A proto-Sinaitic mine inscription from Mount Sinai reads ’ld‘lm understood to be vocalized as ’il dū ‘ôlmi, 'Ēl Eternal' or 'God Eternal'. The Egyptian god Ptah is given the title dū gitti 'Lord of Gath' in a prism from Lachish which has on its opposite face the name of Amenhotep II (c. 1435–1420 BCE) The title dū gitti is also found in Serābitṭ text 353. Cross (1973, p. 19) points out that Ptah is often called the lord (or one) of eternity and thinks it ...

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A proto-Sinaitic mine inscription from Mount Sinai reads ’ld‘lm understood to be vocalized as ’il dū ‘ôlmi, 'Ēl Eternal' or 'God Eternal'. The Egyptian god Ptah is given the title dū gitti 'Lord of Gath' in a prism from Lachish which has on its opposite face the name of Amenhotep II (c. 1435–1420 BCE) The title dū gitti is also found in Serābitṭ text 353. Cross (1973, p. 19) points out that Ptah is ofen called the lord (or one) of eternity and thinks ...

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El god, El god - Linguistic forms and meanings, El god - Ēl in the Tanakh, El god - Ēl in Christian theology, El god - Ēl among the Amorites, El god - Ēl in Ugarit and among the Canaanites, El god - Ēl in the greater Levant, El god - Ēl according to Sanchuniathon, El god - Ēl and Poseidon, El god - Ēl in Proto-Sinaitic Phoenician Aramaic and Hittite texts

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Adonis | Anat | Asherah | Astarte | Ba'al | Berith | Dagon | El | Elyon | Elohim | Hadad | Moloch | Mot | Salem | Shaddai | Yaw Adonai | El | Elohim | Elyon | Shaddai | Shekinah | YHWH Adad | Amurru | An/Anu | Anshar | Asshur | Abzu/Apsu | Enki/Ea | Enlil | Ereshkigal | Inanna/Ishtar | Kingu | Kishar | Lahmu & Lahamu | Marduk | Mummu | Nabu | Nammu | Nanna/Sin | Nergal | Ninhursag/Damkina | Ninlil | Tiamat | Utu/Shamash Ēl is a northwest Semitic word and name translated into English as either 'god' or 'God' or left untra ...

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There are a great variety of Buddhist texts. Buddhists place varying value on them: attitudes range from worship of the text itself, to dismissal of some texts as falsification of the ineffable truth. They therefore cannot be called "scripture" in the sense of other religions. The texts can be categorized in a number of ways, but the most fundamental division is that between canonical and non-canonical texts. The former, also called the Sutras (Sanskrit) or Suttas (Pali), are held to be, literally or metaphoricall ...

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Aramaic is a Semitic language with a 3,000-year history. It has been the language of administration of empires and the language of divine worship. It is the original language of large sections of the biblical books of Daniel and Ezra, and is the main language of the Talmud. Aramaic is believed to have been the language spoken by Jesus, and it is still spoken today as a first language by numerous small communities. Aramaic belongs to the Afro-Asiatic language family. Within that diverse family, it belongs to the Semitic subfamil ...

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Aramaic language - Writing system Aramaic language - History Aramaic language - Old Aramaic
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Aramaic language - Eastern Middle Aramaic Aramaic language - Western Middle Aramaic
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Aramaic language - Modern Eastern Aramaic Aramaic language - Modern Western Aramaic
Aramaic language - Sounds
Aramaic language - Vowels Aramaic language - Consonants Aramaic language - Historical sound changes
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Aramaic language - Background Aramaic language - Writing systems Aramaic language - Historical forms Aramaic language - Literature Aramaic language - Modern Aramaic languages

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Middle Bronze Age 19-15th c. BC Proto-Canaanite 14th c. BC Ugaritic 13th c. BC Phoenician 11th c. BC Samaritan 6th c. BC Aramaic 9th c. BC Brāhmī 6th c. BC Hebrew 3rd c. BC Syriac 2nd c. BC Avestan 3th c. Arabic 4th c. Greek 8th c. BC Old Italic 8th c. BC Latin 7th c. BC Runes 2nd c. Gothic 4th c. Armenian 405 Glagolitic 862 Cyril ...

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EL, El or el may mean: Chicago 'L', an elevated railway passenger system Electroluminescence (EL), an optical and electrical phenomenon El (god), a Semitic word and in the Tanakh El (Cyrillic), a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet. El (movie), 1953 directed by Luis Buñuel el (hentai), is an h game by ELF Corporation el, the ISO 639 language code for the Modern Greek language EL, the AAR reporting mark for the Erie Lackawanna Railway

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It is generally accepted that Aramaic was the mother tongue of Jesus. This article explores the use of Aramaic in the New Testament, as attributed to Jesus and others. New Testament view Miracles Parables Quotes Chronology Religious views Background Names and titles Relics Historicity Historical view Language Race Dramatic portrayals Images

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Aramaic of Jesus - Cultural and linguistic background Aramaic of Jesus - Aramaic phrases in the Greek New Testament
Aramaic of Jesus - Talitha koum Aramaic of Jesus - Ephphatha Aramaic of Jesus - Abba Aramaic of Jesus - Raca Aramaic of Jesus - Mammon Aramaic of Jesus - Rabboni Aramaic of Jesus - Maranatha Aramaic of Jesus - Eli Eli lema sabachthani Aramaic of Jesus - Jot and Tittle Aramaic of Jesus - Korbanas Aramaic of Jesus - Shikera Aramaic of Jesus - Hosanna
Aramaic of Jesus - Aramaic personal names in the New Testament
Aramaic of Jesus - Boanerges Aramaic of Jesus - Cephas Aramaic of Jesus - Thomas Aramaic of Jesus - Tabitha
Aramaic of Jesus - Aramaic place names in the New Testament
Aramaic of Jesus - Gethsemane Aramaic of Jesus - Golgotha Aramaic of Jesus - Gabbatha Aramaic of Jesus - Akeldama

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Bethel meaning in Hebrew and Phoenician and Aramaic 'House of El' or 'House of God' is seemingly the name of a god or an aspect of a god in some ancient middle-eastern texts dating to the Assyrian, Persian and Hellenistic periods. In the treaty between King Esarhaddon of Assyria and Ba‘al I king of Tyre in 677 BC, curses are called down on the Tyrian king if he breaks the treaty, including: May Bethel and Anat-Bethel deliver you to a man-eating lion. The name Bethel begins to appear in theophorous name from the 7th century BC onward. Some suspect it may be this god rather than t ...

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Bethel god - Reference

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Arama is a town located in the province of Gipuzkoa, in the autonomous community of Basque Country, in the North of Spain. Arama - External link. Official Website Information available in Spanish and Basque. ARAMA in the Bernardo Estornés Lasa - Auñamendi Encyclopedia (Euskomedia Fundazioa) Information available in Spanish Template:Gipuzkoa ...

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"Other deities worshipped at Ugarit were El Shaddai, El Elyon, and El Berith. All of these names are applied to Yahweh by the writers of the Old Testament. What this means is that the Hebrew theologians adopted the titles of the Canaanite gods and attributed them to Yahweh in an effort to eliminate them. If Yahweh is all of these there is no need for the Canaanite gods to exist! This process is known as assimilation." [1] In his euhemeristic account of the Phoenician deities, Sanchuniathon says: In their time is bo ...

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Biblical Aramaic is the form of the Aramaic language that is used in the books of Daniel, Ezra and a few other places in the Hebrew Bible. See the article on the Aramaic of Jesus for the use of the Aramaic language in the New Testament. Biblical Aramaic - Aramaic and Hebrew. Hebrew is the main language of the Hebrew Bible. Aramaic only accounts for about ten chapters of the whole. Biblical Aramaic is closely related to Hebrew (perhaps a bit like Spanish and Portuguese), and they are written with the ...

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Uriah the Hittite was the husband of Bathsheba, and a soldier in David's army, whom David ordered killed after his affair with Bathsheba produced a pregnancy. According to the biblical Second Book of Samuel, King David fell in love with Bathsheba upon seeing her bathe from his window. He brought her to his chambers, and had sex with her, producing a pregnancy. Informed of the identity of her husband as Uriah, David summons Uriah from battle to meet him, suggesting that he attend to his wife, in t ...

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Aramaic Primacists believe that the Christian New Testament and/or its sources were originally written in the Aramaic language, not Koine Greek as is generally claimed. The Assyrian Church of the East and other Aramaic speaking churches have historically claimed the Aramaic Peshitta was the original language New Testament. George Lamsa's translation of the New Testament from the Aramaic brought the Aramaic Primacy issue to the West, though still few are familiar with it. With the rise of the internet, Aramaic Primacists began t ...

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Aramaic primacy - Methods of Argument Aramaic primacy - Aramaic Phenomena
Aramaic primacy - Mistranslations Aramaic primacy - Polysemy Split Words Aramaic primacy - Puns
Aramaic primacy - Internal Disagreements
Aramaic primacy - Peshitta Primacy Approach Aramaic primacy - Peshitta-Critical Approach Aramaic primacy - Critical Approach
Aramaic primacy - Counter Arguments

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There are a great variety of Buddhist texts. Buddhists place varying value on them: attitudes range from worship of the text itself, to dismissal of some texts as falsification of the ineffable truth. They therefore cannot be called "scripture" in the sense of other religions. The texts can be categorized in a number of ways, but the most fundamental division is that between canonical and non-canonical texts. The former, also called the Sutras (Sanskrit) or Suttas (Pali), are held to be, literally or metaphoricall ...

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Buddhist texts - Perfection of Wisdom Texts Buddhist texts - Saddharma-pundarika Buddhist texts - Pure Land Sutras Buddhist texts - The Vimalakirti Nirdesha Sutra Buddhist texts - Samadhi Sutras Buddhist texts - Confession Sutras Buddhist texts - The Avatamsaka Sutra Buddhist texts - Third Turning Sutras Buddhist texts - Tathagatagarbha class sutras Buddhist texts - Collected Sutras Buddhist texts - Transmigration Sutras Buddhist texts - Discipline Sutras Buddhist texts - Sutras Devoted to Individual Figures Buddhist texts - Proto-Mahayana Sutras Buddhist texts - Non-canonical texts Buddhist texts - References
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God is the term used to denote the Supreme Being ascribed by many religions to be the creator, ruler and/or the sum total of, existence. Conceptions of God vary widely, despite the common use of the same term for them all. God - Definition. God - Concept of God. In many Western religions, God is usually said to have a specific and clearly defined relationship to, and interest in, the happenings of this world and the lives of those in it. Metaphors for God's relationship t ...

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God - Names of God God - History of monotheism God - Theology God - Conceptions of God
God - Abrahamic conceptions God - Conceptions of God in Hinduism God - Christian Monism God - The Ultimate God - Aristotelian definition of God God - Modern views
God - Notes and references God - Popular Culture

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Adonis | Anat | Asherah | Astarte | Ba'al | Berith | Dagon | El | Elyon | Elohim | Hadad | Mot | Salem | Shaddai | Yaw Adonai | El | Elohim | Elyon | Shaddai | Shekinah | YHWH Adad | Amurru | An/Anu | Anshar | Asshur | Abzu/Apsu | Enki/Ea | Enlil | Ereshkigal | Inanna/Ishtar | Kingu | Kishar | Lahmu & Lahamu | Marduk | Mummu | Nabu | Nammu | Nanna/Sin | Nergal | Ninhursag/Damkina | Ninlil | Tiamat | Utu/Shamash In Judaism, the name of God is more than a distinguishing title. It represents the Jewish conception ...

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Names of God in Judaism - Names of God
Names of God in Judaism - The Tetragrammaton Names of God in Judaism - Other names of God
Names of God in Judaism - Miracles of the divine names
Names of God in Judaism - Kabbalistic use
Names of God in Judaism - Laws of writing divine names
Names of God in Judaism - The tradition of seven divine names
Names of God in Judaism - Bibliography

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L is the twelfth letter of the Latin alphabet. Its name in English is el. L - History. The letter L is derived ultimately from the Semitic (crook/goad) which stood for the phonetic value /l/ as did the Greek letter Lambda Λ (upper case) or λ (lower case), as well as the equivalent Etruscan and Latin letters. In reference, it is spelled el or ell. L - Usage. In English, L can have several values, depending on whether it occurs before or ...

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L - History L - Usage L - Alternative representations
L - Computing
L - Things named L L - Things abbreviated as L L - Alternate meanings for the symbol L

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Barzani Jewish Neo-Aramaic is a modern Jewish Aramaic language, often called Neo-Aramaic or Judeo-Aramaic. It was originally spoken in three villages near Aqra in Iraqi Kurdistan. The native name of the language is Lishanid Janan, which means 'our language', and is similar to names used by other Jewish Neo-Aramaic dialects (Lishan Didan, Lishanid Noshan). Barzani Jewish Neo-Aramaic - Origin and use today. The Jewish inhabitants of a wide area from northern Iraq, eastern Turkey a ...

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Barzani Jewish Neo-Aramaic - Origin and use today

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