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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...
Canaanites
Ann E. Killebrew
Subject: Biblical Studies »
Date Added: 2016-03-31
CanaanitesIntroductionThe Canaanites are best known from the biblical accounts that portray them as a hostile, pre-Israelite indigenous population res...
Canon, Biblical
Lee Martin McDonald
Subject: Biblical Studies »
Date Added: 2010-09-13
Biblical CanonIntroductionA biblical canon is the collection of books that comprise the sacred scriptures or Bibles of Jews and Christians. The study ...
Ceramics
S. Rebecca Martin
Subject: Biblical Studies »
Date Added: 2014-09-29
Ceramics Introduction Ceramics offer insights into human behaviors, technologies, and economies in a way that is currently unmatched by any ot...
Cherubim
Raanan Eichler
Subject: Biblical Studies »
Date Added: 2018-07-24
CherubimIntroductionCherubim (singular: cherub; Hebrew plural: keruvim; Hebrew singular: keruv) are marvelous, winged beings in the Hebrew Bible (see
Child Metaphors in the New Testament
Amy Lindeman Allen
Subject: Biblical Studies »
Date Added: 2021-11-23
Child Metaphors in the New TestamentIntroductionWithin literary studies, the term metaphor has a variety of uses. Most narrowly, the term refers to th...
Children in the Hebrew Bible
Julie Faith Parker
Subject: Biblical Studies »
Date Added: 2016-01-21
Children in the Hebrew BibleIntroductionChildren pervade the Hebrew Bible and were an integral part of ancient societies, yet they were largely ignore...
Children in the New Testament World
Amy Lindeman Allen
Subject: Biblical Studies »
Date Added: 2021-07-28
Children in the New Testament WorldIntroductionAt the turn of the 20th century, Clarence Herbert Woolston penned the words to the now famous children’...
Christian Apocrypha
Tony Burke
Subject: Biblical Studies »
Date Added: 2015-09-29
Christian Apocrypha Introduction “Christian Apocrypha” designates non-biblical Christian literature that features tales of Jesus, his family, ...
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...
Cities of Refuge
John R. Spencer
Subject: Biblical Studies »
Date Added: 2019-02-27
Cities of RefugeIntroductionWithin the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament there is a provision for six cities of refuge (“cities of intaking” [ערי מקלט]), whe...
Clement of Alexandria
Piotr Ashwin-Siejkowski
Subject: Biblical Studies »
Date Added: 2015-05-29
Clement of AlexandriaIntroductionClement of Alexandria (Titus Flavius Clemens) was one of the most erudite Christian writers of the 2nd century. As li...
Clement, 2
Wilhelm Pratscher
Subject: Biblical Studies »
Date Added: 2015-10-26
2 Clement Introduction The text of 2 Clement has only survived in three manuscripts. The oldest one, the Codex Alexandrinus (A), ends at 12.5,...
Clothing
Alicia Batten, Antonios Finitsis
Subject: Biblical Studies »
Date Added: 2013-05-28
ClothingIntroductionClothing refers to skins or garments made from the manipulation of fibers or threads (i.e. woven, knitted, sprang, etc.) that cove...
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 identif...
Conversion
Zeba Crook
Subject: Biblical Studies »
Date Added: 2013-08-26
ConversionIntroductionConversion is the sort of phenomenon that every person seems intuitively to understand, and yet an intuitive definition eludes u...
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 are i...
Cosmology, Near East
Kevin M. McGeough
Subject: Biblical Studies »
Date Added: 2015-05-29
Cosmology, Near EastIntroductionThe terms “cosmology” and “cosmogony” are sometimes used inconsistently within Near Eastern studies. A cosmology is us...
Covenant
John Bergsma
Subject: Biblical Studies »
Date Added: 2016-09-28
CovenantIntroductionThe precise definition of covenant (Heb. b’rith, Gk. diatheke) is a matter of scholarly debate, but many contemporary scholars wou...
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