Vayishlach, the Glossary
Vayishlach or Vayishlah (—Hebrew for "and he sent," the first word of the parashah) is the eighth weekly Torah portion in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading.[1]
Table of Contents
391 relations: Aaron, Aaron Wildavsky, Abba Arikha, Abbahu, Abimelech, Abiram, Abraham, Abraham ibn Ezra, Abraham Isaac Kook, Acronym, Adam, Adele Berlin, Adele Reinhartz, Agagite, Ahasuerus, Ahaz, Al-Andalus, Alexandria, Aliyah (Torah), Altar, Amalek, Anakim, Anathoth, Anchor Bible Series, Ancient Egypt, Andrea Weiss (rabbi), Angel, Anita Diamant, Antiquities of the Jews, Aragon, Aram-Naharaim, Araunah, Arba (biblical figure), Arthur Green, ArtScroll, Ashkenazi Jews, Australian Biblical Review, Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg, Bahya ibn Paquda, Bar Kappara, Baraita, Beersheba, Ben-Zion Bokser, Beneberak, Benjamin, Bernhard Anderson, Bethel, Bethlehem, Biblical apocrypha, Biblical Archaeology Review, ... Expand index (341 more) »
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Aaron
According to Abrahamic religions, Aaron was a Jewish prophet, a high priest, and the elder brother of Moses.
Aaron Wildavsky
Aaron Wildavsky (May 31, 1930 – September 4, 1993) was an American political scientist known for his pioneering work in public policy, government budgeting, and risk management.
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Abba Arikha
Rav Abba bar Aybo (175–247 CE), commonly known as Abba Arikha or simply as Rav, was a Jewish amora of the 3rd century.
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Abbahu
Rabbi Abbahu (אבהו) was a Jew and Talmudist of the Talmudic Academies in Syria Palaestina from about 279 to 320 CE and is counted a member of the third generation of Amoraim.
Abimelech
Abimelech (also spelled Abimelek or Avimelech) was the generic name given to all Philistine kings in the Hebrew Bible from the time of Abraham through King David.
Abiram
Abiram, also spelled Abiron (אֲבִירָם "my father is exalted"), is the name of two people in the Old Testament.
Abraham
Abraham (originally Abram) is the common Hebrew patriarch of the Abrahamic religions, including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
Abraham ibn Ezra
Abraham ben Meir Ibn Ezra (ר׳ אַבְרָהָם בֶּן מֵאִיר אִבְּן עֶזְרָא ʾAḇrāhām ben Mēʾīr ʾībən ʾĒzrāʾ, often abbreviated as; إبراهيمالمجيد ابن عزرا Ibrāhim al-Mājid ibn Ezra; also known as Abenezra or simply Ibn Ezra, 1089 / 1092 – 27 January 1164 / 23 January 1167)Jewish Encyclopedia; Chambers Biographical Dictionary gives the dates 1092/93 – 1167 was one of the most distinguished Jewish biblical commentators and philosophers of the Middle Ages.
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Abraham Isaac Kook
Abraham Isaac Kook (7 September 1865 – 1 September 1935), known as HaRav Kook, and also known by the Hebrew-language acronym Hara'ayah, was an Orthodox rabbi, and the first Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of British Mandatory Palestine.
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Acronym
An acronym is an abbreviation of a phrase that usually consists of the initial letter of each word in all caps with no punctuation.
Adam
Adam is the name given in Genesis 1–5 to the first human.
Adele Berlin
Adele Berlin (born May 23, 1943 in Philadelphia) is an American biblical scholar and Hebraist.
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Adele Reinhartz
Adele Reinhartz (born 1953) is a Canadian academic and a specialist in the history and literature of Christianity and Judaism in the Greco-Roman period, the Gospel of John, early Jewish–Christian relations, literary criticism including feminist literary criticism, feminist exegesis, and the impact of the Bible on popular cinema and television.
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Agagite
The term Agagite is used in the Book of Esther as a description of Haman.
Ahasuerus
Ahasuerus (commonly Achashverosh; Asouḗros, in the Septuagint; Assuerus in the Vulgate) is a name applied in the Hebrew Bible to three rulers of Ancient Persia and to a Babylonian official (or Median king) first appearing in the Tanakh in the Book of Esther and later in the Christian Book of Tobit.
Ahaz
Ahaz (Ἄχαζ, Ἀχάζ Akhaz; Achaz) an abbreviation of Jehoahaz II (of Judah), "Yahweh has held" (𒅀𒌑𒄩𒍣 Ya'úḫazi)Hayim Tadmor and Shigeo Yamada, The Royal Inscriptions of Tiglath-pileser III (744-727 BC) and Shalmaneser V (726-722 BC), Kings of Assyria.
Al-Andalus
Al-Andalus was the Muslim-ruled area of the Iberian Peninsula.
Alexandria
Alexandria (الإسكندرية; Ἀλεξάνδρεια, Coptic: Ⲣⲁⲕⲟϯ - Rakoti or ⲁⲗⲉⲝⲁⲛⲇⲣⲓⲁ) is the second largest city in Egypt and the largest city on the Mediterranean coast.
Aliyah (Torah)
An aliyah (or aliyah, Hebrew עליה; pl. עליות, aliyot; "ascent" or "going up") is the calling of a member of a Jewish congregation up to the bimah for a segment of the formal Torah reading.
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Altar
An altar is a table or platform for the presentation of religious offerings, for sacrifices, or for other ritualistic purposes.
Amalek
Amalek (עֲמָלֵק|ʿĂmālēq; ʿAmālīq) is described in the Hebrew Bible as the enemy nation of the Israelites.
Anakim
Anakim (ʿĂnāqīm) are mentioned in the Bible as descendants of Anak.
Anathoth
Anathoth is the name of one of the Levitical cities given to "the children of Aaron" in the tribe of Benjamin. Residents were called Antothites or Anetothites.
Anchor Bible Series
The Anchor Bible Series, which consists of a commentary series, a Bible dictionary, and a reference library, is a scholarly and commercial co-venture which was begun in 1956, with the publication of individual volumes in the commentary series.
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Ancient Egypt
Ancient Egypt was a civilization of ancient Northeast Africa.
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Andrea Weiss (rabbi)
Andrea Weiss is an American rabbi, author, and Assistant Professor of Bible at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York, where she was ordained in 1993.
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Angel
In Abrahamic religious traditions (such as Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) and some sects of other belief-systems like Hinduism and Buddhism, an angel is a heavenly supernatural or spiritual being.
Anita Diamant
Anita Diamant (born June 27, 1951) is an American author of fiction and non-fiction books.
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Antiquities of the Jews
Antiquities of the Jews (Antiquitates Iudaicae; Ἰουδαϊκὴ ἀρχαιολογία, Ioudaikē archaiologia) is a 20-volume historiographical work, written in Greek, by historian Josephus in the 13th year of the reign of Roman emperor Domitian, which was 94 CE.
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Aragon
Aragon (Spanish and Aragón; Aragó) is an autonomous community in Spain, coextensive with the medieval Kingdom of Aragon.
Aram-Naharaim
Aram-Naharaim (אֲרַם נַהֲרַיִם ʾĂram Nahărayīm; ʾĀrām Nahrīn; "Aram between (the) rivers") is the biblical term for the ancient land of the Arameans in Mesopotamia, specifically the great bend of the Euphrates River.
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Araunah
Araunah (Hebrew: ʾǍrawnā) was a Jebusite mentioned in the Second Book of Samuel, who owned the threshing floor on Mount Moriah which David purchased and used as the site for assembling an altar to God.
Arba (biblical figure)
Arba (- literally "Four") was a man mentioned in the Book of Joshua.
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Arthur Green
Arthur Green (אברהם יצחק גרין, born March 21, 1941) is an American scholar of Jewish mysticism and Neo-Hasidic theologian.
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ArtScroll is an imprint of translations, books and commentaries from an Orthodox Jewish perspective published by Mesorah Publications, Ltd., a publishing company based in Rahway, New Jersey.
Ashkenazi Jews
Ashkenazi Jews (translit,; Ashkenazishe Yidn), also known as Ashkenazic Jews or Ashkenazim, constitute a Jewish diaspora population that emerged in the Holy Roman Empire around the end of the first millennium CE. They traditionally spoke Yiddish and largely migrated towards northern and eastern Europe during the late Middle Ages due to persecution.
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Australian Biblical Review
The Australian Biblical Review is an annual peer-reviewed academic journal in the field of biblical studies.
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Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg
Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg (born March 1944) is a Scottish contemporary Torah scholar and author.
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Bahya ibn Paquda
Bahyā ibn Pāqudā (also: Pakuda, Bakuda; בחיי אבן פקודה, بهية بن فاقودا), c. 1050–1120, was a Jewish philosopher and rabbi who lived in the Taifa of Zaragoza in al-Andalus (now Spain).
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Bar Kappara
Bar Kappara (bar qapparā) was a Jewish scholar of the late second and early third century CE (i.e., during the period between the tannaim and amoraim).
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Baraita
Baraita (translit "external" or "outside"; pl. bārayāṯā or in Hebrew baraitot; also baraitha, beraita; Ashkenazi pronunciation: berayse) designates a tradition in the Oral Torah of Rabbinical Judaism that is not incorporated in the Mishnah.
Beersheba
Beersheba, officially Be'er-Sheva (usually spelled Beer Sheva; Bəʾēr Ševaʿ,; Biʾr as-Sabʿ), is the largest city in the Negev desert of southern Israel.
Ben-Zion Bokser
Ben-Zion Bokser (July 4, 1907 – January 30, 1984) was a major Conservative rabbi in the United States.
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Beneberak
Benebarak ('Sons of Barak') (בְּנֵי בְּרַק, Bnei Brak) was a biblical city mentioned in the Book of Joshua.
Benjamin
Benjamin (בִּנְיָמִין Bīnyāmīn; "Son of (the) right")blue letter bible: https://www.blueletterbible.org/lexicon/h3225/kjv/wlc/0-1/ H3225 - yāmîn - Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (kjv) was the last of the two sons of Jacob and Rachel (i.e., Jacob's thirteenth child and twelfth and youngest son) in Jewish, Christian and Islamic tradition.
Bernhard Anderson
Bernhard Word Anderson (September 25, 1916 – December 26, 2007) was an American United Methodist pastor and Old Testament scholar.
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Bethel
Bethel (translit, "House of El" or "House of God",Bleeker and Widegren, 1988, p. 257. also transliterated Beth El, Beth-El, Beit El; Βαιθήλ; Bethel) was an ancient Israelite city and sacred space that is frequently mentioned in the Hebrew Bible.
Bethlehem
Bethlehem (بيت لحم,,; בֵּית לֶחֶם) is a city in the Israeli-occupied West Bank of the State of Palestine, located about south of Jerusalem.
Biblical apocrypha
The biblical apocrypha denotes the collection of apocryphal ancient books thought to have been written some time between 200 BC and 100 AD.
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Biblical Archaeology Review
Biblical Archaeology Review is a magazine appearing every three months and sometimes referred to as BAR that seeks to connect the academic study of archaeology to a broad general audience seeking to understand the world of the Bible, the Near East, and the Middle East (Syro-Palestine and the Levant).
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Biblical Hittites
The Hittites, also spelled Hethites, were a group of people mentioned in the Hebrew Bible.
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Bilhah
Bilhah ("unworried", Standard Hebrew: Bilha, Tiberian Hebrew: Bīlhā) is a woman mentioned in the Book of Genesis.
Birkat Hamazon
Birkat Hamazon (translit "The Blessing of the Food"), known in English as the Grace After Meals (translit "to bless", Yinglish: Bentsching), is a set of Hebrew blessings that Jewish law prescribes following a meal that includes at least a kezayit (olive-sized) piece of bread.
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Birkot hashachar
Birkot hashachar or Birkot haShachar (morning blessings' or 'blessings the dawn) are a series of blessings that are recited at the beginning of Jewish morning services.
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Book of Deuteronomy
Deuteronomy (second law; Liber Deuteronomii) is the fifth book of the Torah (in Judaism), where it is called (דְּבָרִים|Dəḇārīm| words) and the fifth book of the Hebrew Bible and Christian Old Testament.
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Book of Esther
The Book of Esther (Megillat Ester; Ἐσθήρ; Liber Esther), also known in Hebrew as "the Scroll" ("the Megillah"), is a book in the third section (כְּתוּבִים "Writings") of the Hebrew Bible.
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Book of Exodus
The Book of Exodus (from translit; שְׁמוֹת Šəmōṯ, 'Names'; Liber Exodus) is the second book of the Bible.
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Book of Genesis
The Book of Genesis (from Greek; בְּרֵאשִׁית|Bərēʾšīṯ|In beginning; Liber Genesis) is the first book of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament.
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Book of Hosea
The Book of Hosea (סֵפֶר הוֹשֵׁעַ|Sēfer Hōšēaʿ) is collected as one of the twelve minor prophets of the Nevi'im ("Prophets") in the Tanakh, and as a book in its own right in the Christian Old Testament.
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Book of Jeremiah
The Book of Jeremiah (ספר יִרְמְיָהוּ) is the second of the Latter Prophets in the Hebrew Bible, and the second of the Prophets in the Christian Old Testament.
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Book of Job
The Book of Job (ʾĪyyōḇ), or simply Job, is a book found in the Ketuvim ("Writings") section of the Hebrew Bible and the first of the Poetic Books in the Old Testament of the Christian Bible.
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Book of Judges
The Book of Judges (Sefer Shoftim; Κριτές; Liber Iudicum) is the seventh book of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament.
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Book of Leviticus
The Book of Leviticus (from Λευιτικόν,; וַיִּקְרָא,, 'And He called'; Liber Leviticus) is the third book of the Torah (the Pentateuch) and of the Old Testament, also known as the Third Book of Moses.
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Book of Nahum
The Book of Nahum is the seventh book of the 12 minor prophets of the Hebrew Bible.
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Book of Obadiah
The Book of Obadiah is a book of the Bible whose authorship is attributed to Obadiah.
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Book of Wisdom
The Book of Wisdom, or the Wisdom of Solomon, is a book written in Greek and most likely composed in Alexandria, Egypt.
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Book of Zechariah
The Book of Zechariah is a Jewish text attributed to Zechariah, a Hebrew prophet of the late 6th century BC.
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Books of Chronicles
The Book of Chronicles (דִּבְרֵי־הַיָּמִים, "words of the days") is a book in the Hebrew Bible, found as two books (1–2 Chronicles) in the Christian Old Testament.
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Books of Kings
The Book of Kings (Sēfer Məlāḵīm) is a book in the Hebrew Bible, found as two books (1–2 Kings) in the Old Testament of the Christian Bible.
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Books of Samuel
The Book of Samuel (Sefer Shmuel) is a book in the Hebrew Bible, found as two books (1–2 Samuel) in the Old Testament.
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Bride price
Bride price, bride-dowry, bride-wealth, bride service or bride token, is money, property, or other form of wealth paid by a groom or his family to the woman or the family of the woman he will be married to or is just about to marry.
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Brooklyn
Brooklyn is a borough of New York City.
Bulletin of the American Society of Overseas Research
The Bulletin of the American Society of Overseas Research (BASOR), formerly the Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, is one of three academic journals published by the American Society of Overseas Research.
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Cairo
Cairo (al-Qāhirah) is the capital of Egypt and the Cairo Governorate, and is the country's largest city, being home to more than 10 million people.
Canaan
Canaan (Phoenician: 𐤊𐤍𐤏𐤍 –; כְּנַעַן –, in pausa כְּנָעַן –; Χανααν –;The current scholarly edition of the Greek Old Testament spells the word without any accents, cf. Septuaginta: id est Vetus Testamentum graece iuxta LXX interpretes.
Cave of the Patriarchs
The Cave of the Patriarchs or Tomb of the Patriarchs, known to Jews by its Biblical name Cave of Machpelah (Məʿāraṯ ha-Mmaḵpēlāh|Cave of the Double) and to Muslims as the Sanctuary of Abraham (al-Ḥaram al-Ibrāhīmī), is a series of caves situated south of Jerusalem in the heart of the Old City of Hebron in the West Bank.
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Chaim ibn Attar
Chaim ibn Attar or Ḥayyim ben Moshe ibn Attar (حاييمبن موشي بن عطار., חיים בן משה בן עטר; 7 July 1743) also known as the Or ha-Ḥayyim after his popular commentary on the Torah, was a Talmudist and Kabbalist.
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Chaim Malinowitz
Chaim Zev Malinowitz (1952 – November 21, 2019) was a Haredi community rabbi, dayan (rabbinical court judge), and Talmudic scholar.
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Chantilly, Virginia
Chantilly is a census-designated place (CDP) in western Fairfax County, Virginia.
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Chapters and verses of the Bible
Chapter and verse divisions did not appear in the original texts of Jewish or Christian bibles; such divisions form part of the paratext of the Bible.
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Chiasmus
In rhetoric, chiasmus or, less commonly, chiasm (Latin term from Greek χίασμα, "crossing", from the Greek χιάζω,, "to shape like the letter Χ"), is a "reversal of grammatical structures in successive phrases or clauses – but no repetition of words".
Chovot HaLevavot
Chovot HaLevavot or The Duties of the Hearts (Ḥoḇāḇoṯ hal-Leḇāḇoṯ), is the primary work of the Jewish scholar Bahya ibn Paquda, a rabbi believed to have lived in the Taifa of Zaragoza in al-Andalus in the eleventh century.
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Circumcision
Circumcision is a procedure that removes the foreskin from the human penis.
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Cities of Refuge
The cities of refuge (‘ārê ha-miqlāṭ) were six Levitical towns in the Kingdom of Israel and the Kingdom of Judah in which the perpetrators of accidental manslaughter could claim the right of asylum.
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Commentary is a monthly American magazine on religion, Judaism, Israel and politics, as well as social and cultural issues.
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Connie Wanek
Connie Wanek (born June 1, 1952) is an American poet.
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Dallas
Dallas is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the most populous city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the most populous metropolitan area in Texas and the fourth-most populous metropolitan area in the United States at 7.5 million people.
Daniel Haberman
Daniel Haberman (1933–1991) was an American poet, translator and graphic designer.
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Dathan
Dathan (דָּתָן Dāṯān) was an Israelite mentioned in the Old Testament as a participant of the Exodus.
David
David ("beloved one") was a king of ancient Israel and Judah and the third king of the United Monarchy, according to the Hebrew Bible and Old Testament.
David E. Stern
Rabbi David Eli Stern (born August 1961) is the senior rabbi at Temple Emanu-El of Dallas, the largest synagogue in the South/Southwest United States and the third-largest in the Union for Reform Judaism.
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David R. Slavitt
David Rytman Slavitt (born March 23, 1935) is an American writer, poet, and translator, the author of more than 100 books.
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Deborah (Genesis)
Deborah (Deborah) appears in the Hebrew Bible as the wet nurse of Rebecca (Genesis 35:8).
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Delmore Schwartz
Delmore Schwartz (December 8, 1913 – July 11, 1966) was an American poet and short story writer.
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Denver
Denver is a consolidated city and county, the capital, and most populous city of the U.S. state of Colorado.
Desert of Paran
The Desert of Paran or Wilderness of Paran (also sometimes spelled Pharan or Faran; מִדְבַּר פָּארָן, Midbar Pa'ran), is a location mentioned in the Hebrew Bible.
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Destroying angel (Bible)
In the Hebrew Bible, the destroying angel (malʾāḵ hamašḥīṯ), also known as mashḥit (mašḥīṯ, 'destroyer'; plural:, mašḥīṯīm, 'spoilers, ravagers'), is an entity sent out by God on several occasions to deal with numerous peoples.
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Deuteronomy Rabbah
Deuteronomy Rabbah (דברים רבה) is an aggadah or homiletic commentary on the Book of Deuteronomy.
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Dinah
In the Book of Genesis, Dinah was the seventh child and only daughter of Leah and Jacob.
Donald Wiseman
Donald John Wiseman (25 October 1918 – 2 February 2010) was a biblical scholar, archaeologist and Assyriologist.
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Ecclesiastes
Ecclesiastes (Qōheleṯ, Ekklēsiastēs) is one of the Ketuvim ("Writings") of the Hebrew Bible and part of the Wisdom literature of the Christian Old Testament.
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Ecclesiastes Rabbah
Ecclesiastes Rabbah or Kohelet Rabbah (Hebrew: קהלת רבה) is an aggadic commentary on Ecclesiastes, included in the collection of the Midrash Rabbot.
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Edom
Edom (Edomite: 𐤀𐤃𐤌; אֱדוֹם, lit.: "red"; Akkadian: 𒌑𒁺𒈪, 𒌑𒁺𒈬; Ancient Egyptian) was an ancient kingdom in Transjordan, located between Moab to the northeast, the Arabah to the west, and the Arabian Desert to the south and east.
Edward Goldman (professor)
Edward A. Goldman is a Talmudic scholar.
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Eleazar ben Pedat
Eleazar ben Pedat (רבי אלעזר בן פדת) was a second and third-generation amora or Talmudist from Babylon who lived in Syria Palaestina during the 3rd century.
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Elie Wiesel
Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel (or;; September 30, 1928 – July 2, 2016) was a Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor.
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Eliezer
Eliezer ("Help/Court of El") was the name of at least three different individuals in the Bible.
Eliezer ben Hurcanus
Eliezer ben Hurcanus or Hyrcanus (אליעזר בן הורקנוס) was one of the most prominent Sages (tannaim) of the 1st and 2nd centuries in Judea, disciple of Rabban Yohanan ben ZakkaiAvot of Rabbi Natan 14:5 and colleague of Gamaliel II (whose sister Ima Shalom he married), and of Joshua ben Hananiah.
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Ellen Frankel
Ellen Frankel (born 1951) was the Editor-in-Chief of the Jewish Publication Society (JPS) from 1991 until 2009, and also served as CEO of the JPS for 10 years.
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Emily Dickinson
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886) was an American poet.
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Ephraim Avigdor Speiser
Ephraim Avigdor Speiser (January 24, 1902 – June 15, 1965) was a Polish-born American Assyriologist and translator of the Torah.
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Ephrath
Ephrath or Ephrathah or Ephratah (אֶפְרָת \ אֶפְרָתָה) is a biblically referenced former name of Bethlehem, meaning "fruitful".
Esau
Esau is the elder son of Isaac in the Hebrew Bible.
European Judaism (journal)
European Judaism: A Journal for the New Europe is a biannual academic journal published by Berghahn Books in association with the Leo Baeck College and the Michael Goulston Education Foundation.
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Evanston, Illinois
Evanston is a city in Cook County, Illinois, United States, situated on the North Shore along Lake Michigan.
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Eve
Eve (Ḥawwāʾ; Ḥavā; Heúa; Eva, Heva; Syriac: ܚܰܘܳܐ romanized) is a figure in the Book of Genesis in the Hebrew Bible.
Everett Fox
Everett Fox is a scholar and translator of the Hebrew Bible.
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Feldheim Publishers
Feldheim Publishers (or Feldheim) is an American Orthodox Jewish publisher of Torah books and literature.
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Frederick Buechner
Carl Frederick Buechner (July 11, 1926 – August 15, 2022) was an American author, Presbyterian minister, preacher, and theologian.
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Free Press (publisher)
Free Press was an American independent book publisher that later became an imprint of Simon & Schuster.
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G. P. Putnam's Sons
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Gamaliel
Gamaliel the Elder (also spelled Gamliel; רַבַּן גַּמְלִיאֵל הַזָּקֵן Rabban Gamlīʾēl hazZāqēn; Γαμαλιὴλ ὁ Πρεσβύτερος Gamaliēl ho Presbýteros), or Rabban Gamaliel I, was a leading authority in the Sanhedrin in the early first century CE.
Góra Kalwaria
Góra Kalwaria ("Calvary Mountain", גער, Ger) is a town on the Vistula River in the Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland.
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Gefen Publishing House
Gefen Publishing House (הוצאת גפן) is an English language publishing firm located in Jerusalem, which also has a department in New York City.
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Gematria
Gematria (גמטריא or gimatria גימטריה, plural גמטראות or גימטריות) is the practice of assigning a numerical value to a name, word or phrase by reading it as a number, or sometimes by using an alphanumerical cipher.
Genesis Rabbah
Genesis Rabbah (Bərēšīṯ Rabbā) is a religious text from Judaism's classical period, probably written between 300 and 500 CE with some later additions.
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Gentile
Gentile is a word that today usually means someone who is not Jewish.
God in Judaism
In Judaism, God has been conceived in a variety of ways.
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Godfrey Rolles Driver
Sir Godfrey Rolles Driver (20 August 1892 – 22 April 1975), known as G. R.
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Gordon Tucker
Gordon Tucker is a prominent rabbi, with a reputation as both a political and a theological liberal in Conservative Judaism.
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Grand Rapids, Michigan
Grand Rapids is a city in and county seat of Kent County, Michigan, United States.
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Greek language
Greek (Elliniká,; Hellēnikḗ) is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece, Cyprus, Italy (in Calabria and Salento), southern Albania, and other regions of the Balkans, the Black Sea coast, Asia Minor, and the Eastern Mediterranean.
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Guardian angel
A guardian angel is a type of angel that is assigned to protect and guide a particular person, group or nation.
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Gunther Plaut
Wolf Gunther Plaut, (November 1, 1912 – February 8, 2012) was an American Reform rabbi and writer who was based in Canada.
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Haftara
The haftara or (in Ashkenazic pronunciation) haftorah (alt. haftarah, haphtara, הפטרה) "parting," "taking leave" (plural form: haftarot or haftoros), is a series of selections from the books of Nevi'im ("Prophets") of the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) that is publicly read in synagogue as part of Jewish religious practice.
Hagar
According to the Book of Genesis, Hagar was an Egyptian slave, a handmaiden of Sarah (then known as Sarai), whom Sarah gave to her own husband Abram (later renamed Abraham) as a wife to bear him a child.
Haggadah
The Haggadah (הַגָּדָה, "telling"; plural: Haggadot) is a Jewish text that sets forth the order of the Passover Seder.
Haman
Haman (also known as Haman the Agagite) is the main antagonist in the Book of Esther, who according to the Hebrew Bible was an official in the court of the Persian empire under King Ahasuerus, commonly identified as Xerxes I (died 465 BCE) but traditionally equated with Artaxerxes I or Artaxerxes II.
Hannah (biblical figure)
Hannah (חַנָּה Ḥannā "favor, grace") is one of the wives of Elkanah mentioned in the First Book of Samuel.
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Harry Freedman (rabbi)
Harry Mordecai Freedman (17 October 1901 – 4 December 1982) was a rabbi, author, translator, and teacher.
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Harvard Theological Review
The Harvard Theological Review is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal established in 1908 and published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Harvard Divinity School.
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Hebrew Bible
The Hebrew Bible or Tanakh (. Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. Hebrew), also known in Hebrew as Miqra (Hebrew), is the canonical collection of Hebrew scriptures, comprising the Torah, the Nevi'im, and the Ketuvim.
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Hebrew language
Hebrew (ʿÎbrit) is a Northwest Semitic language within the Afroasiatic language family.
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Hebrew Union College Annual
The Hebrew Union College Annual (HUCA) is an annual peer-reviewed academic journal in the field of Jewish studies.
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Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; הַאוּנִיבֶרְסִיטָה הַעִבְרִית בִּירוּשָׁלַיִם) is a public research university based in Jerusalem, Israel.
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Hebron
Hebron (الخليل, or خَلِيل الرَّحْمَن; חֶבְרוֹן) is a Palestinian.
Hermann Gunkel
Hermann Gunkel (23 May 1862 – 11 March 1932), a German Old Testament scholar, founded form criticism.
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Hezekiah ben Manoah
Hezekiah ben Manoah, or Hezekiah bar Manoah, was a French rabbi and Bible commentator of the 13th century.
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Hivites
The Hivites (חִוִּים Ḥiwwîm) were one group of descendants of Canaan, son of Ham, according to the Table of Nations in (10:17).
Horites
The Horites (חֹרִים Ḥōrīm), were a people mentioned in the Torah inhabiting areas around Mount Seir in Canaan.
Hullin
Hullin or Chullin (translit lit. "Ordinary" or "Mundane") is the third tractate of the Mishnah in the Order of Kodashim and deals with the laws of ritual slaughter of animals and birds for meat in ordinary or non-consecrated use (as opposed to sacred use), and with the Jewish dietary laws in general, such as the laws governing the prohibition of mixing of meat and dairy.
Ian Goldberg
Ian Avrum Goldberg (born March 31, 1973) is a cryptographer and cypherpunk.
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Idolatry
Idolatry is the worship of a cult image or "idol" as though it were a deity.
Incipit
The incipit of a text is the first few words of the text, employed as an identifying label.
Isaac
Isaac is one of the three patriarchs of the Israelites and an important figure in the Abrahamic religions, including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
Isaac Abarbanel
Isaac ben Judah Abarbanel (יצחק בן יהודה אברבנאל;‎ 1437–1508), commonly referred to as Abarbanel (אַבַּרבְּנְאֵל; also spelled Abravanel, Avravanel or Abrabanel), was a Portuguese Jewish statesman, philosopher, Bible commentator, and financier.
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Isaac ben Moses Arama
Isaac ben Moses Arama (1420 – 1494) was a Spanish rabbi and author.
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Ishmael
Ishmael was the first son of Abraham, according to the Abrahamic religions.
Israel
Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Southern Levant, West Asia.
Israel Finkelstein
Israel Finkelstein (ישראל פינקלשטיין; born March 29, 1949) is an Israeli archaeologist, professor emeritus at Tel Aviv University and the head of the School of Archaeology and Maritime Cultures at the University of Haifa.
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Israelites
The Israelites were a group of Semitic-speaking tribes in the ancient Near East who, during the Iron Age, inhabited a part of Canaan.
J. Maxwell Miller (biblical scholar)
James Maxwell Miller (born 20 September 1937) is an American Old Testament scholar.
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Jacob
Jacob (Yaʿqūb; Iakṓb), later given the name Israel, is regarded as a patriarch of the Israelites and is an important figure in Abrahamic religions, such as Judaism, Samaritanism, Christianity, and Islam.
Jacob ben Asher
Jacob ben Asher (c. 1270 - 1340), also known as Ba'al ha-Turim as well as Rabbi Yaakov ben Raash (Rabbeinu Asher), was an influential Medieval rabbinic authority.
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Jacob Grimm
Jacob Ludwig Karl Grimm (4 January 1785 – 20 September 1863), also known as Ludwig Karl, was a German author, linguist, philologist, jurist, and folklorist.
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Jacob Neusner
Jacob Neusner (July 28, 1932 – October 8, 2016) was an American academic scholar of Judaism.
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James Kugel
James L. Kugel (Hebrew: Yaakov Kaduri, יעקב כדורי; born August 22, 1945) is professor emeritus in the Bible department at Bar Ilan University in Israel and the Harry M. Starr Professor Emeritus of Classical and Modern Hebrew Literature at Harvard University.
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James Luther Mays
James Luther Mays (July 14, 1921 – October 29, 2015) was an American Old Testament scholar.
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Jason Aronson
Jason Aronson was an American publisher of books in the field of psychotherapy.
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Jean-Pierre Isbouts
Jean-Pierre Isbouts (born 1954) is a professor in the Social Sciences PhD program of Fielding Graduate University in Santa Barbara, California, and an archaeologist, author, screenwriter, director, and producer of works addressing various historical periods, particularly the time period of Jesus and that of Renaissance and post-Renaissance art.
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Jebusites
The Jebusites (Yəḇusi) were, according to the books of Joshua and Samuel from the Hebrew Bible, a Canaanite tribe that inhabited Jerusalem, called Jebus (trampled place) before the conquest initiated by Joshua and completed by King David, although a majority of scholars agree that the Book of Joshua holds little historical value for early Israel and most likely reflects a much later period.
Jephthah
Jephthah (pronounced; יִפְתָּח, Yīftāḥ) appears in the Book of Judges as a judge who presided over Israel for a period of six years.
Jeremiah
Jeremiah (–), also called Jeremias or the "weeping prophet", was one of the major prophets of the Hebrew Bible.
Jeremiah bar Abba
Jeremiah bar Abba, sages of the talmud | חכמי התלמוד (or Rav Yirmeyah bar Abba; Hebrew: רב ירמיה בר אבא) was a Babylonian rabbi who lived around the mid-3rd century (second generation of amoraim).
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Jerusalem
Jerusalem is a city in the Southern Levant, on a plateau in the Judaean Mountains between the Mediterranean and the Dead Sea.
Jerusalem Talmud
The Jerusalem Talmud (translit, often for short) or Palestinian Talmud, also known as the Talmud of the Land of Israel, is a collection of rabbinic notes on the second-century Jewish oral tradition known as the Mishnah.
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Jewish eschatology
Jewish eschatology is the area of Jewish theology concerned with events that will happen in the end of days and related concepts.
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Jewish Publication Society
The Jewish Publication Society (JPS), originally known as the Jewish Publication Society of America, is the oldest nonprofit, nondenominational publisher of Jewish works in English.
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Jews
The Jews (יְהוּדִים) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites of the ancient Near East, and whose traditional religion is Judaism.
Job (biblical figure)
Job (אִיּוֹב Īyyōv; Ἰώβ Iṓb) is the central figure of the Book of Job in the Bible.
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Johanan bar Nappaha
Johanan bar Nappaha (יוחנן בר נפחא Yoḥanan bar Nafḥa; alt. sp. Napaḥa) (also known simply as Rabbi Yochanan, or as Johanan bar Nafcha) (lived 180-279 CE) was a leading rabbi in the early era of the Talmud.
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John E. Woods (translator)
John Edwin Woods (August 16, 1942 – February 15, 2023) was an American translator who specialized in translating German literature, since about 1978.
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John H. Walton
John H. Walton (born 1952) is an Old Testament scholar and Professor Emeritus at Wheaton College.
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Jon D. Levenson
Jon Douglas Levenson is an American Hebrew Bible scholar who is the Albert A. List Professor of Jewish Studies at the Harvard Divinity School.
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Jonathan Sacks, Baron Sacks
Jonathan Henry Sacks, Baron Sacks (8 March 19487 November 2020) was an English Orthodox rabbi, philosopher, theologian, and author.
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Jose bar Hanina
Rabbi Jose bar Hanina (רבי יוסי בר חנינא, read as Rabbi Yossi bar Hanina) was an amora of the Land of Israel, from the second generation of the Amoraim.
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Jose ben Halafta
Jose ben Helpetha, commonly known as Jose ben Halafta (IPA) was a tanna of the fourth generation (2nd century CE).
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Joseph
Joseph is a common male given name, derived from the Hebrew (יוֹסֵף).
Joseph (Genesis)
Joseph (lit) is an important Hebrew figure in the Bible's Book of Genesis and in the Quran.
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Joseph and His Brothers
Joseph and His Brothers (Joseph und seine Brüder) is a four-part novel by Thomas Mann, written over the course of 16 years.
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Joseph's Tomb
Joseph's Tomb (קבר יוסף, Qever Yosef; قبر يوسف, Qabr Yūsuf) is a funerary monument located in Balata village at the eastern entrance to the valley that separates Mounts Gerizim and Ebal, 300 metres northwest of Jacob's Well, on the outskirts of the West Bank city of Nablus.
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Josephus
Flavius Josephus (Ἰώσηπος,; AD 37 – 100) was a Roman–Jewish historian and military leader.
Joshua ben Hananiah
Joshua ben Hananiah (Yəhōšuaʿ ben Ḥánanyāh; d. 131 CE), also known as Rabbi Yehoshua, was a leading tanna of the first half-century following the destruction of the Second Temple.
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Journal for the Study of the Old Testament
The Journal for the Study of the Old Testament (JSOT) is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering the field of Biblical studies.
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Journal of Biblical Literature
The Journal of Biblical Literature (JBL) is one of three academic journals published by the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL).
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Judah ben Saul ibn Tibbon
Judah ben Saul ibn Tibbon (1120 – after 1190) was a translator and physician.
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Judah ha-Nasi
Judah ha-Nasi (יְהוּדָה הַנָּשִׂיא, Yəhūḏā hanNāsīʾ; Yehudah HaNasi or Judah the President) or Judah I, known simply as Rebbi or Rabbi, was a second-century rabbi (a tanna of the fifth generation) and chief redactor and editor of the Mishnah.
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Judaism
Judaism (יַהֲדוּת|translit.
Judith Plaskow
Judith Plaskow (born March 14, 1947) is an American theologian, author, and activist known for being the first Jewish feminist theologian.
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Julius Caesar (play)
The Tragedy of Julius Caesar (First Folio title: The Tragedie of Ivlivs Cæsar), often abbreviated as Julius Caesar, is a history play and tragedy by William Shakespeare first performed in 1599.
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Kaph
Kaph (also spelled kaf) is the eleventh letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician kāp 𐤊, Hebrew kāp̄ כ, Aramaic kāp 𐡊, Syriac kāp̄ ܟ, and Arabic kāf ك (in abjadi order).
Karen Armstrong
Karen Armstrong (born 14 November 1944) is a British author and commentator of Irish Catholic descent known for her books on comparative religion.
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Kevin Hart (poet)
Kevin John Hart (born 5 July 1954) is an Anglo-Australian theologian, philosopher and poet.
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Kingdom of Israel (united monarchy)
According to the Deuteronomistic history in the Hebrew Bible, a United Monarchy or United Kingdom of Israel existed under the reigns of Saul, Eshbaal, David, and Solomon, encompassing the territories of both the later kingdoms of Judah and Israel.
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Kiryat Arba
Kiryat Arba or Qiryat Arba (Town of the Four) is an urban Israeli settlement on the outskirts of Hebron, in the southern West Bank.
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Kraków
(), also spelled as Cracow or Krakow, is the second-largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland.
Laban (Bible)
Laban (Aramaic: ܠܵܒܵܢ), also known as Laban the Aramean, is a figure in the Book of Genesis of the Hebrew Bible.
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Land of Israel
The Land of Israel is the traditional Jewish name for an area of the Southern Levant.
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Laurel Trivelpiece
Laurel Trivelpiece (1926, Nebraska – 1998) was an American poet and novelist.
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Leah
Leah appears in the Hebrew Bible as one of the two wives of the Biblical patriarch Jacob. Leah was Jacob's first wife, and the older sister of his second (and favored) wife Rachel. She is the mother of Jacob's first son Reuben. She has three more sons, namely Simeon, Levi and Judah, but does not bear another son until Rachel offers her a night with Jacob in exchange for some mandrake root (דודאים, dûdâ'îm).
Leon Kass
Leon Richard Kass (born February 12, 1939) is an American physician, scientist, educator, and public intellectual.
Levi
Levi was, according to the Book of Genesis, the third of the six sons of Jacob and Leah (Jacob's third son), and the founder of the Israelite Tribe of Levi (the Levites, including the Kohanim) and the great-grandfather of Aaron, Moses and Miriam.
Lewiston, New York
Lewiston is a town in Niagara County, New York, United States.
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Liana Finck
Liana Finck is an American cartoonist and author.
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List of minor Hebrew Bible figures, L–Z
This article contains persons named in the Bible, specifically in the Hebrew Bible, of minor notability, about whom little or nothing is known, aside from some family connections.
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List of rulers of Edom
The following is a list of the known rulers of the Kingdom of Edom in the Levant.
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Lot (biblical person)
Lot (לוֹט Lōṭ, lit. "veil" or "covering"; Λώτ Lṓt; لُوط Lūṭ; Syriac: ܠܘܛ Lōṭ) was a man mentioned in the biblical Book of Genesis, chapters 11–14 and 19.
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Louis Feldman
Louis Harry Feldman (October 29, 1926 – March 25, 2017) was an American professor of classics and literature.
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Macbeth
Macbeth (full title The Tragedie of Macbeth) is a tragedy by William Shakespeare.
Maftir
Maftir (concluder) is the last person called up to the Torah on Shabbat and holiday mornings: this person also reads (or at least recites the blessings overs) the haftarah portion from a related section of the Nevi'im (prophetic books).
Maimonides
Moses ben Maimon (1138–1204), commonly known as Maimonides and also referred to by the Hebrew acronym Rambam (רמב״ם), was a Sephardic rabbi and philosopher who became one of the most prolific and influential Torah scholars of the Middle Ages.
Mamre
Mamre (מַמְרֵא), full Hebrew name Elonei Mamre, 'Oaks of Mamre', refers to an ancient religious site originally focused on a single holy tree, growing "since time immemorial" at Hebron in Canaan.
Manoah
Manoah (Mānoaḥ) is a figure from the Book of Judges 13:1-23 and 14:2-4 of the Hebrew Bible.
Marc Zvi Brettler
Marc Brettler (Marc Zvi Brettler) is an American biblical scholar, and the Bernice and Morton Lerner Professor in Judaic Studies at Duke University.
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Mary Sandbach
Mary Warburton Sandbach (born Mary Warburton Matthews; 25 April 1901 – 3 November 1990) was a British translator.
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Masoretic Text
The Masoretic Text (MT or 𝕸; Nūssāḥ hamMāsōrā, lit. 'Text of the Tradition') is the authoritative Hebrew and Aramaic text of the 24 books of the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) in Rabbinic Judaism.
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Meir Sternberg
Meir Sternberg (born October 3, 1944) is an Israeli literary critic and biblical scholar.
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Mem
Mem (also spelled Meem, Meme, or Mim) is the thirteenth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Hebrew mēm מ, Aramaic mem 𐡌, Syriac mīm ܡ, Arabic mīm م, and Phoenician mēm 𐤌.
Menachem Mendel Kasher
Menachem Mendel Kasher (מנחם מנדל כשר; March 7, 1895 – November 3, 1983) was a Polish-born Israeli rabbi and prolific author who authored an encyclopedic work on the Torah entitled Torah Sheleimah.
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Menucha Publishers is an Orthodox Jewish English-language publishing company based in Brooklyn, New York.
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Mesopotamia
Mesopotamia is a historical region of West Asia situated within the Tigris–Euphrates river system, in the northern part of the Fertile Crescent.
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Messianic Age
In Abrahamic religions, the Messianic Age (יְמוֹת הַמָשִׁיחַ) is the future period of time on Earth in which the messiah will reign and bring universal peace and brotherhood, without any evil.
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Michael (archangel)
Michael, also called Saint Michael the Archangel, Archangel Michael and Saint Michael the Taxiarch is an archangel in Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and the Baha'i faith.
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Michael Fishbane
Michael A. Fishbane (born 1943) is an American scholar of Judaism and rabbinic literature.
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Michael Friedländer
Michael Friedländer (29 April 1833 – 10 December 1910) was an Orientalist and principal of Jews' College, London.
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Middle Ages
In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period (also spelt mediaeval or mediæval) lasted from approximately 500 to 1500 AD.
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Midrash
Midrash (. Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. מִדְרָשׁ; מִדְרָשִׁים or midrashot) is expansive Jewish Biblical exegesis using a rabbinic mode of interpretation prominent in the Talmud.
Midrash HaGadol
Midrash HaGadol or The Great Midrash (מדרש הגדול) is a work of aggaddic midrash, expanding on the narratives of the Torah, which was written by David ben Amram Adani of Yemen (14th century).
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Midrash Tanhuma
Midrash Tanhuma (miḏraš tanḥumā), also known as Yelammedenu, is the name given to a homiletic midrash on the entire Torah, and it is known in several different versions or collections.
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Midrash Tehillim
Midrash Tehillim (Hebrew: מדרש תהלים), also known as Midrash Psalms or Midrash Shocher Tov, is an aggadic midrash to the Psalms.
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Midwifery
Midwifery is the health science and health profession that deals with pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum period (including care of the newborn), in addition to the sexual and reproductive health of women throughout their lives.
Miketz
Miketz or Mikeitz (—Hebrew for "at the end," the second word and first distinctive word of the parashah) is the tenth weekly Torah portion (parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading. Vayishlach and Miketz are weekly Torah readings in Kislev.
Mishnah
The Mishnah or the Mishna (מִשְׁנָה, "study by repetition", from the verb shanah, or "to study and review", also "secondary") is the first major written collection of the Jewish oral traditions that are known as the Oral Torah.
Mishneh Torah
The Mishneh Torah (repetition of the Torah), also known as Sefer Yad ha-Hazaka (label), is a code of Rabbinic Jewish religious law (halakha) authored by Maimonides (Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon/Rambam).
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Mitzvah
In its primary meaning, the Hebrew word (מִצְוָה, mīṣvā, plural מִצְווֹת mīṣvōt; "commandment") refers to a commandment from God to be performed as a religious duty.
Monarch
A monarch is a head of stateWebster's II New College Dictionary.
Moses
Moses; Mōše; also known as Moshe or Moshe Rabbeinu (Mishnaic Hebrew: מֹשֶׁה רַבֵּינוּ); Mūše; Mūsā; Mōÿsēs was a Hebrew prophet, teacher and leader, according to Abrahamic tradition.
Moshe Alshich
Moshe Alshich משה אלשיך, also spelled Alshech, (1508–1593), known as the Alshich Hakadosh (the Holy), was a prominent rabbi, preacher, and biblical commentator in the latter part of the sixteenth century.
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Mount Ebal
Mount Ebal (הַר עֵיבָל Har ʿĒyḇāl; جَبَلُ عَيْبال Jabal ‘Aybāl) is one of the two mountains in the immediate vicinity of the city of Nablus in the West Bank (biblical Shechem), and forms the northern side of the valley in which Nablus is situated, the southern side being formed by Mount Gerizim.
Mount Seir
Mount Seir (Har Sēʿir) is the ancient and biblical name for a mountainous region stretching between the Dead Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba in the northwestern region of Edom and southeast of the Kingdom of Judah.
Mullet (fish)
The mullets or grey mullets are a family (Mugilidae) of ray-finned fish found worldwide in coastal temperate and tropical waters, and some species in fresh water.
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Nachmanides
Moses ben Nachman (מֹשֶׁה בֶּן־נָחְמָן Mōše ben-Nāḥmān, "Moses son of Nachman"; 1194–1270), commonly known as Nachmanides (Ναχμανίδης Nakhmanídēs), and also referred to by the acronym Ramban and by the contemporary nickname Bonastruc ça Porta (literally "Mazel Tov near the Gate", see), was a leading medieval Jewish scholar, Catalan rabbi, philosopher, physician, kabbalist, and biblical commentator.
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Nahum M. Sarna
Nahum Mattathias Sarna (Hebrew: נחום סרנא; March 27, 1923 – June 23, 2005) was a modern biblical scholar who is best known for the study of Genesis and Exodus represented in his Understanding Genesis (1966) and in his contributions to the first two volumes of the JPS Torah Commentary (1989/91).
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Nathaniel Schmidt
Nathaniel Schmidt (May 22, 1862 – June 29, 1939) of Ithaca, New York, was a Swedish-American Baptist minister, Christian Hebraist, orientalist, professor, theologian, and progressive Democrat.
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National Geographic Society
The National Geographic Society (NGS), headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States, is one of the largest nonprofit scientific and educational organizations in the world.
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Nechama Leibowitz
Nechama Leibowitz (נחמה ליבוביץ׳; September 3, 1905 – April 12, 1997) was an Israeli Bible scholar and commentator who rekindled interest in Bible study.
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Neil Asher Silberman
Neil Asher Silberman (born June 19, 1950 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American archaeologist and historian with a special interest in biblical archaeology.
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Nevi'im
The (נְבִיאִים Nəvīʾīm, Tiberian: Năḇīʾīm 'Prophets') is the second major division of the Hebrew Bible (the Tanakh), lying between the and.
New Milford, Connecticut
New Milford is a town in Litchfield County, Connecticut, United States.
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New York City
New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.
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New York University Press
New York University Press (or NYU Press) is a university press that is part of New York University.
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Nineteenth-Century French Studies
Nineteenth-Century French Studies is a biannual peer-reviewed academic journal covering the study of 19th-century French literature and related fields.
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Noach
Noach is the second weekly Torah portion (parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading.
Northvale, New Jersey
Northvale is a borough in Bergen County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.
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Northwestern University Press
Northwestern University Press is an American publishing house affiliated with Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.
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Nun (letter)
Nun is the fourteenth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician nūn 𐤍, Hebrew nūn נ, Aramaic nūn 𐡍, Syriac nūn ܢ, and Arabic nūn ن (in abjadi order).
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Obadiah
Obadiah (עֹבַדְיָה – ʿŌḇaḏyā or – ʿŌḇaḏyāhū; "servant or slave of Yah"), also known as Abdias, is a biblical prophet.
Obadiah ben Jacob Sforno
Ovadia ben Jacob Sforno (Obadja Sforno, Hebrew: עובדיה ספורנו) was an Italian rabbi, Biblical commentator, philosopher and physician.
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Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.
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Paddan Aram
Paddan Aram or Padan-aram (Paddan ʾĂrām) was a biblical region referring to the northern plain of Aram-Naharaim.
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Padua
Padua (Padova; Pàdova, Pàdoa or Pàoa) is a city and comune (municipality) in Veneto, northern Italy, and the capital of the province of Padua.
Passover
Passover, also called Pesach, is a major Jewish holidayand one of the Three Pilgrimage Festivals.
Passover Seder
The Passover Seder is a ritual feast at the beginning of the Jewish holiday of Passover.
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Pat Schneider
Pat Schneider (June 1, 1934 – August 10, 2020) was an American writer, poet, writing teacher and editor.
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Patriarchs (Bible)
The patriarchs (אבות ʾAvot, "fathers") of the Bible, when narrowly defined, are Abraham, his son Isaac, and Isaac's son Jacob, also named Israel, the ancestor of the Israelites.
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Pe (Semitic letter)
Pe is the seventeenth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician pē 𐤐, Hebrew pē פ, Aramaic pē 𐡐, Syriac pē ܦ, and Arabic fāʾ ف (in abjadi order).
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Penuel
Penuel (or Pniel, Pnuel; Hebrew: Pənūʾēl) is a place described in the Hebrew Bible as being not far from Succoth, on the east of the Jordan River and south of the river Jabbok in present-day Jordan.
Pharaoh's daughter (Exodus)
The Pharaoh's daughter (lit) in the story of the finding of Moses in the biblical Book of Exodus is an important, albeit minor, figure in Abrahamic religions.
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Philadelphia
Philadelphia, colloquially referred to as Philly, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the sixth-most populous city in the nation, with a population of 1,603,797 in the 2020 census.
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Philistines
The Philistines (Pəlīštīm; LXX: Phulistieím; Philistaei) were an ancient people who lived on the south coast of Canaan during the Iron Age in a confederation of city-states generally referred to as Philistia.
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Pinchas Hacohen Peli
Pinchas Hacohen Peli (פינחס פֶּלִאי הכהן, 6 May 1930 – 3 April 1989) was an Israeli modern Orthodox rabbi, essayist, poet, and scholar of Judaism and Jewish philosophy.
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Piotrków Trybunalski
Piotrków Trybunalski (also known by alternative names), often simplified to Piotrków, is a city in central Poland with 71,252 inhabitants (2021).
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Pirkei De-Rabbi Eliezer
Pirkei de-Rabbi Eliezer (translit, 'Chapters of Rabbi Eliezer'; abbreviated, 'PRE') is an aggadic-midrashic work of Torah exegesis and retellings of biblical stories.
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Pistacia terebinthus
Pistacia terebinthus also called the terebinth and the turpentine tree, is a deciduous shrub species of the genus Pistacia, native to the Mediterranean region from the western regions of Morocco and Portugal to Greece and western and southeastern Turkey.
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Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe.
Pork
Pork is the culinary name for the meat of the pig (Sus domesticus).
Prairie Schooner
Prairie Schooner is a literary magazine published quarterly at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln with the cooperation of UNL's English Department and the University of Nebraska Press.
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Priestly Blessing
The Priestly Blessing or priestly benediction (ברכת כהנים; translit. birkat kohanim), also known in rabbinic literature as raising of the hands (Hebrew nesiat kapayim), rising to the platform (Hebrew aliyah ledukhan), dukhenen (Yiddish from the Hebrew word dukhan – platform – because the blessing is given from a raised rostrum), or duchening, is a Hebrew prayer recited by Kohanim (the Hebrew Priests, descendants of Aaron).
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Prostitution
Prostitution is the business or practice of engaging in sexual activity in exchange for payment.
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Psalms
The Book of Psalms (תְּהִלִּים|Tehillīm|praises; Psalmós; Liber Psalmorum; Zabūr), also known as the Psalms, or the Psalter, is the first book of the third section of the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) called ("Writings"), and a book of the Old Testament.
Rabbi
A rabbi (רַבִּי|translit.
Rabbi Aha
Rabbi Aha (רבי אחא, read as Rabbi Achah) was a rabbi of the Land of Israel, of the fourth century (fourth generation of amoraim).
Rabbi Jonathan
Rabbi Jonathan (translit) was a tanna of the 2nd century and schoolfellow of R. Josiah, apart from whom he is rarely quoted.
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Rabbi Tarfon
Rabbi Tarfon or Tarphon (רבי טרפון, from the Greek Τρύφων Tryphon literally "one who lives in luxury" Trifon), a Kohen, was a member of the third generation of the Mishnah sages, who lived in the period between the destruction of the Second Temple (70 CE) and the fall of Betar (135 CE).
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Rabbi Yannai
Rabbi Yannai (or Rabbi Jannai; רבי ינאי) was an amora who lived in the 3rd century, and of the first generation of the Amoraim of the Land of Israel.
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Rabbinical Assembly
The Rabbinical Assembly (RA) is the international association of Conservative rabbis.
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Rachel
Rachel was a Biblical figure, the favorite of Jacob's two wives, and the mother of Joseph and Benjamin, two of the twelve progenitors of the tribes of Israel.
Rashbam
Samuel ben Meir (Troyes, c. 1085 – c. 1158), after his death known as the "Rashbam", a Hebrew acronym for RAbbi SHmuel Ben Meir, was a leading French Tosafist and grandson of Shlomo Yitzhaki, "Rashi".
Rashi
Shlomo Yitzchaki (רבי שלמה יצחקי; Salomon Isaacides; Salomon de Troyes; 13 July 1105), commonly known by the acronym Rashi, was a French rabbi who authored comprehensive commentaries on the Talmud and Hebrew Bible.
Reuben (son of Jacob)
Reuben or Reuven (רְאוּבֵן, Standard Rəʾūven, Tiberian Rŭʾūḇēn) was the first of the six sons of Jacob and Leah (Jacob's oldest son), according to the Book of Genesis.
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Reuven Hammer
Reuven Hammer (June 30, 1933 – August 12, 2019) was an American-Israeli Conservative rabbi, scholar of Jewish liturgy, author and lecturer who was born in New York.
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Richard III (play)
Richard III is a play by William Shakespeare.
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Robert Alter
Robert Bernard Alter (born 1935) is an American professor of Hebrew and comparative literature at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has taught since 1967.
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Rodger Kamenetz
Rodger Kamenetz (born 1950) is an American poet and author best known for The Jew in the Lotus (1994), an account of the historic dialogue between rabbis and the XIV Dalai Lama.
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Roland Barthes
Roland Gérard Barthes (12 November 1915 – 26 March 1980) was a French literary theorist, essayist, philosopher, critic, and semiotician.
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Roman Empire
The Roman Empire was the state ruled by the Romans following Octavian's assumption of sole rule under the Principate in 27 BC, the post-Republican state of ancient Rome.
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Rome
Rome (Italian and Roma) is the capital city of Italy.
Rumpelstiltskin
"Rumpelstiltskin" (Rumpelstilzchen) is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm in the 1812 edition of Children's and Household Tales.
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Safed
Safed (also known as Tzfat; צְפַת, Ṣəfaṯ; صفد, Ṣafad) is a city in the Northern District of Israel.
Samael
Samael (סַמָּאֵל, Sammāʾēl, "Venom/Poison of God"; سمسمائيل, Samsama'il or label, Samail; alternatively Smal, Smil, Samil, or Samiel) is an archangel in Talmudic and post-Talmudic lore; a figure who is the accuser or adversary (Satan in the Book of Job), seducer, and destroying angel (in the Book of Exodus).
Samekh
Samekh is the fifteenth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician sāmek 𐤎, Hebrew sāmeḵ ס, Aramaic samek 𐡎, and Syriac semkaṯ ܣ.
Samuel ben Nahman
Samuel ben Nahman (שמואל בן נחמן) or Samuel Nahmani (שמואל נחמני) was a rabbi of the Talmud, known as an amora, who lived in the Land of Israel from the beginning of the 3rd century until the beginning of the 4th century.
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Samuel David Luzzatto
Samuel David Luzzatto (שמואל דוד לוצאטו,; 22 August 1800 – 30 September 1865), also known by the Hebrew acronym Shadal, was an Italian-Austrian Jewish scholar, poet, and a member of the Wissenschaft des Judentums movement.
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Sarah
Sarah (born Sarai) is a biblical matriarch, prophet, and major figure in Abrahamic religions.
Sasanian Empire
The Sasanian Empire or Sassanid Empire, and officially known as Eranshahr ("Land/Empire of the Iranians"), was the last Iranian empire before the early Muslim conquests of the 7th to 8th centuries.
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Sciatic nerve
The sciatic nerve, also called the ischiadic nerve, is a large nerve in humans and other vertebrate animals.
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Sefer ha-Chinuch
Sefer ha-Chinuch (ספר החינוך, "Book of Education") is a Jewish rabbinic text which systematically discusses the 613 commandments of the Torah.
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Sephardic Jews
Sephardic Jews (Djudíos Sefardíes), also known as Sephardi Jews or Sephardim, and rarely as Iberian Peninsular Jews, are a Jewish diaspora population associated with the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal).
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Serah
Serach bat Asher was, in the Tanakh, a daughter of Asher, the son of Jacob.
Shabbat
Shabbat (or; Šabbāṯ) or the Sabbath, also called Shabbos by Ashkenazim, is Judaism's day of rest on the seventh day of the week—i.e., Saturday.
Shai Held
Shai Held (born July 2, 1971) is President, Dean, and Chair in Jewish Thought at the Hadar institute, which he founded in 2006 with Rabbis Elie Kaunfer and Ethan Tucker.
Shechem
Shechem (Šəḵem; Samaritan Hebrew: script), also spelled Sichem (Sykhém) was an ancient city in the southern Levant.
Shekhinah
Shekhinah is the English transliteration of a Hebrew word meaning "dwelling" or "settling" and denotes the presence of God in a place.
Shema
Shema Yisrael (Shema Israel or Sh'ma Yisrael; שְׁמַע יִשְׂרָאֵל Šəmaʿ Yīsrāʾēl, "Hear, O Israel") is a Jewish prayer (known as the Shema) that serves as a centerpiece of the morning and evening Jewish prayer services.
Shimon ben Lakish
Shimon ben Lakish (שמעון בן לקיש; שמעון בר לקיש Shim‘on bar Lakish or bar Lakisha), better known by his nickname Reish Lakish (c. 200 — c. 275), was an amora who lived in the Roman province of Judaea in the third century.
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Shmuel Herzfeld
Shmuel Herzfeld (born October 9, 1974) is an American Orthodox rabbi.
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Shofar (journal)
Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies is a triannual peer-reviewed academic journal published by Purdue University Press on behalf of the university's Jewish Studies Program.
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Siddur Sim Shalom
Siddur Sim Shalom (סדור שים שלום) refers to any siddur in a family of siddurim, Jewish prayerbooks, and related commentaries, published by the Rabbinical Assembly and the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism.
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Simchat Torah
Simchat Torah (lit., "Torah celebration", Ashkenazi: Simchas Torah), also spelled Simhat Torah, is a Jewish holiday that celebrates and marks the conclusion of the annual cycle of public Torah readings, and the beginning of a new cycle.
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Simeon (son of Jacob)
Simeon was the second of the six sons of Jacob and Leah, and the founder of the Israelite tribe, The Tribe of Simeon, according to the Book of Genesis of the Hebrew Bible.
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Simeon ben Eleazar
Simeon ben Eleazar (or Simeon b. Eleazar; שמעון בן אלעזר, read as Shimon ben Eleazar) was a Jewish Tanna sage of the fifth generation.
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Solomon ibn Gabirol
Solomon ibn Gabirol or Solomon ben Judah (Shlomo Ben Yehuda ibn Gabirol,; ’Abū ’Ayyūb Sulaymān bin Yaḥyá bin Jabīrūl) was an 11th-century Jewish poet and philosopher in the Neo-Platonic tradition in Al-Andalus.
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Song of Songs
The Song of Songs (שִׁיר הַשִּׁירִים|translit.
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Southfield, Michigan
Southfield is a city in Oakland County in the U.S. state of Michigan.
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Spain
Spain, formally the Kingdom of Spain, is a country located in Southwestern Europe, with parts of its territory in the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea and Africa.
Springfield Township, Union County, New Jersey
Springfield Township is a township in Union County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.
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Talmud
The Talmud (תַּלְמוּד|Talmūḏ|teaching) is the central text of Rabbinic Judaism and the primary source of Jewish religious law (halakha) and Jewish theology.
Tamar (Genesis)
In the Book of Genesis, Tamar was the daughter-in-law of Judah (twice), as well as the mother of two of his children: the twins Perez and Zerah.
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Tamara Cohn Eskenazi
Tamara Cohn Eskenazi is The Effie Wise Ochs Professor of Biblical Literature and History at the Reform Jewish seminary Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Los Angeles.
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Tanna Devei Eliyahu
Tanna Devei Eliyahu (Hebrew: תנא דבי אליהו; alternate transliterations include Tana D'vei Eliyahu and Tana D'vei Eliahu) is the composite name of a midrash, consisting of two parts, whose final redaction took place at the end of the 10th century CE.
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Tannaim
Tannaim (Amoraic Hebrew: תנאים "repeaters", "teachers", singular tanna תנא, borrowed from Aramaic) were the rabbinic sages whose views are recorded in the Mishnah, from approximately 10–220 CE.
Temple in Jerusalem
The Temple in Jerusalem, or alternatively the Holy Temple, refers to the two religious structures that served as the central places of worship for Israelites and Jews on the modern-day Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem.
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Terence E. Fretheim
Terence E. Fretheim was an Old Testament scholar and the Elva B. Lovell professor of Old Testament at Luther Seminary.
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Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (sometimes abbreviated as Terminator: TSCC or simply TSCC) is an American science fiction drama television series.
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The Guide for the Perplexed
The Guide for the Perplexed (Dalālat al-ḥā'irīn, דלאלת אלחאירין; Moreh HaNevukhim) is a work of Jewish theology by Maimonides.
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The Jewish Quarterly Review
The Jewish Quarterly Review is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering Jewish studies.
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The Journal of Theological Studies
The Journal of Theological Studies is an academic journal established in 1899 and now published by Oxford University Press in April and October each year.
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The Red Tent (Diamant novel)
The Red Tent is a historical novel by Anita Diamant, published in 1997 by Wyatt Books for St. Martin's Press.
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The Teaching Company
The Teaching Company, doing business as "The Great Courses," formerly Wondrium, is a media production company that produces educational, video, and audio content in the form of courses, documentaries, and series under two content brands: The Great Courses Plus and The Great Courses.
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Thomas Mann
Paul Thomas Mann (6 June 1875 – 12 August 1955) was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate.
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Throne of God
The throne of God is the reigning centre of God in the Abrahamic religions: primarily Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
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Tiberias
Tiberias (טְבֶרְיָה,; Ṭabariyyā) is an Israeli city on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee.
Tim Keller (pastor)
Timothy James Keller (September 23, 1950 – May 19, 2023) was an American Calvinist pastor, preacher, theologian, and Christian apologist.
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Tithe
A tithe (from Old English: teogoþa "tenth") is a one-tenth part of something, paid as a contribution to a religious organization or compulsory tax to government.
Tobiah ben Eliezer
Tobiah ben Eliezer (טוביה בן אליעזר) was a Talmudist and poet of the 11th century, author of Lekach Tov or Pesikta Zutarta, a midrashic commentary on the Pentateuch and the Five Megillot.
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Torah reading
Torah reading is a Jewish religious tradition that involves the public reading of a set of passages from a Torah scroll.
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A Torah scroll (סֵפֶר תּוֹרָה,, lit. "Book of Torah"; plural: סִפְרֵי תוֹרָה) is a handwritten copy of the Torah, meaning the five books of Moses (the first books of the Hebrew Bible).
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Torgny Lindgren
Gustav Torgny Lindgren (16 June 1938 – 16 March 2017) was a Swedish writer.
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Tosefta
The Tosefta (translit "supplement, addition") is a compilation of Jewish Oral Law from the late second century, the period of the Mishnah and the Jewish sages known as the Tannaim.
Tribe of Benjamin
According to the Torah, the Tribe of Benjamin was one of the Twelve Tribes of Israel.
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Tribe of Reuben
According to the Hebrew Bible, the Tribe of Reuben was one of the twelve tribes of Israel.
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Triennial cycle
The Triennial cycle of Torah reading may refer to either.
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Troyes
Troyes is a commune and the capital of the department of Aube in the Grand Est region of north-central France.
True name
A true name is a name of a thing or being that expresses, or is somehow identical to, its true nature.
Tsade
Tsade (also spelled ṣade, ṣādē, ṣaddi,, tzadi, sadhe, tzaddik) is the eighteenth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician ṣādē 𐤑, Hebrew ṣādī צ, Aramaic ṣāḏē 𐡑, Syriac ṣāḏē ܨ, Ge'ez ṣädäy ጸ, and Arabic ṣād ص.
Union for Reform Judaism
The Union for Reform Judaism (URJ), formerly known as the Union of American Hebrew Congregations (UAHC) until 2003, founded in 1873 by Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise, is the congregational arm of Reform Judaism in North America.
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Ur of the Chaldees
Ur Kasdim (ʾŪr Kaśdīm), commonly translated as Ur of the Chaldeans, is a city mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as the birthplace of Abraham, the patriarch of the Israelites and the Ishmaelites.
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Urim Publications
Urim Publications, an independent publisher of Jewish interest books, is based in Jerusalem, with an outlet in Brooklyn, New York.
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Vayeira
Vayeira, Vayera, or (—Hebrew for "and He appeared," the first word in the parashah) is the fourth weekly Torah portion (parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading.
Vetus Testamentum
Vetus Testamentum is a quarterly academic journal covering various aspects of the Old Testament.
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Walter Brueggemann
Walter Brueggemann (born March 11, 1933) is an American Protestant Old Testament scholar and theologian who is widely considered one of the most influential Old Testament scholars of the last several decades.
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Warner Bros. Television Studios
Warner Bros.
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Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly known as Washington or D.C., is the capital city and federal district of the United States.
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Weekly Torah portion
It is a custom among religious Jewish communities for a weekly Torah portion to be read during Jewish prayer services on Monday, Thursday, and Saturday.
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Wilhelm Grimm
Wilhelm Carl Grimm (also Karl; 24 February 178616 December 1859) was a German author and anthropologist.
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William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company is a religious publishing house based in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
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William F. Albright
William Foxwell Albright (May 24, 1891– September 19, 1971) was an American archaeologist, biblical scholar, philologist, and expert on ceramics.
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William G. Dever
William Gwinn Dever (born November 27, 1933, Louisville, Kentucky) is an American archaeologist, scholar, historian, semiticist, and theologian.
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William Sanford LaSor
William Sanford LaSor (October 25, 1911 – 1991) was an American academic who worked as a professor emeritus of Old Testament at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California.
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William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare (23 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor.
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William Whiston
William Whiston (9 December 166722 August 1752) was an English theologian, historian, natural philosopher, and mathematician, a leading figure in the popularisation of the ideas of Isaac Newton.
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Wisdom (personification)
The personification of wisdom, typically as a righteous woman, is a motif found in religious and philosophical texts, most notably in the Book of Proverbs in the Hebrew Bible and other Jewish and Christian texts.
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Word Records
Word Records is a Christian faith-based entertainment company based in Nashville, Tennessee.
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World Zionist Organization
The World Zionist Organization (הַהִסְתַּדְּרוּת הַצִּיּוֹנִית הָעוֹלָמִית; HaHistadrut HaTzionit Ha'Olamit), or WZO, is a non-governmental organization that promotes Zionism.
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Yaakov Elman
Yaakov Elman (1943 – July 29, 2018) was an American professor of Talmud at Yeshiva University's Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies where he held the Herbert S. and Naomi Denenberg Chair in Talmudic Studies.
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Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter
Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter (יהודה אריה ליב אלתר, 15 April 1847 – 11 January 1905), also known by the title of his main work, the Sfas Emes (Ashkenazic Pronunciation) or Sefat Emet (Modern Hebrew), was a Hasidic rabbi who succeeded his grandfather, Rabbi Yitzchak Meir Alter, as the Av beis din (head of the rabbinical court) and Rav of Góra Kalwaria, Poland (known in Yiddish as the town of Ger), and succeeded Rabbi Chanokh Heynekh HaKohen Levin of Aleksander as Rebbe of the Gerrer Hasidim.
See Vayishlach and Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter
Yemen
Yemen (al-Yaman), officially the Republic of Yemen, is a sovereign state in West Asia.
Zaragoza
Zaragoza also known in English as Saragossa,Encyclopædia Britannica is the capital city of the province of Zaragoza and of the autonomous community of Aragon, Spain.
Zarqa River
The Zarqa River (نهر الزرقاء, Nahr az-Zarqāʾ, lit. "the River of the Blue City") is the second largest tributary of the lower Jordan River, after the Yarmouk River.
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Zohar
The Zohar (זֹהַר, Zōhar, lit. "Splendor" or "Radiance") is a foundational work of Kabbalistic literature.
Zondervan
Zondervan is an international Christian media and publishing company located in Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States.
See also
Weekly Torah readings in Kislev
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vayishlach
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