Abraham, the Glossary
Abraham (originally Abram) is the common Hebrew patriarch of the Abrahamic religions, including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.[1]
Table of Contents
315 relations: Abba Arikha, Abimelech, Abraham and the Idol Shop, Abraham Casting out Hagar and Ishmael, Abraham I, Abraham II, Abraham III, Abraham in History and Tradition, Abraham in Islam, Abraham Path, Abraham's family tree, Abraham's Well, Abrahamic religions, Achaemenid Empire, Adam, Adam in Islam, Aert de Gelder, Ai (Canaan), Akkadian language, Al-Hajj, Albrecht Alt, Albrecht Dürer, Amathlai, Ambrose, Ammon, Amorites, Anaphora (liturgy), Ancient Egypt, André Michaux, Angel of the Lord, Anthony van Dyck, Apil-Sin, Apocalypse of Abraham, Archery, Ash cake, Assyrian Church of the East, Assyrian people, Augusta University, Augustine of Hippo, Babylonian captivity, Baháʼí Faith, Baháʼu'lláh, Baltimore, Basil of Caesarea, Basilica, Battle of Siddim, Báb, Beersheba, Beit She'an, Bethel, ... Expand index (265 more) »
- 21st-century BC people
- Biblical patriarchs
- Christian saints from the Old Testament
- Converts to Judaism from paganism
- Lech-Lecha
- People from Harran
- Prophets in the Druze faith
- Slave owners
- Ur of the Chaldees
- Vayeira
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.
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. Abraham and Abimelech are Vayeira.
Abraham and the Idol Shop
Abraham and the Idol Shop is a midrash that appears in Genesis Rabbah chapter 38.
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Abraham Casting out Hagar and Ishmael
Abraham Casting out Hagar and Ishmael is a 1657 oil on canvas painting by Guercino, commissioned from him by the town of Cento to present to cardinal Lorenzo Imperiali, papal legate in Ferrara.
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Abraham I
Abraham I may refer to.
Abraham II
Abraham II may refer to.
Abraham III
Abraham III may refer to.
Abraham in History and Tradition
Abraham in History and Tradition is a book by biblical scholar John Van Seters.
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Abraham in Islam
Abraham was a prophet and messenger of God according to Islam, and an ancestor to the Ishmaelite Arabs and Israelites.
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Abraham Path
The Abraham Path is a cultural route believed to have been the path of the patriarch Abraham's ancient journey across the Ancient Near East.
Abraham's family tree
Abraham is known as the patriarch of the Israelite people through Isaac, the son born to him and Sarah in their old age and the patriarch of Arabs through his son Ishmael, born to Abraham and Hagar, Sarah's Egyptian servant.
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Abraham's Well
Abraham's Well (באר אברהם) is a historical water well in Beersheba, Israel, associated with the biblical narrative of Abraham.
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Abrahamic religions
The Abrahamic religions are a grouping of three of the major religions (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) together due to their historical coexistence and competition; it refers to Abraham, a figure mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, the Christian Bible, and the Quran, and is used to show similarities between these religions and put them in contrast to Indian religions, Iranian religions, and the East Asian religions (though other religions and belief systems may refer to Abraham as well).
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Achaemenid Empire
The Achaemenid Empire or Achaemenian Empire, also known as the Persian Empire or First Persian Empire (𐎧𐏁𐏂), was an ancient Iranian empire founded by Cyrus the Great of the Achaemenid dynasty in 550 BC.
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Adam
Adam is the name given in Genesis 1–5 to the first human. Abraham and Adam are biblical patriarchs, book of Genesis people and prophets in the Druze faith.
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Adam in Islam
Adam (ʾĀdam), in Islamic theology, is believed to have been the first human being on Earth and the first prophet (نبي, nabī) of Islam.
Aert de Gelder
Aert de Gelder (or Arent; October 26, 1645 – August 27, 1727) was a Dutch painter.
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Ai (Canaan)
The Ai (lit; Douay–Rheims: Hai) was a city in Canaan, mentioned in the Hebrew Bible.
Akkadian language
Akkadian (translit)John Huehnergard & Christopher Woods, "Akkadian and Eblaite", The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages.
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Al-Hajj
Al-Ḥajj (الحج.,; "The Pilgrimage", "The Hajj") is the 22nd chapter (sūrah) of the Quran with 78 verses (āyāt).
Albrecht Alt
Albrecht Alt (20 September 1883, in Stübach (Franconia) – 24 April 1956, in Leipzig), was a leading German Protestant theologian.
Albrecht Dürer
Albrecht Dürer (21 May 1471 – 6 April 1528),Müller, Peter O. (1993) Substantiv-Derivation in Den Schriften Albrecht Dürers, Walter de Gruyter.
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Amathlai
According to the Talmud, Amathlai (Mishnaic Hebrew: ʾĂmaṯlaʾy) was the name of the mother of Abraham.
Ambrose
Ambrose of Milan (Aurelius Ambrosius; 4 April 397), venerated as Saint Ambrose, was a theologian and statesman who served as Bishop of Milan from 374 to 397.
Ammon
Ammon (Ammonite: 𐤏𐤌𐤍 ʻAmān; עַמּוֹן; ʻAmmūn) was an ancient Semitic-speaking kingdom occupying the east of the Jordan River, between the torrent valleys of Arnon and Jabbok, in present-day Jordan. Abraham and Ammon are Vayeira.
Amorites
The Amorites (author-link, Pl. XXVIII e+i|MAR.TU; Amurrūm or Tidnum Tidnum; ʾĔmōrī; Ἀμορραῖοι) were an ancient Northwest Semitic-speaking Bronze Age people from the Levant.
Anaphora (liturgy)
The Anaphora, Eucharistic Prayer, or Great Thanksgiving is a portion of the Christian liturgy of the Eucharist in which, through a prayer of thanksgiving, the elements of bread and wine are consecrated.
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Ancient Egypt
Ancient Egypt was a civilization of ancient Northeast Africa.
André Michaux
André Michaux, also styled Andrew Michaud, (8 March 174611 October 1802) was a French botanist and explorer.
Angel of the Lord
The (or an) Angel of the Lord (מַלְאַךְ יְהוָה mal’āḵ YHWH "messenger of Yahweh") is an entity appearing repeatedly in the Hebrew Bible on behalf of the God of Israel.
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Anthony van Dyck
Sir Anthony van Dyck (i; 22 March 1599 – 9 December 1641) was a Flemish Baroque artist who became the leading court painter in England after success in the Spanish Netherlands and Italy.
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Apil-Sin
Apil-Sin was an Amorite King of the First Dynasty of Babylon (the Amorite Dynasty).
Apocalypse of Abraham
The Apocalypse of Abraham is an apocalyptic Jewish pseudepigrapha (a text whose claimed authorship is uncertain) based on biblical Abraham narratives.
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Archery
Archery is the sport, practice, or skill of using a bow to shoot arrows.
Ash cake
Ash cake (also known as ash bread or fire cake) is a type of bread baked over a layer of heated stones or sand and covered-over in hot ashes, a practice still found principally in Arabian countries, especially among Bedouins.
Assyrian Church of the East
The Assyrian Church of the East (ACOE), sometimes called the Church of the East and officially known as the Holy Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East (HACACE), is an Eastern Christian church that follows the traditional Christology and ecclesiology of the historical Church of the East.
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Assyrian people
Assyrians are an indigenous ethnic group native to Mesopotamia, a geographical region in West Asia.
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Augusta University
Augusta University (AU) is a public research university and academic medical center in Augusta, Georgia.
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Augustine of Hippo
Augustine of Hippo (Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis; 13 November 354 – 28 August 430), also known as Saint Augustine, was a theologian and philosopher of Berber origin and the bishop of Hippo Regius in Numidia, Roman North Africa.
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Babylonian captivity
The Babylonian captivity or Babylonian exile was the period in Jewish history during which a large number of Judeans from the ancient Kingdom of Judah were forcibly relocated to Babylonia by the Neo-Babylonian Empire.
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Baháʼí Faith
The Baháʼí Faith is a religion founded in the 19th century that teaches the essential worth of all religions and the unity of all people.
Baháʼu'lláh
Baháʼu'lláh (born Ḥusayn-ʻAlí; 12 November 1817 – 29 May 1892) was an Iranian religious leader who founded the Baháʼí Faith.
Baltimore
Baltimore is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Maryland.
Basil of Caesarea
Basil of Caesarea, also called Saint Basil the Great (Hágios Basíleios ho Mégas; Ⲡⲓⲁⲅⲓⲟⲥ Ⲃⲁⲥⲓⲗⲓⲟⲥ; 330 – 1 or 2 January 378), was Bishop of Caesarea Mazaca in Cappadocia, Asia Minor.
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Basilica
In Ancient Roman architecture, a basilica was a large public building with multiple functions that was typically built alongside the town's forum.
Battle of Siddim
The Battle of the Vale of Siddim, also often called the War of Nine Kings or the Slaughter of Chedorlaomer, is an event in the Hebrew Bible book of that occurs in the days of Abram and Lot. Abraham and Battle of Siddim are Lech-Lecha.
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Báb
The Báb (born ʿAlí Muḥammad;; علی محمد; 20 October 1819 – 9 July 1850) was the founder of Bábi Faith, and one of the central figures of the Baháʼí Faith.
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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.
Beit She'an
Beit She'an (בֵּית שְׁאָן), also Beth-shean, formerly Beisan (بيسان), is a town in the Northern District of Israel.
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.
Biblical Hebrew
Biblical Hebrew (rtl ʿīḇrîṯ miqrāʾîṯ or rtl ləšôn ham-miqrāʾ), also called Classical Hebrew, is an archaic form of the Hebrew language, a language in the Canaanitic branch of the Semitic languages spoken by the Israelites in the area known as the Land of Israel, roughly west of the Jordan River and east of the Mediterranean Sea.
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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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Binding of Isaac
The Binding of Isaac (עֲקֵידַת יִצְחַק|ʿAqēḏaṯ Yīṣḥaqlabel. Abraham and Binding of Isaac are Vayeira.
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Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan (legally Robert Dylan; born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter.
Book of Abraham
The Book of Abraham is a collection of writings from several Egyptian scrolls discovered in the early 19th century during an archeological expedition by Antonio Lebolo.
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Book of Ezekiel
The Book of Ezekiel is the third of the Latter Prophets in the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) and one of the major prophetic books in the Christian Bible, where it follows Isaiah and Jeremiah.
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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 Isaiah
The Book of Isaiah (ספר ישעיהו) is the first of the Latter Prophets in the Hebrew Bible and the first of the Major Prophets in the Christian Old Testament.
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Bosom of Abraham
"Bosom of Abraham" refers to the place of comfort in the biblical Sheol (or Hades in the Greek Septuagint version of the Hebrew scriptures from around 200 BC, and therefore so described in the New Testament) where the righteous dead await Judgment Day.
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Calendar of saints
The calendar of saints is the traditional Christian method of organizing a liturgical year by associating each day with one or more saints and referring to the day as the feast day or feast of said saint.
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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.
Canon of the Mass
The Canon of the Mass (Canon Missæ), also known as the Canon of the Roman Mass and in the Mass of Paul VI as the Roman Canon or Eucharistic Prayer I, is the oldest anaphora used in the Roman Rite of Mass.
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Canonical hours
In the practice of Christianity, canonical hours mark the divisions of the day in terms of fixed times of prayer at regular intervals.
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Cantata
A cantata (literally "sung", past participle feminine singular of the Italian verb cantare, "to sing") is a vocal composition with an instrumental accompaniment, typically in several movements, often involving a choir.
Caravaggio
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (also Michele Angelo Merigi or Amerighi da Caravaggio;,,; 29 September 1571 – 18 July 1610), known mononymously as Caravaggio, was an Italian painter active in Rome for most of his artistic life.
Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.
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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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Chaldea
Chaldea was a small country that existed between the late 10th or early 9th and mid-6th centuries BC, after which the country and its people were absorbed and assimilated into the indigenous population of Babylonia. Abraham and Chaldea are ur of the Chaldees.
Chayei Sarah
Chayei Sarah, Chaye Sarah, Ḥayye Sarah, or Ḥayyei Sara (—Hebrew for "life of Sarah," the first words in the parashah), is the fifth weekly Torah portion (parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading.
Chedorlaomer
Chedorlaomer, also spelled Kedorlaomer (Χοδολλογομόρ Khodollogomor), is a king of Elam mentioned in Genesis 14. Abraham and Chedorlaomer are book of Genesis people and Lech-Lecha.
Christianity
Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.
Christians
A Christian is a person who follows or adheres to Christianity, a monotheistic Abrahamic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.
Claude Lorrain
Claude Lorrain (born Claude Gellée, called le Lorrain in French; traditionally just Claude in English; c. 1600 – 23 November 1682) was a French painter, draughtsman and etcher of the Baroque era.
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Concubinage
Concubinage is an interpersonal and sexual relationship between two people in which the couple does not want to, or cannot, enter into a full marriage.
Constantine the Great
Constantine I (27 February 22 May 337), also known as Constantine the Great, was a Roman emperor from AD 306 to 337 and the first Roman emperor to convert to Christianity. Abraham and Constantine the Great are Angelic visionaries.
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Coptic Orthodox Church
The Coptic Orthodox Church (lit), also known as the Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria, is an Oriental Orthodox Christian church based in Egypt.
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Covenant (biblical)
The Hebrew Bible makes reference to a number of covenants (בְּרִיתוֹת) with God (YHWH).
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Covenant of the pieces
According to the Hebrew Bible, the covenant of the pieces or covenant between the parts is an important event in Jewish History. Abraham and covenant of the pieces are Lech-Lecha.
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Covenant theology
Covenant theology (also known as covenantalism, federal theology, or federalism) is a Biblical Theology, a conceptual overview and interpretive framework for understanding the overall structure of the Bible.
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Damascus
Damascus (Dimašq) is the capital and largest city of Syria, the oldest current capital in the world and, according to some, the fourth holiest city in Islam.
Dan (ancient city)
Dan (דן) is an ancient city mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, described as the northernmost city of the Kingdom of Israel, and belonging to the tribe of Dan, its namesake.
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Dan (son of Jacob)
According to the Book of Genesis, Dan (דָּן, Dān, "judgment" or "he judged") was the first of the two sons of Jacob and Bilhah (Jacob's fifth son). Abraham and Dan (son of Jacob) are book of Genesis people.
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Daniel E. Fleming
Daniel Edward Fleming is an American biblical scholar and Assyriologist whose work centers on Hebrew Bible interpretation and cultural history, ancient Syria, Emar, ancient religion, and the interplay of ancient Near Eastern societies.
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Danish language
Danish (dansk, dansk sprog) is a North Germanic language from the Indo-European language family spoken by about six million people, principally in and around Denmark.
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De Gruyter
Walter de Gruyter GmbH, known as De Gruyter, is a German scholarly publishing house specializing in academic literature.
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. Abraham and Desert of Paran are Vayeira.
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Dinah
In the Book of Genesis, Dinah was the seventh child and only daughter of Leah and Jacob. Abraham and Dinah are book of Genesis people.
Divine Liturgy
Divine Liturgy (Theia Leitourgia) or Holy Liturgy is the usual name used in most Eastern Christian rites for the Eucharistic service.
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Donatello
Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi (– 13 December 1466), known mononymously as Donatello, was an Italian sculptor of the Renaissance period.
Druze
The Druze (دَرْزِيّ, or دُرْزِيّ, rtl), who call themselves al-Muwaḥḥidūn (lit. 'the monotheists' or 'the unitarians'), are an Arab and Arabic-speaking esoteric ethnoreligious group from West Asia who adhere to the Druze faith, an Abrahamic, monotheistic, syncretic, and ethnic religion whose main tenets assert the unity of God, reincarnation, and the eternity of the soul.
Early Christian art and architecture
Early Christian art and architecture (or Paleochristian art) is the art produced by Christians, or under Christian patronage, from the earliest period of Christianity to, depending on the definition, sometime between 260 and 525.
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Eastern Orthodox Church
The Eastern Orthodox Church, officially the Orthodox Catholic Church, and also called the Greek Orthodox Church or simply the Orthodox Church, is the second-largest Christian church, with approximately 230 million baptised members.
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Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar
The Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar describes and dictates the rhythm of the life of the Eastern Orthodox Church.
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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.
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El Roi
El Roi is one of the names of God in the Hebrew Bible.
Elam
Elam (Linear Elamite: hatamti; Cuneiform Elamite:; Sumerian:; Akkadian:; עֵילָם ʿēlām; 𐎢𐎺𐎩 hūja) was an ancient civilization centered in the far west and southwest of modern-day Iran, stretching from the lowlands of what is now Khuzestan and Ilam Province as well as a small part of southern Iraq.
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Elyon
Elyon or El Elyon (אֵל עֶלְיוֹן ʼĒl ʻElyōn), is an epithet that appears in the Hebrew Bible.
Encyclopedia.com
Encyclopedia.com is an online encyclopedia.
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Epistle to the Romans
The Epistle to the Romans is the sixth book in the New Testament, and the longest of the thirteen Pauline epistles.
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Esau
Esau is the elder son of Isaac in the Hebrew Bible. Abraham and Esau are book of Genesis people.
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Ezekiel
Ezekiel, also spelled Ezechiel (יְחֶזְקֵאל; Greek), was an Israelite priest. Abraham and Ezekiel are Angelic visionaries, Christian saints from the Old Testament and prophets in the Hebrew Bible.
Ezra–Nehemiah
Ezra–Nehemiah (עזרא נחמיה) is a book in the Hebrew Bible found in the Ketuvim section, originally with the Hebrew title of Ezra (עזרא) and called Esdras B (Ἔσδρας Βʹ) in the Septuagint.
ʻAbdu'l-Bahá
ʻAbdu'l-Bahá (Persian: عبد البهاء‎, 23 May 1844 – 28 November 1921), born ʻAbbás (عباس), was the eldest son of Baháʼu'lláh and served as head of the Baháʼí Faith from 1892 until 1921.
Fear and Trembling
Fear and Trembling (original Danish title: Frygt og Bæven) is a philosophical work by Søren Kierkegaard, published in 1843 under the pseudonym Johannes de silentio (Latin for John of the Silence).
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Folk etymology
Folk etymology – also known as (generative) popular etymology, analogical reformation, (morphological) reanalysis and etymological reinterpretation – is a change in a word or phrase resulting from the replacement of an unfamiliar form by a more familiar one through popular usage.
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G. Ernest Wright
George Ernest Wright (September 5, 1909 – August 29, 1974), was a leading Old Testament scholar and biblical archaeologist.
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Galilee
Galilee (hagGālīl; Galilaea; al-jalīl) is a region located in northern Israel and southern Lebanon.
Gathering of Israel
The Gathering of Israel, or the Ingathering of the Jewish diaspora, is the biblical promise of, made by Moses to the Israelites prior to their entry into the Land of Israel.
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Genealogies of Genesis
The genealogies of Genesis provide the framework around which the Book of Genesis is structured. Abraham and genealogies of Genesis are book of Genesis people.
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Genealogy of Jesus
The New Testament provides two accounts of the genealogy of Jesus, one in the Gospel of Matthew and another in the Gospel of Luke.
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Genesis flood narrative
The Genesis flood narrative (chapters 6–9 of the Book of Genesis) is a Hebrew flood myth.
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Gentile
Gentile is a word that today usually means someone who is not Jewish.
George Segal (artist)
George Segal (November 26, 1924 – June 9, 2000) was an American painter and sculptor associated with the pop art movement.
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Gerar
Gerar (Gərār, "lodging-place") was a Philistine town and district in what is today south central Israel, mentioned in the Book of Genesis and in the Second Book of Chronicles of the Hebrew Bible. Abraham and Gerar are Vayeira.
Giovanni Maria Morlaiter
Giovanni Maria Morlaiter (15 February 1699 – 22 February 1781) was an Italian sculptor of the Rococo or late-Baroque, active mainly in his native Venice.
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Girgashites
Girgashites are one of the tribes who had invaded the land of Canaan as mentioned in Gen.
God in Abrahamic religions
Monotheism—the belief that there is only one deity—is the focus of the Abrahamic religions, which like-mindedly conceive God as the all-powerful and all-knowing deity from whom Abraham received a divine revelation, according to their respective narratives.
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God in Islam
In Islam, God (Allāh, contraction of ٱلْإِلَٰه, lit.) is seen as the creator and sustainer of the universe, who lives eternally and will eventually resurrect all humans.
God in Judaism
In Judaism, God has been conceived in a variety of ways.
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God in the Baháʼí Faith
The Baháʼí conception of God is of an "unknowable essence" who is the source of all existence and known through the perception of human virtues.
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Golah
Golah refers to the Jewish diaspora community.
Gold ground
Gold ground (both a noun and adjective) or gold-ground (adjective) is a term in art history for a style of images with all or most of the background in a solid gold colour.
Golden Legend
The Golden Legend (Legenda aurea or Legenda sanctorum) is a collection of 153 hagiographies by Jacobus de Voragine that was widely read in Europe during the Late Middle Ages.
Gospel of Luke
The Gospel of Luke tells of the origins, birth, ministry, death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus.
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Gregorian calendar
The Gregorian calendar is the calendar used in most parts of the world.
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Guercino
Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (February 8, 1591 – December 22, 1666),Miller, 1964 better known as (il) Guercino, was an Italian Baroque painter and draftsman from Cento in the Emilia region, who was active in Rome and Bologna.
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. Abraham and Hagar are Angelic visionaries, Lech-Lecha and Vayeira.
Hanan bar Rava
Ḥanan bar Rava (חנן/חנא/חנין בר רב/א) or Ḥanan bar Abba (חנן בר א/בא) was a Talmudic sage and second-generation Babylonian Amora.
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Haran
Haran or Aran (הָרָן Hārān) is a man in the Book of Genesis in the Hebrew Bible. Abraham and Haran are ur of the Chaldees.
Harran (biblical place)
The ruins of the city of Harran, called Haran (חָרָן, Ḥārān) in the Hebrew Bible, might lie within present-day Turkey.
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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.
Hebrew Bible judges
The judges (sing. šop̄ēṭ, pl. שופטים) whose stories are recounted in the Hebrew Bible, primarily in the Book of Judges, were individuals who served as military leaders of the tribes of Israel in times of crisis, in the period before the monarchy was established.
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Hebrew language
Hebrew (ʿÎbrit) is a Northwest Semitic language within the Afroasiatic language family.
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Hebrews
The Hebrews were an ancient Semitic-speaking people.
Hebron
Hebron (الخليل, or خَلِيل الرَّحْمَن; חֶבְרוֹן) is a Palestinian.
Highway 61 Revisited
Highway 61 Revisited is the sixth studio album by the American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released on August 30, 1965, by Columbia Records.
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Highway 61 Revisited (song)
"Highway 61 Revisited" is the title track of Bob Dylan's 1965 album Highway 61 Revisited.
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Hiyya bar Abba
Ḥiyya bar Abba (רבי חייא בר אבא), Ḥiyya bar Ba (רבי חייא בר בא), or Ḥiyya bar Wa (רבי חייא בר ווא) was a third-generation amoraic sage of the Land of Israel, of priestly descent, who flourished at the end of the third century.
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Holy Land
The Holy Land is an area roughly located between the Mediterranean Sea and the eastern bank of the Jordan River, traditionally synonymous both with the biblical Land of Israel and with the region of Palestine.
Hymn
A hymn is a type of song, and partially synonymous with devotional song, specifically written for the purpose of adoration or prayer, and typically addressed to a deity or deities, or to a prominent figure or personification.
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Ibrium
Ibrium (2322–2302 BC), also spelt Ebrium, was the vizier of Ebla for king Irkab-Damu and his successor Isar-Damu.
Iron Age
The Iron Age is the final epoch of the three historical Metal Ages, after the Chalcolithic and Bronze Age.
Isaac
Isaac is one of the three patriarchs of the Israelites and an important figure in the Abrahamic religions, including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Abraham and Isaac are biblical patriarchs, Christian saints from the Old Testament, people whose existence is disputed, prophets in the Hebrew Bible and Vayeira.
Isaac in Islam
The biblical patriarch Isaac (إِسْحَاق or إِسْحٰق) is recognized as a prophet of God by Muslims.
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Ishbak
Ishbak (יִשְׁבָּ֣ק Yīšbāq, "he will leave; leaving"), also spelled Jisbak and Josabak, was, according to the Bible, the fifth son of Abraham and Keturah.
Ishmael
Ishmael was the first son of Abraham, according to the Abrahamic religions. Abraham and Ishmael are book of Genesis people, Lech-Lecha and people whose existence is disputed.
Ishmaelites
The Ishmaelites (Yīšməʿēʾlīm; sons of Ishmael) were a collection of various Arab tribes, tribal confederations and small kingdoms described in Abrahamic tradition as being descended from and named after Ishmael, a prophet according to the Quran, the first son of Abraham and the Egyptian Hagar.
Islam
Islam (al-Islām) is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion centered on the Quran and the teachings of Muhammad, the religion's founder.
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.
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. Abraham and Jacob are Angelic visionaries, biblical patriarchs, book of Genesis people, Christian saints from the Old Testament, people whose existence is disputed and prophets in the Hebrew Bible.
Jacob and Esau
The biblical Book of Genesis speaks of the relationship between fraternal twins Jacob and Esau, sons of Isaac and Rebecca. Abraham and Jacob and Esau are biblical patriarchs and prophets in the Hebrew Bible.
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Jacob in Islam
Yaqub ibn Ishaq ibn Ibrahim ibn Azar, later given the name Israil, is recognized by Muslims as an Islamic prophet.
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James Tissot
Jacques Joseph Tissot (15 October 1836 – 8 August 1902), better known as James Tissot, was a French painter, illustrator, and caricaturist.
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.
Jehovah-jireh
In the Book of Genesis, Jehovah-jireh was the location of the binding of Isaac, where Yahweh told Abraham to offer his son Isaac as a burnt offering.
Jerusalem
Jerusalem is a city in the Southern Levant, on a plateau in the Judaean Mountains between the Mediterranean and the Dead Sea.
Jesus
Jesus (AD 30 or 33), also referred to as Jesus Christ, Jesus of Nazareth, and many other names and titles, was a first-century Jewish preacher and religious leader. Abraham and Jesus are Angelic visionaries, founders of religions and prophets in the Druze faith.
Jewish mysticism
Academic study of Jewish mysticism, especially since Gershom Scholem's Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism (1941), draws distinctions between different forms of mysticism which were practiced in different eras of Jewish history.
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Jewish peoplehood
Jewish peoplehood (Hebrew: עמיות יהודית, Amiut Yehudit) is the conception of the awareness of the underlying unity that makes an individual a part of the Jewish people.
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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.
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Jews as the chosen people
In Judaism, the concept of the Jews as chosen people (הָעָם הַנִבְחַר hāʿām hanīvḥar) is the belief that the Jews as a subset, via partial descent from the ancient Israelites, are also chosen people, i.e. selected to be in a covenant with God.
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John Bright (biblical scholar)
John Bright (1908–1995) was an American biblical scholar and the author of several books, including the influential A History of Israel (1959), currently in its fourth edition (2000).
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John Van Seters
John Van Seters (born May 2, 1935 in Hamilton, Ontario) is a Canadian scholar of the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) and the Ancient Near East.
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Johns Hopkins University Press
Johns Hopkins University Press (also referred to as JHU Press or JHUP) is the publishing division of Johns Hopkins University.
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Jokshan
Jokshan (يقشان, yoqšān) was, according to the Bible, a son of Abraham (Avraham) and his wife or concubine Keturah, whom he wed after the death of Sarah.
Jordan
Jordan, officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, is a country in the Southern Levant region of West Asia.
Jordan River
The Jordan River or River Jordan (نَهْر الْأُرْدُنّ, Nahr al-ʾUrdunn; נְהַר הַיַּרְדֵּן, Nəhar hayYardēn), also known as Nahr Al-Sharieat (نهر الشريعة.), is a river in the Levant that flows roughly north to south through the freshwater Sea of Galilee and on to the salt water Dead Sea.
Journal of Early Christian Studies
The Journal of Early Christian Studies is an academic journal founded in 1993 and is the official publication of the North American Patristics Society.
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Judaism
Judaism (יַהֲדוּת|translit.
Julian calendar
The Julian calendar is a solar calendar of 365 days in every year with an additional leap day every fourth year (without exception).
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Junius Bassus Theotecnius
Junius Bassus signo Theotecnius (June 317 – 25 August 359) was an ancient Roman politician.
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Kaaba
The Kaaba, sometimes referred to as al-Ka'ba al-Musharrafa, is a stone building at the center of Islam's most important mosque and holiest site, the Masjid al-Haram in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
Kadesh (biblical)
Kadesh or Qadesh or Cades (in classical Hebrew קָדֵשׁ, from the root "holy") is a place-name that occurs several times in the Hebrew Bible, describing a site or sites located south of, or at the southern border of, Canaan and the Kingdom of Judah in the kingdom of Israel.
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Kadmonites
The Kadmonites (Qaḏmōnī) were, according to the Hebrew Bible, a tribe mentioned as inhabiting the land promised by God in a covenant to Abraham in.
Kenites
According to the Hebrew Bible, the Kenites/Qenites (or; קֵינִי Qēnī) were a tribe in the ancient Levant.
Kenizzite
Kenizzite (also spelled Cenezite in the Douay–Rheims Bible) was an Edomite tribe referred to in the covenant God made with Abraham.
Kenneth Kitchen
Kenneth Anderson Kitchen (born 1932) is a British biblical scholar, Ancient Near Eastern historian, and Personal and Brunner Professor Emeritus of Egyptology and honorary research fellow at the School of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology, University of Liverpool, England.
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Keturah
Keturah (קְטוּרָה, Qəṭūrā, possibly meaning "incense"; قطورة) was a wife (1917 Jewish Publication Society of America translation).
Kohen
Kohen (כֹּהֵן, kōhēn,, "priest", pl., kōhănīm,, "priests") is the Hebrew word for "priest", used in reference to the Aaronic priesthood, also called Aaronites or Aaronides.
Law of Moses
The Law of Moses (תֹּורַת מֹשֶׁה), also called the Mosaic Law, is the law said to have been revealed to Moses by God.
Lech-Lecha
Lech-Lecha, Lekh-Lekha, or Lech-L'cha (leḵ-ləḵā—Hebrew for "go!" or "leave!", literally "go for you"—the fifth and sixth words in the parashah) is the third weekly Torah portion (parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading.
The Legends of the Jews is a chronological compilation of aggadah from hundreds of biblical legends in Mishnah, Talmud and Midrash.
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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. Abraham and Levi are book of Genesis people.
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Lewis B. Paton
Lewis Bayles Paton (June 27, 1864 − January 24, 1932) was an American biblical scholar, archaeologist and historian.
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List of chapters in the Quran
The Quran is divided into Surahs (chapters) and further divided into Ayahs (verses).
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List of minor biblical places
This is a list of places mentioned in the Bible, which do not have their own Wikipedia articles.
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List of oldest fathers
This is a list of persons reported to have become father of a child at or after 75 years of age.
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List of plants in the Bible
This article lists plants referenced in the Bible, ordered alphabetically by English common/colloquial name.
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Lorenzo Monaco
Lorenzo Monaco (1370 – 1425) was an Italian painter and miniaturist of the late Gothic to early Renaissance age.
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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. Abraham and Lot (biblical person) are Angelic visionaries, book of Genesis people, Lech-Lecha, ur of the Chaldees and Vayeira.
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Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod
The Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod (LCMS), also known as the Missouri Synod, is an orthodox, traditional, confessional Lutheran denomination in the United States.
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Lutheranism
Lutheranism is a major branch of Protestantism that identifies primarily with the theology of Martin Luther, the 16th-century German monk and reformer whose efforts to reform the theology and practices of the Catholic Church ended the Middle Ages and, in 1517, launched the Reformation.
Lynne Reid Banks
Lynne Reid Banks (31 July 1929 – 4 April 2024) was a British author of books for children and adults, including The Indian in the Cupboard, which has sold over 15 million copies and has been successfully adapted to film.
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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.
Mandaeans
Mandaeans (المندائيون), also known as Mandaean Sabians (الصابئة المندائيون) or simply as Sabians (الصابئة), are an ethnoreligious group who are followers of Mandaeism.
Mandaeism
Mandaeism (Classical Mandaic), sometimes also known as Nasoraeanism or Sabianism, is a Gnostic, monotheistic and ethnic religion with Greek, Iranian, and Jewish influences. Its adherents, the Mandaeans, revere Adam, Abel, Seth, Enos, Noah, Shem, Aram, and especially John the Baptist. Mandaeans consider Adam, Seth, Noah, Shem and John the Baptist prophets, with Adam being the founder of the religion and John being the greatest and final prophet.
Manifestation of God (Baháʼí Faith)
The Manifestation of God (مظهر ظهور maẓhar ẓohūr) is a concept in the Baháʼí Faith that refers to what are commonly called prophets.
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Marc Chagall
Marc Chagall (born Moishe Shagal; – 28 March 1985) was a Belarusian-French artist.
Marc-Antoine Charpentier
Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643 – 24 February 1704) was a French Baroque composer during the reign of Louis XIV.
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Mari, Syria
Mari (Cuneiform:, ma-riki, modern Tell Hariri; تل حريري) was an ancient Semitic city-state in modern-day Syria.
Mario Liverani
Mario Liverani (born 10 January 1939 in Rome), is an Italian historian and Professor of Ancient Near East History at the University of Rome La Sapienza.
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Maronite Church
The Maronite Church (لكنيسة المارونية; ܥܕܬܐ ܣܘܪܝܝܬܐ ܡܪܘܢܝܬܐ) is an Eastern Catholic sui iuris particular church in full communion with the pope and the worldwide Catholic Church, with self-governance under the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches.
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Martin Luther
Martin Luther (10 November 1483– 18 February 1546) was a German priest, theologian, author, hymnwriter, professor, and Augustinian friar. Abraham and Martin Luther are founders of religions.
Mass in the Catholic Church
The Mass is the central liturgical service of the Eucharist in the Catholic Church, in which bread and wine are consecrated and become the body and blood of Christ.
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Mecca
Mecca (officially Makkah al-Mukarramah, commonly shortened to Makkah) is the capital of Mecca Province in the Hejaz region of western Saudi Arabia and the holiest city according to Islam.
Medan, son of Abraham
According to the Bible, Medan (מְדָן Məḏān "contention; to twist, conflict"); also spelt Madan was the third son of Abraham, the patriarch of the Israelites, and Keturah whom he wed after the death of Sarah. Abraham and Medan, son of Abraham are book of Genesis people.
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Melchizedek
In the Bible, Melchizedek (מַלְכִּי־צֶדֶק|translit. Abraham and Melchizedek are book of Genesis people, Christian saints from the Old Testament and Lech-Lecha.
Mesopotamia
Mesopotamia is a historical region of West Asia situated within the Tigris–Euphrates river system, in the northern part of the Fertile Crescent.
Midian
Midian (מִדְיָן Mīḏyān; Madyan; Μαδιάμ, Madiam; Taymanitic: 𐪃𐪕𐪚𐪌 MDYN) is a geographical region in West Asia mentioned in the Tanakh and Quran.
Midian, son of Abraham
According to the Hebrew Bible, Midian (מִדְיָן Miḏyān) is the fourth son of Abraham and Keturah, the woman Abraham married after Sarah's death. Abraham and Midian, son of Abraham are book of Genesis people.
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Moab
Moab is an ancient Levantine kingdom whose territory is today located in southern Jordan. Abraham and Moab are Vayeira.
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Monotheism
Monotheism is the belief that one god is the only deity.
Moriah
Moriah (Hebrew:, Mōrīyya; Arabic: ﻣﺮﻭﻩ, Marwah) is the name given to a mountainous region in the Book of Genesis, where the binding of Isaac by Abraham is said to have taken place. Abraham and Moriah are Vayeira.
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. Abraham and Moses are Angelic visionaries, Christian saints from the Old Testament, founders of religions, people whose existence is disputed, prophets in the Druze faith and prophets in the Hebrew Bible.
Moses in Islam
Mūsā ibn ʿImrān (موسى ابن عمران) is a prominent prophet and messenger of God and is the most frequently mentioned individual in the Quran, with his name being mentioned 136 times and his life being narrated and recounted more than that of any other prophet.
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Muhammad
Muhammad (570 – 8 June 632 CE) was an Arab religious, social, and political leader and the founder of Islam. Abraham and Muhammad are Angelic visionaries, founders of religions and prophets in the Druze faith.
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
Municipal Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen is an art museum in Rotterdam in the Netherlands.
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Muslims
Muslims (God) are people who adhere to Islam, a monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic tradition.
Nabu
Nabu (cuneiform: 𒀭𒀝 Nabû, Nəḇo) is the Babylonian patron god of literacy, the rational arts, scribes, and wisdom.
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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.
Nahor, son of Terah
In the account of Terah's family mentioned in the Book of Genesis, Nahor II (נָחוֹר – Nāḥōr) is listed as the son of Terah, amongst two other brothers, Abram and Haran. Abraham and Nahor, son of Terah are ur of the Chaldees.
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Negev
The Negev (hanNégev) or Negeb (an-Naqab) is a desert and semidesert region of southern Israel.
New Testament
The New Testament (NT) is the second division of the Christian biblical canon.
Nimrod
Nimrod (ܢܡܪܘܕ; Numrūd) is a biblical figure mentioned in the Book of Genesis and Books of Chronicles. Abraham and Nimrod are book of Genesis people.
Noah
Noah appears as the last of the Antediluvian patriarchs in the traditions of Abrahamic religions. Abraham and Noah are biblical patriarchs, book of Genesis people, people whose existence is disputed, prophets in the Druze faith and prophets in the Hebrew Bible.
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Oak of Mamre
The Oak of Mamre (ἡ δρῦς τῆς Μαμβρῆ, hē drys tēs Mambrḗ) or Oak of Sibta at Khirbet es-Sibte or Ain Sibta in Hebron in the West Bank is a site venerated by some as the "Oak of Abraham".
Old Babylonian Empire
The Old Babylonian Empire, or First Babylonian Empire, is dated to, and comes after the end of Sumerian power with the destruction of the Third Dynasty of Ur, and the subsequent Isin-Larsa period.
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Old St. Peter's Basilica
Old St.
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Old Testament
The Old Testament (OT) is the first division of the Christian biblical canon, which is based primarily upon the 24 books of the Hebrew Bible, or Tanakh, a collection of ancient religious Hebrew and occasionally Aramaic writings by the Israelites.
Oneworld Publications
Oneworld Publications is a British independent publishing firm founded in 1986 by Novin Doostdar and Juliet Mabey originally to publish accessible non-fiction by experts and academics for the general market.
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Oral tradition
Oral tradition, or oral lore, is a form of human communication in which knowledge, art, ideas and culture are received, preserved, and transmitted orally from one generation to another.
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Paradigm shift
A paradigm shift is a fundamental change in the basic concepts and experimental practices of a scientific discipline.
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Parashah
The term parashah, parasha or parashat (פָּרָשָׁה Pārāšâ, "portion", Tiberian, Sephardi, plural: parashot or parashiyot, also called parsha) formally means a section of a biblical book in the Masoretic Text of the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible).
Patriarch
The highest-ranking bishops in Eastern Orthodoxy, Oriental Orthodoxy, the Catholic Church (above major archbishop and primate), the Hussite Church, Church of the East, and some Independent Catholic Churches are termed patriarchs (and in certain cases also popes – such as the Pope of Rome or Pope of Alexandria, and catholicoi – such as Catholicos Karekin II, and Baselios Thomas I Catholicos of the East).
Patriarchal age
The patriarchal age is the era of the three biblical patriarchs, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, according to the narratives of Genesis 12–50 (these chapters also contain the history of Joseph, although Joseph is not one of the patriarchs).
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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. Abraham and patriarchs (Bible) are biblical patriarchs.
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Patron saint
A patron saint, patroness saint, patron hallow or heavenly protector is a saint who in Catholicism, Lutheranism, Anglicanism, Eastern Orthodoxy and Oriental Orthodoxy is regarded as the heavenly advocate of a nation, place, craft, activity, class, clan, family, or person.
Paul the Apostle
Paul (Koinē Greek: Παῦλος, romanized: Paûlos), also named Saul of Tarsus (Aramaic: ܫܐܘܠ, romanized: Šāʾūl), commonly known as Paul the Apostle and Saint Paul, was a Christian apostle (AD) who spread the teachings of Jesus in the first-century world.
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Pearl of Great Price (Mormonism)
The Pearl of Great Price is part of the canonical Standard Works of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) and some other Latter Day Saint denominations.
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Perizzites
The Perizzites are a group of people mentioned many times in the Hebrew Bible as having lived in the land of Canaan before the arrival of the Israelites.
Peter Paul Rubens
Sir Peter Paul Rubens (28 June 1577 – 30 May 1640) was a Flemish artist and diplomat.
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Pharaohs in the Bible
The Bible makes reference to various pharaohs (פַּרְעֹה, Parʿō) of Egypt.
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Phicol
Phicol, also spelled Phichol (KJV) or Phikol, (פִיכֹל, meaning "great"; Phicol) was a Philistine military leader. Abraham and Phicol are book of Genesis people and Vayeira.
Philistia
Philistia (Koine Greek (LXX): Γῆ τῶν Φυλιστιείμ, romanized: gê tôn Phulistieím) was a confederation of five main cities or pentapolis in the Southwest Levant, made up of principally Gaza, Ashkelon, Ashdod, Ekron, and Gath, and for a time, Jaffa (present-day part of Tel Aviv).
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.
Pirkei Avot
Pirkei Avot (Chapters of the fathers; also transliterated as Pirqei Avoth or Pirkei Avos or Pirke Aboth), which translates to English as Chapters of the Fathers, is a compilation of the ethical teachings and maxims from Rabbinic Jewish tradition.
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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Polytheism
Polytheism is the belief in or worship of more than one god.
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press is an independent publisher with close connections to Princeton University.
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Prophet
In religion, a prophet or prophetess is an individual who is regarded as being in contact with a divine being and is said to speak on behalf of that being, serving as an intermediary with humanity by delivering messages or teachings from the supernatural source to other people. Abraham and prophet are prophets in the Hebrew Bible.
Prophets and messengers in Islam
Prophets in Islam (translit) are individuals in Islam who are believed to spread God's message on Earth and serve as models of ideal human behaviour.
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Prophets of Christianity
In Christianity, the figures widely recognised as prophets are those mentioned as such in the Old Testament and the New Testament.
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Quinquagesima
Quinquagesima, in the Western Christian Churches, is the last pre-Lenten Sunday, being the Sunday before Ash Wednesday, and the first day of Carnival (also known as Shrovetide).
Raphael
Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (March 28 or April 6, 1483April 6, 1520), now generally known in English as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance.
Rebecca
Rebecca appears in the Hebrew Bible as the wife of Isaac and the mother of Jacob and Esau. According to biblical tradition, Rebecca's father was Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan Aram, also called Aram-Naharaim. Rebecca's brother was Laban the Aramean, and she was the granddaughter of Milcah and Nahor, the brother of Abraham. Abraham and Rebecca are book of Genesis people, prophets in the Hebrew Bible and Vayeira.
Religion and circumcision
Religious circumcision is generally performed shortly after birth, during childhood, or around puberty as part of a rite of passage.
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Rembrandt
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (15 July 1606 – 4 October 1669), usually simply known as Rembrandt, was a Dutch Golden Age painter, printmaker, and draughtsman.
Rich man and Lazarus
The rich man and Lazarus (also called the parable of Dives and Lazarus) is a parable of Jesus from the 16th chapter of the Gospel of Luke.
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Right Ginza
The Right Ginza (translit) is one of the two parts of the Ginza Rabba, the longest and the most important holy scripture of Mandaeism.
Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on music, politics, and popular culture.
Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time
"The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time" is a recurring song ranking compiled by the American magazine Rolling Stone.
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Santa Maria Maggiore
The Basilica of Saint Mary Major ('''Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore'''.,; Basilica Sanctae Mariae Maioris; Basilica Sanctae Mariae ad Nives), or church of Santa Maria Maggiore (also referred to as Santa Maria delle Nevi from its Latin origin Sancta Maria ad Nives), is a Major papal basilica as well as one of the Seven Pilgrim Churches of Rome and the largest Catholic Marian church in Rome, Italy.
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Sarah
Sarah (born Sarai) is a biblical matriarch, prophet, and major figure in Abrahamic religions. Abraham and Sarah are 21st-century BC people, Angelic visionaries, Lech-Lecha, prophets in the Hebrew Bible, ur of the Chaldees and Vayeira.
Sarah and After
Sarah and After: the matriarchs is a 1975 collection of short stories aimed at older juvenile readers, written by Lynne Reid Banks.
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Sarcophagus
A sarcophagus (sarcophagi or sarcophaguses) is a coffin, most commonly carved in stone, and usually displayed above ground, though it may also be buried.
Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus
The Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus is a marble Early Christian sarcophagus used for the burial of Junius Bassus, who died in 359.
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Sébastien de Brossard
Sébastien de Brossard (12 September 1655 – 10 August 1730) was a French music theorist, composer and collector.
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Søren Kierkegaard
Søren Aabye Kierkegaard (5 May 1813 – 11 November 1855) was a Danish theologian, philosopher, poet, social critic, and religious author who is widely considered to be the first existentialist philosopher.
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Sefer Yetzirah
Sefer Yetzirah (Sēp̄er Yəṣīrā, Book of Formation, or Book of Creation) is the title of a book on Jewish mysticism.
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Seti I
Menmaatre Seti I (or Sethos I in Greek) was the second pharaoh of the Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt during the New Kingdom period, ruling or 1290 BC to 1279 BC.
Shechem
Shechem (Šəḵem; Samaritan Hebrew: script), also spelled Sichem (Sykhém) was an ancient city in the southern Levant.
Shem
Shem (שֵׁם Šēm; Sām) was one of the sons of Noah in the Bible (Genesis 5–11 and 1 Chronicles 1:4). Abraham and Shem are book of Genesis people.
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Shishak
Shishak, also spelled Shishaq or Susac (Tiberian), was, according to the Hebrew Bible, an Egyptian pharaoh who sacked Jerusalem in the 10th century BC.
Shoghi Effendi
Shoghí Effendi (1 March 1897 – 4 November 1957) was the grandson and successor of ʻAbdu'l-Bahá, appointed to the role of Guardian of the Baháʼí Faith from 1921 until his death in 1957.
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Shoshenq I
Hedjkheperre Setepenre Shoshenq I (Egyptian ššnq; reigned)—also known as Shashank or Sheshonk or Sheshonq Ifor discussion of the spelling, see Shoshenq—was a pharaoh of ancient Egypt and the founder of the Twenty-second Dynasty of Egypt.
Shu-Enlil
Shu-Enlil (also known as Ibarum) was a son of Sargon the Great, first ruler of the Akkadian Empire.
Shuah
Shuah is the name of one of four minor Biblical figures. Abraham and Shuah are book of Genesis people.
Shur (Bible)
Shur (sometimes rendered in translations as Sur) is a location mentioned several times in the Hebrew Bible.
Society of Biblical Literature
The Society of Biblical Literature (SBL), founded in 1880 as the Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis, is an American-based learned society dedicated to the academic study of the Bible and related ancient literature.
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Sodom and Gomorrah
In the Abrahamic religions, Sodom and Gomorrah were two cities destroyed by God for their wickedness. Abraham and Sodom and Gomorrah are Lech-Lecha and Vayeira.
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St. Peter's Basilica
The Papal Basilica of Saint Peter in the Vatican (Basilica Papale di San Pietro in Vaticano), or simply Saint Peter's Basilica (Basilica Sancti Petri; Basilica di San Pietro), is a church of the Italian High Renaissance located in Vatican City, an independent microstate enclaved within the city of Rome, Italy.
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Steve Reich
Stephen Michael Reich (better-known as Steve Reich, born October 3, 1936) is an American composer who is known for his contribution to the development of minimal music in the mid to late 1960s.
Sumer
Sumer is the earliest known civilization, located in the historical region of southern Mesopotamia (now south-central Iraq), emerging during the Chalcolithic and early Bronze Ages between the sixth and fifth millennium BC.
Sunday school
A Sunday school is an educational institution, usually Christian in character and intended for children or neophytes.
Table of prophets of Abrahamic religions
This is an incomplete table containing prophets, sometimes called messengers, of the Abrahamic religions.
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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.
Tawhid
Tawhid (تَوْحِيد|translit.
Terah
Terah or Terach (תֶּרַח Teraḥ) is a biblical figure in the Book of Genesis. Abraham and Terah are 21st-century BC people and ur of the Chaldees.
The Buddha
Siddhartha Gautama, most commonly referred to as the Buddha ('the awakened'), was a wandering ascetic and religious teacher who lived in South Asia during the 6th or 5th century BCE and founded Buddhism. Abraham and the Buddha are founders of religions.
The Cave (opera)
The Cave is a multimedia opera in three acts by Steve Reich to an English libretto by his wife Beryl Korot.
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The Exodus
The Exodus (Hebrew: יציאת מצרים, Yəṣīʾat Mīṣrayīm) is the founding myth of the Israelites whose narrative is spread over four of the five books of the Pentateuch (specifically, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy).
The Historicity of the Patriarchal Narratives
The Historicity of the Patriarchal Narratives: The Quest for the Historical Abraham is a book by biblical scholar Thomas L. Thompson, Professor of Old Testament Studies at the University of Copenhagen.
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Theophany
Theophany (lit) is an encounter with a deity that manifests in an observable and tangible form.
Thomas L. Thompson
Thomas L. Thompson (born January 7, 1939, in Detroit, Michigan) is an American-born Danish biblical scholar and theologian.
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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.
Toledot
Toledot, Toldot, Toldos, or Toldoth (—Hebrew for "generations" or "descendants," the second word and the first distinctive word in the parashah) is the sixth weekly Torah portion (parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading.
Torah
The Torah (תּוֹרָה, "Instruction", "Teaching" or "Law") is the compilation of the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, namely the books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy.
Tribe of Levi
According to the Bible, the Tribe of Levi is one of the tribes of Israel, traditionally descended from Levi, son of Jacob.
Trinity
The Christian doctrine of the Trinity (from 'threefold') is the central doctrine concerning the nature of God in most Christian churches, which defines one God existing in three,, consubstantial divine persons: God the Father, God the Son (Jesus Christ) and God the Holy Spirit, three distinct persons (hypostases) sharing one essence/substance/nature (homoousion).
Tumah and taharah
In Jewish religious law, there is a category of specific Jewish purity laws, defining what is ritually pure or impure: ṭum'ah and ṭaharah are the state of being ritually "impure" and "pure", respectively.
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Twelve Tribes of Israel
The Twelve Tribes of Israel (שִׁבְטֵי־יִשְׂרָאֵל|translit.
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Typology (theology)
Typology in Christian theology and biblical exegesis is a doctrine or theory concerning the relationship of the Old Testament to the New Testament.
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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. Abraham and Ur of the Chaldees are Lech-Lecha.
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Vatican City
Vatican City, officially the Vatican City State (Stato della Città del Vaticano; Status Civitatis Vaticanae), is a landlocked sovereign country, city-state, microstate, and enclave within Rome, Italy.
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.
W. G. Hardy
William George Hardy (February 3, 1895 – August 28, 1979) was a Canadian professor, writer, and ice hockey administrator.
William Caxton
William Caxton was an English merchant, diplomat and writer.
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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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Yehud Medinata
Yehud Medinata, also called Yehud Medinta or simply Yehud, was an autonomous administrative division of the Achaemenid Empire.
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Yosef Qafih
Yosef Qafiḥ (יוסף קאפח), widely known as Rabbi Yosef Kapach (27 November 1917 – 21 July 2000), was a Yemenite-Israeli authority on Jewish religious law (halakha), a dayan of the Supreme Rabbinical Court in Israel, and one of the foremost leaders of the Yemenite Jewish community in Israel, where he was sought after by non-Yemenites as well.
Zimran
Zimran (زمران), also known as Zambran, was, according to the Hebrew Bible, the first son of the marriage of Abraham, the patriarch of the Israelites, to Keturah, whom he wed after the death of Sarah.
Zoara
Zoara, called Zoar/Tzoar or Bela in the Hebrew Bible, Segor in the Septuagint, and Zughar by medieval Arabs,Guy Le Strange (1890).
Zoroaster
Zarathushtra Spitama more commonly known as Zoroaster or Zarathustra, was an Iranian religious reformer who challenged the tenets of the contemporary Ancient Iranian religion, becoming the spiritual founder of Zoroastrianism. Abraham and Zoroaster are founders of religions.
See also
21st-century BC people
- Šuqurtum
- Abraham
- Ea-niša
- Geme-Ninlilla
- Nin-kalla
- Sarah
- Shulgi-simti
- Simat-Ea
- Taram-Uram
- Terah
- Zariqum
Biblical patriarchs
- Abraham
- Adam
- Isaac
- Jacob
- Jacob and Esau
- Noah
- Patriarchs (Bible)
Christian saints from the Old Testament
- Aaron
- Abdon (Judges)
- Abigail
- Abraham
- Amos (prophet)
- Asenath
- Baruch ben Neriah
- Bathsheba
- Eleazar
- Elijah
- Elisha
- Enoch
- Ezekiel
- Gabriel
- Gideon
- Habakkuk
- Haggai
- Hosea
- Isaac
- Isaiah
- Jacob
- Job (biblical figure)
- Joel (prophet)
- Jonah
- Jonathan (1 Samuel)
- Joseph (Genesis)
- Joshua
- Maccabees
- Manasseh (tribal patriarch)
- Melchizedek
- Micah (prophet)
- Michael (archangel)
- Moses
- Nahum
- Nathan (prophet)
- Nehemiah
- Obadiah
- Palmoni
- Phinehas
- Raphael (archangel)
- Samuel
- Seth
- Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego
- Shemaiah (prophet)
- Solomon
- Zechariah (Hebrew prophet)
- Zephaniah
Converts to Judaism from paganism
- Abraham
- Abtalion
- Abu Karib
- Asenath
- Bulan (Khazar)
- Dhu Nuwas
- Flavia Domitilla (wife of Clemens)
- Fulvia (wife of Saturninus)
- Helena of Adiabene
- Izates II
- Jethro (biblical figure)
- List of converts to Judaism from paganism
- Malkikarib Yuhamin
- Monobaz II
- Naamah (wife of Solomon)
- Obadiah
- Onkelos
- Paulina Beturia
- Pharaoh's daughter (Exodus)
- Polemon II of Pontus
- Queen of Sheba
- Rahab
- Ruth (biblical figure)
- Shmaya (tanna)
- Symacho
- Titus Flavius Clemens (consul)
Lech-Lecha
- Abraham
- Abraham and Lot's conflict
- Amraphel
- Arioch
- Battle of Siddim
- Bera (king)
- Brit milah
- Chedorlaomer
- Covenant of the pieces
- Givat HaMoreh
- Hagar
- Ishmael
- Lech-Lecha
- Lot (biblical person)
- Melchizedek
- Priesthood of Melchizedek
- Sarah
- Sodom and Gomorrah
- Tidal (king)
- Ur of the Chaldees
- Wife–sister narratives in the Book of Genesis
- Zeboim (Hebrew Bible)
People from Harran
- Abraham
- Abraham of Cyrrhus
- Abu al-Hasan al-Harrani
- Adad-guppi
- Al-Battani
- Hammad al-Harrani
- Ibn Hamdan
- Ibn Taymiyya
- Nabonidus
- Nabu-balatsu-iqbi
- Oracle of Nusku
- Sinān ibn al-Fatḥ
- Theodore Abu Qurrah
- Thābit ibn Qurra
Prophets in the Druze faith
- Abraham
- Adam
- Akhenaten
- Elijah
- Jesus
- Jethro (biblical figure)
- Job (biblical figure)
- John the Apostle
- John the Baptist
- Khidr
- Luke the Evangelist
- Marina the Monk
- Matthew the Apostle
- Moses
- Muhammad
- Noah
- Saint George
- Salman the Persian
- Shuaib
Slave owners
- Abraham
- Aleksandr Komin (killer)
- Axel Oxenstierna
- Benavert
- Datu Ali
- Gregorio Álvarez Tuñón y Quirós
- Hermann, Fürst von Pückler-Muskau
- John Ewen Davidson
- List of slave owners
- Muhammad of Ghor
- Nicolas Cleynaerts
- Nikarete of Corinth
- Philemon (biblical figure)
- Slave traders
- Terbit Rencana Perangin Angin
Ur of the Chaldees
- Abraham
- Chaldea
- Edessa
- Haran
- Lot (biblical person)
- Nahor, son of Terah
- Sarah
- Serug
- Terah
- Ur of the Chaldees
- Young Abraham
Vayeira
- Abimelech
- Abraham
- Ammon
- Bethuel
- Binding of Isaac
- Desert of Paran
- Gerar
- Hagar
- Isaac
- Kemuel
- Lot (biblical person)
- Lot's wife
- Moab
- Moriah
- Phicol
- Rebecca
- Sarah
- Sodom and Gomorrah
- Vayeira
- Wife–sister narratives in the Book of Genesis
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham
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