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  2. Biblical and Talmudic units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    Some months vary in length by a day, as well. The months originally had very descriptive names, such as Ziv (meaning light) and Ethanim (meaning strong, perhaps in the sense of strong rain - i.e. monsoon), with Canaanite origins, but after the Babylonian captivity, the names were changed to the ones used by the Babylonians.

  3. Targum - Wikipedia

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    11th century Hebrew Bible with targum, perhaps from Tunisia, found in Iraq: part of the Schøyen Collection. A targum (Imperial Aramaic: תרגום, interpretation, translation, version; plural: targumim) was an originally spoken translation of the Hebrew Bible (also called the Hebrew: תַּנַ״ךְ, romanized: Tana"kh) that a professional translator (מְתוּרגְמָן mǝṯurgǝmān ...

  4. Intercalation - Wikipedia

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    Intercalation may refer to: Intercalation (chemistry) , insertion of a molecule (or ion) into layered solids such as graphite Intercalation (timekeeping) , insertion of a leap day, week or month into some calendar years to make the calendar follow the seasons

  5. Four senses of Scripture - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. Intercalation (chemistry) - Wikipedia

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    Intercalation is the reversible inclusion or insertion of a molecule (or ion) into layered materials with layered structures. Examples are found in graphite and transition metal dichalcogenides . [ 1 ] [ 2 ]

  7. Interbedding - Wikipedia

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    Intercalation is a special case of interbedding where a layer is variably inserted into an already existing sequence; or where two separate depositional environments ...

  8. List of Bible dictionaries - Wikipedia

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    A Bible dictionary is a reference work containing encyclopedic entries related to the Bible, typically concerning people, places, customs, doctrine and Biblical criticism. Bible dictionaries can be scholarly or popular in tone.

  9. Pericope - Wikipedia

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    A pericope consisting of passages from different parts of a single book, or from different books of the Bible, and linked together into a single reading is called a concatenation or composite reading.