eighteenth, ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt
Valley of the Queens (Image)
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt
Valley of the Queens (A-Z entry)
Designation introduced by Champollion in the nineteenth century for a pact of the Theban royal necropolis situated on the west bank of the Nile, ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt
valleys (A-Z entry)
Numerous among the mountains of Palestine. They were locations for grazing cattle ( 1 Chron. 27: 29 ) and growing crops ( 1 Sam. ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
Values (A-Z entry)
Values are qualities that are highly regarded or the goods that are valued because of these qualities. They can be distinguished according to different ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Ethics
vanity (A-Z entry)
A familiar refrain in Ecclesiastes (e.g. 1: 2 ) , asserting that life has no meaning. It is a theme in Isa . ( ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
Varieties (Chapters)
Jewish novellas come in assorted packages, following no single model and dependent on no blueprint. Some invent heroes or heroines, placing them in an ...
Source: The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Studies; from chapter Novella
vassal (A-Z entry)
the underlord in a covenant relationship, who is granted power and control over people in a particular area in return for loyalty to ...
Source: Oxford Biblical Studies Online
Vassal Treaty of Esarhaddon (A-Z entry)
an Assyrian treaty document from the reign of the Assyrian king Esarhaddon (681–669 bce), with parallels to parts of Deuteronomy.
Source: Oxford Biblical Studies Online
Vatican II (A-Z entry)
the council of the Church held in the Vatican from 1962–65. The Second Vatican Council made many far‐reaching decisions about the life of ...
Source: Oxford Biblical Studies Online
vaticinium ex eventu (A-Z entry)
The term applied to a passage in the prophets or the gospels which has the form of a prediction but is in fact written ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
Vaux, Roland De (A-Z entry)
( 1903 – 1971 ), professor of history and archaeology ( 1935 – 1971 ) and director ( 1945 – 1965 ) of the ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Vegetables (A-Z entry)
In English, the term vegetable covers a range of widely differing plants that, cooked or raw, are used as food. In pharaonic Egypt, they ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt
Vegetarianism (A-Z entry)
See Food .
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Ethics
Vegetation in Biblical Times (Map)
Vegetation in Biblical Times
Source: Oxford Bible Atlas
veil (A-Z entry)
Worn by Hebrew women at the time of marriage ( Gen. 24: 65–7 ). Also by Moses after he had been ‘conversing’ with God ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
Vengeance (A-Z entry)
One of the ironies of the history of Christian doctrine is how the torture and execution of Jesus by Roman authorities in Jerusalem was ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Ethics
Vengeance (A-Z entry)
In biblical thought, God's vengeance is an expression of his holiness . Rendering vengeance to his adversaries is essentially a response to evil. Vengeance ...
Source: The Oxford Companion to the Bible
