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Jonathan Henry Sacks was born in the Lambeth district of London on 8 March 1948, [7] the son of Jewish (of Ashkenazi Diaspora) textile seller Louis David Sacks (died 1996) [8] and his Jewish wife Louisa (née Frumkin; 1919–2010), [9] [10] who came from a family of leading Jewish wine merchants.
In Israel, "Yoni" is a common nickname for Yonatan (Jonathan) in the same way Jonny is in English. [ 4 ] The name was the 31st-most-popular boys' name in the United States in 2011, according to the SSA .
It is common Jewish practice to restrict the use of the names of God to a liturgical context. In casual conversation some Jews, even when not speaking Hebrew, will call God HaShem (השם), which is Hebrew for 'the Name' (compare Leviticus 24:11 and Deuteronomy 28:58). When written, it is often abbreviated to ה׳.
Jonathan died at the battle of Mount Gilboa along with his father and brothers [13] (1 Samuel 31). His bones were buried first at Jabesh-gilead, (1 Samuel 31:13) but were later removed with those of his father and moved to Zelah. [3] [14] Jonathan was the father of Mephibosheth, to whom David showed special kindness for Jonathan's sake (2 ...
Jonathan (Hebrew: יוֹנָתָן; Imperial Aramaic: יוֹנָתָן; died c. AD 58), also referred to as Jonathan the High Priest, was a first-century Jewish high priest and religious leader. Shortly after he was announced High Priest of Israel, he was killed in AD 58 by Antonius Felix, the Roman procurator of the province Judea.
The Jewish Encyclopedia recalls that "the Jewish Christians of Palestine had a Gospel of their own, the so-called Hebrew Gospel, from which still later Church Fathers quote". It states that the correct reading has "Gilyon" in the singular and argues that the text refers specifically to "the Hebrew Gospel", not to other Gospels, of which there ...
The text identifies Jonathan as the son of Gershom, son of Manasseh, [1] but there is a scribal oddity in that the verse presents the name of Manasseh as מ נ שה, with the "נ" superscripted, which does not occur elsewhere in the Bible; the correct reading may be Moses (Hebrew: משה, Moshe), and Rashi and other sages suspected as much ...
David and Jonathan were, according to the Hebrew Bible's Books of Samuel, heroic figures of the Kingdom of Israel, who formed a covenant, taking a mutual oath. Jonathan was the son of Saul , king of Israel , of the tribe of Benjamin , and David was the son of Jesse of Bethlehem , of the tribe of Judah , and Jonathan's presumed rival for the crown.