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  • Peter” is unique. “Simeon” is an archaic Hebrew form of the standard "Simon," and appears only in |Acts|15:14 , and then just ...
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  • The Jewish tallis (Yiddish-Hebrew form; plural is talleisim), a prayer shawl with fringed corners and knotted tassels at each corner, is a talismanic ...
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  • and the Septuagint translation of the Hebrew Bible, in order to put an end to the marked divergences in the western texts of that period. This ...
    13 KB (2,066 words) - 18:08, 24 January 2024
  • reform that centralized the worship of the Hebrew God Yahweh in Jerusalem and strongly repressed pagan religions. He also attempted to extend ...
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  • 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
  • ===In the Hebrew Bible=== The Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) describes many alleged miracles in which ...
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  • were written on vellum, and all Sifrei Torah (Hebrew: ספר תורה; plural: ספרי תורה, Sifrei Torah) are written on kosher klaf or vellum. ...
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  • The Books of Samuel (Hebrew: ספר שמואל—Sefer Sh'muel) , are part of the Hebrew Bible), or Old Testament. They deal with beginnings ...
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  • who was linking the Old Testament with early Hebrew folklore, encouraged him in this determination. Frazer started by sending letters to as many ...
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  • studied the Septuagint version of the Hebrew Bible and Greek authors like ... Jews" through his commentaries on the Hebrew Bible. ...
    27 KB (4,266 words) - 02:47, 24 July 2023
  • Eichmann became a student of Judaism, even studying Hebrew. ==Second World War== At the start of the Second World War, Eichmann had been promoted ...
    27 KB (4,132 words) - 06:02, 15 June 2023
  • works. When he was 53, he learned Hebrew in order to help his father with some religious researches. Toward the end of his life, Cauchy donated ...
    14 KB (2,090 words) - 19:07, 21 August 2023
  • Tversky earned a bachelor's degree from Hebrew University in ... Tversky taught at Michigan, Harvard, and Hebrew University, before ...
    28 KB (4,170 words) - 09:22, 18 June 2021
  • they could read and understand the Hebrew prayers and the Bible in ... the first one in Germany to include the Hebrew language among the humanities ...
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  • | langs = Arabic, Hebrew }} The Druze (Arabic: درزي, derzī or durzī, plural دروز, durūz; דרוזים , Druzim; also transliterated ...
    27 KB (4,097 words) - 21:14, 30 January 2024
  • in many passages of the New Testament and Hebrew Bible. The society he founded through Jonah House was based upon Christian love, Christian nonviolence ...
    14 KB (2,125 words) - 14:50, 28 March 2023
  • to archangels in the canonical texts of the Hebrew Bible. Indeed, even references to angels are uncommon except in later works such as Daniel. The ...
    17 KB (2,515 words) - 02:14, 9 January 2023
  • echoes the rivalry between enemy brothers in the Hebrew Bible. See [http://homepages.which.net/~radical.faith/background/prodigalson.htm The Prodigal ...
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  • Zealotry, and Group Destruction in the Bible. Hebrew Union College Press, 2004. ISBN 9780878204557 *Horowitz, Elliott. Reckless Rites: Purim and ...
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  • Water: Trajectories of Ritual Bathing in the Hebrew Bible and Second Temple Literature (Sbl - Academia Biblica). Brill Academic Publishers, 2007. ISBN ...
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