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  • The Book of Nahum is one of the Books of the Minor Prophets in the Hebrew Bible (Christian Old Testament), and was ostensibly written by the ...
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  • According to the Hebrew Bible, Esau was born miraculously to Isaac ... name, "Esau," derives from the Hebrew word for "red." ...
    18 KB (2,951 words) - 22:23, 20 February 2022
  • The Book of Lamentations (Hebrew מגילת איכה) is a book of the Jewish Tanakh and the Christian Old Testament. As suggested by its title ...
    22 KB (3,444 words) - 00:22, 19 November 2023
  • identified with the divinities. Early Hebrew monotheism scriptural representations ... The first book of the Hebrew Bible depicts God with qualities and ...
    17 KB (2,392 words) - 06:18, 31 July 2023
  • Israel, but alienated the partisans of the Hebrew God Yahweh, who strongly ... ==In the Hebrew Bible== Jezebel lived at a time when the northern Kingdom ...
    16 KB (2,494 words) - 03:03, 1 August 2022
  • portion of it was included in either the Hebrew Bible or the New Testament. ... the Book of Daniel was accepted into the Hebrew Bible. Other apocalyptic ...
    16 KB (2,523 words) - 06:03, 11 August 2023
  • Tamar (תָּמָר, Hebrew meaning "Date Palm") was the fore-mother of the Jews and the daughter-in-law of the patriarch Judah, the ...
    15 KB (2,478 words) - 03:57, 27 February 2023
  • clay tablets have helped locate the Hebrew religion and culture in its ... has contributed to understanding of the Hebrew of the Bible, for example ...
    13 KB (2,078 words) - 07:18, 16 June 2023
  • proficient in Latin and Greek, he studied Hebrew and Arabic in Padua with ... that Pico was introduced to the mystical Hebrew Kabbalah, which fascinated ...
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  • Nachman of Breslov (Hebrew: נחמן מברסלב), also known as Nachman of Bratslav, Nahman of Breslov, Naḥman ben Simḥah, or simply as ...
    16 KB (2,514 words) - 23:00, 10 November 2022
  • the author of the ninth text in the Hebrew Bible's minor prophetic ... The book of Zephaniah consists of three chapters in the Hebrew Masoretic ...
    21 KB (3,366 words) - 19:07, 20 November 2023
  • separate manuscript traditions in the Hebrew Bible are represented in ... Text, commonly called the Tanakh or Hebrew Bible. Evidence suggests ...
    22 KB (3,254 words) - 03:43, 1 October 2023
  • " is mentioned frequently in the Hebrew Bible and throughout the ... in the prayers on Rosh Hashanah. The Hebrew month preceding Rosh Hashanah ...
    13 KB (2,151 words) - 14:23, 27 January 2023
  • story is told in the Book of Genesis in the Hebrew Bible. ... traditionally on the eleventh day of the Hebrew month of Heshvan, ...
    14 KB (2,238 words) - 22:37, 7 December 2022
  • 1 Esdras is a book from the Septuagint Greek translation of Hebrew scriptures. Largely a recapitulation of other biblical texts, it is regarded ...
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  • Latin authors, then by Syriac, Arabic, and Hebrew authors, and beginning in ... twelfth century. Much of the Arabic and Hebrew works passed into the Latin ...
    18 KB (2,450 words) - 06:29, 12 August 2023
  • in Judaism, and sometimes prayed in Hebrew, as well as in the Spanish ... exiles. Their prayers were said partly in Hebrew and partly in Ladino. They ...
    14 KB (2,156 words) - 17:24, 30 January 2024
  • The Hebrew Bible affirms that Job and other righteous men went to ... inferi; in Greek, ᾍδης (Hades); in Hebrew, שאול (Sheol)—is used ...
    14 KB (2,171 words) - 07:40, 25 June 2024
  • * According to Rebbenu Bachya, the Hebrew word "Nofech" in Exodus 28:18 means "Emerald," and was the stone on the Ephod representing ...
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  • may have originally been written in Aramaic, or the Hebrew, or that it was translated from Aramaic/Hebrew to Greek with corrections based on Mark. Regardless ...
    17 KB (2,705 words) - 04:23, 24 May 2024

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