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Adam and Eve
Linda Schearing
Subject: Biblical Studies »
Date Added: 2011-12-15
Adam and Eve Introduction The figures of Adam and Eve are ubiquitous in Western civilization. Their story is a story of origins. But stories of...
Afterlife and Immortality
Stephen L. Cook
Subject: Biblical Studies »
Date Added: 2010-09-13
Afterlife and Immortality Introduction Biblical understandings of death and the afterlife have proved of enduring fascination to scholars, ...
Agriculture
Oded Borowski
Subject: Biblical Studies »
Date Added: 2011-12-15
Agriculture Introduction Agriculture is the cultivation of the soil for the production of food and other useful and valuable growth from the la...
Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha
David A. deSilva
Subject: Biblical Studies »
Date Added: 2010-09-13
Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha Introduction Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha are terms used to label a large body of early Jewish and early Chris...
Asceticism
Richard Finn
Subject: Biblical Studies »
Date Added: 2012-01-11
Asceticism Introduction Asceticism may be defined as the voluntary abstention for philosophical or religious reasons from physical goods that a...
Associations in the Greco-Roman World
John S. Kloppenborg
Subject: Biblical Studies »
Date Added: 2013-03-19
Associations in the Greco-Roman World Introduction Life in the cities and towns of the Hellenistic and Roman periods was organized around two ...
Atonement
Stephen Finlan
Subject: Biblical Studies »
Date Added: 2013-03-19
Atonement Introduction Theological usage of the term “atonement” refers to a cluster of ideas in the Old Testament that center around the clea...
Baptism
Everett Ferguson
Subject: Biblical Studies »
Date Added: 2012-01-11
Baptism Introduction Baptism was the central rite in the ceremonies of initiation into the Christian church. It required faith, and so was norm...
Biblical Criticism
Daniel J. Harrington
Subject: Biblical Studies »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Biblical Criticism Introduction The term “biblical criticism” refers to the process of establishing the plain meaning of biblical texts and of ...
Caesarea Maritima
Leslie J. Hoppe
Subject: Biblical Studies »
Date Added: 2013-03-19
Caesarea Maritima Introduction Caesarea Maritima was a port city built by Herod the Great in 22 bce on the site of the Hellenistic period anch...
Canon, Biblical
Lee Martin McDonald
Subject: Biblical Studies »
Date Added: 2010-09-13
Biblical Canon Introduction A biblical canon is the collection of books that comprise the sacred scriptures or Bibles of Jews and Christian...
Christology
David B. Capes
Subject: Biblical Studies »
Date Added: 2012-02-06
Christology Introduction Christology refers to that branch of Christian theology concerned primarily with the person and work of Jesus. From t...
Chronicles, 1 and 2
Steven Shawn Tuell
Subject: Biblical Studies »
Date Added: 2010-09-13
1 and 2 Chronicles Introduction Although divided into two books in modern Bibles (a division dating to the Septuagint), Chronicles was orig...
Colossians
Jerry L. Sumney
Subject: Biblical Studies »
Date Added: 2012-01-11
Colossians Introduction Colossians is often seen as a letter on the edge of the transition from Pauline to post-Pauline thought, being identifi...
Corinthians, 2
Thomas D. Stegman
Subject: Biblical Studies »
Date Added: 2010-09-13
2 Corinthians Introduction Paul’s second (canonical) letter to the Corinthians is one of the undisputed Pauline epistles (i.e., scholars ar...
Daniel
Carol Newsom
Subject: Biblical Studies »
Date Added: 2010-09-13
Daniel Introduction The book of Daniel contains a collection of short narratives about Daniel and his three friends at the courts of pagan ki...
David
Victor H. Matthews
Subject: Biblical Studies »
Date Added: 2010-09-13
David Introduction Few persons mentioned in the biblical text have had as much influence on later traditions as has David. This complex bib...
Demons
Matthew Goff
Subject: Biblical Studies »
Date Added: 2011-11-29
Demons Introduction The term “demon” is used to describe a wide variety of spiritual beings. The word derives from the Greek term daimōn which ...
Deuteronomistic History
Gary N. Knoppers, Jonathan S. Greer
Subject: Biblical Studies »
Date Added: 2010-09-13
Deuteronomistic History Introduction The Deuteronomistic History (DH) is a modern theoretical construct holding that behind the present for...
Deuteronomy
Stephen L. Cook
Subject: Biblical Studies »
Date Added: 2010-09-13
Deuteronomy Introduction Deuteronomy is the fifth book of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It stands last in the section known as the books ...
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