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Akkade (Image)
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Akkade (A-Z entry)
capital city, location unknown, of the Akkadian Empire ( c. 2290 – 2200 bce ), created and maintained by Sargon and his dynastic successors. ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Alalakh Texts (A-Z entry)
British-led archaeological teams, directed by C. Leonard Woolley from 1937 to 1939 and again from 1946 to 1949 , excavated more than 515 texts ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Ancient Trade Routes (Chapters)
Mention has already been made of the fact that the territory occupied by the Israelites formed a land‐bridge through which routes from Africa and ...
Source: Oxford Bible Atlas
Arabia (A-Z entry)
The vast desert between Iraq in the east and the Red Sea in the west. In the Bible the name was probably used for ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
Arabia (A-Z entry)
Arabia is a large, predominately arid peninsula bounded on the east by Mesopotamia and the Persian Gulf, on the north by the Mediterranean coastal ...
Source: The Oxford Companion to the Bible
Artemis of the Ephesians (A-Z entry)
Artemis was the Greek goddess of the woods and hunting, as well as the patron of women in childbirth, identified with the Roman goddess ...
Source: The Oxford Companion to the Bible
beggar (A-Z entry)
Illness or some physical disability such as blindness and lameness made it impossible to earn a living; recourse to people's charity was the only ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
Colonization (A-Z entry)
The term colonization has strong semantic associations with imperialism, especially that of nineteenth-century Europe where colonies were the political, military, and economic possessions of ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Contracts (A-Z entry)
About sixty-five published documents from the Judean desert are included in what loosely may be called contracts. One of the documents (farming contracts Mur ...
Source: Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls
customs (A-Z entry)
Under Roman jurisdiction there was a value-added tax on goods, in Judaea payable to the Roman governor, or in Galilee to Herod Antipas . ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
debt (A-Z entry)
Hebrew laws on debt were humanitarian and recognized that falling into debt was a misfortune. All debts were to be cancelled every seven years ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
Decapolis (A-Z entry)
The territory of ten Greek cities founded by Alexander the Great the Great and successors about 323 CE to the east of the Sea ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
Decapolis (A-Z entry)
The Decapolis was a league of ten cities founded by Alexander the Great and his successors around 323 BCE . By the first century ...
Source: The Oxford Companion to the Bible
Decapolis (A-Z entry)
( Gk., “ten cities” ), an administrative district or region of Greek cities located in northern Transjordan, southern Syria, and northern Palestine. The original ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Deeds of Sale (A-Z entry)
The so-called Samaria papyri were discovered in 1962 – 1963 in a cave at Wadi ed-Daliyeh near Jericho, where wealthy people from Samaria hid ...
Source: Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls
denarius (A-Z entry)
A silver coin which bore the image of the Roman emperor ( Mark 12: 16 ); it was equivalent to the Greek drachma as ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
Ebla Texts (Image)
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Ebla Texts (Image)
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Ebla Texts (A-Z entry)
The tablets discovered in Royal Palace G at Ebla in Syria by Paolo Matthiae of the University of Rome are written in cuneiform script ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
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