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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...
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 ...
Ephesians
Minna Shkul
Subject: Biblical Studies »
Date Added: 2014-11-25
Ephesians Introduction Ephesians is a 1st-century ce New Testament letter in which a Jewish writer applies the memory of Jesus and Pauline tho...
Epistles, Catholic
Peter H. Davids, Darian R. Lockett
Subject: Biblical Studies »
Date Added: 2010-09-13
Catholic EpistlesIntroductionAlongside the four Gospels, Acts, the Pauline letters (which often included Hebrews), and the Apocalypse, the Catholic Ep...
Epistolography (Ancient Letters)
Runar M. Thorsteinsson
Subject: Biblical Studies »
Date Added: 2013-06-25
Epistolography (Ancient Letters)IntroductionThe term “epistolography” refers to the practice and art of writing letters or epistles, derived from 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...
Evil Eye
Nicole Tilford
Subject: Biblical Studies »
Date Added: 2014-11-25
Evil Eye Introduction People throughout the world have believed that “certain individuals, animals, demons, or gods had the power of casti...
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...
Exorcism
Graham H. Twelftree
Subject: Biblical Studies »
Date Added: 2020-01-15
ExorcismIntroductionIn the biblical material the motif of exorcism—expelling an unwanted spiritual entity from a person or place—is dominated by stori...
Ezekiel
Jacqueline Lapsley, Safwat Marzouk
Subject: Biblical Studies »
Date Added: 2012-03-23
EzekielIntroductionThe book of Ezekiel, with its forty-eight chapters, is the third of the so-called Major Prophets (after Isaiah and Jeremiah). Ezeki...
Ezra-Nehemiah
Lester L. Grabbe
Subject: Biblical Studies »
Date Added: 2015-08-31
Ezra-Nehemiah Introduction The books of Ezra and Nehemiah are among the latest in the Hebrew Bible, not only in their ostensible setting (in t...
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