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The figure of Aaron, his ancestry, and his rise to priestly prominence is treated rather tersely in the Bible. Though

(Heb., Avraham

Heb., Avram)

is the name of the progenitor of the Hebrew people. At first he is called

The only reference to the phrase house of Absalom in the Dead Sea Scrolls appears in Pesher Habakkuk (1QpHab v.9),

(also Jacob; Ital, Giacomo Aconcio; c.1520–1567), one of the most influential proponents of the idea of toleration

(Lat., Aquaviva; 1543–1615), fifth general of the Society of Jesus, 1581–1615.

A younger son of the Neapolitan duke

(d. 1611), prominent theologian in the Netherlands and defender of the Reformed faith.

Before joining ranks with the Reformation

The scroll fragment Acts of a Greek King (4Q248), previously also Pseudohistory, is now called Historical Text. It is approximately

By giving control of the English church to the monarch, the Act of Supremacy of 1534 (26 Henry VIII,

is the second volume of a two-volume work, Luke-Acts, which relates the story of the early church in ways

These acts represent the successive efforts of Edward VI and Elizabeth I to impose a standardized form of Protestant worship

In the literature and religion of the Hebrew scriptures, Adam plays almost no role. The story of his transgression and

A concept derived from the Stoics, adiaphora denotes conditions in life that are neither virtues nor vices and thus tend

A catchall term for the first large-scale debate about the government of the church in post-Reformation England, the Admonition Controversy

(born Adriaan Floriszoon Dedel; 1454–1523), Louvain theologian, administrator in Spain, and pope (1522–1523).

Born in Utrecht,

first-century bce Roman aristocrat; Pompey's quaestor during the annexation of Syria and conquest of Judea, also Pompey's brother-in-law and husband

A fragment with a line from the Aeneid, the sonorous Roman epic and “principal secular book of the Western

(Ger., Hoeck; 1499–1553), north German Lutheran educator, preacher, and controversial theologian.

Aepinus was born in the Saxon town of

The title Ages of Creation was given by the first editor, John M. Allegro, to several Hebrew fragments. [

(Ger., Georg Bauer; 1494–1555), German humanist and scientist.

Born in Saxony, he entered the University of Leipzig in 1514

(Ger., Schneider; 1492?–1566), influential German reformer in Wittenberg, Eisleben, and Berlin; Luther's adversary in the antinomian controversy; called Magister