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Gerhard von Rad
Gerhard von Rad The German theologian Gerhard von Rad (1901-1971) developed the "tradition history" approach to the Old Testament that has dominated the study of the Bible for nearly 40 years. Gerhard von Rad was born to a patrician medical family in Nürnberg on October 21, 1901. After... Read more |
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Fossilization of Bacteria
Fossilization of bacteria Studies of fossilization of bacteria provide an indication of the age of ancient bacteria and of the rate of geological and geochemical processes on ancient Earth. Fossils of cyanobacteria or "blue-green algae" have been recovered from rocks that are nearly 3.5 million... Read more |
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Orkhon
Orkhon , river, c.300 mi (480 km) long, rising in the Khangai Mts., N central Republic of Mongolia, and flowing east, then north, past the site of ancient Karakorum, and then northeast to join the Selenga River just S of the Russian border. It is navigable for shallow-draft vessels only during July... Read more |
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Ashkenazim
Ashkenazim ETHNONYM: Yevrei Orientation Identification. "Ashkenaz" refers to the first settlements of Jews in northwestern Europe, on the banks of the Rhine, and to the culture, conservative of sources and customs, as developed through study of Torah (which can refer to the first five... Read more |
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Wes Studi
STUDI, Wes 1947(?)– (Wesley Studie) PERSONAL Original name, Wesley Studie; born December 17, 1947 (some sources cite 1944), in Nofire Hollow, OK; son of Andy (... Read more |
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higher criticism
higher criticism name given to a type of biblical criticism distinguished from textual or lower criticism. It seeks to interpret text of the Bible free from confessional and dogmatic theology. Higher criticism sought to apply the Bible to the same principles of science and historical method applied... Read more |
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hydrology
hydrology study of water and its properties, including its distribution and movement in and through the land areas of the earth. The hydrologic cycle consists of the passage of water from the oceans into the atmosphere by evaporation and transpiration (or evapotranspiration), onto the lands, over... Read more |
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Lamentations
Lamentations book of the Bible, placed immediately after Jeremiah, to whose author it has been ascribed since ancient times. It was probably composed by several authors. It is a series of five poems mourning the destruction of Jerusalem by Babylon. Each of the the first four poems is an... Read more |
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Taphonomy
Taphonomy Taphonomy, from the Greek, taphos, meaning tomb or grave, and nomy, meaning classification, is a field of paleontology, paleo-anthropology, and bioarcheology that studies human and animal remains in relation to the post-mortem (after death) transformations that occur in burial sites. In a... Read more |
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Readings from the Ancient Near East: Primary Sources for Old Testament Study
Readings from the Ancient Near East: Primary Sources for Old Testament Study. By Bill T...Ancient Near East is the ... |
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Ancient Texts for the Study of the Hebrew Bible
Ancient Texts for the Study of the Hebrew...of ancient Near Eastern texts...relating to the Old Testament [Westminster...Beyer, Readings from the Ancient Near ... |
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Encountering the Old Testament. A Christian Survey
...Encountering the Old Testament. A Christian...Biblical Studies series of...collections of primary-source documents...Israel and the ancient Near East and includes...from the ... |
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Primeval history; Babylonian, biblical, and Enochic; an intertextual...
...intertextual reading. Kvanvig...Journal for the study of Judaism...Kvanvig (Old Testament studies, U. of...t]he ancient sages of the Ancient Near East never wrote...and his ... |
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