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  • than one hundred of his works, written in Hebrew, made the scholarship of ... Ibn Ezra continues to be recognized as a great Hebrew poet and writer ...
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  • TaNaK (Hebrew: תנ״ך), or Tanakh, is an acronym for the Hebrew ... In Hebrew, the Tanakh is also called מקרא, Mikra or Miqra, meaning ...
    11 KB (1,531 words) - 02:04, 27 February 2023
  • Biblical criticism is a form of literary criticism that seeks to analyze ... Biblical criticism has been traditionally divided into textual criticism—also ...
    11 KB (1,670 words) - 03:40, 1 October 2023
  • The Gemara (also Gemorah) ('גמרא' - from gamar: Hebrew ... the Talmud (from gamar גמר,: Hebrew "[to] complete"; ...
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  • Rashbam (רשב"ם) is a Hebrew acronym for Rabbi Shmuel ben ... considered by many as the greatest Jewish biblical commentator of all time ...
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  • Gideon (Hebrew: גִּדְעוֹן, Gidʻon), also known as Jerubbaal, was a judge appearing in the biblical Book of Judges. He was the son of ...
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  • Geonim (plural of גאון Gaon) (Hebrew: גאונים meaning "Excellency ... quot; or "splendour" in Biblical Hebrew and since the 1800s ...
    8 KB (1,324 words) - 06:54, 18 April 2024
  • Discovered in 1868 at Dhiban, Jordan (biblical "Dibon," the capital ... with an early form of Hebrew, known as Biblical Hebrew. It is apparently an ...
    13 KB (2,054 words) - 16:16, 9 November 2022
  • Among Jews and Christians, the burning bush is a biblical representation ... com/alamut/Bibliothek/7616docid6743.pdf Biblical Entheogens: a Speculative ...
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  • major god, perhaps the chief god, of the biblical Philistines. ... In the biblical story of Samson, it is a temple of Dagon which the ...
    11 KB (1,786 words) - 07:45, 12 January 2024
  • view, it reworks material found in the biblical books of Genesis and Exodus ... consequently, the lost Hebrew original is thought to have used an ...
    13 KB (2,033 words) - 20:40, 4 October 2022
  • In the biblical text, the most frequent name used for God is "YHWH ... The most important and most often written name of God in the Hebrew ...
    18 KB (2,791 words) - 01:12, 11 November 2022
  • Jesus primarily spoke Aramaic, with some Hebrew and Greek. ... speaking audiences, albeit he also knew some Hebrew and Greek. ...
    7 KB (1,044 words) - 07:15, 13 June 2023
  • Scottish philologist, anthropologist, and Biblical critic. He is best known ... ability, and learned Latin, Greek, and Hebrew languages. After being home ...
    12 KB (1,721 words) - 10:46, 12 May 2023
  • as a key figure of the twentieth century biblical archaeology movement. A ... languages for a better understanding of biblical history. Although he accepted ...
    10 KB (1,515 words) - 15:59, 7 May 2023
  • In Judaism, the term Bar Mitzvah (Hebrew: בר מצוה) refers to ... of the commandment." In Biblical Hebrew, however, the word ...
    10 KB (1,502 words) - 07:59, 20 September 2023
  • The word Amen (Hebrew: אמן, meaning "Firm" or "Verily ... Jews usually pronounce the word as it is pronounced in Hebrew: "ah ...
    6 KB (852 words) - 02:50, 24 July 2023
  • in the Greek Septuagint translation of the Hebrew Bible and later included ... YHWH!!"—Exodus ch. 15:11). In Hebrew, the first letters of this ...
    12 KB (1,896 words) - 06:32, 13 June 2023
  • short prophetic texts included within the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) as well as ... on a single scroll in the classical Hebrew (and only separated when ...
    11 KB (1,657 words) - 18:53, 9 November 2022
  • The word derives from the Hebrew: גי(א)-הינום Gêhinnôm ... According to the Hebrew Bible, pagans once sacrificed their children ...
    8 KB (1,334 words) - 06:33, 18 April 2024

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