Search results for "Semitic gods" - New World Encyclopedia
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- among the Canaanite languages in the Semitic language family. In addition ... While the Semitic language of the Phoenicians, and some evidence of ...30 KB (4,504 words) - 04:20, 24 November 2022
- I know that the Lord is greater than all gods," and offered burnt offerings ... Israelites, and the name Reuel, like many Semitic names of the era, contains ...13 KB (2,051 words) - 02:58, 1 August 2022
- or Idumea. The Edomite people were a Semitic-speaking tribal group inhabiting ... Semites, they may have worshiped such gods as El, Baal, Asherah, and ...18 KB (2,821 words) - 21:09, 8 August 2023
- Ages. In many subsequent cases, anti-Semitic blood libels served as the ... propaganda sacrifices to the Greek gods were typically in the forms ...24 KB (3,634 words) - 18:14, 31 October 2023
- extolling Yahweh as greater than all other gods. The Midianite priest "brought ... attempts were made to trace the West Semitic Yah back to Babylonia. Assyriologist ...25 KB (4,138 words) - 10:00, 22 May 2023
- linguistic attempts to derive the name from Semitic Aštoret, via ... be the cause of violence between the other gods. To remedy this situation ...23 KB (3,678 words) - 06:01, 11 August 2023
- to God, translators render the term as "the gods." ... The name El appears in several northwest Semitic languages, such as Phoenician ...18 KB (2,791 words) - 01:12, 11 November 2022
- but differing in many particulars from the gods of polytheism. While "full ... are often reinterpreted as "lesser gods." Their help and intervention ...26 KB (4,193 words) - 06:15, 28 July 2023
- the development of the three Abrahamic or Semitic faiths and their ideas, ... sun. He soon forbade the worship of other gods, especially of the state god ...35 KB (5,451 words) - 07:14, 16 June 2023
- The Sumerians were a non-Semitic people and were at one time believed ... Sumerian king before the arrival of the Semitic named king, Sargon of Akkad. ...37 KB (5,525 words) - 22:21, 26 February 2023
- Despite this apparently unlimited diversity, however, the gods (unlike ... One reason for this was the undeniable fact that the Egyptian gods ...32 KB (5,200 words) - 06:08, 8 March 2024
- by the name of a neighboring village. The Semitic name of the city, if not ... The Nabataeans worshipped the Arab gods and goddesses of the pre-Islamic ...24 KB (3,829 words) - 14:47, 28 March 2023
- they viewed as pacifism and addressed anti-Semitic insults to several speakers ... :The world exists because it was created by the gods, and that the ...30 KB (4,475 words) - 18:55, 9 November 2022
- although his untimely death would fragment his newly conquered Semitic ... states that Hammurabi was chosen by the gods of his people to bring the ...13 KB (1,918 words) - 17:00, 21 January 2024
- the cosmic being, is sacrificed by the gods in order to supply from his ... *Rohi, Rajinder Kaur. Semitic and Sikh Monotheism: A Comparative Study ...21 KB (3,199 words) - 11:13, 11 March 2023
- landscape were erected by a race of white gods who had lived there before ... color from reddish to blonde, and almost Semitic, hook-nosed faces. In contrast ...27 KB (4,083 words) - 23:00, 30 April 2023
- language, related to Chadic, Berber, and Semitic languages, and recorded ... or "Ta Nteru" ("Land of the Gods"). Once commonly thought ...44 KB (6,818 words) - 19:13, 26 July 2023
- Most divine attributes ascribed to the Semitic kings of Babylonia disappeared ... by removing the images of the local gods from their ancestral shrines ...19 KB (2,994 words) - 05:24, 26 August 2023
- from Baal Am, a reference to Am, one of the gods (ba'alim) of Moab. It ... The word Ba'al means simply "Lord" in various semitic ...16 KB (2,754 words) - 04:16, 11 January 2023
- to which famous people originate from gods (like Augustus as the son ... In an Ugaritic tablet (Ugaritic was a north-west Semitic language ...30 KB (4,795 words) - 20:34, 3 May 2023
