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Galatians
Mark D. Nanos
Subject: Biblical Studies »
Date Added: 2010-09-13
Galatians Introduction Galatians is central to Christian theology and to Christian conceptualizations of Judaism. Paul aggressively combats t...
Galilee
Mark Chancey
Subject: Biblical Studies »
Date Added: 2010-09-13
Galilee Introduction Galilee is a region in northern Israel bounded to the south by the Jezreel Valley; to the north by the mountains of Le...
Genesis, Book of
Victor H. Matthews
Subject: Biblical Studies »
Date Added: 2010-09-13
Book of Genesis Introduction Genesis, the first book in the Pentateuch, was shaped by a variety of editors over a long period of time fro...
Gospels, Apocryphal
James Keith Elliott
Subject: Biblical Studies »
Date Added: 2010-09-13
Apocryphal Gospels Introduction The title “apocryphal gospels” conventionally applies to certain early Christian or Gnostic texts that are ...
Hebrews
Ellen B. Aitken
Subject: Biblical Studies »
Date Added: 2010-09-13
Hebrews Introduction The New Testament writing known as the Epistle (or “Letter”) to the Hebrews poses many challenges to its interpreters, d...
Hittites
Billy Jean Collins
Subject: Biblical Studies »
Date Added: 2011-09-30
Hittites Introduction The Hittites are a civilization that ruled in Anatolia (the peninsula now occupied by the modern nation of Turkey) in the...
Holy Spirit
John R. Levison, Volker Rabens
Subject: Biblical Studies »
Date Added: 2012-01-11
Holy Spirit Introduction In the opening words of Scripture, the Spirit or wind of God hovers over the creative void, brooding perhaps like a mo...
Honor and Shame
John J. Pilch
Subject: Biblical Studies »
Date Added: 2012-01-11
Honor and Shame Introduction Anxiety, shame (along with its correlative, honor), and guilt are three control patterns of human personality that...
Imperial Cult and Early Christianity
Warren Carter
Subject: Biblical Studies »
Date Added: 2012-01-11
Imperial Cult and Early Christianity Introduction The imperial cult or emperor worship honored the emperor during his reign (common in the east...
Interpretation and Hermeneutics
Stephen L. Cook
Subject: Biblical Studies »
Date Added: 2010-09-13
Interpretation and Hermeneutics Introduction The Bible is an all-time best-seller, but readers have always struggled to understand it, inte...
Isaiah
Marvin A. Sweeney
Subject: Biblical Studies »
Date Added: 2010-09-13
Isaiah Introduction The book of Isaiah is the first of the major prophetic books of the Hebrew Bible, although rabbinic tradition sometimes...
Israel, History of
Marc Brettler
Subject: Biblical Studies »
Date Added: 2010-09-13
History of Israel Introduction The history of Israel has become a highly contentious issue. Through much of the 20th century, most histories ...
Jeremiah
Marvin A. Sweeney
Subject: Biblical Studies »
Date Added: 2010-09-13
Jeremiah Introduction The Book of Jeremiah is the second of the major prophetic books of the Hebrew Bible, although Rabbinic tradition someti...
Jesus of Nazareth
Pierluigi Piovanelli
Subject: Biblical Studies »
Date Added: 2010-09-13
Jesus of Nazareth Introduction In modern and contemporary research, the study of the historical figure of Jesus of Nazareth has become a spec...
Jewish Christianity
Annette Yoshiko Reed
Subject: Biblical Studies »
Date Added: 2011-08-26
Jewish Christianity Introduction “Jewish Christianity” is a modern scholarly category. In 19th- and early-20th-century scholarship, this and r...
Job
Carol Newsom
Subject: Biblical Studies »
Date Added: 2010-09-13
Job Introduction The book of Job is one of the wisdom writings in the Hebrew Bible. In the Jewish canon it is placed with the Kethubim (“Writ...
John, Gospel of
Gilbert Van Belle
Subject: Biblical Studies »
Date Added: 2012-03-23
Gospel of John Introduction According to ecclesial tradition, the Fourth Gospel of the New Testament is attributed to the apostle John, the son...
Joshua
Thomas B. Dozeman
Subject: Biblical Studies »
Date Added: 2010-09-13
Joshua Introduction The book of Joshua narrates the conquest of Canaan by the second generation of Israelites who left Egypt. The first gener...
Jubilees, Book of
John C. Endres
Subject: Biblical Studies »
Date Added: 2012-01-11
Book of Jubilees Introduction The Book of Jubilees is a Jewish book from the 2nd century bce that presents the narrative of Genesis and Exodus ...
Judaism, Hellenistic
Lester L. Grabbe
Subject: Biblical Studies »
Date Added: 2010-09-13
Hellenistic Judaism Introduction The term “Hellenistic Judaism” is a conventional one, long used, but a misnomer according to many contempora...