[Faith-talk] Bible history and living

[Rex Leslie Howard, Jr.]

Ashley, Here are a couple of links to get you started. 
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikijunior:Ancient_Civilizations/Hebrews

That should be an interesting read for you. I am sure there is a book in the
Wikibooks site that is specific to bible history and customs and I will try
to find it for you in the next day or so.
Here is a link to a "Culture of Israel" page:
http://www.everyculture.com/Ge-It/Israel.html

Here is a link to the history sourcebooks project which contains information
about ancient history to modern history. It is quite extensive:
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall

There's a lot of information about this kind of stuff and some of it can be
found on the www.studylight.org page.

My recommendation about www.studylight.org is that you set aside a few hours
just to play around with that site and see what you like. There is more
there than you may ever need and the information can be overwhelming.

Yes, the Encyclopedias are searchable but not by keywords. You really need
to know the term that you're searching for. There is a list of alphabetical
links which will let you browse by letter of the alphabet. There is the
International Standard bible Encyclopedia and there is also the condensed
Encyclopedia.
 
Also the Lutherans have an encyclopedia called ChristianCyclopedia. It can
be found here:
http://cyclopedia.lcms.org/
Here is a link to the Catholic Encyclopedia which is also quite extensive:
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/	

And if that isn't enough, here is the link to the mother of all religious
Encyclopedias:
www.jewishencyclopedia.com

Again, I will try to find something more specific to your needs but it might
be tomorrow before I can.