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and in Eblaite—a previously unknown Semitic language. ... others are in a previously unknown Semitic language now known as Eblaite ...

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 ...

In most Semitic languages, the word Abba (also rendered Ab or Aba ... For over a half-millennium, the colloquial language for Palestinian ...

most particularly through the accounts of Semitic speaking people of Akkadian ... to be the homeland of the Proto-Semitic language family. This language ...

The Akkadian Empire usually refers to the Semitic speaking state that ... practices of the region. The Akkadian language became the lingua franca ...

interest in the inter-connections among language, thinking, and culture. ... so Edward learned both German and the language of his parents. When he ...

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 ...

of the practices of Egyptian religion and language. Budge's works were ... in learning the ancient Assyrian language in 1872, when he also began ...

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 ...

modifications to Sumerian orthography. The Semitic equivalents for many signs ... of c. 1800 B.C.E. to the Hittite language. When the cuneiform script ...

Amar, Hebrew ’emōrî) refers to a Semitic people who first occupied ... The Amorite language was a semitic dialect. The main sources for our ...

adopted local Canaanite culture and language before leaving any written ... debated. Many consider him to have been a Semitic fertility deity similar ...

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 ...

of the majority of Ethiopians using its language (Ge'ez) and perpetuating ... Furthermore, Ge'ez, the ancient Semitic language of Eritrea and Ethiopia ...

Anat, also ‘Anat, was a major northwest Semitic goddess who was ... Hyksos period) along with other northwest Semitic deities. She was especially ...

Yam or Yamm, from the ancient Semitic word meaning "sea," ... In West Semitic mythology, Yam was given kingship over the other gods ...

Albright obtained his doctorate in Semitic languages at Johns Hopkins ... for the understanding of ancient West Semitic culture in general, including ...

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 ...

Ēl (Hebrew: אל) is a northwest Semitic word meaning "god" ... pronounced according to the tradition of Semitic languages. El should be ...

(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 ...

The Doctors' plot (Russian language: дело врачей (doctors ... Committee in 1948 and launched an anti-Semitic campaign against so-called ...

among the Canaanite languages in the Semitic language family. In addition ... While the Semitic language of the Phoenicians, and some evidence of ...

As the Babylonian and Semitic societies were closely related (in terms ... Tiamat has also been claimed to be also cognate with West Semitic ...

to some degree with later western Semitic gods such as the Canaanite ... The later name Ea is either Hurrian or Semitic in origin. ...

also spelled Ashera, was a major northwest Semitic mother goddess, appearing ... beginning in the eighteenth dynasty, a Semitic goddess named Qudshu (& ...

syntactical forms. He maintained that language by itself provided everything ... and what was thought. His conclusion that language often serves to mask thought ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

) 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 ...

manuscripts of the Old Testament in any language; the oldest extant complete ... a reasonably accurate record of an early Semitic textual variant, now lost ...

” the capital of the Ammonites, a Semitic people spoken of in the Bible. ... The city became part of the ancient Arab, Semitic, trading kingdom ...

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 ...

many other Arabic words in the English language, cumin was acquired through ... quot; has the same meaning as the English language phrase "carrying coals ...

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 ...

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 ...

climate, although a pre-Greek or Semitic origin of origanum is also possible (Rogers 2004b). ==Uses== ===Culinary=== [[Image:Oregano_in_Pot.jpg ...

modern history and was appropriated in anti-semitic tracts. ... Another film version, intended for anti-Semitic propaganda in Germany ...

After the Nazi anti-semitic legislation forced her to resign from ... The Pope did not respond to Stein's letter. Anti-Semitic legislation ...

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 ...

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 ...

that the Greek word may be derived from a Semitic root, ābāq (pronounced "a-vak"), the Hebrew word for "dust." Though details ...

although his untimely death would fragment his newly conquered Semitic ... it was written in Akkadian, the daily language of Babylon, and could therefore ...

nationalistic, non-conformist, and anti-semitic pro-fascist journals such ... the ambiguous rhetorical nature of language, and the problematic nature ...

With very few variations, the Moabite language of the inscription ... consistent with the common use of language in the ancient Near East. ...

of Sumer were Akkadians, not Sumerians. Semitic Akkadian became the lingua ... became vassals of Akkad, and the Akkadian language made official. In fact, ...

the First Epistle of John echoes the language and several of the themes ... advanced age. The epistle's content, language and conceptual style are ...

the one used for Aramaic (the official language of Achaemenids) developed ... hence, influencing each others language. Tribhuvandas L. Shah, Ancient ...

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 ...

and Albişoara Streets. The English language name for the city was based ... Growing anti-semitic sentiment in Russia in the late nineteenth century ...

name when in liturgical use. In everyday language, the word Hashem ("The ... In English language bibles, YHWH is traditionally translated as "The ...

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 ...

Church, and it became a source of anti-semitic literature in modern times ... between the two Talmud compilations. The language of the Jerusalem Talmud ...

|langs=The Tuareg language(s) (Tamasheq, Tamajeq, Tamahaq) ... The Tuareg language is a southern Berber language having several dialects ...

The Fascists passed anti-Semitic laws in autumn 1938, which excluded ... Many authors have interpreted these anti-Semitic laws as an imitation ...

as misogynistic, homophobic and anti-Semitic by most academic circles; Nancy Harrowitz, Barbara Hyams (eds.), Jews and Gender: Responses to Otto ...

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 ...

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 ...

did profess loyalty to Hitler and make anti-Semitic remarks on occasion. However, his emphasis was always on space over race, believing in environmental ...

harmony with other considerations, that their language was Semitic, closely related to the Hebrew language and the Moabite language. ...

eschewed antiquated "poetic" language in hopes of inventing a ... of usury were sometimes virulently anti-Semitic. Together with his embrace ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sitchin's voluminous works, he uses Semitic language etymology and translations of Sumerian cuneiform tablets to equate the ancient Mesopotamian ...

Aprodite, Venus, and other goddesses in the semitic and Greco-Roman civilization. Human enactments of the hieros gamos in Canaan are inferred ...

*Semitic origins. Judaism and Islam originated among Semitic peoples – namely the Jews and Arabs, respectively – while Christianity arose ...

themselves as Berber. However the Berber language is spoken by an estimated ... recent human migration of various Italic, Semitic, Germanic, and sub-Saharan ...

Arabic is the official language, although English is increasingly spoken, particularly in the two main cities. Other Semitic dialects rarely ...

| native name link = Arabic language | nickname = ... They speak Soqotri, an unwritten Semitic language related to other Modern ...

they viewed as pacifism and addressed anti-Semitic insults to several speakers ... His condemnation of the Nazi's anti-Semitic policies was accompanied ...

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 ...

also under a fourth name, the West Semitic designation Naharina or ... derived from the still undivided Indo-Iranian language, ...

contrasts "Aryan" with "Semitic" culture, to the detriment ... Fiction Books Published in the English Language. Chicago, IL: Shasta Publishers ...

three years as courtiers, learning the language, literature, and customs ... Book of Daniel. Scholars Press for Harvard Semitic Museum, 1977. ISBN 9780891301332 ...

continuation of the earlier north Semitic alphabetic order, since ... no equivalent for ṣād (ص). The Greek language system of letters-as-numbers ...

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 ...

was printed at Harvard in an Indian language, Massachusett. Termed the ... anti-Semitism, writing that "anti-Semitic feeling among the students ...

# A cult-language of symbol and metaphor. Ideas and qualities are ... by the members of the priesthood. The language in which the Mandaean religious ...

==Anti-Semitic violence== When Richard was crowned king of England ... he had no need to learn the English language. Leaving the country in ...

Syria, discovered in 1975, a great Semitic empire spread from the Red ... Most Syrians are an overall Semitic Levantine people. While modern ...

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 ...

principal religion is Islam, and its main language is Arabic. ... the largest living member of the Semitic language family in terms of speakers ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ethiopia, bringing with them their language, proto-Ethiopian (or Sabean ... Hebrew. Ge'ez was also the first Semitic language to employ a vowel system ...

orthodox Christian doctrine" and had no anti-Semitic roots. Conspiracy theorists have claimed that the immortal Count of Saint Germain is ...

hugely influential on later portrayals of ancient Semitic cultures. The use of the orient as an exotic backdrop continued in the movies (including ...

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 ...

letter 'B' through an early Proto-Semitic hieroglyphic symbol depicting a house. The symbol was called "bayt", "bet" or ...

The word Ba'al means simply "Lord" in various semitic languages, including Hebrew. ==Notes== ==References== * Hoftijzer, Jacob ...

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 ...

for "pomegranate" is the Egyptian and Semitic rmn. Attested in Ancient Egyptian, in Hebrew rimmôn, and in Arabic rummân, this root was ...

The first American English language edition was published in Boston ... #039;s Biarritz, with its strong anti-semitic theme containing the alleged ...

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 ...

but many of the minorities speak more than one language. ... among the older generation. The two language families that most of the ...

The earliest language written in Mesopotamia was Sumerian, an agglutinative ... Subartuan, a language of the Zagros possibly related to the Hurro ...

Catholics, but not particularly anti-Semitic. For instance, Jews were ... of economic history notorious for anti-Semitic remarks, when Ernst Kirchweger ...

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 ...

century by the worst episode of anti-Semitic violence in history during ... harping at the synods on the anti-Semitic decrees of the canonical ...

Her interest in the French language began with a governess who read ... and Jean Cocteau along with English-language writers Ford Madox Ford ...

paper, La Croix, apologized for its anti-Semitic editorials during the Dreyfus ... novels ever written in the French language, the novel—an uncompromisingly ...

passages and not to interpret all of the language literally. ... be contained in any finite vessel or language. Scripture has been written ...

* Farbridge, Maurice H. Studies in Biblical and Semitic Symbolism. The Library of Biblical studies. New York: Ktav Pub. House, 1970. ISBN 978 ...

boundary, there were groups that shared a language, culture, or other similarity ... the seventh century introduced the Arabic language and Islam to North Africa ...

ancient Egyptians spoke an Afro-Asiatic language, related to Chadic, Berber ... The ancient Egyptians spoke an Afro-Asiatic language related to Chadic ...

to New York. This was mainly because of the anti-Semitic laws promulgated by the fascist regime of Benito Mussolini which threatened Laura, who was ...

Mencken is perhaps best remembered today for The American Language ... The American Language was Mencken's 1919 book about changes Americans ...

are female adjectives from the Proto-Semitic root LYL "night" ... * Langdon, Stephen L. The Mythology of All Races Volume V Semitic ...

always been regarded as sacred. In an ancient Semitic tradition the bare rock at the top was thought to be the mouth of the serpent Tahum and the intersection ...

attempts were made to trace the West Semitic Yah back to Babylonia. Assyriologist ... In fact, archaeologists and language experts indicate that it is difficult ...

to confuse the previously uniform language of humanity, thereby preventing ... 1 And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. 2 And ...

by the 1882 May Laws. Waves of anti-Semitic pogroms (riots against a ... or social origin, genetic features, language, religion or belief, political ...

attacking his Jewish editors with anti-Semitic slurs (and implying that ... The impact of his writings on Romanian poetic language was revolutionary ...

into neighboring areas. About 3500 B.C.E., semitic-speaking peoples of Arabian ... is the largest living member of the Semitic language family in terms of speakers ...

(U.S.) publishing, and the Berlitz language schools. He also owned a ... in the twentieth century, as well anti-semitic sentiments, all of which ...

He was an Oxford professor of Anglo-Saxon language (1925 to 1945) and English ... with a first-class degree in English language in 1915, Tolkien joined ...

were seen as Jewish, it was easy for anti-Semitic activists in Hungary to fuel fears of "Jewish-Bolshevist" conspiracy. Another was ...

Arabic word for God. In the English language, the word generally refers ... Cognates of the name "Allāh" exist in other Semitic languages ...

In an Ugaritic tablet (Ugaritic was a north-west Semitic language ... expect to find Isaiah using more explicit language to indicate that a virgin ...

of the Tristan story in a Slavic language. Lacy (1991), 106-08. ... large parts of the Serbo-Croatian language area, engendering a more ...

within the linguistic roots of the words in Semitic languages: In Latin, breath is spiritus, in Greek pneuma, in Hebrew ruach, and in Sanskrit prana ...

1968 when the authorities undertook an anti-Semitic campaign that forced many Jews to leave Poland."[https://www.nytimes.com/1989/04/22/books/poland ...

his work had been accused of being racist and anti-Semitic. However, it is more often noted by critics that although his approach to form did not often ...

most prominently in the modern Maltese language, which also contains significant ... Malta has two official languages—Maltese (a Semitic language derived ...

Beginning: A Short History of the Hebrew Language. New York: New York University ... *Qimron, Elisha. The Hebrew of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Harvard Semitic ...

rhetoric, as well as a love of the Greek language and literature. ... aspx Was St. John Chrysostom Anti-Semitic?] Orthodoxinfo.com. ...

linguistic attempts to derive the name from Semitic Aštoret, via undocumented Hittite transmission, remain inconclusive. A suggestion by Hammarström ...

who had adopted it from the Greek language term Palaestina (Παλαιστινη ... is the largest living member of the Semitic language family in terms of speakers ...

place name "Keftiu" and the Semitic "Kaftor" or "Caphtor ... script as Linear B for their Mycenaean language, a form of Greek. The first ...

Republic as a rallying point for their anti-semitic and racist demand for Aryan purity in art. Belief in a Germanic spirit—defined as mystical ...

Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich (Russian language: ru|Дмитрий ... he succeeded in forging a musical language of colossal emotional power ...

access to the Bible in the vernacular language and the right to interpret ... from Aramaic (Syrian) and Arabic, two Semitic languages related to Ancient ...

The name for Turkey in the Turkish language, Türkiye, can be divided ... Anatolians have spoken Indo-European, Semitic and South Caucasian languages ...

speech during the last stages of the Egyptian language. ... her cult takes over that of worship to the Semitic goddess Astarte, apparently ...

of the Holy Trinity with gender-neutral language, such as "Creator, ... human who is clearly male; and c) that in Semitic languages, such as Hebrew ...

posits that Iraq comes from the Aramaic language, meaning "the land ... Arabic, a Semitic language introduced by the Arab conquerors, is the ...

go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand ... manuscripts of the Old Testament in any language. There are minor variations ...

outside (during Christmas) to prevent anti-Semitic violence or pogroms. ... one country, their absence of a common language, and their lack of marketable ...

Language is a structured system of communication that consists of ... Depending on philosophical perspectives on the definition of language ...

The discovery of the Indo-European language group in the 1790s led ... always has been and always will be anti-Semitic."[http://gutenberg ...

Birth of a Nation, and inflammatory anti-Semitic newspaper accounts surrounding ... The Prescript included inspirational language about the goals of the Klan ...

to read War and Peace in its original language, he decided to leave California ... referred to as "the so-called anti-Semitic charge": ...

and 1952, but left after spotting anti-Semitic tendencies in the magazine ... Buckley was well known for his command of language. Buckley came late ...

in a famous passage on the nature of language and poetry. Out of darkness ... that Eliot was probably “slightly anti-Semitic in the sort of vague way ...

of western Pakistan. Their Pashto language and the practice of Pashtunwali ... who spoke a related Middle Iranian language. Pashtuns, historically ...

subject of debate, though critics of the “anti-Semitic” theory cite that the author most likely considered himself Jewish and was probably speaking ...

meaning "destruction" in Hebrew language, became the standard Hebrew ... Christian art frequently depicted anti-semitic images, such as the Judensau ...

Circumcision was common, although not universal, among ancient Semitic peoples. The Book of Jeremiah, written in the sixth century B.C.E., lists ...

and Iran, respectively. A much older, non-Semitic term, Bahran; according ... Arabic is the official language. The two main dialects are Baharna ...

shore was inhabited by various Semitic-speaking populations. The ... The Etruscan language has not yet been deciphered, but archaeological ...

to a technician like Tolstoy, whose language is clean and neat and whose ... Dostoevsky has also been noted as having expressed anti-Semitic sentiments ...

When the Semitic tribes settled in the cities of Mesopotamia, their tribal customs passed over into city law. The early history of the country ...

quot; to the studies of anti-semitic prejudice performed by multiple ... and self-critical, he believed that the language the sociologist uses, like ...

Appeal Clarifies Situation Over Potentially Anti-Semitic Monument"] (Federation of Jewish Communities of the CIS Press Release), November 23, 2005; ...

During early childhood, learning (language and skill acquisition) is ... 9282010244), 146 In Waldorf schools, oral language development is addressed ...

remained distinct in its religion, arts, language, and customs. The first ... ruling dynasty in Egypt, that of the Semitic Hyksos. The Hyksos invaders ...

a transliteration of the original Pali language spoken by Siddhartha and ... way Northern Europeans often portray the Semitic Jesus as blonde and blue-eyed. ...

record with the arrival of the Aramaeans, Semitic nomads who came from the ... of the Silk Road, gave the English language "damask." ...

dead by a mentally deranged, right-wing, anti-Semitic painter and art critic, Eligiusz Niewiadomski, who had originally wanted to kill Piłsudski ...

sent to concentration camps under anti-semitic policies.Flint Whitlock ... that managed them. (In the Russian language, the term is used to denote ...

Blood libels against Jews were a common form of anti-Semitic fake ... starting in 1915, and by 1917 the English-language publication North China ...

It is generally agreed that Jesus spoke Aramaic, the common language ... quot;, Explorations in the Sociology of Language and Religion, edited by ...

or plot elements. Wagner's chromatic musical language prefigured later developments in European classical music, including extreme chromaticism ...

Baghdadi speaking on a pulpit in the Arabic language to a congregation at the Great Mosque of al-Nuri in Mosul, northern Iraq. In the video, al-Baghdadi ...

of ancient Rome on the nation's language and culture. Before the ... three principalities recognize unity of language and interests. ...

(1966), Weekend (1967), and Goodbye to Language (2014). ... Godard was accused by some of harboring anti-Semitic views. In 2010 ...

deities, the Baals (Lords) and the Asherot (Semitic goddesses). In addition to an altar, matzevot (stone pillars representing the presence of the divine ...

also present. Short of using written language, many of them developed ... with only the common bonds of language, race, religion and tradition. ...

the emergence of the modern German language by standardizing it for ... Luther was an earthy man who spoke his mind in blunt language. Many ...

West as Persia, due to the ancient Greek language name for Iran, Persis. The ... Iran, called Fars or Pars in the Persian language. This region was the core ...

of) God""[http://www.bartleby.com/61/ Semitic Roots]." The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th ed. (Boston: Houghton ...

their rituals periodically, updating the language used, adding or omitting ... by which was meant the creation of anti-Semitic and anti-Masonic propaganda ...

to ʾilah (deity), ultimately from Proto-Semitic *ʾilâh-, and indirectly ... that describe God using anthropomorphic language, such as God seeing, hearing ...

supporter of Vichy France's anti-Semitic laws, calling him "less ... are not translated from their original language (mostly Italian) and the ...

as the topic of God. In the English language, the term God, when capitalized ... and affirmations. It assumes that human language can never truly express ...

mother Sara shared the conventional anti-Semitic attitudes common among Americans at a time when Jewish immigrants were flooding into the U.S ...

pretext to launch an anti-intellectual and anti-Semitic press campaign (although the expression "anti-Zionist" was the one officially used ...

as Franco refused to implement anti-Semitic laws, as demanded by the ... Spanish was recognized as an official language of the country, although ...

#039;s lack of understanding of the language; her gestures and voice ... In Kyiv and Odessa, she encountered anti-Semitic crowds who threw stones ...