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A (A-Z entry)
The symbol employed in textual criticism for a MS of the New Testament in Greek written on parchment in Egypt ( Alexandria? Hence known ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
abomination (A-Z entry)
Frequently in AV, and sometimes in NRSV, it describes an action or article incompatible with the true religion of Israel, as in Lev. 7: ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
Abomination of Desolation (A-Z entry)
Used by AV, REB for ‘ the desolating sacrilege ’ of NRSV at Mark 13: 14 etc.
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
Abravanel, Isaac (A-Z entry)
(1437–1508) a medieval philosopher and biblical commentator. He fled from Portugal to Spain to escape a sentence of death in a supposed plot ...
Source: Oxford Biblical Studies Online
Abravanel, Judah (A-Z entry)
(1460–1521) physician, poet, and philosopher, and son of Isaac Abravanel. His Dialogue on Love (published posthumously) argued that love was the structural principle ...
Source: Oxford Biblical Studies Online
Abulafia, Abraham ben Shemuel (A-Z entry)
(13th century) a leading kabbalist and mystic of Spain. Abulafia taught a method of mystical insight that involved contemplating the letters of the ...
Source: Oxford Biblical Studies Online
Aceldama (A-Z entry)
(AV) Aramaic for ‘Field of Blood’ and rendered Hakeldama by NRSV; ‘Aceldama which means “Blood Acre” ’ by REB ( Acts 1: 19 ): ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
Acts of the Apostles (A-Z entry)
is the second volume of a two-volume work, Luke-Acts , which relates the story of the early church in ways that are strikingly similar ...
Source: Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls
Acts of the Apostles (A-Z entry)
The fifth book of the New Testament in the common arrangement, Acts records certain phases of the progress of Christianity for a period of ...
Source: The Oxford Companion to the Bible
Acts of the Apostles (A-Z entry)
The fifth book of the NT. Without the Acts it would be impossible to write an account of the Christian Church of the first ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
AD (A-Z entry)
Latin, anno domini , ‘in the year of the Lord’, commonly used by Christians to indicate dates, from the supposed date of the birth ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
adoptionism (A-Z entry)
A theory about the Person of Christ associated with the heretic Nestorius ( d. 451 CE ) that Jesus was a man gifted with ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
Agrapha (Extracanonical Sayings of Jesus) (A-Z entry)
Since the publication of J. G. Körner 's De sermonibus Christi “agraphois” (1778), “agrapha” (literally “unwritten things”) has become the name for sayings attributed ...
Source: The Oxford Companion to the Bible
Aharoni, Yohanan (A-Z entry)
( 1919 – 1976 ), Israeli biblical archaeologist and historical geographer . Born in Germany, Aharoni went to Palestine as a young man. His ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
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Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Ai (A-Z entry)
A small town or village captured by Joshua probably about 1125 BCE ; but the scale of the operation is much exaggerated in the ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
Ai (A-Z entry)
biblical site located east of Bethel ( Gn. 12:8 , Jos. 7:2 ). Three sites on the perimeter of modern Deir Dibwan, 3 km ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Albright Institute of Archaeological Research (A-Z entry)
The W. F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research ( AIAR ) in Jerusalem is the oldest American research center for ancient Near Eastern studies ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Albright, William Foxwell (A-Z entry)
( 1891 – 1971 ), the acknowledged “dean of biblical archaeology.” Born to self-supporting missionary parents in Chile, Albright grew up in a strict, ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
allegorical (A-Z entry)
a method of reading a work as an allegory; explaining or interpreting elements of a story as if they stood for something else. ...
Source: Oxford Biblical Studies Online
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