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- Malachi (מַלְאָכִי, Mál'akhî—"my messenger") is a book of the Hebrew Bible traditionally believed to be written by ...17 KB (2,748 words) - 20:37, 17 May 2023
- Canaanite and Israelite traditions. The Hebrew patriarch Abraham was said ... Isaac, and Jacob's devotion in the Hebrew Bible. Some scholars have ...12 KB (1,974 words) - 18:55, 13 February 2024
- ) is the Islamic equivalent to hell. Its roots come from the Hebrew word Gehinnom, which was an ancient garbage dump outside of the city of Jerusalem ...9 KB (1,392 words) - 12:41, 6 November 2021
- with Palestine and familiar with the Hebrew canon excluded from the canon ... as the canonical scriptures of the Hebrew collection, but were of value ...29 KB (4,388 words) - 06:03, 11 August 2023
- Midrash (מדרש; plural midrashim) is a Hebrew word referring to the exposition, or exegesis, of a biblical text. The term can also refer to ...16 KB (2,400 words) - 17:34, 9 November 2022
- In the Hebrew Bible, Sukkot is called: *“The Feast of Tabernacles ... The word sukkot is the plural of the Hebrew word sukkah, meaning booth ...19 KB (2,871 words) - 21:43, 26 February 2023
- The Book of Habakkuk represents the visionary output of Habakkuk, one of the twelve minor prophets whose works were canonized in the Hebrew Bible ...16 KB (2,522 words) - 00:09, 19 November 2023
- #039;s house every weekend to study the Hebrew language and biblical literature ... At this stage, Eban officially changed his name from Aubrey to the ...12 KB (1,691 words) - 07:15, 13 June 2023
- Rabbi Judah haNasi, (Hebrew: יהודה הנשיא—"Judah the Prince") (135 – 220 C.E.), was a key leader of the Jewish community ...16 KB (2,573 words) - 08:34, 12 May 2024
- The historic Philistines (Hebrew: פלשתים, plishtim) were a people who inhabited the southern coast of Canaan around the time of the arrival ...22 KB (3,372 words) - 03:59, 24 November 2022
- the founder of modern political Zionism. His Hebrew personal name was Binyamin Ze'ev. The Dreyfus Affair convinced Herzl that assimilation ...12 KB (1,882 words) - 17:56, 30 April 2023
- Amos (Hebrew: עָמוֹס—"Burden"—apparently a shortened form of Amasiah, meaning "the Lord carries") is one of the ...15 KB (2,479 words) - 17:17, 26 July 2023
- A beth din, also spelled beit din or bet din (Hebrew: בית דין, "house of judgment;" plural battei din) is a rabbinical court ...13 KB (1,955 words) - 17:59, 29 September 2023
- Elijah (Standard Hebrew: אֱלִיָּהוּ Eliyyáhu'), also known as Elias (New Testament Greek: Hλίας), was a ninth-century B.C ...18 KB (2,908 words) - 16:12, 13 February 2024
- and Mount Sinai, where, according to the Hebrew Bible, Moses received the ... lies in Greek, Coptic, Arabic, Armenian, Hebrew, Georgian, and Syriac texts ...14 KB (2,007 words) - 19:14, 22 December 2022
- from that the word "spirit" in Hebrew is of the feminine gender ... observant Jewish Christians who used the Hebrew version of the Jewish scriptures ...11 KB (1,737 words) - 04:36, 24 May 2024
- Jericho (Arabic أريحا, ʼArīḥā; Hebrew יְרִיחוֹ, Standard Yəriḥo Tiberian Yərîḫô / Yərîḥô; meaning "fragrant," ...16 KB (2,400 words) - 02:27, 1 August 2022
- the Septuagint, as opposed to the Hebrew Masoretic Text, which is noticeable due to several peculiarities and variations present in the Septuagint ...10 KB (1,588 words) - 04:26, 24 May 2024
- The Dead Sea Scrolls (Hebrew: מגילות ים המלח) comprise roughly 850 documents, including texts from the Hebrew Bible, discovered between ...33 KB (5,119 words) - 08:55, 28 January 2024
- The Old Testament (OT) is the first division of the Christian biblical canon, which is based primarily upon the 24 books of the Hebrew Bible ...62 KB (8,829 words) - 16:26, 30 January 2024
