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Naaman is understood as Moab in the expression "Moab would be my washbasin" in Psalm 60 (Psalms 60:10), which the Rabbis regard as an allusion to Naaman's bathing in the Jordan; the appellation "Moab" is a play on the word "abi" (= "my father"), by which Naaman was addressed by his servants in 2 Kings 5:13. [6] Naaman was a ger toshav, not a ...
2 Kings 5 is the fifth chapter of the second part of the Books of Kings in the Hebrew Bible or the Second Book of Kings in the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. [1] [2] The book is a compilation of various annals recording the acts of the kings of Israel and Judah by a Deuteronomic compiler in the seventh century BCE, with a supplement added in the sixth century BCE. [3]
Nadav Na'aman (Hebrew: נדב נעמן; born in 1939 in Jerusalem) is an Israeli archaeologist and historian.He specializes in the study of the Near East in the second and first millenniums BCE.
In Judaism, bible hermeneutics notably uses midrash, a Jewish method of interpreting the Hebrew Bible and the rules which structure the Jewish laws. [1] The early allegorizing trait in the interpretation of the Hebrew Bible figures prominently in the massive oeuvre of a prominent Hellenized Jew of Alexandria, Philo Judaeus, whose allegorical reading of the Septuagint synthesized the ...
Isaiah 9:6 “For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father ...
The Naamah mentioned in the Bible is a Cainite, a descendant in the lineage of Cain (the daughter of Lamech and sister of Tubal-cain). However, a Sethite Naamah is named as the wife of Noah (see Rashi 's commentary on Genesis 4:22), and a daughter of Enoch , Noah's great-grandfather, in the early Jewish midrash Genesis Rabba (23.3) [ 3 ] [ 4 ...
We all remember 'The Wizard of Oz' from the ruby slippers to the emerald city -- not to mention how cute Toto was. So in honor of the 77th anniversary of the classic film, take a look at the life ...
Gehazi, Geichazi, or Giezi (Douay-Rheims) (Hebrew: גֵּיחֲזִי ; Gēḥăzī; "valley of vision"), is a figure found in the Books of Kings in the Hebrew Bible. A servant of the prophet Elisha, Gehazi enjoyed a position of power but was ultimately corrupt, misusing his authority to cheat Naaman the Syrian, a general afflicted with ...