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- Raphael Patai, The Hebrew Goddess: Third Enlarged Edition. ISBN 978 ... *Patai, Raphael. 1990. The Hebrew Goddess. Wayne State University ...10 KB (1,633 words) - 19:43, 28 February 2018
- Ēl (Hebrew: אל) is a northwest Semitic word meaning "god" or "God." In the English Bible, the derivative name Elohim is ...20 KB (3,357 words) - 00:06, 13 February 2024
- ==Hebrew numerals== The great popularity of chronograms and the extent ... The earliest chronogram in Jewish literature is one found in a Hebrew ...16 KB (2,297 words) - 21:54, 10 December 2023
- by Professor E.L. Sukenik of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He came across the artifact in a Russian convent collection from the Mount of ...10 KB (1,704 words) - 22:57, 13 November 2022
- The word "dybbuk" is derived from a Hebrew term meaning "attachment." According to kabbalistic tradition, a soul that has ...12 KB (1,997 words) - 17:25, 12 February 2024
- Yom Kippur (Hebrew:יוֹם כִּפּוּר meaning Day of Atonement) is the holiest day of the year in the Jewish calendar. It falls on the ...20 KB (3,188 words) - 16:40, 4 June 2023
- The Torah (from Hebrew תּוֹרָה: meaning "teaching," "instruction," or "law") refers to most important scriptures ...24 KB (3,856 words) - 04:01, 1 May 2023
- A Nazirite (also spelled Nazarite) (from Hebrew: נזיר, nazir meaning "consecrated"), refers to Jews who consecrated their lives ...20 KB (3,259 words) - 16:00, 11 November 2022
- the tenth century B.C.E. It is known in Hebrew as the Mishkan ( משכן ... sacred tent may once have existed in the Hebrew past, but that the glorious ...17 KB (2,623 words) - 02:04, 27 February 2023
- The Masoretic Text (MT) is the Hebrew text of the Jewish Bible (Tanakh). It defines not just the books of the Jewish canon, but also the precise ...26 KB (4,162 words) - 16:18, 7 November 2022
- Isaac or Yitzchak (Hebrew: יִצְחָק Yiẓḥaq Arabic: إسحٰق, ʾIsḥāq ; "he will laugh") is the son and heir of Abraham ...18 KB (3,040 words) - 13:27, 6 March 2024
- law). They form the core of the Tanakh, or Hebrew Bible. In Christianity, the ... quot; or "Discourses") (The Hebrew names are taken from initial ...20 KB (3,080 words) - 07:22, 23 November 2022
- The Gulf of Aqaba (Arabic: خليج العقبة; transliterated: Khalyj al-'Aqabah), in Israel known as the Gulf of Eilat (Hebrew: מפרץ ...15 KB (2,306 words) - 08:25, 8 January 2024
- Solomon Ibn Gabirol, also Solomon ben Judah (Hebrew: שלמה אבן גבירול, Š'lomoh 'ibn Gabiyrol)(c. 1021 – c. 1058), a ...24 KB (3,826 words) - 01:00, 4 February 2023
- die, Irkalla is similar to Sheol of the Hebrew Bible or Hades of classic ... as the story of the Persephone. The Hebrew concept of Sheol is closely ...12 KB (1,904 words) - 19:19, 13 February 2024
- on astronomy and astrology, its original Hebrew still in manuscript form ... in 1325, became one of the earliest Hebrew books to be published (Ferrara ...18 KB (2,668 words) - 18:28, 21 May 2024
- The Samaritans speak either Modern Hebrew (in Holon) or Palestinian Arabic (in Nablus) as their mother language. For liturgical purposes, Samaritan ...15 KB (2,463 words) - 11:23, 11 March 2023
- The Cave of the Patriarchs (Hebrew: מערת המכפלה, Me'arat HaMachpela, Trans. "Cave of the Double Tombs"), called by Muslims ...15 KB (2,391 words) - 16:20, 3 December 2023
- The Book of Obadiah is a prophetic book of the Hebrew Bible (and the Christian Old Testament), where it holds the honor of being the shortest ...15 KB (2,366 words) - 00:28, 19 November 2023
- an independent translation from the Hebrew Bible. Resolution of these ... are separately translated from the Hebrew—and hence independent of ...13 KB (1,861 words) - 11:57, 29 January 2024
