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  • adjective After the publication of the Bible.

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  • adjective subsequent to biblical times

Etymologies

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post- +‎ biblical

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Examples

  • As they translated both the essence of their knowledge and the effects of Arabic poetry into an innovative Hebrew verse — and in the process risked loss of linguistic and religious self to immersion in the foreign — the Hebrew poets of Spain found, or founded, one of the most powerful languages of Jewish expression postbiblical literature has known.

    The Lost Jewish Culture Bloom, Harold 2007

  • This paradox was especially highlighted in the writings of various Jewish sages of the early postbiblical period.

    In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011

  • This paradox was especially highlighted in the writings of various Jewish sages of the early postbiblical period.

    In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011

  • This paradox was especially highlighted in the writings of various Jewish sages of the early postbiblical period.

    In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011

  • This paradox was especially highlighted in the writings of various Jewish sages of the early postbiblical period.

    In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011

  • If so, then basically all the material that refers to God's rule in postbiblical Judaism may be worth looking at.

    The Kingdom of God James F. McGrath 2010

  • The first discussion of female homoeroticism in Jewish texts is found in Sifra, a postbiblical commentary on the book of Leviticus, edited in the second century a.d.

    Lesbianism. 2009

  • As early as 1915, Frank organized and led at her home an ongoing student study circle on postbiblical Jewish history.

    Ray Frank. 2009

  • Some early Jewish, albeit postbiblical, sources deconstruct the general picture: “Four women exercised government in the world: Jezebel and Athaliah from Israel, Semiramis and Vashti from the [gentile] nations” (in a Jewish Midrash for the Book of Esther, Esther Rabbah).

    Jezebel: Bible. 2009

  • Indeed, the image of Eve, who never appears in the Hebrew Bible after the opening chapters of Genesis, may be more strongly colored by postbiblical culture than by the biblical narrative itself.

    Eve: Bible. 2009

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