Dictionary of Daily Life in Biblical and Post-Biblical Antiquity
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Dictionary of Daily Life in Biblical and Post-Biblical Antiquity

Complete in One Volume, A-Z

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eBook - ePub

Dictionary of Daily Life in Biblical and Post-Biblical Antiquity

Complete in One Volume, A-Z

About this book

The Dictionary of Daily Life in Biblical & Post-Biblical Antiquity is a unique reference work that provides background cultural and technical information on the world of the Hebrew Bible and New Testament from 4000 BC to approximately AD 600.

Also available as a 4-volume set (ISBN 9781619708617), this complete one-volume edition covers topics from A-Z. This dictionary casts light on the culture, technology, history, and politics of the periods of the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament. Written and edited by a world-class historian and a highly respected biblical scholar, with contributions by many others, this unique reference work explains details of domestic life, technology, culture, laws, and religious practices, with extensive bibliographic material for further exploration.

There are 115 articles ranging from 5-20 pages long. Scholars, pastors, and students (and their teachers) will find this to be a useful resource for biblical study, exegesis, and sermon preparation.

"This is not your standard Bible dictionary, but one that focuses on aspects of daily life in Bible times, addressing interesting and sometimes puzzling topics that are often overlooked in other encyclopedias. I highly recommend the Dictionary of Daily Life in Biblical and Post-Biblical Antiquity and will be giving it 'shout-outs' in my classes in the years to come." —James K. Hoffmeier, Professor of Old Testament and Near Eastern Archaeology, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School

"This wonderful resource is much more than a dictionary. It is a compendium of substantive essays on numerous facets of daily life in the ancient world. I am frequently asked by pastors and students for recommendations on books that illuminate the manners, customs, and cultural practices of the biblical world. Now I have the ideal set of books to recommend." —Clinton E. Arnold, Dean and Professor of New Testament, Talbot School of Theology, Biola University

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Table of contents

  1. Copyright
  2. Dedication
  3. Contents
  4. Abbreviations
  5. Periods, Ages, and Dates
  6. Introduction
  7. Abortion
  8. Adoption
  9. Adultery
  10. Age & the Aged
  11. Agriculture
  12. Alcoholic Beverages
  13. Animal Husbandry
  14. Aphrodisiacs & Erotic Spells
  15. Aqueducts & Water Supply
  16. Archives
  17. Armies
  18. Art
  19. Astrology
  20. Athletics
  21. Bands & Loans
  22. Banquets
  23. Barbers & Beards
  24. Baths & Bathing
  25. Beggars & Alms
  26. Bellows & Furnaces
  27. Birds
  28. Boats & Ships
  29. Bones & Objects of Bone
  30. Bottles & Glass
  31. Bribery
  32. Butchers & Meat
  33. Calendars
  34. Camels
  35. Celibacy
  36. Census
  37. Ceramics & Pottery
  38. Childbirth & Children
  39. Cities
  40. Citizens & Aliens
  41. Clothing
  42. Communications & Messengers
  43. Contraception & Control of Births
  44. Cosmetics
  45. Dance
  46. Death & the Afterlife
  47. Demons
  48. Dentistry & Teeth
  49. Diseases & Plagues
  50. Divination & Sortition
  51. Divorce
  52. Dogs
  53. Donkeys & Mules
  54. Doors & Keys
  55. Drama & Theaters
  56. Dreams
  57. Dwellings
  58. Dyeing
  59. Education
  60. Eunuchs
  61. Fish & Fishing
  62. Food Consumption
  63. Food Production
  64. Furniture
  65. Games & Gambling
  66. Hair
  67. Harbors
  68. Heating & Lighting
  69. Horses
  70. Human Sacrifice
  71. Incense
  72. Infanticide & Exposure
  73. Inheritance
  74. Insects
  75. Ivory
  76. Jewelry
  77. Kisses & Embraces
  78. Laundry & Fullers
  79. Laws & Crimes
  80. Leather
  81. Libraries & Books
  82. Literacy
  83. Magic
  84. Marriage
  85. Medicine & Physicians
  86. Medium of Exchange
  87. Menstruation
  88. Metallurgy
  89. Military Technology & Tactics
  90. Milk & Milk Products
  91. Mining
  92. Mourning & Weeping
  93. Music
  94. Names
  95. Nursing & Wet Nurses
  96. Oaths & Vows
  97. Palaces
  98. Perfumes
  99. Plants & Flowers
  100. Police & Prisons
  101. Prostitution
  102. Purity & Impurity
  103. Rape
  104. Same-Sex Relations
  105. Sanitation
  106. Seals
  107. Slavery
  108. Spectacles
  109. Taxation
  110. Textiles
  111. Threshing & Winnowing
  112. Time
  113. Tools & Utensils
  114. Trade
  115. Trees
  116. Virgins & Virginity
  117. Viticulture
  118. Wealth & Poverty
  119. Weapons
  120. Widows & Orphans
  121. Wild Animals & Hunting
  122. Select Bibliography
  123. Additional Ebooks