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Agriculture (Image)
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Agriculture (Image)
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Agriculture (Image)
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
agriculture (A-Z entry)
From Genesis ( 2: 15 ) to Revelation ( 14: 14–20 ) the Bible is dominated by farmers and their endless labour as they ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
Agriculture (A-Z entry)
The landscape of the Judean Desert consists of four mountainous escarpments descending to the east. The uppermost and lowest escarpments are composed of hard ...
Source: Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls
Agriculture (A-Z entry)
In the Bible agriculture and religion are intimately connected. Of the three major festivals two were clearly connected with the agricultural year. The Feast ...
Source: The Oxford Companion to the Bible
Agriculture (A-Z entry)
The broad array of activities and knowledge whereby human communities exploit plants to produce food and other crops (fibers and oils), agriculture, literally means ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
alcohol (A-Z entry)
Both in the OT and NT ‘wine’ refers to fermented grape juice and always had some alcohol content.
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
almond (A-Z entry)
A fruit tree often mentioned in the OT and, because of the shape of the fruit, possibly originally associated with fertility rites. The white ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
Animal Husbandry (A-Z entry)
The domestication of animals is a component of the “Neolithic Revolution” and a process that had an impact both on the biology of the ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
banquet (A-Z entry)
A formal meal for which invitations were sent. It was the custom for those invited to be told at the last moment when the ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
barley (A-Z entry)
Known in Palestine before the arrival of the Israelites, the crop was regularly cultivated throughout the OT and NT periods. It was used in ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
bread (A-Z entry)
Barley was generally used for making bread, though wheat was not unknown, and even lentils and beans ( Ezek. 4: 9 ) combined with ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
Bread (A-Z entry)
Because the Bible portrays ordinary people in the round of daily life, bread is a common word in its pages from the beginning of ...
Source: The Oxford Companion to the Bible
ceramic typology (A-Z entry)
a way of dating different levels of an archaeological site by classifying the pieces of pottery found in them according to the approximate ...
Source: Oxford Biblical Studies Online
Cereals (A-Z entry)
The greatest proportion of the diet of the ancient Near East, as today, was supplied by cereals. These annual grasses were likely the first ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
drink (A-Z entry)
Water and milk were the usual forms of liquid nourishment, but wine was also greatly valued for occasions of festivity ( John 2: 3 ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
῾Ein-Shadud (A-Z entry)
site located about 200 m east of Tel Shadud (map reference 1724 × 2294), on the northwest edge of Israel's Jezreel (Esdraelon) plain. The ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Encratites (A-Z entry)
were early Christian ascetics. The name Encratites is derived from a Greek word ( enkrateia ) meaning self-control, which was a virtue extolled by ...
Source: Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls
famine (A-Z entry)
Prolonged starvation, of which the danger and horrors are often mentioned in the OT; it was one of the four acts of God's judgement ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
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