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Arabia – (in biblical times and until the 7th century AD Arabia was confined to the Arabian Peninsula) Aram/Aramea – (Modern Syria) Arbela (Erbil/Irbil) – Assyrian city; Archevite; Armenia – Indo-European kingdom of eastern Asia Minor and southern Caucasus. Arrapkha – Assyrian city, modern Kirkuk; Ashdod; Ashkelon; Ashur/Asshur/Assur ...
Finkelstein, Israel, et al. Shiloh: The Archaeology of a Biblical Site. Tel Aviv, 1993. Schley, Donald G. Shiloh: A Biblical City in Tradition and History, Sheffield, 1989, 2009. This is the only in-depth study of Shiloh from a textual, historical and archaeological perspective available; provides an exhaustive bibliography going back to 1805 ...
Focusing on the holiness of the text, Jewish mystics consider every nuance of the text to be a clue in discovering divine secrets, from the entire text to the accents on each letter. Once one can find such knowledge, one can use the text in mystical rituals to affect both the upper worlds (heavens) and the lower world (our world).
Bezalel possessed such great wisdom that he could combine those letters of the alphabet with which heaven and earth were created; this being the meaning of the statement (Exodus 31:3): "I have filled him ... with wisdom and knowledge," which were the implements by means of which God created the world, as stated in Proverbs 3:19, 20 (Berakhot 55a).
Much as Cain's name is connected to the verb meaning "to get" in Genesis 4:1, the name "Nod" closely resembles the word "nad" (נָד ), usually translated as "vagabond", in Genesis 4:12. (In the Septuagint 's rendering of the same verse God curses Cain to τρέμων ( tremōn ), "trembling".) [ 4 ]
Proposed location of Biblical Gilgal in the West Bank. According to Joshua 4:19, Gilgal is a location "on the eastern border of Jericho" where the Israelites encamped immediately after crossing the Jordan River. There, they erected twelve stones as a memorial to the miraculous stopping of the river when they crossed. [4]
Meteg is primarily used in Biblical Hebrew to mark secondary stress and vowel length.. Meteg is also sometimes used in Biblical Hebrew to mark a long vowel.While short and long vowels are largely allophonic, they are not always predictable from spelling, e.g. ויראו 'and they saw' vs. ויראו 'and they feared'.
In extra-biblical inscriptions, the earliest known example of the -ayim ending was discovered on a column about 3 km west of ancient Jerusalem, dated to the first century BCE. [ 23 ] In Genesis Rabbah 56:10, the name is interpreted as a combination of yir'eh , "He will see [to it]," and Shalem , the city of King Melchizedek (based on Genesis 14 ...