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- and in Eblaite—a previously unknown Semitic language. ... others are in a previously unknown Semitic language now known as Eblaite ...11 KB (1,744 words) - 17:22, 11 October 2020
- may have evolved into Linear B, a written language that replaced Linear A around ... of ancient Greek. Linear A represents the language of the Minoan people before ...15 KB (2,229 words) - 07:40, 9 March 2023
- In most Semitic languages, the word Abba (also rendered Ab or Aba ... For over a half-millennium, the colloquial language for Palestinian ...7 KB (1,044 words) - 07:15, 13 June 2023
- most particularly through the accounts of Semitic speaking people of Akkadian ... to be the homeland of the Proto-Semitic language family. This language ...10 KB (1,505 words) - 21:35, 29 December 2023
- The Akkadian Empire usually refers to the Semitic speaking state that ... practices of the region. The Akkadian language became the lingua franca ...13 KB (2,078 words) - 07:18, 16 June 2023
- interest in the inter-connections among language, thinking, and culture. ... so Edward learned both German and the language of his parents. When he ...12 KB (1,665 words) - 23:51, 12 February 2024
- American linguist. Originally a student of Semitic languages, he is best known ... in the country. He started his career in Semitic languages, and spent some ...15 KB (2,104 words) - 05:46, 13 June 2023
- of the practices of Egyptian religion and language. Budge's works were ... in learning the ancient Assyrian language in 1872, when he also began ...13 KB (1,982 words) - 22:08, 3 May 2023
- It is in principle the representation of language, rather than images of thought ... beyond those carried out by spoken language. First invented by the early ...22 KB (3,308 words) - 14:05, 20 May 2023
- modifications to Sumerian orthography. The Semitic equivalents for many signs ... of c. 1800 B.C.E. to the Hittite language. When the cuneiform script ...19 KB (2,782 words) - 06:45, 12 January 2024
- Amar, Hebrew ’emōrî) refers to a Semitic people who first occupied ... The Amorite language was a semitic dialect. The main sources for our ...16 KB (2,552 words) - 17:17, 26 July 2023
- adopted local Canaanite culture and language before leaving any written ... debated. Many consider him to have been a Semitic fertility deity similar ...22 KB (3,372 words) - 03:59, 24 November 2022
- the study of the ancient Hebrew language in which the Tanakh is written ... to develop the study of the Hebrew language. He also launched a vigorous ...17 KB (2,623 words) - 07:10, 5 October 2022
- of the majority of Ethiopians using its language (Ge'ez) and perpetuating ... Furthermore, Ge'ez, the ancient Semitic language of Eritrea and Ethiopia ...22 KB (3,389 words) - 07:18, 16 June 2023
- Anat, also ‘Anat, was a major northwest Semitic goddess who was ... Hyksos period) along with other northwest Semitic deities. She was especially ...17 KB (2,817 words) - 19:01, 26 July 2023
- Yam or Yamm, from the ancient Semitic word meaning "sea," ... In West Semitic mythology, Yam was given kingship over the other gods ...15 KB (2,297 words) - 10:06, 22 May 2023
- Albright obtained his doctorate in Semitic languages at Johns Hopkins ... for the understanding of ancient West Semitic culture in general, including ...10 KB (1,515 words) - 15:59, 7 May 2023
- of writing the widely used diplomatic language of Akkadian in cuneiform—as ... B.C.E. Ugaritic is a Northwest Semitic language, related to Hebrew and ...15 KB (2,267 words) - 01:27, 3 May 2023
- Ēl (Hebrew: אל) is a northwest Semitic word meaning "god" ... pronounced according to the tradition of Semitic languages. El should be ...20 KB (3,357 words) - 00:06, 13 February 2024
- (basic significant sounds) of the spoken language. This is in contrast to ... A true alphabet has letters for the vowels of a language as well as ...44 KB (6,641 words) - 08:32, 23 July 2023
- The Doctors' plot (Russian language: дело врачей (doctors ... Committee in 1948 and launched an anti-Semitic campaign against so-called ...12 KB (1,709 words) - 16:33, 29 January 2024
- 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
- As the Babylonian and Semitic societies were closely related (in terms ... Tiamat has also been claimed to be also cognate with West Semitic ...16 KB (2,560 words) - 23:20, 30 April 2023
- to some degree with later western Semitic gods such as the Canaanite ... The later name Ea is either Hurrian or Semitic in origin. ...18 KB (3,043 words) - 08:34, 5 February 2022
- also spelled Ashera, was a major northwest Semitic mother goddess, appearing ... beginning in the eighteenth dynasty, a Semitic goddess named Qudshu (& ...14 KB (2,179 words) - 04:03, 18 August 2023
- syntactical forms. He maintained that language by itself provided everything ... and what was thought. His conclusion that language often serves to mask thought ...15 KB (2,253 words) - 13:25, 4 February 2023
- speak one of the early forms of Arabic language or its predecessors, however ... in Yemen. Ishmael learned the Arabic language and he spoke it fluently ...32 KB (4,654 words) - 20:18, 11 August 2023
- overeating, skipping school, and foul language. The books taught children ... the book to the Jews and Judaism as anti-semitic. For instance, in the first ...14 KB (2,020 words) - 18:23, 17 April 2023
- he had become proficient in the Persian language, he was sent, together with ... signs that were written in a strange language unknown to him. Since he ...10 KB (1,581 words) - 23:12, 8 February 2022
- ) Renan defined a nation, not by common language or common culture, but by ... daytime, he continued his researches in Semitic philology. In 1847, he obtained ...23 KB (3,624 words) - 19:32, 13 February 2024
- manuscripts of the Old Testament in any language; the oldest extant complete ... a reasonably accurate record of an early Semitic textual variant, now lost ...32 KB (4,408 words) - 19:48, 21 April 2023
- ” the capital of the Ammonites, a Semitic people spoken of in the Bible. ... The city became part of the ancient Arab, Semitic, trading kingdom ...17 KB (2,613 words) - 00:55, 9 January 2023
- also revealed the Soviet state's own anti-semitic tendencies. Several attempts were made to build a memorial at Babi Yar to commemorate the fate ...9 KB (1,415 words) - 05:23, 26 August 2023
- many other Arabic words in the English language, cumin was acquired through ... quot; has the same meaning as the English language phrase "carrying coals ...12 KB (1,736 words) - 19:46, 11 May 2020
- are believed by some Christians to be anti-Semitic. Indeed, the word Marcionism is sometimes used in modern times to refer to anti-Jewish tendencies ...17 KB (2,698 words) - 11:11, 9 March 2023
- Dagon was an ancient northwest Semitic god worshiped by the early Amorites and by the people of Ebla and Ugarit. He was also a major god, perhaps ...11 KB (1,786 words) - 07:45, 12 January 2024
- climate, although a pre-Greek or Semitic origin of origanum is also possible (Rogers 2004b). ==Uses== ===Culinary=== [[Image:Oregano_in_Pot.jpg ...11 KB (1,590 words) - 01:11, 18 November 2022
- modern history and was appropriated in anti-semitic tracts. ... Another film version, intended for anti-Semitic propaganda in Germany ...18 KB (2,872 words) - 22:50, 3 May 2023
- After the Nazi anti-semitic legislation forced her to resign from ... The Pope did not respond to Stein's letter. Anti-Semitic legislation ...16 KB (2,393 words) - 20:38, 8 August 2023
- Idumæa or Idumea. The Edomite people were a Semitic-speaking tribal group inhabiting the Negev Desert and the Aravah valley of what is now southern ...18 KB (2,821 words) - 21:09, 8 August 2023
- in 1919, where he received a degree in semitic languages at the University ... Buber, Scholem believed in the power of language to invoke supernatural phenomena ...12 KB (1,821 words) - 17:57, 14 December 2023
- that the Greek word may be derived from a Semitic root, ābāq (pronounced "a-vak"), the Hebrew word for "dust." Though details ...17 KB (2,684 words) - 07:14, 13 June 2023
- although his untimely death would fragment his newly conquered Semitic ... it was written in Akkadian, the daily language of Babylon, and could therefore ...13 KB (1,918 words) - 17:00, 21 January 2024
- nationalistic, non-conformist, and anti-semitic pro-fascist journals such ... the ambiguous rhetorical nature of language, and the problematic nature ...13 KB (1,828 words) - 16:58, 7 November 2022
- With very few variations, the Moabite language of the inscription ... consistent with the common use of language in the ancient Near East. ...13 KB (2,054 words) - 16:16, 9 November 2022
- of Sumer were Akkadians, not Sumerians. Semitic Akkadian became the lingua ... became vassals of Akkad, and the Akkadian language made official. In fact, ...10 KB (1,482 words) - 02:26, 21 April 2023
- the First Epistle of John echoes the language and several of the themes ... advanced age. The epistle's content, language and conceptual style are ...12 KB (2,015 words) - 17:22, 28 March 2024
- the one used for Aramaic (the official language of Achaemenids) developed ... hence, influencing each others language. Tribhuvandas L. Shah, Ancient ...23 KB (3,513 words) - 18:46, 4 December 2023
- applies to all speakers of the Sumerian language. Sumer together with Ancient ... The Sumerians were a non-Semitic people and were at one time believed ...37 KB (5,525 words) - 22:21, 26 February 2023
- and Albişoara Streets. The English language name for the city was based ... Growing anti-semitic sentiment in Russia in the late nineteenth century ...21 KB (3,032 words) - 17:07, 10 December 2023
- name when in liturgical use. In everyday language, the word Hashem ("The ... In English language bibles, YHWH is traditionally translated as "The ...18 KB (2,791 words) - 01:12, 11 November 2022
- quot;god," just as "El" did in the semitic languages. An is portrayed in Sumerian cosmogony as a dome that covered the flat earth. Outside ...10 KB (1,744 words) - 21:24, 24 March 2024
- Church, and it became a source of anti-semitic literature in modern times ... between the two Talmud compilations. The language of the Jerusalem Talmud ...32 KB (4,820 words) - 03:57, 27 February 2023
- |langs=The Tuareg language(s) (Tamasheq, Tamajeq, Tamahaq) ... The Tuareg language is a southern Berber language having several dialects ...17 KB (2,554 words) - 18:38, 2 May 2023
- The Fascists passed anti-Semitic laws in autumn 1938, which excluded ... Many authors have interpreted these anti-Semitic laws as an imitation ...34 KB (5,044 words) - 06:23, 11 March 2024
- as misogynistic, homophobic and anti-Semitic by most academic circles; Nancy Harrowitz, Barbara Hyams (eds.), Jews and Gender: Responses to Otto ...11 KB (1,680 words) - 10:52, 11 March 2023
- the world became a popular form of anti-Semitic expression. The highly explicit ... refers not only to Jews but all Semitic peoples, including the Arabs ...52 KB (8,069 words) - 12:28, 14 October 2023
- Elsewhere refers to the fact that (in the language of modern physics) the only ... of them express explicit racist, or anti-Semitic views. In particular, the ...39 KB (6,001 words) - 17:27, 30 January 2024
- did profess loyalty to Hitler and make anti-Semitic remarks on occasion. However, his emphasis was always on space over race, believing in environmental ...17 KB (2,439 words) - 00:43, 5 March 2024
- harmony with other considerations, that their language was Semitic, closely related to the Hebrew language and the Moabite language. ...18 KB (2,883 words) - 07:34, 25 July 2023
- eschewed antiquated "poetic" language in hopes of inventing a ... of usury were sometimes virulently anti-Semitic. Together with his embrace ...34 KB (5,360 words) - 00:02, 25 March 2024
- defined by the name of a neighboring village. The Semitic name of the city, if not Sela, remains unknown. The passage in Diodorus Siculus (xix. 94–97 ...24 KB (3,829 words) - 14:47, 28 March 2023
- and the Israelites, and the name Reuel, like many Semitic names of the era, contains the theophoric syllable el. The worship of El by Jethro would thus ...13 KB (2,051 words) - 02:58, 1 August 2022
- Sitchin's voluminous works, he uses Semitic language etymology and translations of Sumerian cuneiform tablets to equate the ancient Mesopotamian ...15 KB (2,395 words) - 16:20, 11 November 2022
- Aprodite, Venus, and other goddesses in the semitic and Greco-Roman civilization. Human enactments of the hieros gamos in Canaan are inferred ...13 KB (2,025 words) - 23:49, 12 February 2022
- *Semitic origins. Judaism and Islam originated among Semitic peoples – namely the Jews and Arabs, respectively – while Christianity arose ...30 KB (4,716 words) - 23:04, 8 April 2021
- themselves as Berber. However the Berber language is spoken by an estimated ... recent human migration of various Italic, Semitic, Germanic, and sub-Saharan ...26 KB (3,865 words) - 10:59, 28 September 2023
- Arabic is the official language, although English is increasingly spoken, particularly in the two main cities. Other Semitic dialects rarely ...19 KB (2,883 words) - 00:57, 17 April 2023
- | native name link = Arabic language | nickname = ... They speak Soqotri, an unwritten Semitic language related to other Modern ...22 KB (3,173 words) - 21:53, 30 January 2023
- they viewed as pacifism and addressed anti-Semitic insults to several speakers ... His condemnation of the Nazi's anti-Semitic policies was accompanied ...30 KB (4,475 words) - 18:55, 9 November 2022
- at the time and had just repealed its anti-semitic laws. Starting at the age ... after the downfall of the openly anti-semitic Tsarist regime, was flourishing ...38 KB (5,595 words) - 00:07, 13 February 2024
- also under a fourth name, the West Semitic designation Naharina or ... derived from the still undivided Indo-Iranian language, ...37 KB (5,773 words) - 19:19, 9 November 2022
- contrasts "Aryan" with "Semitic" culture, to the detriment ... Fiction Books Published in the English Language. Chicago, IL: Shasta Publishers ...24 KB (3,559 words) - 13:46, 27 October 2022
- three years as courtiers, learning the language, literature, and customs ... Book of Daniel. Scholars Press for Harvard Semitic Museum, 1977. ISBN 9780891301332 ...20 KB (3,175 words) - 07:25, 17 November 2023
- continuation of the earlier north Semitic alphabetic order, since ... no equivalent for ṣād (ص). The Greek language system of letters-as-numbers ...16 KB (2,297 words) - 21:54, 10 December 2023
- of the greatest innovators in the English language. In her works she experimented ... caused by accusations that Woolf was anti-semitic and snobbish, it seems that ...18 KB (2,827 words) - 20:35, 3 May 2023
- was printed at Harvard in an Indian language, Massachusett. Termed the ... anti-Semitism, writing that "anti-Semitic feeling among the students ...32 KB (4,558 words) - 16:50, 30 January 2022
- # A cult-language of symbol and metaphor. Ideas and qualities are ... by the members of the priesthood. The language in which the Mandaean religious ...22 KB (3,408 words) - 11:01, 9 March 2023
- ==Anti-Semitic violence== When Richard was crowned king of England ... he had no need to learn the English language. Leaving the country in ...37 KB (6,079 words) - 04:23, 10 December 2022
- Syria, discovered in 1975, a great Semitic empire spread from the Red ... Most Syrians are an overall Semitic Levantine people. While modern ...53 KB (7,689 words) - 00:57, 21 April 2023
- to that of King Sargon I, founder of the Semitic dynasty of Akkad, c. 2360 ... could speak well enough, but his first language was Egyptian, not the Hebrew ...40 KB (6,642 words) - 20:52, 26 August 2020
- principal religion is Islam, and its main language is Arabic. ... the largest living member of the Semitic language family in terms of speakers ...50 KB (7,586 words) - 20:00, 4 May 2024
- Arabic is the largest living member of the Semitic language family in terms of speakers. Classified as Central Semitic, it is closely related to Hebrew ...33 KB (4,844 words) - 04:49, 18 April 2024
- was made due to the influence of anti-Semitic sectors in the Argentinian ... that Eichmann was in fact highly anti-Semitic, and that these feelings ...27 KB (4,132 words) - 06:02, 15 June 2023
- Ethiopia, bringing with them their language, proto-Ethiopian (or Sabean ... Hebrew. Ge'ez was also the first Semitic language to employ a vowel system ...47 KB (6,926 words) - 04:34, 22 March 2024
- orthodox Christian doctrine" and had no anti-Semitic roots. Conspiracy theorists have claimed that the immortal Count of Saint Germain is ...17 KB (2,693 words) - 06:20, 31 July 2023
- hugely influential on later portrayals of ancient Semitic cultures. The use of the orient as an exotic backdrop continued in the movies (including ...18 KB (2,670 words) - 01:22, 18 November 2022
- in the Andean cultures. In the Mayan language, toh is the name for the ... were taller than the Incas. They also had Semitic facial features. The Incas ...27 KB (4,083 words) - 23:00, 30 April 2023
- letter 'B' through an early Proto-Semitic hieroglyphic symbol depicting a house. The symbol was called "bayt", "bet" or ...27 KB (3,923 words) - 00:12, 4 February 2024
- The word Ba'al means simply "Lord" in various semitic languages, including Hebrew. ==Notes== ==References== * Hoftijzer, Jacob ...16 KB (2,754 words) - 04:16, 11 January 2023
- is wholly extant only in the Ethiopic language. There are two other books ... The Greek language text was known to, and quoted by nearly all, Church ...29 KB (4,679 words) - 07:27, 17 November 2023
- for "pomegranate" is the Egyptian and Semitic rmn. Attested in Ancient Egyptian, in Hebrew rimmôn, and in Arabic rummân, this root was ...26 KB (3,898 words) - 08:48, 24 November 2022
- The first American English language edition was published in Boston ... #039;s Biarritz, with its strong anti-semitic theme containing the alleged ...66 KB (9,730 words) - 23:42, 22 October 2023
- in the local dialect) is derived from the Semitic root "LBN," which ... and parts of Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan. Semitic peoples are thought to have ...55 KB (7,922 words) - 06:11, 6 March 2023
- but many of the minorities speak more than one language. ... among the older generation. The two language families that most of the ...41 KB (6,034 words) - 19:30, 13 February 2024
- The earliest language written in Mesopotamia was Sumerian, an agglutinative ... Subartuan, a language of the Zagros possibly related to the Hurro ...54 KB (7,940 words) - 19:20, 25 March 2024
- Catholics, but not particularly anti-Semitic. For instance, Jews were ... of economic history notorious for anti-Semitic remarks, when Ernst Kirchweger ...45 KB (6,819 words) - 05:13, 31 July 2023
- led Müller to relate the history of language to the history of religion ... a time when scholars had started to see language development in relation ...30 KB (4,499 words) - 00:55, 9 November 2022
- century by the worst episode of anti-Semitic violence in history during ... harping at the synods on the anti-Semitic decrees of the canonical ...56 KB (8,438 words) - 08:48, 3 April 2024
- Her interest in the French language began with a governess who read ... and Jean Cocteau along with English-language writers Ford Madox Ford ...46 KB (7,032 words) - 01:28, 11 November 2022
