A

Aaron, 76, 78, 94, 98, 193, 209, 233, 393

Abel Beth Maacah, 567, 606, 607, 611

Abel, 233

Abiathar, 312, 313, 320, 323, 362, 389, 393, 395, 396, 419, 581, 588, 610

Abigail, 272, 341, 342, 343, 344, 345, 346, 353, 354, 388, 420, 421, 567

Abijah, 149

Abimelech, 242, 404, 452

Abinadab, 121

Abishai, 352, 354, 355, 583, 600, 606, 622, 632, 640

Abner, 258, 353, 433, 434, 435, 436, 437, 438, 441, 443, 445, 451, 606

Abraham, 54, 57, 153, 168, 173, 266, 346, 396, 403, 422, 424, 463, 464, 466, 472, 477, 481, 482, 483, 484, 485, 486, 489, 501, 635, 651

Abram, 127, 323, 402, 483, 484

Achan, 220

Achilles, 414

Achish, 296, 309, 310, 311, 359, 360, 361, 362, 363, 364, 370, 385, 386, 387, 391, 402

Adam, 153, 212, 221, 226, 227, 445, 483, 571

Adonijah, 234, 406, 586

Adullam, 309, 311

Afghanistan, 100

Agag, 220, 221, 223

Ahab, 151, 242, 399

Ahijah, 209, 212, 214, 215

Ahimaaz, 581, 588, 596, 610

Ahimelech, 296, 309, 310, 312, 313, 314, 320, 376, 380, 390, 395

Ahinoam, 345, 388, 420, 421

Ahithophel, 404, 527, 576, 581, 582, 583, 585, 586, 587, 588, 589, 593, 594, 610

Ahitub, 209, 309

Ai, 99, 220

Akkadian, 151, 433, 475, 538

Allen, Woody, 405

Amalek, 495

Amalekite, 98, 218, 219, 220, 223, 265, 359, 361, 375, 385, 386, 388, 390, 392, 393, 394, 400, 402, 409, 410, 411, 415, 416, 417, 421, 435, 438, 495, 499, 596

Amasa, 600, 606

Ambrose, 103

Amman, 177, 519

Ammon, 496, 519, 520, 521, 522, 523, 524, 525, 527, 529, 533, 538, 593

Ammonites, 152, 176, 177, 178, 179, 180, 181, 196, 201, 202, 258, 259, 401, 420, 421, 518

Amnon, 510, 533, 536, 559, 560, 561, 562, 563, 564, 565, 566, 567, 568, 569, 571, 574, 576, 608, 612

Amorites, 265

Amos, 566

Anakites, 622

Anat, 118

Anglicanism, 183

aniconism, 142, 459

annihilationism, 113

Aphek, 370, 386, 390

Aquinas, Thomas, 286

Aram, 524, 527, 575

Aramaic, 475

Arameans, 494, 495, 496, 498, 520, 521, 522, 523

Aram-Zobah, 521, 522

Araunah, 646, 647, 650

Aristotle, 395, 535, 653

Arkite, 582

Arlington National Cemetery, 145

Asahel, 436

Asdod, 93, 117, 118, 119, 123

Ashkelon, 93

Ashtoreth, 131, 132, 133, 138, 400

Assyria, 320, 455, 492, 523

Astarte, 131, 400

Augustine, 103, 286, 395, 396, 653

Auschwitz, 172

Azekah, 253, 624

B

Baal Haddu, 117

Baal Hazor, 576

Baal, 131, 132, 133, 138, 433, 462, 507, 508, 630

Baalah of Judah, 458

Baalah, 121

Baanah, 438

Babylon, 253, 262, 277, 324, 413

Babylonian Chronicles, 199

Bahurim, 588, 589

Bakker, Jim, 292

Balaam, 153, 154

Barzillai, 600, 601

Bathsheba, 151, 188, 344, 505, 518, 519, 520, 523, 526, 527, 528, 529, 530, 531, 532, 536, 538, 539, 540, 559, 561, 572, 574, 576, 582, 587, 609, 612, 613, 615, 631

Battle of Britain, 457

Battle of the Bulge, 381

Battle of Trafalgar, 457

Beersheba, 83, 361, 437

Belial, 605

Benaiah, 580, 640

Ben-Ammi, 177

Benjamin, 107, 141, 142, 163, 178, 256, 309, 436, 437, 450, 454, 477, 582, 588, 601, 619

Beqa Valley, 521

Bernall, Cassie, 266

Beth Car, 142

Beth Rehob, 521

Beth Shan, 400, 418

Beth Shemesh, 117, 119, 120, 121, 123, 124, 125, 130

Bethel, 134, 144, 197

Bethlehem, 229, 230, 233, 244, 245, 251, 255, 424, 611, 623, 624, 640, 652

Bicri, 604

Bilhah, 55

Bin Laden, Osama, 62

birth narrative, 57, 58, 107

Boaz, 229, 424

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, 156, 157, 266

Buddhism, 126

C

Cain, 233

Calebite, 345

Canada, 146

Ceausescu, 62

Chaldeans, 422

cherubim, 94, 108, 119, 459

chiefdom, 32

Chileab/Kileab, 566

Christology, 267, 651

Civil War, 145

Clinton, Bill, 227, 287

communism, 304, 570

Confessing Church, 266

Conquest, 191, 192

Cromwell, Oliver, 570

Crusades, 101, 444, 445

Cush, 596

D

Dagon, 116, 117, 118, 119, 123, 127, 132, 255, 264

Damascus Document, 254

Damascus, 494, 521, 522

Dan, 83, 93, 437, 606

Danel Epic, 352

Daniel, 277, 396

Day of Atonement, 541, 542

Dead Sea Scrolls, 176, 254, 487, 652

Dead Sea, 330

Deborah, 607

deism, 126, 127

Desert of Maon, 342

Deuteronomistic History, 26, 130, 151, 191, 210, 471, 472, 474, 500, 615

Dinah, 563

dispensationalism, 482

Disraeli, Benjamin, 425

Dodo, 622

Doeg, 309, 312

E

Ebenezer, 92, 93, 117, 142, 143, 144, 145, 146, 265, 457

Eden, 110, 153, 201, 202, 212, 214, 221, 226, 445, 465, 483

Edom, 309, 312, 361, 496

Egypt, 53, 57, 60, 96, 108, 116, 119, 120, 123, 124, 165, 166, 168, 181, 231, 256, 262, 265, 277, 285, 361, 364, 390, 394, 416, 442, 453, 454, 461, 477, 488, 494, 496, 620

Ekron, 93, 117, 119, 120, 257, 262, 442

Eleazar, 121

Elhanan, 622, 624

Eliab, 230, 232, 255, 527, 576

Elijah, 83, 84, 478

Elisha, 377

Elizabeth, 63

Elkanah, 54, 55, 56, 58, 59, 60, 63, 70

En Gedi, 329, 330, 337, 341, 344, 346, 352

En Rogel, 588

Endor, 260, 323, 372, 376, 380, 381, 385, 386, 393, 395, 399, 403, 509

Enkidu, 272, 413, 414

Enlightenment, 24, 126

Enuma Elish, 253, 262

ephod, 209, 323, 324, 325, 378, 389, 393, 419, 423, 425

Ephraim, 122, 163, 233, 573, 594

Ephrathah, 255

Esau, 233

eschatology, 171, 463, 464, 466, 467

etiology, 118, 345, 454

Euphrates, 522

Eve, 153, 212, 213, 221, 226, 227, 352, 445, 483, 571

Exodus, 124, 125, 150, 154, 189, 219, 361, 388, 474, 488, 495

Ezekiel, 84

F

fascism, 266

Feast of Tabernacles, 55

G

Gabriel, 486

Gad, 25, 176, 177, 643, 645, 646

Gandhi, Mahatma, 102

Garden of Gethsemane, 445

Gath, 93, 117, 119, 257, 262, 296, 309, 310, 311, 359, 360, 362, 363, 370, 385, 442

Gaza, 93

Geba/Jeba, 165, 309

Geshur, 361, 434, 565, 566, 567, 569, 576

Gethsemane, 589

Gezer, 30, 457

Gibeah, 165, 166, 169, 178, 208, 223, 296, 298, 308, 309, 310, 312, 345, 352, 360, 376, 619

Gibeon, 333, 401, 435, 436, 457, 606, 617, 619

Gideon, 150, 178

Gihon, 588

Gilboa, 371, 376, 385, 386

Gilead, 434, 522, 566, 593, 601

Gilgal, 179, 192, 193, 197, 198, 600

Gilgamesh Epic, 272, 413, 414

Girzites, 361

Gittite, 580, 623

Gob, 624

H

Hadadezer, 520, 521, 522

Hagar, 54, 55

Hammurabi, 33, 452

Hannah, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 63, 68, 69, 70, 74, 75, 96, 404, 617, 628, 629, 630, 632, 635, 636

Hanun, 520, 521, 523

Haran, 181

Hazor, 30, 285

Hebron, 319, 321, 322, 345, 391, 409, 420, 421, 422, 424, 436, 450, 451, 452, 454, 455, 527, 566, 573, 576

Helam, 522

Hellenism, 29

Hereth, 309

Himmler, Heinrich, 157

Hinnom Valley, 588

Hiram, 272, 455

Hitler, Adolf, 62, 156, 288, 380, 549

Hittite, 31, 231, 453, 479, 527, 538, 539, 620, 640, 646

Holocaust, 548, 552

Holy Sepulchre, 444

Homer, 414

homosexuality, 271, 272, 326, 412, 413, 414, 545, 547

Hophni, 55, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 77, 78, 94, 95, 107, 110, 313, 314

Horeb, 462

Horesh, 321

Huldah, 607

humanism, 570

Hur, 98, 646

Hushai, 580, 582, 585, 586, 587, 588, 589, 594, 600, 610

Hussein, Saddam, 62

I

Ichabod, 107, 108, 109, 110, 112, 201, 209, 212, 276, 332

Immanuel, 57, 276

Isaac, 57, 168, 233, 285, 323, 464, 475

Isaiah, 84

Ish-Baal, 433

Ishbi-Benob, 622

Ish-Bosheth, 409, 414, 418, 419, 420, 422, 432, 433, 434, 435, 436, 437, 438, 440, 441, 442, 443, 444, 445, 451, 461, 507, 593

Ishmael, 233

Islam, 126

Ittai, 580

J

Jaare-Oregim, 622, 623, 624

Jabbok River, 181, 434

Jabesh Gilead, 176, 177, 178, 179, 180, 401, 403, 420, 421, 422, 593

Jabesh, 403, 406

Jacob, 134, 144, 153, 168, 181, 194, 233, 285, 323, 346, 399, 423, 424, 434, 451, 464, 575

Jael, 285

Jair, 622, 623

Janus, 465

Jebus, 151, 258, 454, 462, 489, 646, 650

Jedidiah, 538

Jefferson, Thomas, 144

Jehoshaphat, 399

Jehu, 83

Jephthah, 178

Jerahmeel, 361

Jeremiah, 84

Jericho, 95, 96, 99, 100, 220, 285

Jeroboam I, 110

Jesse, 229, 230, 231, 240, 243, 255, 297, 298, 311, 376, 463, 624, 635

Jesus, 35, 57, 75, 85, 103, 105, 133, 144, 155, 168, 182, 193, 194, 235, 237, 263, 265, 266, 267, 277, 278, 336, 348, 444, 445, 446, 464, 467, 486, 489, 490, 501, 549, 589, 611, 613, 614, 651, 652, 653

Jezebel, 151

Jezreel Valley, 24, 345, 369, 370, 372, 386, 400

jihad, 100

Joab, 435, 436, 438, 441, 443, 521, 522, 523, 524, 525, 526, 528, 529, 530, 531, 539, 566, 567, 568, 580, 594, 595, 596, 597, 600, 606, 607, 610, 611, 640, 643, 644

John the Baptist, 133, 182

Jonadab, 561

Jonah, 543

Jordan River, 144, 177, 178, 519, 588, 594, 600, 602, 622

Jordan Valley, 400, 581, 588, 593

Jordan, 420, 519

Joseph, 83, 122, 194, 233, 240, 277, 335, 364, 396, 399, 562, 564

Josephus, Flavius, 176

Joshua, 80, 95, 98, 99, 100, 144, 191, 192, 265, 276, 335, 360, 342, 396, 399, 424, 475, 619

Josiah, 377

Judas, 589

K

Kabbalah, 126

Keilah, 319, 320, 321, 322, 323, 369

Kenites, 361

Kerethites, 580, 606, 610, 639

kerygma, 24

Kidron Valley, 579, 588, 611

Kierkegaard, Søren, 425, 426

Kimham, 601

King, Martin Luther Jr., 102, 268

Kiriath Jearim, 92, 117, 121, 122, 130, 258, 458, 623

Kirta, 575

Kish, 162, 168, 450

Kishon River, 372

Kohath, 54

L

Laban, 181, 575

Last Supper, 144

Leah, 54

Lebanon, 521

Leitwort, 331

Levite, 178

Lewis, C. S., 225

Lincoln, Abraham, 144

Lo Debar, 508

Lord’s Supper, 184

Lot, 177

Luther, Martin, 184, 286

Luxembourg, 145

M

Maacah, 521, 566

Magnificat, 75

Mahanaim, 424, 434, 573, 589, 593, 594, 622

Manasseh, 110, 233, 377, 566

manna, 94, 189

Maon, 322

Marduk, 253, 262, 304

Mary, 63, 75

Megiddo, 30, 371

Mephibosheth, 260, 299, 300, 302, 333, 376, 399, 439, 461, 505, 507, 508, 509, 510, 511, 520, 582, 600, 601, 610, 619

Mereb, 275

Mesopotamia, 165, 168, 377

Metheg Ammah, 494

Michal, 272, 274, 275, 282, 283, 284, 285, 286, 287, 288, 345, 433, 441, 443, 460, 461

Michelangelo, 260

Micmash, 207, 208

Milky Way, 126

Miriam, 416

Mitanni, 453

Mizpah, 39, 40, 141, 142, 143, 152, 166, 309, 311

Moab, 191, 192, 309, 311, 494, 496, 498

Moravians, 184

Moses, 26, 53, 55, 57, 60, 80, 83, 84, 95, 96, 98, 99, 144, 169, 173, 181, 191, 192, 193, 233, 276, 277, 323, 342, 346, 399, 416, 423, 425, 472, 477, 478, 479, 480, 481, 482, 483, 484, 485, 486, 488, 489, 537, 631, 635

Mount Gilboa, 260, 359, 399, 400, 410, 411, 412, 414, 418, 456, 509

Mount of Olives, 579, 582, 589, 611

Mount Sinai, 94, 95, 108, 127, 150, 189, 192, 323, 324, 361, 416, 462, 464, 472, 478, 479, 482, 484, 485, 486, 487, 501, 535, 649

N

Nabal, 341, 342, 343, 345, 346, 347, 348, 351, 353, 354, 355

Nabonidus, 33

Naboth, 151

Nahash, 152, 177, 401, 520, 521

Naioth, 290, 296

Naomi, 580

Nathan, 25, 40, 141, 191, 225, 471, 472, 473, 476, 477, 487, 488, 495, 532, 533, 534, 535, 538, 540, 542, 543, 544, 548, 549, 552, 565, 566, 567, 569, 587, 601, 608, 632, 635, 645

naturalism, 653

Nazirite vow, 56

Nazism, 146, 156, 157, 172, 266, 287, 288, 380, 548, 549, 551, 552

Nebuchadnezzar, 199, 277

necromancy, 372, 373, 375, 376, 377, 378

Negev, 361

Ner, 438

New Age, 378, 395

Nicodemus, 235

nihilism, 29

Noah, 396, 483, 484, 501, 568, 635

Nob, 258, 296, 309, 310, 311, 312, 314, 315, 316, 319, 321, 371, 376, 419

O

Oglethorpe, James, 184

oil, 164, 170, 176, 231, 234, 244, 291, 354, 392, 440, 452

Omri, 475

Ornan, 646

Orontes River, 462

Othniel, 178

P

pacifism, 101, 102, 103

Palestine, 570

Paran, 342

paranomasia, 57, 58, 59

Parks, Rosa, 268

Passover, 144

Patroclus, 414

Patton, George S., 101

Paul, 60, 155, 167, 234, 264, 268, 393, 396, 403, 652

Pelethites, 580, 606, 610, 639

Peniel, 346, 423, 434

Peninnah, 54, 55, 59, 63, 69

Pentecost, 235

Persia, 29

Peter, 193, 396

pharaoh, 72, 124, 125, 165, 277, 285, 286

Philippi, 155

Phinehas, 55, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 77, 78, 94, 95, 107, 108, 110, 209, 309, 313, 314

Phoenicia, 108, 472

Pisidian Antioch, 167

pluralism, 61, 547

Pol Pot, 62

postmodernism, 25, 61, 62, 127, 266, 286, 287, 315, 336, 337, 378, 395, 465

Potiphar, 335, 562

Promised Land, 181, 189, 192, 219, 265, 424, 473, 477, 501, 521

Proteus, 286–87

Puah, 285

Q

Qumran, 176, 177, 253, 566

R

Rabbah, 519, 521, 524, 530, 531, 538, 539, 622

Rabbath Ammon, 177

Rachel, 54, 55, 56, 107, 108, 165, 285

Rahab, 285, 286

Ramah, 70, 75, 109, 143, 152, 163, 223, 289, 290, 296, 309, 310, 376

Rapha, 622

Realpolitik, 314, 417

Rebekah, 233

Recab, 438

Red Sea, 262, 416, 442, 631

Reformation, 185, 614

Rephaim, 622

retribution theology, 26, 403

Reuben, 176, 177, 233

Rizpah, 620, 621

Ruth, 229, 311, 424, 580

S

Sabbath, 635

salvation history, 167, 168, 170, 212, 346, 559

Samaria, 219

Samson, 56, 57, 166, 178, 231, 404

Sarah, 54, 55, 57, 424

Satan, 182, 285, 446

Schaeffer, Francis, 225

schizophrenia, 212, 239, 274

shamanism, 369

Sharon, 386

Sheba, 600, 604, 605, 606, 607, 610, 611

Shechem, 144, 192, 242, 563

Sheol, 373

Shephelah, 319, 360

Shiloh, 32, 52, 53, 55, 58, 60, 68, 70, 71, 75, 80, 81, 84, 94, 96, 97, 100, 107, 109, 111, 121, 122, 129, 130, 143, 209, 310, 313, 439, 458, 459, 532, 537, 538, 543

Shimeah, 561

Shimei, 580, 582, 583, 600, 601, 610, 619

Shiphrah, 285

Shunem, 371, 386

Sidon, 400

Sisera, 285

Socoh, 253, 624

Solomon, 74, 134, 192, 198, 234

soteriology, 180

stelae, 143

Sternberger, Marcel, 171

stoicism, 395

Sufism, 126

Swaggart, Jimmy, 292

Sybil, 582

syncretism, 132

Syria, 242, 331, 521, 527

Syria-Palestine, 142, 453, 462, 494, 521, 522

T

Tabor, 165

Talmai, 566

Talmud, 25, 315

Tamar, 533, 559, 560, 561, 562, 563, 564, 565, 566, 569, 572, 574, 587, 608, 609, 612

Tekoa, 566, 567, 607

Tel ʿErani, 360

Tel Haror, 360

Tel Masos, 361, 391, 434

Tell el-Ful, 165

Ten Commandments, 324, 423, 539, 540

theocracy, 150

theophany, 630, 631, 646

Thummim, 209, 320, 324, 325, 363, 372, 378, 389, 390, 419, 420, 423, 425, 585

Tiamat, 253

Tiglath-Pileser, 492

Tob, 521

Torah, 150, 225, 587

Tougaloo College, 278

Transjordan, 177, 401, 421, 434, 492, 494, 495, 521, 522, 579, 588, 593, 594, 600, 601, 610, 622

Tyre, 272, 455

U

Ugarit, 108, 117, 118, 151, 352, 372, 437, 462, 537, 575, 587, 630

Ukraine, 171, 551

universalism, 113

Ur, 422

Urban II, 444

Uriah, 526, 527, 528, 529, 530, 531, 538, 539, 540, 548, 559, 565, 572, 582, 587, 606, 609, 615, 631, 640

Urim, 209, 320, 321, 324, 325, 363, 372, 378, 389, 390, 419, 420, 423, 425, 585

Uzzah, 460

V

Valley of Elah, 252, 253, 255, 256, 259, 261, 262, 271, 310, 442, 624

Valley of Rephaim, 456

Valley of the Terebinth, 253

Via Dolorosa, 612

Vietnam War, 145

W

War Scroll, 253

Washington, George, 144

Wesley, Charles, 182

Wesley, John, 170, 182, 183, 184, 185

Whitefield, George, 182

witch of Endor, 369, 374

World Trade Center, 100

World War I, 87

World War II, 103, 105, 145, 156, 171, 287, 381, 457, 468

Y

Yassib, 575

Z

Zadok, 36, 74, 313, 580, 581, 588, 596, 600, 610

Zaphon, 462

Zechariah, 75

Zedekiah, 199

Zeitgeist, 156, 380

Zelzah, 165

Zen, 126

Ziba, 508, 509, 511, 580, 582, 600, 601, 610

Ziklag, 359, 360, 363, 372, 385, 386, 387, 388, 391, 400, 409, 410, 415, 416, 435, 580

Zimri, 404

Zion, 122, 454, 461, 462, 463, 464, 466, 468, 485, 486, 487, 489, 559, 649

Ziph, 321, 322, 351

Zobah, 494, 496, 521

Zuph, 163