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A

Abbot Chaeremon, 344–45

Abel, 79, 96, 337

Abiathar, 629

Abihu, 147, 150, 163, 187–94, 198, 373, 417, 512, 565, 580, 634, 636, 800

Abimelech, 585, 591, 788

Abiram, 474, 633–35, 639, 734, 736, 784

Abishag, 406

Abner, 239

abomination, 204–6, 322, 363, 626

Abraham, 53–55, 61, 83, 135, 192, 209–10, 227, 369, 422, 424, 441, 454, 456, 472, 575, 585, 590–91, 599, 607, 610, 612, 623, 635, 654, 691–92, 701, 704–5, 711, 714, 718, 720, 737, 755, 759, 770, 773, 775

Absalom, 285–86, 406, 629, 801

Achan, 133, 625

Adam, 113, 126, 192, 208, 227, 292, 323–24, 343, 392, 682, 711

Adamson, Louise, 83

Adenauer, Konrad, 601

administrative order, 109

Adonijah, 405–6, 629, 801

adultery, 211, 310, 313, 318, 320–22, 324, 328–29, 338–39, 361, 365–66, 412, 521–30, 594, 634, 636, 724, 801–3

Afghanistan, 353, 355, 425, 775

Africa, 82, 200, 239

Agag, 536, 709–10

Ahab, 516, 551, 695

Ahasuerus/Xerxes, 725

Ahaz, 551

Ai, 504

AIDS/HIV, 241, 242, 355, 369

Akkadian, 87, 101, 407, 626, 710, 713, 720

Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, 774

Alcoholics Anonymous, 253, 743

Ali, Muhammad, 592

Al-Qaeda, 721, 774

Al-Qazwini, 583

Amalekite, 536, 599, 611, 678, 710–11, 713, 736, 769

Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, 287

Ammonite, 321, 361, 384, 664, 681, 691

Amnon, 285, 801

Amorite, 599, 601, 607, 680–681, 689, 771, 773

amulet, 540

Ananias, 133, 138, 365, 682, 800

Anatolia, 57

ancestor worship, 340–42

angel, 692–94, 696, 709, 715, 717

anointing, 98, 163–67, 170, 272, 338, 534, 549, 555

Antietam, 602

Antiochus IV Epiphanes, 550

anti-Semitism, 311

Appian Way, 442

Arab(ic)/Arabian, 81, 235, 583, 714, 743, 775, 777, 788

Arad, 611, 678–80, 683–84, 761, 771, 775

Arafat, Yasser, 774

Aramaic/Aramean, 550, 627, 690

ark of the covenant, 52, 121, 158, 179, 188, 271–72, 279, 338, 345, 402, 410, 423, 513–14, 549–50, 554, 558, 566, 572–74, 583, 626–27, 644, 679

Armstrong, Neil, 253

Arnon, 680–81

Artaxerxes, 516

Asherah, 506, 626–27

assault, 416–18, 420, 424–26

Assur, the god, 504

assurance, 412, 542, 628, 665, 701, 704, 756–57

Assyria(n), 116, 135, 366, 451, 468, 504, 627, 711–14, 787

Atrahrasis epic, 61, 391, 422

Atta, Mohammed, 314

Australia, 55, 70, 209, 726

authority, 59, 63, 313–14, 341, 409, 411, 505, 523, 585–86, 625, 637, 648, 722, 762, 771, 775–776, 788–89, 791, 797, 806

authorship, of Leviticus, 27–28; of Numbers, 475–76

Ayodhya, 399

Azazel, live goat for (so-called “scapegoat”), 79, 124, 166, 196, 226, 247, 271, 273–77, 282, 288–91, 295–96, 300, 368, 419

B

Baal, 72, 372, 627, 702, 717, 721, 723, 726–27, 735, 761, 768, 771

Babel, 720

Babylonia(n), 81, 116, 139, 147, 193, 209, 275, 300, 340, 373, 391, 398, 404, 407–8, 422, 427, 441, 458, 504, 593, 623, 627, 702, 713, 742

Bach, J. S., 455

Balaam, 401, 475, 502, 586, 610, 689–96, 700–705, 709–15, 717, 720–21, 727–28, 741, 769

Balak, 689–91, 693, 695, 700–703, 705, 709–11, 717–18, 727

Bamoth Baal, 693, 700

Bangkok, 355

baptism, 24, 70–71, 167, 252, 791

Barak, 575

Barnabas, 168, 289

Barnum, P. T., 345

Barzillai, 629

Bashan, 681

Bathsheba, 354, 541, 594, 636, 801

Battle of the Bulge, 717

Beer, 683–84

Beersheba, 584

Beethoven, 454

Belgian, 200

Belshazzar, 742

Benjamin, 497, 541

Berra, Yogi, 292

bestiality, 321, 324, 328, 361

Beth Shemesh, 583

Bethlehem, 398, 713, 743

Bible software programs, 29, 52

birth, 97, 105, 203, 220–25, 227–28, 251, 259–62, 470, 659, 803

Black Sabbath, 357

blasphemy, 291, 313, 369, 416–20, 426, 565, 622

blood, 59–60, 64, 67–68, 79, 89–91, 98–102, 104–9, 114, 122–23, 132, 136, 144, 148–50, 154, 156, 158, 163, 165, 168–69, 175, 190, 195, 208, 210, 213–14, 216, 220–23, 226–27, 238, 247–48, 251–52, 258, 261–62, 264, 266, 271–72, 275, 277, 279, 289, 292–93, 295, 299, 301–5, 309–10, 318–19, 328, 336, 340–41, 367, 398, 412, 527, 624, 626, 640, 659–62, 665–66, 683, 710, 795–98, 804–5

Boaz, 539

Boethusian, 389

Bono, 444

Boom, Corrie ten, 112–14, 697

boomerang, 70

Booths (Sukkot), Festival of, 89, 157, 387–88, 398, 401–4, 686, 751–54

Bosnia, 184

Bossey, 444

Brand, Margaret, 219

Brand, Paul, 218

bread of the Presence, 147, 391, 416–17, 422–23, 541, 557, 751, 754

Brown, Charlie, 634

Browning, Robert, 346

bubble boy, 62

Buber, M., 84

Buckingham Palace, 636

Buddhist, 774

Burma, 355

burnt offering, 57–70, 76, 87–91, 96, 108–9, 122, 143, 147, 163–64, 178, 180, 221, 248, 260, 271, 275–76, 304, 389, 534–35, 555–56, 620–21, 636, 645, 660, 667, 700, 750–54, 756

C

Caesar, Julius, 504–5, 769

Cain, 64, 72, 79, 96, 324, 337, 800–802

Calcutta, 73, 517

Caleb, 474, 566, 600–602, 607–9, 614–15, 630, 659, 735

calendric/public sacrifices, 66

California, 113, 172, 294, 384, 411, 424, 610, 641

Calvary, 683

Calvin, John, 289

Canaan(ite)/Palestine/Promised Land, 51, 54, 89, 116, 216, 302, 316, 321–22, 326–27, 340, 372, 377, 389, 432, 441, 453–54, 471, 473, 476–77, 494, 496, 503–4, 563–64, 572, 574–76, 587, 598–602, 607, 609–14, 619, 624, 627, 638, 653, 670–74, 678–80, 683–84, 686, 689, 713, 717, 719, 722, 724, 734–37, 740–42, 744, 750, 761, 771–73, 775, 784–78, 795

Canaan, son of Ham, 317, 703

Canada, 568

cancer, 241

capital punishment, 109, 285, 303–5, 308, 321, 324–25, 327–28, 338, 354, 361–66, 368–70, 417–19, 425, 521, 525–26, 608, 622, 703, 717–20, 725–27, 736, 795–806

Carmel, 179

Carneal, Michael, 110

census, 476, 494–98, 503, 512–14, 556, 564, 572, 610, 734–36

Chemosh, 769

chiasm, 31, 335, 341, 343, 362, 382, 408, 478, 522, 540–41, 571, 581, 679, 709, 753

child abuse, 26

Chinese, 74, 704

Christ/Jesus, 24–25, 54, 64, 67–71, 73–74, 81, 83–84, 89–93, 103, 107, 109–10, 113–15, 126–29, 135–36, 138–39, 146–47, 149–51, 159, 167, 170–72, 174–75, 179–85, 192, 194, 197–200, 214–18, 222, 228–29, 241–42, 249–52, 264, 266, 289–90, 292–97, 305–6, 308, 311, 329–30, 344, 347–49, 357, 369–70, 375, 377–78, 383–84, 392–94, 398–99, 406, 409, 411–13, 420, 423–27, 442–43, 447–48, 460, 470, 475, 526–30, 541–43, 558–60, 574–76, 603, 615–16, 623–24, 627–30, 646–47, 656, 665–67, 675, 679, 682–83, 685–86, 692, 694, 697, 705, 712–13, 715, 720, 723, 726–28, 737–38, 744–45, 756–57, 759, 763, 772, 777, 785, 791, 799–802, 806

Christmas, 65, 71, 390, 550, 610, 749

chronology, 51

Chrysostom, 527

Church of the Holy Sepulcher, 398

Churchill, Winston, 679

circumcision, 222–23, 227, 308, 340, 382, 454

city of refuge, 795–98

Civil War, 115, 439, 442, 602

codependency, 173, 364, 385

Columbine High School, 358

commitment, 411

communist, 443

complaint, 564, 580–81, 586–87, 604, 609, 611, 614, 671

confession, 119, 121–26, 138–39, 179, 273–74, 279, 291, 295, 407, 520, 524, 611, 625, 679–80, 693–94

Congo, 200

Congress, 352

consecration, 97, 104, 156, 162–64, 169, 171, 175, 177–78, 191, 272, 295, 302, 343, 373–374, 392, 416, 465–66, 469, 513, 534–35, 549, 550, 555, 622, 643, 751

contagion/epidemic, 263–67, 275, 614–15

Corinth, 344

corporate guilt, 115–16

covenant, 54, 80–81, 84, 87, 132, 136, 165, 179, 192–93, 197, 212–13, 227, 252, 305, 308, 312, 321–22, 343–44, 346, 364, 393, 408–9, 412–13, 423–24, 442, 451–53, 455–58, 460–61, 471–73, 527–30, 543, 585, 608, 625, 633, 654, 705–6, 719–20, 722, 724–25, 749, 754–56

Cozbi, 720, 768–69

creation/Creator, 166, 203, 208, 215, 261, 263, 266, 284, 294, 306, 329, 341, 347, 349, 351, 388–89, 391–93, 395–96, 401, 403, 423, 439, 448, 459, 503, 505–6, 557–58, 576, 603–4, 635, 644, 695, 702–3, 715, 723, 754, 798

Crusader, 774

culpability, 195–97, 273–74, 279, 282–83, 285–86, 288, 290–91, 296, 301, 303, 327, 337, 381, 454–55, 522, 524, 556, 610, 612, 652, 674, 762, 764, 797, 799

curse/imprecation, 369, 418–19, 451–55, 457–58, 522–25, 689–90, 693, 700–701, 703–5, 710–11, 721, 725–27

Cush(ite), 590, 594

Cushan, 590

Cushan-Rishathaim, 720

Cyprus, 714

Cyrus, 166

D

Damascus, 694

Dan(ite), 417, 502–3

Dante, 636

Dathan, 474, 633–35, 639, 734, 736, 784

David(ic), 110, 126, 166–67, 239, 284–86, 288, 348, 398, 405–6, 496, 541, 556, 575, 585, 593–94, 629, 636, 703, 712–13, 719–20, 745, 796, 800–802

Day of Atonement/Purgation, 62, 100, 104, 106–7, 124, 144, 148–50, 169–70, 189–90, 196, 226, 247, 270–83, 288–93, 295–96, 300, 368, 387–38, 401–10, 412–13, 432, 435, 447, 455, 566, 629, 719, 751, 753, 762

deacon, 560–61, 743

death (including corpse, mortality, mourning, murder), 80, 109–10, 128, 149, 168, 188–91, 199, 204, 207–8, 210, 213, 217–18, 222–29, 236, 238–41, 250–55, 261–66, 276, 279, 281, 283, 293, 297, 301, 305, 307–8, 310, 323–25, 328, 340, 342, 361, 364–67, 368–70, 372–74, 381, 394, 399, 413–14, 417–20, 423–26, 448, 453, 456, 369, 474, 477, 513, 515, 520–22, 526, 528–29, 533–34, 536–37, 555–56, 563–64, 574, 581, 593–94, 608–11, 613, 622, 624, 629, 636–38, 643–47, 652, 658–66, 670–73, 681–83, 685, 695, 701–3, 717–20, 725–26, 735, 741–42, 745, 750, 763, 769–76, 795–806

Deborah, 376, 575

debt, 61, 91, 108–9, 132, 135, 178, 436–41, 443–46, 535, 541, 543, 620

Declaration of Independence, 459

Deir ʿAllā, 690–91

Delilah, 536, 538

demon, 291, 297, 299–300, 304–5, 328, 357, 407, 724

descriptive ritual text, 162

Dibon, 785–86

Dibri, 417

Dickinson, Emily, 480

divination, 340–42

Domitia, 467

Don Quixote, 696

Douglas, Mary, 29

drink offering, 73

Duke, David, 595

E

Ea, 287

Eber, 711, 714

Ecumenical Institute, 444

Eden, 695

Edom, 670–71, 678, 680, 683–84, 711–13, 786

Eglon, 79

Egypt(ian), 51, 57, 146, 239, 266, 310, 316, 326–27, 343, 350, 372, 383, 393, 403, 417, 422, 435, 437–38, 441, 452, 455, 457, 464, 471, 473, 476, 494–96, 502, 513–14, 524, 563–64, 566, 571, 574, 580, 586–87, 591, 599, 601, 607–9, 612, 637–38, 640, 648, 679, 682–83, 702, 704, 710, 713–14, 719, 722, 754, 759, 773, 784–86, 788–89

Ehud, 79, 575

Einstein, Albert, 595–96, 773

El Shadday, 715

El, the Canaanite god, 372

Eldad, 586

Eleazar, 166, 189–91, 200, 373, 495, 512–13, 643, 659, 672–73, 718, 734, 741, 770–71

Elevated Sheaf, Festival of, 387, 389–91, 394, 402, 751

Eli, 373, 375, 536

Eliab, 552

Elijah, 516, 584, 721, 742

elimination ritual, 67, 246–49, 274–75, 288

Elisha, 217–18, 239, 418, 593, 742

Elzaphan, 189

Endor, 342

Engel, Marvin, 235

England/Britain, 396, 551, 744

Enlil, 744

Ephesus, 357

ephod, 72

Ephraim, 502–3, 601, 734

equilibrium, 31–32, 443

Er, 734

Esagila, 407

Esau, 79, 672, 703

Esther, the queen, 414

ethics/morality, 32–33, 35

Ethiopia, 590

Euphrates River, 139, 407, 525, 690–91

Eve, 113, 126, 192, 208, 227, 292, 296, 323–24, 343, 392, 505–6, 682

expiation, 62–66, 68, 78–79, 89, 96, 102–10, 122–26, 129, 132–33, 135, 149, 158, 164, 177, 179–80, 182, 190, 194–96, 221, 226, 248–49, 260, 276–78, 280–84, 288, 290, 292, 302–4, 331, 339, 368, 404, 407, 520, 534–35, 555–56, 593, 621, 624–25, 627, 645–46, 664, 680, 718–19, 725, 796, 799

Ezida, 407

Ezra, 28, 405

F

faith/belief/trust, 62–64, 211–12, 217, 266, 293, 322, 342, 377–78, 398, 409, 411–13, 443, 447, 461, 473, 479, 499, 537–38, 561, 575, 587, 598, 601–3, 611, 614–16, 622, 628, 637, 673, 678, 681–84, 686, 690, 695, 705, 736, 740, 755, 758–59, 772, 775–76, 790, 806

Father Damien De Veuster, 200

Fiddler on the Roof, 551

firstborn, 498, 512–14, 555

firstfruits, 76–77, 98, 133, 181, 340, 390, 394, 434, 620, 653, 750

fixed/formulaic activity systems, 60

Flamen Dialis, 80

Florida, 639, 648

Foch, Ferdinand, 603

food/eating, 60–62, 68, 78, 88–91, 99, 101, 108, 144–45, 147, 149, 154–58, 164–65, 190–91, 194–95, 203–10, 212–16, 224, 261, 276, 299, 301–2, 304, 309, 328, 335, 373–74, 381–82, 388–89, 395, 405, 414, 421–24, 448, 533–34, 542, 552, 561, 563–64, 580–83, 587, 590, 612, 620, 623, 640, 645, 654–55, 679, 683, 717, 720, 727, 750, 797, 804–5

Fook, Lough, 74

forgiveness, 62, 64, 79, 102–15, 123, 126–27, 138, 150, 179–80, 183, 199, 221, 225, 228–29, 241, 252, 277–79, 284–87, 292, 295–96, 303, 339, 348, 354, 368, 405–9, 412, 526–28, 530, 541, 543, 591, 608–9, 612–13, 616, 619, 621, 624, 626–29, 647, 664, 728, 755, 761, 799, 801–2

Francis of Assisi, 151

freewill offering, 89, 155–56, 761

French, 603

Frost, Robert, 768

fungus, 239, 248–49, 327, 594

G

Gabriel, 537, 602

Gad, 477, 784–85, 787

Gandhi, 777

Gaza, 583

Gehazi, 239–40, 593, 742

genital discharge, 203, 210, 216–17, 220–27, 234, 236, 242, 251, 258–63, 325, 361, 520

genocide, 595, 616, 638, 725, 771–76

Gerar, 585

German, 314

Gershon, 513–15, 549

Gibeah, 497, 585

Gibeonites, 442, 725, 775, 796

Gideon, 72, 497, 575, 723

gift, 60–63, 68, 78–80, 87, 89, 93, 132, 146, 165, 175, 178, 303, 348, 369, 382–84, 394, 411–12, 464–65, 469, 527, 532, 535, 543, 549–52, 582, 619–20, 628, 630, 648, 653, 655, 684, 709, 750

Gilead(ite), 445, 796

Gilgamesh, 240

goal of activity system, 58, 60–68, 102–6, 164, 195, 221, 236, 260, 278, 292, 305, 535

golden calf, 64, 72, 471, 592, 608, 612, 635, 674, 722–23, 726–27, 789

Gosse, Edmund, 744

grain offering, 66, 76–80, 82, 84, 89, 91, 96, 122, 143–44, 147, 156, 178, 180, 248, 417, 522, 524, 526, 620, 750

Gray, G. B., 81

Greece/Greek, 57, 68, 81, 89, 156, 235, 239, 356, 521

Gula, 540

Gulbrandson, 252

H

Haifa, 474

Ham, son of Noah, 317

Haman, 710, 725

Hammurabi, 432, 702, 744

hand-leaning/laying, 60, 65–67, 99, 124–25, 164, 166–68, 273–74, 291, 295, 419, 555, 560, 741, 743

Hannah, 320, 469, 536, 542

Hansen’s disease, 235, 240 (see also leprosy)

happiness, 459–60

Harris, Eric, 358

Hawaii, 200

Hazeroth, 590, 592, 786

Hazor, 713

health/healing, 207, 209–10, 212–13, 215, 224, 227–30, 235–36, 240–42, 246, 249–51, 253, 260, 263, 265, 293, 305, 306, 309, 331, 332, 629, 680–81, 683, 693, 728, 757

Hebron, 599, 614

Helena, Queen of Adiabne, 533

Henley, W. E., 505

Herman, Nicholas, of Lorraine, 93

hermeneutics, 28–29, 181

Herod, 713

Heshbon, 681, 775

Hess, Vicki, 184

Hezekiah, 542, 551, 682, 714

hierarchy of activity systems, 58, 752

Hillel, 350

Hindu, 64, 399, 774

Hinnom, 540

Hippocrates, 235

Hitler, Adolf, 297, 595

Hittite, 130, 145, 147, 223, 247, 262, 274, 422–23, 457, 549, 599, 623, 713, 771

Hobab, 572, 574–75

Holocaust, 410

homosexuality, 317, 321, 324–31, 361, 537

honesty, 336–37, 341–42, 349, 615

honey, 77, 80, 542, 750

Hope diamond, 92

Hor, 670, 672, 786

Hormah, 611, 678–79, 683

horns of altar, 91, 99–102, 107, 122, 132, 144, 169, 272

Huldah, 376

humility, 592, 595–96, 627, 695–97, 715, 738, 744, 755

humorous irony, 695–96

Hussein, Saddam, 586, 626

I

Ibrahim the Mad, 551

identity theft, 136

idol(atry), 72, 300, 310, 321, 328, 335, 361, 364, 384, 398, 422, 451–53, 530, 549, 621, 626–27, 717, 719, 721–24, 726–27, 773, 788

Imber-Black, Evan, 72

impurity/defilement, 80, 96–97, 103, 105–7, 124, 126, 143, 149–50, 155, 157, 166, 169–70, 195, 203–8, 210, 214–18, 220–27, 234–41, 246–52, 258–66, 270–84, 299, 303, 305, 307, 320–21, 325, 342, 357, 362, 366–68, 372–74, 376–77, 381, 407, 419, 478, 519–25, 529, 533–37, 555, 563–64, 567, 593–94, 646, 658–66, 770, 796

inauguration, 97, 145, 147, 162–63, 177–80, 187, 191, 416, 539, 549–50, 554

incense altar, 99–101, 272, 279, 416, 453, 554, 557, 620

incense, 61, 77–78, 122, 147, 159, 188, 239, 338, 398, 417, 421–23, 522, 526, 542, 566, 593, 634–37, 644–46, 652, 719

incest, 26, 211, 316–20, 324, 328, 331, 361, 364–65

India, 218, 353, 399, 444, 774

inner sanctum/Most Holy Place, 100–101, 121, 158, 169–70, 189, 270–73, 275, 279, 305, 345, 367, 410, 413, 416, 421, 514, 520, 551, 554, 559, 566, 626, 652–53

inspiration, 24, 28

interaction/transaction, 61–62, 64–67, 70–72, 92, 111, 137, 146–47, 159, 169, 173–75, 180, 214–15, 271, 285, 307, 342, 405, 413, 420–21, 424, 464, 472, 504, 543, 567, 660, 722, 749

intercession/mediation, 125, 139, 159, 165, 171–72, 179–80, 183, 195–97, 200, 293, 348, 375, 377, 383, 414, 591, 593, 612, 616, 635, 644–47, 671, 719

Internet, 121, 367, 369, 505

intertextual link, 395

intoxication, 193–94, 198–99, 417, 537, 750–51

“Invictus,” 505

Iran, 774–75

Iraq, 135, 586, 774, 787–88

Ireland, 353, 774, 777

Irian Jaya, 136, 368

Isaac, 227, 369, 454, 472, 612, 672, 691–92, 703

Ishbosheth, 720, 725

Islamic/Muslim, 399, 425, 774–77, 803

Ithamar, 189–91, 200, 373, 512

Ivan the Terrible, 551

J

Jabbok, 681, 690–91

Jabin, 713

Jacob/Israel, 79, 87, 111, 215, 217, 227, 327–28, 441, 454, 472, 495, 574, 591, 599, 609, 612, 633, 653–54, 686, 700–701, 703, 710, 712–13, 718, 745

Jael, 713

Jakin tribe, 81

James, apostle, 685

James, William, 254

Janus, 299, 320

Jebusite, 599

Jephthah, 575, 681, 763

Jericho, 573–75, 689, 775, 787, 796

Jeroboam I, 398, 551, 722, 727

Jerusalem, 110, 113, 159, 213–14, 310, 353, 398–99, 402, 404, 410, 467, 516, 520, 540, 556, 559, 627, 666, 697, 738, 757

Jethro, 572, 581, 590–91, 789

Jew/Jewish, 311, 311, 326, 394, 398, 402, 409, 425, 440, 440, 458, 532, 586, 628, 710, 757–59, 773, 775, 776–77

Jewish-Christian Symposium on the Jubilee, 444

Jezebel, 584

jihad, 773–76

Joab, 239, 285, 629

Job, 209, 238, 242, 599

John the Baptist, 68–69, 73, 378, 537, 613, 737

John, the apostle, 183, 251, 685, 715

Johnson, Lyndon, 447

Jonadab, 537

Jonathan, 763

Jordan River, 113, 471, 477, 599, 672, 680, 689–90, 717, 784–87, 795–96

Jordanian, 665

Joseph, 79, 87, 111–13, 354, 434, 438, 468, 495, 541, 574, 712, 743

Joseph, husband of Mary, 627–28

Joshua, 166–68, 458, 474, 504, 566, 573, 582, 601, 607–9, 659, 725–26, 735, 740–42, 769

Josiah, 551

Joubert, Joseph, 790

Jubilee, 391, 404, 432–39, 443–45, 455, 464, 466, 742, 796

Judah, 398, 495, 502–3, 516, 584, 600, 626–27, 710, 713–14, 734, 736

Judas, 198

judgment/trial, 408–14, 417, 453, 521–22, 525–27, 529, 659, 675, 682, 717, 772, 786, 795, 798, 801, 803

justice (including retributive justice), 127–28, 146, 264, 279, 284–88, 291, 293–94, 309, 336, 342, 344, 354, 365, 405, 408–9, 411–412, 420, 424, 426, 428, 453, 456, 469, 473, 613, 616, 619, 638, 647, 674–75, 706, 735, 740, 742, 768, 771–73, 775, 795, 798–803

Justinian, Code of, 560

K

Kadesh (Barnea), 477, 598, 601, 612, 614, 616, 670–73, 675, 679, 683, 719, 724, 735, 741, 784, 786

Karaite, 389

Kenite, 711, 713

Kennedy, Jacqueline, 71; John F., 71

Keturah, 718

Kibroth-Hattaavah, 478, 583–84, 586–87, 590, 637, 679, 693, 786

Kidd, Jason, 611

King, Martin Luther, Jr., 528, 595

Kirby, William, 704–5

Kiriath Huzoth, 693

Kittim, 714

Klebold, Dylan, 358

Kohath(ite), 513–15, 549, 599, 633

Korah, 171, 474, 566, 619, 633–37, 639–40, 670, 719, 734, 736, 800

Koran, 524, 775–76

Korea, 353, 445, 704

Ku Klux Klan, 219, 595

Kuntillet ʿAjrud, 541

L

Laban, 609

Lagash, 421

law, 23–26, 35, 174, 181, 183, 209–13, 224, 229, 264, 287, 294, 299, 305–14, 316–28, 335–42, 344, 346, 349–52, 361–64, 372–74, 383, 392, 397, 409, 413–14, 416–21, 424–28, 432–45, 451–52, 454–59, 464–67, 475–80, 519–24, 565–67, 619–22, 624, 637, 644, 647, 655, 705, 740–42, 754–55, 761–64, 786, 790, 795–96, 803

Lawal, Amina, 803

Lazarus, 250, 575

Leah, 319

Lebanon, 623

Lee, Robert E., 602

leprosy/scale disease, 203, 210, 216–19, 224–26, 234–41, 246–51, 255, 258, 261, 453, 520, 584, 591, 593–94, 636, 659, 661, 670

(see also Hansen’s disease)

Leschetizky, Theodor, 253

Levi(te), 30, 105, 188, 349, 436, 468–69, 476–77, 495–98, 501–3, 512–16, 549, 551, 555–56, 560–61, 575, 598–99, 610, 633–37, 643–44, 652–56, 659, 703, 718–21, 727, 735, 770, 795

levirate marriage, 211, 318

Lewis, C. S., 29

light of God, 554, 556–60, 566

Lincoln, Abraham, 115

Littauer, Florence, 471

Livingstone, David, 74

Llewellyn, David, 802–3

Lord Addington, 396

Lord’s Supper/communion, 24, 70–71, 90, 157, 192, 229, 252, 423–24, 623–24, 759

Los Angeles, 110, 136–37, 140

Lot, nephew of Abraham, 321

lots, 271, 290, 296, 735

love, 35, 65, 127–28, 175, 180–81, 199, 212, 251, 267, 286–87, 292. 297, 310–11, 322–23, 330, 335, 337, 342–51, 353, 364, 383, 409, 412, 456, 459–61, 470, 541, 550, 552, 560, 601, 604, 612, 630, 637–38, 647–49, 683, 706, 715, 758–59, 763, 771, 777

loyalty, 123, 125, 271, 283, 292–93, 300, 312, 342, 392, 402, 404–9, 411–13, 452, 454–56, 458, 478, 527, 530, 537–38, 616, 619, 625–26, 629–30, 637, 646, 691, 704–5, 720, 724, 735, 743, 776, 799–800

Luke, 242

Luther, Martin, 139, 611, 736

M

Machpelah, 599

Magi, 552, 713

Malachi, 655

Malaysia, 355

Manasseh, king, 126, 506, 626–28; tribe of, 477, 495, 734–35, 784–85, 787, 796

mandatory sacrifice, 96, 98, 108, 142, 620, 625

Manhattan, 443

Manoah, 147

Marah, 683

Marduk, 193, 275, 407–8, 541, 623

Mari, 494

Marley, Ziggy, 444

Mars Hill Bible Church, 26–27

Mary Magdalene, 69–70, 167, 198, 527

Mary, mother of James, 167

Mary, mother of Jesus, 348, 602, 627, 683

Massah, 609, 673

McClellan, George, 602

Medad, 586

Melchizedek, 159, 167, 180, 393, 424, 654, 720, 770, 773

Menahem, king, 468

menstruation, 98, 210, 220, 223, 258–60, 262, 319–20, 324–25, 363, 376, 661

Mephibosheth, 629

Merari, 513–15, 549

mercy, 127–28, 171, 196, 282, 284–88, 294, 309, 323, 405–6, 408, 454, 537, 541, 608, 612–14, 619, 627–28, 638, 643, 647, 674, 706, 736–37, 769, 771–72, 799–801

Meribah, 609, 673–74, 741, 762, 786

merism, 653

Mesopotamia(n), 57, 130, 193, 239, 247, 274, 287, 365–66, 432, 468, 540, 593, 704

methodology, 28–29

Micah, 469, 721

Michael, 474

Microsoft, 313

Midas, 240

Midian(ite), 477, 495, 498, 572, 590, 690, 718, 719–20, 768–71

Milosevic, Slobodan, 595

Miriam of Tadmor (Palmyra), 533

Miriam, 238–40, 324, 376, 590–95, 633, 670, 674

Mishael, 189

Mishnah, 100

Moab(ite), 79, 217, 335, 467, 471, 477, 680–81, 689–91, 693–94, 700, 702–3, 705, 711–13, 717–18, 720, 725, 769, 785–87, 796

mold, 237

Molech/Molek worship/child sacrifice, 106, 155, 281, 318, 321, 361–63, 366–69, 627, 664, 773

Moltmann, Jürgen, 756

Moore, Sturge, 744

Mordecai, 414

Moriah, 110, 610

Morse, Samuel F. B., 702

Moscow, 255

Mother Goddess, 722

Mother Teresa, 73, 152

Mount of Olives, 292

Muhammad, Akhtar, 355

music, 93

N

Naaman, 239, 241, 593

Nabonidus, 742

Naboth, 337

Nabû, 407

Nadab, 147, 150, 163, 187–94, 198, 373, 417, 512, 565, 580, 634, 636, 800

Nahshon, 552

Naioth, 585

Nanshe, 407

Naomi, 335

Nathan, 801

Nazareth, 398

Nazi, 112, 314

Nazirite, 80, 157, 532–38, 751, 761

Nebraska, 219, 459

Nebuchadnezzar, 504

Negev, 599, 713

Nehemiah, 516

Nelson, May, 209

Nepal, 64

Nephilim, 600–601

Nethanel, 552

New York, 292, 343

Nicodemus, 198, 682

Nigeria, 802–3

Nineveh, 504, 712, 787

Ningirsu, 421

Noah, 156, 192, 213, 215, 310, 317, 575, 703

North Dakota, 446

North, Oliver, 409

Norwegian, 252

Nuer, 239

O

O’Grady, Scott, 184–85

occult, 341–42, 355–58, 361, 363, 369, 626, 701–4, 709, 724

Og, 477, 672, 681, 684, 771, 784

oil, 77, 122, 163–66, 178, 211, 247–48, 272, 338, 405, 416, 434, 522, 534, 555, 558–59, 620, 653

Oliver, Benji, 610

Olympian gods, 89, 156, 356

Olympic, 151

On, 633

Onan, 734

oracle, 700–702, 709–11, 713–14, 717, 741

ordination (offering), 156, 163–67, 170, 248, 375, 535, 555

Oriental Institute Prism, 504

Ornan, 110

Orwell, George, 254, 552

Osama bin Ladin, 721

Othniel, 575, 614

“Palace Without a Rival,” 504

P

Paran/Zin, 572, 598, 670, 786

part for all principle, 168–70, 174–75, 212, 277, 663

Passover, 24, 181, 387, 389, 393–94, 398, 402, 423–24, 477, 563–64, 566–67, 580, 623–24, 660, 751–53, 759

pastor, 172–174, 561, 584, 641, 648

pattern/paradigm of activities, 59

Patton, George, 717

Paul/Saul, apostle, 73, 159, 167–68, 185, 198–99, 212, 240, 242, 292–93, 324, 357, 364–65, 383, 393, 412, 499, 543, 576, 603, 628, 656, 682, 694–95, 736, 758, 764, 806

peace child, 136, 368–69

pedophilia, 331, 369

Peninnah, 320

Pentagon, 419

Peor, 702, 709, 717–19, 721, 726–27, 735, 761, 768, 771

Pergamum, 727

Persia, 81, 239, 516

Peshitta, 691

Peter, 171, 183–84, 192, 198, 214–15, 403, 630, 685, 727–28

Pethor, 691

pharaoh, 130, 403, 435, 464, 473, 496, 502, 585–87, 640, 680, 705, 725, 743, 754, 759

Pharisee, 224, 312, 389, 526, 629

Philip, 561

Philippi, 576

Philippines, 355

Philistine, 116, 119–20, 538, 679–80, 725

Phinehas, 495, 513, 718–20, 724–25, 727, 735, 768

pilgrimage, 398–99, 402, 757–58

Pilgrims, 157, 402

Pisgah, 701, 709, 741–42

plague, 583, 611, 644, 680, 718–19, 734, 754, 786

polygamy, 211, 319, 324, 440

postrequisite activity, 58, 178

Potiphar’s wife, 354

PowerPoint, 253

practical constraints, 59

Prager, Dennis, 110, 140

praise, 84–85, 93, 171, 255, 255, 736, 738

prayer, 70–71, 93, 125, 138–39, 159, 253, 295, 348–49, 399, 401, 403, 405, 414, 421, 517, 541–43, 552, 560–61, 573, 575–77, 581, 585–88, 594, 604, 616, 627, 644, 646–47, 649, 737, 743, 756–57, 765, 796

prerequisite activity, 58, 275

prescriptive ritual text, 162–63

priestly blessing, 539–42, 757

procedural case law, 76

procedural order, 108–9

prophecy/prophet, 581, 585–86, 590–93, 595, 690, 694, 696, 700, 709, 711–13, 715, 721, 727

purification offering (so-called “sin offering”), 61, 65, 67–68, 79, 87, 91, 96–109, 114–15, 118–25, 129, 132–33, 135, 143–44, 148–51, 157, 163–64, 166, 169, 177–78, 180, 190, 194–96, 221, 226, 228, 248, 260, 266, 271–73, 275–82, 288–89, 305, 339, 367–68, 377, 381, 407, 416, 455, 478, 522, 534–35, 555–56, 620–21, 624–25, 659–60, 662–65, 667, 681, 752, 797, 798

Puritan, 526, 775

Q

quail, 582–83, 586, 679, 693

Queen Elizabeth II, 72, 636–37

Qumran, 434, 520

R

Rabban Yohanan b. Zakkai, 224

Rabbi Aqiba, 404

Rabbi Judah, 433

Rabbi Simeon b. Yohai, 221

Rachel, 319, 495

Rachmaninoff, Sergei, 253

racism, 594–95, 803

radical obedience, 208–9

Ram, Hindu god, 399

Ramah, 585

Ramban, 318

Rameses II, 502

Rameses IV, 788

ransom/redemption, 69, 91, 107, 109–10, 158, 301–5, 309, 469, 470, 555–56, 771, 795–96, 800, 804

Reagan, Ronald, 367, 409

rebellion, 274, 282–83, 290, 368, 409, 447, 453–54, 473, 477, 478, 529, 587, 608, 611, 612, 619, 621, 626, 633–36, 640, 645, 674, 695, 717, 719–20, 734, 772–74, 784

Recabite, 537

reconciliation, 62, 64–65, 89–91, 113–114, 136, 138, 249, 282, 284, 289, 292–93, 303, 406, 412, 427, 537, 612, 624, 647, 763, 799

red cow/heifer, 534, 555, 659–66, 770

Red Sea, 403, 496, 498, 566, 609, 637, 672, 680, 683–84, 754

redeemer/avenger, 795, 797–98

relevance of Leviticus, 23–27

relevance of Numbers, 471–74

reparation offering, 68, 91, 96, 118–21, 123–24, 132–35, 137, 139, 143–44, 177–78, 247–48, 273, 336, 339, 381, 416, 520, 534, 620, 624–25, 680

repentance, 105, 107, 110–11, 114, 125–26, 182, 282, 347, 368, 402, 405–6, 414, 499, 543, 593, 612, 627–28, 703, 737, 806

Rephidim, 671, 673, 683, 710, 736, 786

reputation, 136–37, 284–85, 293–95, 362, 368, 452, 613

resurrection, 394

retaliation, law of, 303, 420, 424–28, 799–800

Reuben, 328, 477, 502–3, 633, 635, 734, 784–85, 787

Reuel, 572

reversal, 277–80

ring composition, 33–35, 478–79

ritual activity systems, 57–63, 71

ritual text, 62; ritual theory, 57

Rome/Roman, 80, 221, 442, 571, 757, 800–801, 806

Rosh Ha-Shanah (New Year), 402

ruler punishment, 636, 725

Russia(n), 255, 587

S

Sabbath, 71, 98, 147, 181, 214, 264, 311, 335, 341, 350–51, 387–98, 401–5, 413, 417, 419, 423, 433–34, 442, 447–48, 451–52, 454, 565, 622, 667, 751–57

sabbatical year, 335, 391, 432–36, 442–443, 448, 454, 464

sacrilege, 132–34, 156, 239, 339, 365, 465, 470, 520–21, 534, 655

Sadan, 218–19

Salome, 167

salt, 58, 77, 80–84, 310, 654

Samaritan, 70, 83, 217, 349–50, 389, 686, 691–92

Samson, 499, 536–38, 575

Samsuiluna, 432

Samuel, 167, 342, 469, 536–38, 585, 741

Sanhedrin, 801

Sapphira, 133, 138, 365, 682, 800

Sarah, 61, 585, 599, 718

Satan/the devil, 291, 295–97, 358, 364, 378, 412, 599, 682, 692, 713, 759

Saul, the king, 167, 342, 355, 536, 585, 678, 710, 713, 725, 763, 769, 775, 796

Sawi, 136, 368

Schweitzer, Albert, 73, 82

scout/spy, 598–602, 607–8, 610–11, 615, 622, 670, 679, 724, 784

Second Temple, 274, 278, 389, 532–33, 550, 646, 757, 759, 801

Seir, 672, 711

Seleucid, 550

self-denial, 271, 277, 402, 404–8, 413, 447, 762, 764

Sennacherib, 504, 714

Septuagint/LXX, 30, 235, 418–19, 476, 571, 583, 692

service for others, 73–74, 80, 82–84, 93, 151–152, 171–173, 199–200, 218, 656, 674, 743

Seth, 324, 711

sexual, harassment, 354–55; immorality, 242, 262, 316, 324, 326, 328–29, 338–39, 354, 357, 361–66, 372–73, 526–28, 717–20, 723–25, 773, 804; intercourse, 210, 221, 225, 258–59, 262–63, 317, 320–21, 325, 331, 376, 725, 762, 764

Shamash, 145

shame, 363–64

Shelomith, 417

Shem, 714

Shimei, 629, 703

Shittim, 717, 720, 726, 734–35, 769, 773

Shostakovich, Dmitri, 254

Sihon, 477, 672, 680–81, 684, 771, 784

Sikh, 774

Simeon, 703, 735

Simon, 167, 527

sin, defiant, 109, 123, 125, 182, 282, 478, 619, 621–22, 624–29, 671; deliberate, 123, 125, 133–34, 226, 282, 320, 325, 624–25;

inadvertent, 98, 100, 102, 121–24, 133–34, 137, 226, 282, 320, 325, 478, 534–35, 619, 621, 624–25, 798; offering (see purification offering); remedy for, 96–99

Sinai, 27, 29–30, 51–52, 81, 146, 192–93, 404, 432, 455, 464, 467, 471, 477, 494, 496, 503, 541, 563–64, 566, 572, 575, 583, 590, 592, 608, 612, 637, 670, 674, 720, 723, 726, 750, 755, 786, 789

slavery/servitude, 51, 53, 74, 230, 308, 322, 338, 354–55, 392, 396, 432, 436–44, 467–68, 591, 600, 637–38, 743, 745, 790, 798–99

snake, 679–82, 685, 693, 695, 702, 736

Sodom, 326, 635, 638, 682, 772, 773, 800

Solomon, 79, 166, 178–79, 287, 405–6, 421, 458, 506, 514, 542, 550–51, 629, 703

soteriology, 32

Soviet, 254, 586

Spirit/Holy Spirit, 113, 139, 151, 167–68, 170, 175, 292, 329, 347–48, 383, 394, 403, 420, 542, 559–61, 568, 577, 581–82, 585, 604, 629, 665, 686, 741–43, 791

St. Matthew Passion, 455

Stephen, 561

structure, literary, 30–41, 51–53, 76–77, 87, 98–99, 133, 162, 263, 270–71, 299, 318–20, 335, 341, 343, 361–63, 382, 426, 451–52, 455, 464, 476–79, 524, 539–41, 556, 565, 581, 609, 619, 659

substitution, 146, 182, 197, 199, 290, 301, 303, 513, 719

Sudan, 590, 777

suet/fat, 88–89, 99, 102, 108–9, 132, 150, 154, 156, 165, 195, 209, 275, 277, 292, 301, 304

suicide, 797

Sullivan, Stacy, 136–37

Sumerian, 336, 407–8, 421–22, 713

Sunday, 351, 389–90

Susanna, 419

Swift, Jonathan, 29, 776

Switzerland/Swiss, 194, 444

symbol, 71

Syria(n), 241, 410, 421, 691, 774

Syriac, 691, 750

Syria-Palestine, 57, 68, 721

Syro-Phoenician, 214

T

Taberah, 580, 581, 786

Taliban, 425, 775

Tall Jalul, 664

Talmud, 100

Tamar, 285

Tanis, 599

Targum, 583

tassel, 622–23, 724

Tekoa, 284–85

Telipinu, Ninth Year Festival of, 145, 549, 623

Temple City, 520

Temple Mount, 399, 520

terrorism, 774

Tertullian, 289

Thailand, 355

thank(sgiving) offering, 88–89, 155–57, 165, 382, 390, 750

Thanksgiving, 71, 89, 157, 402, 749, 758

themes, of Leviticus, 30–41; of Numbers, 476–80

theodicy, 635, 637, 772

Thomas, Don, Helen, and Margaret, 200

Thomas, the apostle, 198

Thompson, Bob, 356

Thureau-Dangin, 134

tithe, 98, 133, 137, 172, 464, 466, 653–56, 795

Tomlin, Lily, 576

Tonga, 445

Trump, Donald, 504

trumpet (including Festival of Trumpets) 387–88, 401–3, 410, 571–73, 576, 751, 753, 769

typology, 24–25, 181, 306, 393–95, 757

U

Ugarit(ic), 61, 87, 274, 702

unidentified guilt hang-ups, 138

United States/America(n), 55, 65, 115–16, 124, 136, 138, 439–42, 459, 602, 704–5, 721, 758, 774, 777, 802

Unleavened Bread, Festival of, 387–90, 398, 402, 751–53

Ur Nammu, 366

Uriah, 594

Urim and Thummim, 165, 342, 495, 741, 800

Uruk, 750

Urukagina (= Uru-inimgina), 422

Utanapishti, 61

Uzzah, 188, 194, 549, 800

Uzziah, 239–40, 584, 593, 636

V

veil, 100–101, 513–14, 559, 566, 652–53

voluntary sacrifice, 58, 87, 96, 98, 142, 157

vow/votive, 89, 93, 155–56, 464–65, 469–71, 476, 532–34, 678, 761–65, 784

Vulgate, 691–92

W

war/army, 494–95, 499, 501–4, 506, 512, 520, 571–75, 734–35, 768–77, 784–85, 797

washing/bathing, 204, 224, 237, 246–47, 251–52, 259–60, 263, 271, 275–77, 280, 301, 422, 530, 555, 581, 630, 661–62

Weeks, Festival of (= Pentecost), 387–88, 390–91, 394, 398, 402–3, 434, 455, 559, 751–53

well-being offering, 65, 87–93, 96, 122, 143, 154–59, 178, 180, 224, 301–2, 304–5, 328, 335, 381–82, 390, 535, 620, 653, 717

White House, 293–94, 636, 601

Wilberforce, William, 396

winning, 684–86

woman/girl, 76, 129, 220–23, 258–63, 317–21, 323–25, 328, 329, 331, 338–39, 341, 54–355, 365–66, 369, 372–77, 406, 465, 468, 476, 496, 520–30, 532–33, 565, 610, 717–21, 723–25, 727, 734, 736, 740–42, 761–64, 769–71, 784, 796

World Council of Churches, 444

World Trade Center, 175, 419

worship, principles of, 72–73

Y

yeast/leaven, 77, 80, 417, 750

Yin and Yang, 266

Younker, Randy, 665

Z

Zacchaeus, 138

Zedekiah, 133

Zelophehad, 445, 476, 610, 734, 740–42, 764, 796

Zered Valley, 670, 672

Zimri, 720, 735

Zion, 403

Zipporah, 590–91, 718

Zoan, 599