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  • of writing the widely used diplomatic language of Akkadian in cuneiform—as ... The Ugaritic language is attested in texts from the fourteenth through ...
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  • , in Israel known as the Gulf of Eilat (Hebrew: מפרץ אילת, transliterated: ... The Straits of Tiran (Arabic: مضيق تيران, Hebrew: מיצרי ...
    15 KB (2,306 words) - 08:25, 8 January 2024
  • Marcion was deemed a heretic for his rejection of the whole Hebrew ... to, Judaism. He rejected the entire Hebrew Bible, and declared that ...
    17 KB (2,698 words) - 11:11, 9 March 2023
  • Rabbi Shlomo Yitzhaki, (Hebrew: רבי שלמה יצחקי), better ... Rashi also wrote an extensive commentary on the Hebrew Bible, completed ...
    21 KB (3,376 words) - 17:23, 16 April 2023
  • (Hebrew בעל זבוב, with numerous variants--in addition to Beelzebub ... built a heavenly temple for God. Here, the Hebrew term "Beth Zebul" ...
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  • practices of the region. The Akkadian language became the lingua franca ... The Akkadian language became the lingua franca of commerce and diplomacy ...
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  • Solomon Ibn Gabirol, also Solomon ben Judah (Hebrew: שלמה אבן ... his townsmen with their neglect of the Hebrew language. Sometime after his ...
    24 KB (3,826 words) - 01:00, 4 February 2023
  • The Sadducees (from Hebrew: Tsdoki, צדוקי meaning "High ... The Hebrew term "Sadducee" derives from "Tsdoki," ...
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  • At the age of 17, she determined to learn Hebrew, writing: “It is ... with them using large cut-out letters in Hebrew that she placed in her window ...
    18 KB (2,893 words) - 05:01, 25 June 2024
  • Enoch (Hebrew: meaning "initiated") is a name in the Hebrew Bible used ...
    11 KB (1,772 words) - 11:37, 5 February 2022
  • 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
  • , Arabic (Rome, 1663), Armenian (Rome, 1674), Hebrew (Frankfort, 1837), and other languages. Pierre Corneille produced a poetical paraphrase in French in 1651. ...
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  • Basing his revision on the original Hebrew, Lucian emphasized the need ... Lucian undertook to revise the Septuagint based on the original Hebrew ...
    17 KB (2,576 words) - 04:19, 4 November 2022
  • In the Hebrew Bible, Jethro (Hebrew: יִתְרוֹ, Yitro; "His ... Exodus. There, he offered sacrifice to the Hebrew God Yahweh and hosted a sacrificial ...
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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
  • contributed to the investigation in sub-language grammar, operator grammar ... to which the Phoenician dialects, with Hebrew, Moabite, and others belong. ...
    15 KB (2,104 words) - 05:46, 13 June 2023
  • The earliest chronogram in Jewish literature is one found in a Hebrew ... verse, also used chronograms. A number of Hebrew poems were produced in the ...
    16 KB (2,297 words) - 21:54, 10 December 2023
  • According to one theory, the Hebrew God Yahweh was originally a tribal ... or "Kainite" derives from the Hebrew Qayin, which is identical ...
    12 KB (1,877 words) - 17:23, 5 October 2022
  • The Book of Daniel, written in Hebrew and Aramaic, is a book in both ... Bibles, but among the Writings in the Hebrew Bible. Catholic and some ...
    20 KB (3,175 words) - 07:25, 17 November 2023
  • The Masoretic Text (MT) is the Hebrew text of the Jewish Bible (Tanakh ... translation (around 300 B.C.E.) of the Hebrew Scriptures that was in popular ...
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