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Igigi: Encyclopedia - Igigi
Igigi was a Babylonian King who ruled from 2257 to (unknown) BCE. He fought for the power in Akkad after the death of Shar-kali-sharri.
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Inanna: Encyclopedia - Inanna
Adonis | Anat | Asherah | Astarte | Ba'al | Berith | Dagon | El | Elyon | Elohim | Hadad | Mot | Salem | Shaddai | Yaw
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Anshar: Encyclopedia - Anshar
4 primary:
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3 sky:
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Asherah: Encyclopedia - Asherah
Adonis | Anat | Asherah | Astarte | Ba'al | Berith | Dagon | El | Elyon | Elohim | Hadad | Mot | Salem | Shaddai | Yaw
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Anat: Encyclopedia - Anat
Adonis | Anat | Asherah | Astarte | Ba'al | Berith | Dagon | El | Elyon | Elohim | Hadad | Mot | Salem | Shaddai | Yaw
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Astarte: Encyclopedia - Astarte
Adonis | Anat | Asherah | Astarte | Ba'al | Berith | Dagon | El | Elyon | Elohim | Hadad | Mot | Salem | Shaddai | Yaw
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Hadad: Encyclopedia - Hadad
Adonis | Anat | Asherah | Astarte | Ba'al | Berith | Dagon | El | Elyon | Elohim | Hadad | Mot | Salem | Shaddai | Yaw
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Elohim: Encyclopedia - Elohim
Adonis | Anat | Asherah | Astarte | Ba'al | Berith | Dagon | El | Elyon | Elohim | Hadad | Mot | Salem | Shaddai | Yaw
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Mot: Encyclopedia - Mot
Adonis | Anat | Asherah | Astarte | Ba'al | Berith | Dagon | El | Elyon | Elohim | Hadad | Mot | Salem | Shaddai | Yaw
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Arpachshad: Encyclopedia - Arpachshad
Arpachshad or Arphaxad or Arphacsad (אַרְפַּכְשַׁד / אַרְפַּכְשָׁד "healer; releaser", Standard Hebrew Arpaḫ...
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Yaw God: Encyclopedia - Yaw God
Adonis | Anat | Asherah | Astarte | Ba'al | Berith | Dagon | El | Elyon | Elohim | Hadad | Mot | Salem | Shaddai | Yaw
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Elyon: Encyclopedia - Elyon
Adonis | Anat | Asherah | Astarte | Ba'al | Berith | Dagon | El | Elyon | Elohim | Hadad | Mot | Salem | Shaddai | Yaw
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Amurru: Encyclopedia - Amurru
Adonis | Anat | Asherah | Astarte | Ba'al | Berith | Dagon | El | Elyon | Elohim | Hadad | Mot | Salem | Shaddai | Yaw
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Astoreth: Encyclopedia - Astoreth
Adonis | Anat | Asherah | Astarte | Ba'al | Berith | Dagon | El | Elyon | Elohim | Hadad | Mot | Salem | Shaddai | Yaw
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610s Bc: Encyclopedia - 610s Bc
Centuries: 8th century BC - 7th century BC - 6th century BC
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Baal: Encyclopedia - Baal
Adonis | Anat | Asherah | Astarte | Ba'al | Berith | Dagon | El | Elyon | Elohim | Hadad | Moloch | Mot | Salem | Shaddai | Yaw
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Tetragrammaton: Encyclopedia - Tetragrammaton
Adonis | Anat | Asherah | Astarte | Ba'al | Berith | Dagon | El | Elyon | Elohim | Hadad | Moloch | Mot | Salem | Shaddai | Yaw
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Dagon: Encyclopedia - Dagon
Adonis | Anat | Asherah | Astarte | Ba'al | Berith | Dagon | El | Elyon | Elohim | Hadad | Mot | Salem | Shaddai | Yaw
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El God: Encyclopedia - El God
Adonis | Anat | Asherah | Astarte | Ba'al | Berith | Dagon | El | Elyon | Elohim | Hadad | Moloch | Mot | Salem | Shaddai | Yaw
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Names Of God In Judaism: Encyclopedia - Names Of God In Judaism
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Semitic Gods: Encyclopedia Ii - Semitic Gods - Proto-semitic Gods
This is a partial list of possible Proto-Semitic deities.
*Il-Āh (Supreme God, see El, Elyon, Elohim and Allah)
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Nimrod King: Encyclopedia Ii - Nimrod King - Traditions And Legends
According to Hebrew traditions, he was of Mizraim by his mother, but came from Cush son of Ham and expanded Asshur which he inherited. Hi...
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Nineveh: Encyclopedia Ii - Nineveh - History
Nineveh is mentioned about 1800 BC as a worship place of Ištar, who was responsible for the city's early importance. There is no large b...
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Hebrew Name: Encyclopedia Ii - Hebrew Name - Hebræo-english Names
James I of England commissioned a translation of the Tanakh from Hebrew to English, which became the Old Testament component of the new K...
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List Of Deities: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Deities - Semitic Pagan
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Table Of Nations: Encyclopedia Ii - Table Of Nations - Doublets
There are some apparent doublets in the table, such as two separate lines of descent covering groups in Yemen and the surrounding region ...
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Sons Of Noah: Encyclopedia Ii - Sons Of Noah - Doublets
There are some apparent doublets in the table, such as two separate lines of descent covering groups in Yemen and the surrounding region ...
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Cradle Of Humanity: Encyclopedia - Cradle Of Humanity
The evangelical Protestants of the 19th century who invented the term Cradle of Humanity made generalized but undocumented claims that th...
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Aram: Encyclopedia - Aram
The term Aram can refer to:
Aram is the name of the Armenian Patriarch, whose name was given to the people he led, the Armenians.
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Shem: Encyclopedia - Shem
Shem (שֵׁם "renown; prosperity; name", Standard Hebrew Šem, Tiberian Hebrew Šēm; Greek Σημ, Sēm) was one of the sons of Noah i...
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Semitic: Encyclopedia - Semitic
Semitic is a linguistic term referring to a subdivision of largely Middle Eastern Afro-Asiatic languages, the Semitic languages, as well ...
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List Of Deities: Encyclopedia - List Of Deities
This list of deities aims to give information about deities in the different religions, cultures and mythologies of the world. It is sort...
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Mizraim: Encyclopedia - Mizraim
Mizraim (Hebrew מצרים Mitzráyim or Miṣrāyim/Miṣráyim; cf. Arabic مصر Miṣr) is the Hebrew name for the land of Egypt, wit...
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Cradle Of Humanity: Encyclopedia Ii - Cradle Of Humanity - Evolutionary View
The consensus among biologists and paleontologists is that mankind evolved through natural processes, and when journalists and popularize...
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Elyon: Encyclopedia Ii - Elyon - Biblical Use
Elyon - Mundane use.
The term also has mundane uses, being applied to a basket in Genesis 40.17, a chamber in Ezekiel 42.5 and others.
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Astarte: Encyclopedia Ii - Astarte - General Discussion
‘Ashtart was connected with fertility, sexuality, and war. Her symbols were the lion, the horse, the sphinx, the dove, and a star withi...
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Baal: Encyclopedia Ii - Baal - Deities Called Ba‘al And Ba‘alat
Because more than one god bore the title Ba‘al and more than one goddess bore the title Ba‘alat or Ba‘alah, it is often difficult t...
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Yaw God: Encyclopedia Ii - Yaw God - The Development Of Monotheism In The Levant
Research in comparative mythology shows a linguistic correlation between Levantine Yaw and monotheistic Yahweh, suggesting that the god m...
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List Of Deities: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Deities - Egyptian
Egyptian deities are often portrayed as having animal heads in art; as an example, Anubis is often portrayed in statuary as having the bo...
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Mitanni: Encyclopedia Ii - Mitanni - History
As early as Akkadian times, Hurrians are known to have lived east of the river Tigris on the northern rim of Mesopotamia, and in the Khab...
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El God: Encyclopedia Ii - El God - Ēl In The Tanakh
The Hebrew form (אל) appears in Latin letters in Standard Hebrew transcription as El and in Tiberian Hebrew transcription as ʾĒl.
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Hadad: Encyclopedia Ii - Hadad - Hadad In Ugarit
In the mythological tablets found in Ugarit (especially the Baal cycle) the name hd (theoretically vocalized as Haddu) occurs, usually no...
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Elohim: Encyclopedia Ii - Elohim - Etymology
The etymology of the word Elohim is prehistoric, and therefore unknown. There are many theories, however, including the following:
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Dagon: Encyclopedia Ii - Dagon - The Ancient God Dagon
Dagon was a major northwest Semitic god, the god of grain and agriculture according to the few sources to speak of the matter, worshipped...
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Hittites In The Bible: Encyclopedia Ii - Hittites In The Bible - Exodus And The Conquest Of Canaan
This period is conjectured to start sometime after 1800 BC and end sometime before 1000 BC. In this period (in which can be included the ...
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Mitanni: Encyclopedia Ii - Mitanni - History
As early as Akkadian times, Hurrians are known to have lived east of the river Tigris on the northern rim of Mesopotamia, and in the Khab...
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Tetragrammaton: Encyclopedia Ii - Tetragrammaton - Meaning
According to one Jewish tradition, the Tetragrammaton is related to the causative form, the imperfect state, of the Hebrew verb הוה (h...
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Names Of God In Judaism: Encyclopedia Ii - Names Of God In Judaism - Names Of God
Names of God in Judaism - The Tetragrammaton.
The most important name of God in Judaism is the Tetragrammaton, the four-letter name of ...
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Rehoboth Beach Delaware: Encyclopedia Ii - Rehoboth Beach Delaware - Demographics
As of the censusGR2 of 2000, there are 1,495 people, 847 households, and 343 families residing in the city. The population density is 489...
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Asherah: Encyclopedia Ii - Asherah - Asherah And Gods
Two painted inscriptions "Yahweh of Samaria/the guardian and his Asherah" on fragments of the type of large terracotta pot that archaeolo...
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Zab River: Encyclopedia Ii - Zab River - Great Zab
The Great, or Upper, Zab (Arabic: الزاب الاعلى; al-Zāb al-A`là, Kurdish: Zê Gewre, Turkish: Büyükzap Suyu, Syriac: ܙܘܐ...
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Semitic: Encyclopedia Ii - Semitic - Origin
The word "Semitic" is an adjective derived from Shem, one of the three sons of Noah in the Bible (Genesis 5.32, 6.10, 10.21), or more pre...
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Asherah: Encyclopedia Ii - Asherah - Asherah And Gods
Two painted inscriptions "Yahweh of Samaria/the guardian and his Asherah" on fragments of the type of large terracotta pot that archaeolo...
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Anat: Encyclopedia Ii - Anat - ‘anat In Ugarit
In the Ugaritic Ba‘al/Hadad cycle ‘Anat is a violent war-goddess and the sister of the great Ba‘al known as Hadad. Ba‘al is usual...
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El God: Encyclopedia Ii - El God - Ēl In Proto-sinaitic, Phoenician, Aramaic, And Hittite Texts
A proto-Sinaitic mine inscription from Mount Sinai reads ’ld‘lm understood to be vocalized as ’il dū ‘ôlmi, 'Ēl Eternal' or 'G...
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Cradle Of Humanity: Encyclopedia Ii - Cradle Of Humanity - Creationist View
Jewish, Christian and Muslim creationists believe that man was created by God in a garden located in "Eden"; among them, some early Chris...
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Asherah: Encyclopedia Ii - Asherah - Asherah And `ashurah
In the ancient lunar calendar that became the Islamic calendar, the Day of ʿAshurah, transliterated also as Aashurah, Ashura or Aashoora...
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Rehoboth Beach Delaware: Encyclopedia Ii - Rehoboth Beach Delaware - Geography
Rehoboth Beach is located at 38°42'57" North, 75°4'59" West (38.715794, -75.083138)GR1.
According to the United States Census Bureau, t...
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Mitanni: Encyclopedia Ii - Mitanni - Possible Connections To Sanskrit And Indo-aryans
Some scholars try to equate the deities venerated by the Mitanni with Vedic deities, and trace the names used by the aristocracy to Indo-...
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Mitanni: Encyclopedia Ii - Mitanni - Hurri Mitanni/maitani And Hanilgalbat
"Mitanni" seems to have been the native term; this entity may also have been the Biblical Harran, though this is contested. We may assume...
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El God: Encyclopedia Ii - El God - Ēl And Poseidon
A bilingual inscription from Palmyra (KAI. 11, p. 43) dated to the 1st century equates Ēl-Creator-of-the-Earth with the Greek god P...
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El God: Encyclopedia Ii - El God - Ēl In Proto-sinaitic Phoenician Aramaic And Hittite Texts
A proto-Sinaitic mine inscription from Mount Sinai reads ’ld‘lm understood to be vocalized as ’il dū ‘ôlmi, 'Ēl Eternal' or 'G...
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Hittites In The Bible: Encyclopedia Ii - Hittites In The Bible - Source And Ordering Of Citations
Listed below are all the occurrences of the word "Heth", "Hittite" or "Hittites" in the King James Bible (KJB), found through a Universit...
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El God: Encyclopedia Ii - El God - Ēl According To Sanchuniathon
In the euhemeristic account of Sanchuniathon Ēl (rendered Elus or called by his standard Greek counterpart Cronus) is not the creator go...
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Hittites In The Bible: Encyclopedia Ii - Hittites In The Bible - Kingdoms Period
In this period the Hittites are mentioned as the ethnic label of two military commanders under king David (around 1000 BC), Ahimelech and...
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Asherah: Encyclopedia Ii - Asherah - Related Publications
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Hittites In The Bible: Encyclopedia Ii - Hittites In The Bible - Babylonian Exile And Return
In Ezekiel:16:1, Jerusalem is said to be the daughter of an Hittite mother and an Amorite father, sister of Samaria and Sodom. The intent...
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Mitanni: Encyclopedia Ii - Mitanni - Hurri Mitanni/maitani And Hanilgalbat
"Mitanni" seems to have been the native term; this entity may also have been the Biblical Harran, though this is contested. We may assume...
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Hittites In The Bible: Encyclopedia Ii - Hittites In The Bible - From Abraham To Egypt
In this period, which is conjectured to start sometime after 2000 BC and end sometime before 1200 BC, the "sons of Heth" or "children of ...
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Nimrod King: Encyclopedia Ii - Nimrod King - Interpretations
Though not clearly stated in the Bible, Nimrod has since ancient times traditionally been interpreted to be the one who led the people to...
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Hittites In The Bible: Encyclopedia Ii - Hittites In The Bible - From Noah To Abraham
The Biblical view of humanity is set forth in Genesis:10, where various peoples are described as different lines of descent from Noah. In...
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Yaw God: Encyclopedia Ii - Yaw God - The Problem Of Evil
In the philosophy of religion and theology, the problem of evil is the problem of reconciling the existence of evil or suffering in the w...
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Mitanni: Encyclopedia Ii - Mitanni - Possible Connections To Sanskrit And Indo-aryans
Some scholars try to equate the deities venerated by the Mitanni with Vedic deities, and trace the names used by the aristocracy to Indo-...
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Astarte: Encyclopedia Ii - Astarte - ‘ashtart Described By Sanchuniathon
In the description of the Phoenician pantheon ascribed to Sanchuniathon ‘Ashtart appears as a daughter of Sky and Earth and sister of t...
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Tetragrammaton: Encyclopedia Ii - Tetragrammaton - Possible Origins
A common suggestion, as articulated by biblical scholar Mark S. Smith in The Origins of Biblical Monotheism, is that the Israelite Yahweh...
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Tetragrammaton: Encyclopedia Ii - Tetragrammaton - Alternative Names
In an analogue to the euphemism HaShem for God, the euphemism HaShem HaMeforash (literally, the explicit name) is sometimes used to refer...
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Anat: Encyclopedia Ii - Anat - ‘anat In Egypt
‘Anat first appears in Egypt in the 18th dynasty along with other northwest Semitic deities. She was especially worshipped in her aspec...
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Anat: Encyclopedia Ii - Anat - ‘anat In Israel
The goddess ‘Anat is never mentioned in Hebrew scriptures as a goddess, though her name is apparently preserved in the city names Beth ...
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Astarte: Encyclopedia Ii - Astarte - ‘ashtart In Egypt
‘Ashtart's first appears in Egypt beginning with the 18th Dynasty along with other northwest Semitic deities. She was especially worshi...
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Tetragrammaton: Encyclopedia Ii - Tetragrammaton - Jewish Use Of The Word
In Judaism, pronunciation of the Tetragrammaton is a taboo; it is widely considered forbidden to utter it and the pronunciation of the na...
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Tetragrammaton: Encyclopedia Ii - Tetragrammaton - The Scholarly Reconstructed Pronunciation יַהְוֶה I.e. Yahweh
The vowelized [ i.e. vocalized ] Hebrew spelling of the Tetragrammaton "יַהְוֶה" ( i.e. Yahweh ) (see picture to the right) starte...
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Asherah: Encyclopedia Ii - Asherah - Related Publications
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Asherah: Encyclopedia Ii - Asherah - Asherah And `ashurah
In the ancient lunar calendar that became the Islamic calendar, the Day of ʿAshurah, transliterated also as Aashurah, Ashura or Aashoora...
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Names Of God In Judaism: Encyclopedia Ii - Names Of God In Judaism - Miracles Of The Divine Names
In the Haggadah (the traditional Hebrew Passover text) it is written that the divine names of God could be used to perform miracles if on...
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Names Of God In Judaism: Encyclopedia Ii - Names Of God In Judaism - Laws Of Writing Divine Names
According to Jewish tradition, the sacredness of the divine names must be recognized by the professional scribe who writes the Scriptures...
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Semitic: Encyclopedia Ii - Semitic - Language
The modern linguistic meaning of "Semitic" is therefore derived from, but not identical to Biblical usage. In a linguistic context the Se...
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Astarte: Encyclopedia Ii - Astarte - ‘ashtart In Judea
The Masoretic (from "Masorah", which is a body of scribal notes that form a textual guide to the Hebrew Old Testament, compiled from the ...
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Elyon: Encyclopedia Ii - Elyon - Non-biblical Use
Elyon - Sfire I Treaty.
Outside of the Biblical texts the term occurs seldom. The most controverial is in the earliest of three Aramaic...
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Hadad: Encyclopedia Ii - Hadad - Sanchuniathon
In Sanchuniathon's account Hadad is once called Adodos but mostly named Demarûs, a puzzling form, possibly a Greek corruption of Hadad R...
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Elohim: Encyclopedia Ii - Elohim - Hebrew Grammar
Elohim has plural morphological form in Hebrew, but it is used with singular verbs and adjectives in the Hebrew text when the particular ...
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Hadad: Encyclopedia Ii - Hadad - Hadad In Aram And Israel
In the second millennium BCE, the king of Aleppo, or Halab, received a statue of Ishtar from the king of Mari, as a sign of deference, to...
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El God: Encyclopedia Ii - El God - Linguistic Forms And Meanings
Cognate forms are found throughout the Semitic languages with the exception of the ancient Ge'ez language of Ethiopia. Forms include Ugar...
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El God: Encyclopedia Ii - El God - Ēl In Ugarit And Among The Canaanites
For the Canaanites, El or Il was the supreme god, the father of mankind and all creatures. He may have been a desert god at some point as...
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List Of Deities: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Deities - Modern Western Mythology
In addition to the gods listed elsewhere, there are several mythological beings spoken of in current Western culture.
The Grim Reaper - ...
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Cradle Of Humanity: Encyclopedia Ii - Cradle Of Humanity - Origin Of The Term
The radius of 1,000 miles from Eden as the limit of the Cradle of Humanity may have been "fixed" by early inhabitants of Mesopotamia, Syr...
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Baal: Encyclopedia Ii - Baal - Non-religious Usage Of The Word Ba'al
Baal (בַּעַל / בָּעַל, Standard Hebrew Báʿal, Tiberian Hebrew Báʿal / Báʿal) is a northwest Semitic word signifying 'Th...
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Baal: Encyclopedia Ii - Baal - Ba‘al As A Divine Title In Israel And Judah
Since Ba‘al simply means 'Lord', there is no obvious reason why it could not be applied to Yahweh as well as other gods. Perhaps it was...
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Baal: Encyclopedia Ii - Baal - Multiple Ba‘als And ‘ashtarts
One finds in the Tanach the plural forms bə‘ālîm 'Ba‘als' or 'Lords' and ‘aštārôt '‘Ashtarts', though such plurals do not a...
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Baal: Encyclopedia Ii - Baal - Ba'al As A Demon
Baal is also seen as a Christian demon. This is a potential source of confusion.
Other spellings: Bael, Baël (French), Baell.
The idea o...
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El God: Encyclopedia Ii - El God - Ēl In The Greater Levant
A proto-Sinaitic mine inscription from Mount Sinai reads ’ld‘lm understood to be vocalized as ’il dū ‘ôlmi, 'Ēl Eternal' or 'G...
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