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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 ...
Ecclesiastes/Qohelet
Timothy J. Sandoval
Subject: Biblical Studies »
Date Added: 2011-07-27
Ecclesiastes/Qohelet Introduction As Carol Newsom remarks in her review of scholarship on Ecclesiastes (Qohelet), in discussions of the history...
Elijah
Eric Lee Welch, Gary N. Knoppers
Subject: Biblical Studies »
Date Added: 2013-04-22
Elijah Introduction The accounts of the career of the prophet Elijah are found in 1 Kings 17–19, 21; and in 2 Kings 1 and 2. As presented in K...
Enoch
Pierluigi Piovanelli
Subject: Biblical Studies »
Date Added: 2011-08-26
Enoch Introduction The various books of Enoch, beginning with the five or six booklets that constitute 1 (Ethiopic) Enoch to 3 (Hebrew) Enoch ...
Epistles, Catholic
Peter H. Davids
Subject: Biblical Studies »
Date Added: 2010-09-13
Catholic Epistles Introduction Alongside the four Gospels, Acts, the Pauline letters (which often included Hebrews) and the Apocalypse, the...
Esther and Additions to Esther
Jill Middlemas
Subject: Biblical Studies »
Date Added: 2012-03-23
Esther and Additions to Esther Introduction The biblical book of Esther is the story of a Jewish heroine (Esther, or Hadassah—the character’s H...
Ethics
Bruce C. Birch
Subject: Biblical Studies »
Date Added: 2012-01-11
Ethics Introduction The modern discussion of biblical ethics began in the 1970s. There were, of course, important precursors to that developmen...
Exodus, Book of
Thomas B. Dozeman
Subject: Biblical Studies »
Date Added: 2010-09-13
Book of Exodus Introduction Exodus is the second book in the Torah, or Pentateuch, of the Hebrew Bible. It follows the story of the Israelite...
Ezekiel
Jacqueline Lapsley
Subject: Biblical Studies »
Date Added: 2012-03-23
Ezekiel Introduction The book of Ezekiel, with its forty-eight chapters, is the third of the so-called Major Prophets (after Isaiah and Jeremia...
Food and Food Production
Peter Altmann
Subject: Biblical Studies »
Date Added: 2012-01-11
Food and Food Production Introduction Food and food production form the settings for a plethora of Old and New Testament texts as well as the m...
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...
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