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  • The Jewish diaspora (Hebrew: Tefutzah, "scattered," or Galut גלות, "exile") was the result of the expulsion of the Jews ...
    16 KB (2,452 words) - 11:56, 29 January 2024
  • . From the latter, the English language obtained the word "pharaoh ... supposed divine power vis à vis the power of the Hebrew deity. ...
    12 KB (1,786 words) - 02:55, 24 November 2022
  • Nineveh (Akkadian: Ninua; Aramaic: ܢܝܢܘܐ; Hebrew: נינוה, Nīnewē; Arabic: نينوى, Naīnuwa), was the capital of the ancient Neo ...
    21 KB (3,258 words) - 09:49, 11 March 2023
  • [[Image:Isaiah.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Isaiah the Prophet in Hebrew ... who is mentioned several times in the Hebrew scriptures. In Greek religion ...
    39 KB (6,126 words) - 09:20, 28 June 2022
  • botany. He possessed a natural gift for language, teaching himself Latin. ... during which time he taught himself Hebrew, Italian, Dutch, and French ...
    25 KB (3,845 words) - 15:53, 7 May 2023
  • The name Cyrus is a Latin transliteration of the Greek language, which ... appointed king, in the Tanakh. Koresh (Hebrew for Cyrus) is a common name ...
    22 KB (3,584 words) - 07:28, 12 January 2024
  • The Hebrew Bible and Talmud mention the practice of paying a bride price to the father of a minor girl. Exodus 22:16-17 says: If a man seduces ...
    14 KB (2,300 words) - 02:03, 12 January 2023
  • Water: Trajectories of Ritual Bathing in the Hebrew Bible and Second Temple Literature (Sbl - Academia Biblica). Brill Academic Publishers, 2007. ISBN ...
    15 KB (2,385 words) - 15:11, 5 September 2022
  • Greek letters are most often replaced by the Hebrew letters, לויתן forming the name Leviathan. Less esoteric LaVeyan Satanists use it as a sign ...
    20 KB (3,104 words) - 07:21, 23 November 2022
  • - العدوان الثلاثي Hebrew: מבצע קדש) was a war ... Sharon, who interrupted his studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem to ...
    23 KB (3,489 words) - 21:32, 26 February 2023
  • where he taught Latin, history, and Hebrew. In October 1831, he resigned his office in order to study under Schleiermacher and Georg Hegel in ...
    16 KB (2,423 words) - 07:54, 28 January 2024
  • In common language, to "demonize" a person means to characterize ... == Demons in the Hebrew Bible == Demons as described in the Tanakh ...
    32 KB (5,129 words) - 09:29, 28 January 2024
  • In the English language, 7 is the only 2-syllable natural, positive 1-digit ... # Shiv`a (another pronunciation of the Hebrew word for 7—( ...
    35 KB (5,128 words) - 06:47, 13 June 2023
  • The word Pharisees comes from the Hebrew ( פרושים) prushim from ... was appointed the first Patriarch (his Hebrew tile was Nasi, which means ...
    22 KB (3,391 words) - 02:55, 24 November 2022
  • lack of understanding about the role of language in human thought. Herder ... and went further in this promotion of language than his earlier injunction ...
    18 KB (2,775 words) - 14:41, 1 August 2022
  • movement. He began educating himself in the Hebrew language, studying history and economics and making his views known in underground publications. ...
    14 KB (2,147 words) - 21:21, 9 November 2022
  • gifted in languages and studied Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. At the age of fifteen, Servetus entered the service of a Franciscan friar by the name of Juan ...
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  • school see a parallel process in the evolution of Hebrew religion. Originally, the Hebrews worshiped El as their god but recognized that other gods ...
    10 KB (1,744 words) - 21:24, 24 March 2024
  • to death after getting into a fight with a Hebrew and cursing the Name of the ... speech," which includes no abusive language, gossip, lying, or slander ...
    20 KB (3,022 words) - 14:33, 8 February 2022
  • measures, even forbidding the use of Hebrew. Apostasy from Christianity ... forbade, for instance, the use of the Hebrew language in divine worship. The ...
    22 KB (3,355 words) - 21:25, 4 October 2022

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