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  2. Book of Sirach - Wikipedia

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    The Book of Sirach (/ ˈ s aɪ r æ k /) [a], also known as The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach [1] or Ecclesiasticus (/ ɪ ˌ k l iː z i ˈ æ s t ɪ k ə s /), [2] is a Jewish literary work, originally written in Biblical Hebrew.

  3. Pardes (exegesis) - Wikipedia

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    The four approaches within its name are the 'four which entered into the orchard,' i.e. peshat and remez and derasha and sod," [1] while a slightly different version appears twice in the New Zohar: "The pardes of the bible is a compound of peshata and re'ia and derasha and sod."

  4. Parashah - Wikipedia

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    A notable exception is The Jerusalem Crown (The Bible of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2000), whose typography and layout is fashioned after the Aleppo Codex, and follows the medieval spacing techniques for parashah divisions by leaving an empty line for {P} and starts {S} on a new line with an indentation.

  5. Kshitiz - Wikipedia

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    Kshitiz may refer to Kshitiz Educational Foundation in Nepal; Kshitiz, a national inter-college festival in India, see Rajkiya Engineering College, Ambedkar Nagar;

  6. Masoretic Text - Wikipedia

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    The Masoretic Text is the basis for most Protestant translations of the Old Testament such as the King James Version, English Standard Version, [8] New American Standard Bible, [9] and New International Version. [10] After 1943, it has also been used for some Catholic Bibles, such as the New American Bible and the New Jerusalem Bible.

  7. Pele-joez-el-gibbor-abi-ad-sar-shalom - Wikipedia

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    Pele-joez-el-gibbor-abi-ad-sar-shalom [a] is a prophetic name or title which occurs in Isaiah 9:5 in the Hebrew Bible or Isaiah 9:6 in English Bibles. It is one of a series of prophetic names found in chapters 7, 8 and 9 of the Book of Isaiah, including most notably Immanuel [b] and Maher-shalal-hash-baz [c] in the previous chapter (Isaiah 8:1–3), which is a reference to the impending ...

  8. Bible - Wikipedia

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    The Bible [a] is a collection of religious texts and scriptures that are held to be sacred in Christianity, and partly in Judaism, Samaritanism, Islam, the Baháʼí Faith, and other Abrahamic religions. The Bible is an anthology (a compilation of texts of a variety of forms) originally written in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Koine Greek. The texts ...

  9. Folklore in the Old Testament - Wikipedia

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    The title page of the book published in 1919. Folklore in the Old Testament: Studies in Comparative Religion, Legend, and Law is a 1918 book by the anthropologist Sir James George Frazer, in which the author compares episodes in the Old Testament with similar stories from other cultures in the ancient world.