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  • which is based primarily upon the 24 books of the Hebrew Bible, or Tanakh, a collection of ancient religious Hebrew and occasionally Aramaic writings ...
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  • | above = Hebrew Bible/Old Testament - New Testament ... | group3 = Hebrew Bible | list3 = * Commentaries ...
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  • text=The Books of Kings are a part of the Hebrew Bible narrating the history of the kings of Judah and Israel from the end of the reign of King ...
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  • text=The Book of Jeremiah, is part of the Hebrew Bible, and is also included in Christianity's Old Testament. It was originally written ...
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  • The word "dybbuk" is derived from a Hebrew term meaning "attachment." According to kabbalistic tradition, a soul that has not ...
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  • Syriac arc|ܐܲܠܵܗܵܐ (ʼAlāhā) and the Hebrew word El (Elohim) for God. }} ...
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  • text=Hasidic Judaism (from the Hebrew: חסידות Chassidus, meaning "piety") is a Haredi Jewish religious movement that originated ...
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  • roughly 850 documents, including texts from the Hebrew Bible, discovered between 1947 and 1956 in 11 caves in and around the Wadi Qumran in the West ...
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  • text=The Book of Nehemiah is a late historiographical book of the Hebrew Bible (and Christian Old Testament) that describes the rebuilding of ...
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  • Ancient Greek literature, together with the Hebrew Bible, provides the foundation for all of Western literature. In addition to history and philosophy ...
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  • The Old Testament refers to the books of the Hebrew Bible that have been incorporated into the Christian Bible. The Old Testament suggests that ...
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  • text=The Holocaust, also known as The Shoah (Hebrew: השואה HaShoah) and the Porrajmos in Romani, is the name applied to the systematic ...
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  • Philadelphia Orphan Asylum, and the Female Hebrew Benevolent Society and Hebrew ... local Jewish community. She led a small Hebrew Sunday school for her family ...
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  • rendered in Phoenician, Aramaic, and Modern Hebrew scripts| text=The Jehovah’s Witnesses are an international religious organization, a millenarian ...
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  • It is why much of the truths of the Hebrew Bible, and other sacred texts, are revealed in stories. It is no accident that the writers of these ...
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  • In Judaism, the term Bar Mitzvah (Hebrew: בר מצוה) refers to a boy's coming-of-age ceremony held upon (or shortly after) his thirteenth ...
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  • Jesus primarily spoke Aramaic, with some Hebrew and Greek. ... speaking audiences, albeit he also knew some Hebrew and Greek. ...
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  • * Hebrew University * Knesset * Biblical Zoo | list4name = People | list4title = * People ** Demographic history | list4 = * Mayor ...
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  • The Gemara (also Gemorah) ('גמרא' - from gamar: Hebrew (to complete); Aramaic (to study) is the part of the Talmud that contains ...
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  • often portrayed as the primary enemy of the Hebrew God Yahweh. The Semitic word "baal" (meaning '"Lord") was also used to ...
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