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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...
Daniel, Additions to
Amanda Davis Bledsoe
Subject: Biblical Studies »
Date Added: 2017-07-26
Additions to DanielIntroductionThe Additions to Daniel comprise three additional literary texts that are not found in the Hebrew-Aramaic version of th...
David
Victor H. Matthews, Dan Pioske
Subject: Biblical Studies »
Date Added: 2010-09-13
DavidIntroductionFew persons mentioned in the biblical text have had as much influence on later traditions as has David. This complex biblical charact...
Death and Burial
Christopher B. Hays
Subject: Biblical Studies »
Date Added: 2014-09-29
Death and Burial Introduction The present bibliography is structured according to a comparative approach to death and burial in the Hebrew Bib...
Demons
Matthew Goff, Blake Jurgens, Emily Olsen
Subject: Biblical Studies »
Date Added: 2011-11-29
DemonsIntroductionThe term “demon” is used to describe a wide variety of spiritual beings. The word derives from the Greek term daimōn, which refers t...
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 ...
Diaspora in the New Testament
Shively Smith, Zoë Towler
Subject: Biblical Studies »
Date Added: 2022-02-21
Diaspora in the New TestamentIntroductionDiaspora in critical studies of the New Testament is evolving as a varied scholarly conversation. Some schola...
Didache
Taras Khomych, Alistair C. Stewart
Subject: Biblical Studies »
Date Added: 2016-07-27
DidacheIntroductionThe Didache, while not among the canonical writings of the New Testament, is widely agreed to be at least roughly contemporary with...
Divination and Omens
Ulla Koch
Subject: Biblical Studies »
Date Added: 2021-11-23
Divination and OmensIntroductionDivination is a universal phenomenon; it is found in virtually all cultures, and it was ubiquitous in the ancient worl...
Domestic Architecture, Ancient Israel
Carol Meyers
Subject: Biblical Studies »
Date Added: 2014-09-29
Domestic Architecture, Ancient Israel Introduction Since the advent of agriculture, all humans have lived in built environments, and tradition...
Early Christianity
Gerhard A. van den Heever
Subject: Biblical Studies »
Date Added: 2015-09-29
Early Christianity Introduction The study of early Christianity overlaps with closely related fields of study such as New Testament canonical ...
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...
Economics and Biblical Studies
Paul Oslington
Subject: Biblical Studies »
Date Added: 2015-03-30
Economics and Biblical StudiesIntroductionIn recent years, cultural anthropology, sociology, and psychology have been added to the tool kit of the his...
Edom
Ernst Axel Knauf, Robin M. Brown
Subject: Biblical Studies »
Date Added: 2018-03-28
EdomIntroductionEdom was an Iron Age kingdom in southern Jordan and beyond. At the zenith of its territorial expansion in the first half of the 6th ce...
Education in the Hebrew Bible
William Schniedewind, Elizabeth VanDyke
Subject: Biblical Studies »
Date Added: 2019-08-28
Education in the Hebrew BibleIntroductionEducation is a wide-ranging topic concerning the variety of ways in which people acquire knowledge, skills, a...
Education, Greco-Roman
Mark Joyal
Subject: Biblical Studies »
Date Added: 2022-04-25
Education, Greco-RomanIntroductionAs a title, “Greco-Roman education” implicates both subject-matter and chronological boundaries. The phrase has trad...
Election in the Bible
Joel S. Kaminsky, Joel N. Lohr
Subject: Biblical Studies »
Date Added: 2017-10-25
Election in the BibleIntroductionElection within the Bible is the notion that God favors some individuals and groups over others, an idea that finds f...
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...
Elisha
Rachelle Gilmour
Subject: Biblical Studies »
Date Added: 2016-01-21
ElishaIntroductionThe accounts of Elisha are found in 1 Kgs 19, 2 Kgs 2–10, and 2 Kgs 13, in which he is presented as a northern prophet during the Om...
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