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Kabbalah (A-Z entry)
Hebrew for ‘the receiving’. It is used for the mystical interpretations of the OT that developed in the 13th cent. ce , and a ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
kabbalah (A-Z entry)
“what is received,” i.e., matter handed to one. In the 12th century and later, however, kabbalah came to mean esoteric or in some ...
Source: Oxford Biblical Studies Online
Kabbalah (A-Z entry)
From the Middle Ages, Kabbalah is the generic term used to refer to a multiplicity of esoteric currents in Judaism that impart knowledge about ...
Source: Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls
Kabbalistic Exegesis and Pardes (Chapters)
Naḥmanides was active in Gerona, Spain, in the second half of the 13th century, in the generation preceding Moses de Leon and his circle ...
Source: The Jewish Study Bible; from chapter Medieval Jewish Interpretation
Kabri, Tel (A-Z entry)
a large mound of about 80 acres located in the foothills of the western Lower Galilee bordering the Jezreel Valley, 5 km (3 mi.) ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
kaddish (A-Z entry)
(Aram. “holiness, sanctification”) prayer in praise of God that is recited at the conclusion of a principal section of the synagogue service; a ...
Source: Oxford Biblical Studies Online
Kadesh (A-Z entry)
The site of the Israelites' encampment on the road from Egypt to Judah ( Num. 13: 26 ). Spies were sent out from Kadesh ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
Kafranja, Wadi (A-Z entry)
region of Jordan, located between Wadi el-Yabis and Wadi Rajib, that drains the western face of Jebel ῾Ajlun (biblical Gilead), entering the Jordan River ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Kähler, Martin (A-Z entry)
( 1835 – 1912 ) Professor of Theology at Halle who maintained that the quest for the historical Jesus was futile; it is in ...
Source: A Dictionary of the Bible
Kalam (A-Z entry)
(Arabic “speech, reason”) Islamic scholasticism, dating from the 8th century ce, a theology that developed in response to the rediscovery of Aristotelian philosophy ...
Source: Oxford Biblical Studies Online
Kalavasos (Image)
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Kalavasos (Image)
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Kalavasos (A-Z entry)
village (34°46′ N, 33°18′ E) situated close to the southern coast of Cyprus, halfway between Limassol and Larnaca. The village area has been occupied ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Kamid El-Loz (A-Z entry)
tell located at the southeastern edge of the Lebanese Biqa῾ (Bekaa) Valley, north of the modern road that branches off the north–south road from ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Kando (A-Z entry)
See Shahin, Khalil Iskandar (Kando) .
Source: Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls
Kaneš (Image)
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Kaneš (A-Z entry)
(or Neša; mod. Tk., Kültepe [ashmound] and Karahöyük, the latter the name of a small village near the mound), site situated 21 km (13 ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Kar-Tukulti-Ninurta (Image)
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Kar-Tukulti-Ninurta (Image)
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
Kar-Tukulti-Ninurta (A-Z entry)
Site located about 3 km (2 mi.) north of Aššur in northern Iraq, on the east bank of the Tigris River. Since 1960 , ...
Source: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
