A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | Y | Z
Abbot Chaeremon, 344–45
Abiathar, 629
Abihu, 147, 150, 163, 187–94, 198, 373, 417, 512, 565, 580, 634, 636, 800
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
Adam, 113, 126, 192, 208, 227, 292, 323–24, 343, 392, 682, 711
Adamson, Louise, 83
Adenauer, Konrad, 601
administrative order, 109
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
Ahasuerus/Xerxes, 725
Ahaz, 551
Ai, 504
Akkadian, 87, 101, 407, 626, 710, 713, 720
Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, 774
Alcoholics Anonymous, 253, 743
Ali, Muhammad, 592
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
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
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
Atta, Mohammed, 314
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
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
Bangkok, 355
baptism, 24, 70–71, 167, 252, 791
Barak, 575
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
Berra, Yogi, 292
bestiality, 321, 324, 328, 361
Beth Shemesh, 583
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
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
Cain, 64, 72, 79, 96, 324, 337, 800–802
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
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
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
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
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
Cushan, 590
Cushan-Rishathaim, 720
Cyprus, 714
Cyrus, 166
Damascus, 694
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
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
debt, 61, 91, 108–9, 132, 135, 178, 436–41, 443–46, 535, 541, 543, 620
Declaration of Independence, 459
Deir ʿAllā, 690–91
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
Ea, 287
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
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
Eliab, 552
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
Er, 734
Esagila, 407
Esther, the queen, 414
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
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
firstfruits, 76–77, 98, 133, 181, 340, 390, 394, 434, 620, 653, 750
fixed/formulaic activity systems, 60
Flamen Dialis, 80
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
Gandhi, 777
Gaza, 583
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
Gibeonites, 442, 725, 775, 796
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
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
Haifa, 474
Ham, son of Noah, 317
hand-leaning/laying, 60, 65–67, 99, 124–25, 164, 166–68, 273–74, 291, 295, 419, 555, 560, 741, 743
Hansen’s disease, 235, 240 (see also leprosy)
happiness, 459–60
Harris, Eric, 358
Hawaii, 200
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
Helena, Queen of Adiabne, 533
Henley, W. E., 505
Herman, Nicholas, of Lorraine, 93
Herod, 713
Hess, Vicki, 184
hierarchy of activity systems, 58, 752
Hillel, 350
Hinnom, 540
Hippocrates, 235
Hittite, 130, 145, 147, 223, 247, 262, 274, 422–23, 457, 549, 599, 623, 713, 771
Holocaust, 410
homosexuality, 317, 321, 324–31, 361, 537
honesty, 336–37, 341–42, 349, 615
Hope diamond, 92
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
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
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
intertextual link, 395
intoxication, 193–94, 198–99, 417, 537, 750–51
“Invictus,” 505
Iran, 774–75
Isaac, 227, 369, 454, 472, 612, 672, 691–92, 703
Islamic/Muslim, 399, 425, 774–77, 803
Ithamar, 189–91, 200, 373, 512
Ivan the Terrible, 551
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
Jebusite, 599
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
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
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
Kadesh (Barnea), 477, 598, 601, 612, 614, 616, 670–73, 675, 679, 683, 719, 724, 735, 741, 784, 786
Karaite, 389
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
Kuntillet ʿAjrud, 541
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
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
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
Lot, nephew of Abraham, 321
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
Machpelah, 599
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
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
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
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
Morse, Samuel F. B., 702
Moscow, 255
Mother Goddess, 722
Mount of Olives, 292
Muhammad, Akhtar, 355
music, 93
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
Nazirite, 80, 157, 532–38, 751, 761
Nebuchadnezzar, 504
Nehemiah, 516
Nelson, May, 209
Nepal, 64
Nephilim, 600–601
Nethanel, 552
Nigeria, 802–3
Ningirsu, 421
Noah, 156, 192, 213, 215, 310, 317, 575, 703
North Dakota, 446
North, Oliver, 409
Norwegian, 252
Nuer, 239
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
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
Osama bin Ladin, 721
“Palace Without a Rival,” 504
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
Peninnah, 320
Pentagon, 419
Peor, 702, 709, 717–19, 721, 726–27, 735, 761, 768, 771
Pergamum, 727
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
plague, 583, 611, 644, 680, 718–19, 734, 754, 786
postrequisite activity, 58, 178
Potiphar’s wife, 354
PowerPoint, 253
practical constraints, 59
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
Queen Elizabeth II, 72, 636–37
Rabbi Aqiba, 404
Rabbi Judah, 433
Rachmaninoff, Sergei, 253
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
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
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
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
Samaritan, 70, 83, 217, 349–50, 389, 686, 691–92
Samsuiluna, 432
Samuel, 167, 342, 469, 536–38, 585, 741
Sanhedrin, 801
Sapphira, 133, 138, 365, 682, 800
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
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
Seleucid, 550
self-denial, 271, 277, 402, 404–8, 413, 447, 762, 764
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
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
Shittim, 717, 720, 726, 734–35, 769, 773
Shostakovich, Dmitri, 254
Sihon, 477, 672, 680–81, 684, 771, 784
Sikh, 774
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
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
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
Susanna, 419
symbol, 71
Syria(n), 241, 410, 421, 691, 774
Syro-Phoenician, 214
Tall Jalul, 664
Talmud, 100
Tamar, 285
Tanis, 599
Targum, 583
Tekoa, 284–85
Telipinu, Ninth Year Festival of, 145, 549, 623
Temple City, 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
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
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
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
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
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
worship, principles of, 72–73
yeast/leaven, 77, 80, 417, 750
Yin and Yang, 266
Younker, Randy, 665
Zacchaeus, 138
Zedekiah, 133
Zelophehad, 445, 476, 610, 734, 740–42, 764, 796
Zion, 403
Zoan, 599