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• Biblical Apocrypha
  ...section called ''Apocrypha''. Books and portions of books not found in the Hebrew [[Tanakh]] were moved out of the body of the [[Old Testament]] to this sect The English-language [[King James Version]] of 1611 followed the lead of the Luther Bible in usi
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• Jeremiah, OT Prophet
  '''Jeremiah''' is regarded as a "major prophet" in the Hebrew Bible. He was the son of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilkiah Hilkiah], a ...f Judah: Josiah, Jehoahaz, Jehoiakim, Jehoiachin, and Zedekiah. The Hebrew-language chronology ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seder_HaDoroth Seder HaDoroth]'
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• Urantia Book Etymology & Human Languages
  ...sillusionment]] from a [[linguistic]] inquiry of its pages. Names, and all language are [[metaphors]] -- symbolic designations of realities, couched in greater ...[[translations]] of the [[Bible]]. But the term is nowhere in the actual [[Hebrew]] text of the [[Old Testament]] at all, nor could it have been, being purel
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• 195:2 The Roman Influence
  ...by [[translation]] of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_scriptures Hebrew scriptures] into [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_language Greek] and b ...consolidated]] the [[Mediterranean]] lands into one [[empire]], with one [[language]] and one [[culture]], and had made the [[Western world]] ready for [[Monot
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• 1993-09-12-Picturing Growth In Another Person
  ===='''''[[Language]]'''''==== ..._Greek_language Greek], and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_Hebrew Hebrew].
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• Literature
  ...le, comprises the collection of texts which make it a whole nation. The [[Hebrew Bible]], Persian ''[[Shahnama]]'', the Indian ''[[Mahabharata]]'', ''[[Rama ...n only [[text]] composed of letters, or other examples of symbolic written language ([[Egyptian hieroglyphs]], for example). An even more narrow interpretation
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• Salem
  ...uage|Akkadian]] name of the city appears as ''Urušalim'', a cognate of the Hebrew ''Ir Shalem''. Some believe there is a connection to ''[[Shalim]]'', the be ...tled ''Jerusalem the Holy''. A similar view was held by those who give the Hebrew dual to the word (see: ''Jerusalem: The Topography, Economics and History f
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• Mesopotamia
  ...en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Septuagint Septuagint] (ca. 250 BC) to translate the Hebrew equivalent ''Naharaim''. ...dopted the peculiar writing system originating in [[Dilmun]]. The Sumerian language, though virtually lost to the world, was not Semitic; it had much in common
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• Hermeneutics
  ...resuppositions, preunderstandings, the [[meaning]] and [[philosophy]] of [[language]], and [[semiotics]].[1] ...tain origin[8], but may be cognate to a corrupted composite borrowing from Hebrew Har [ha]Emet (Emes) referring to the Biblical [[Mount Sinai]] where Moses i
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• 74:8 The Legend of Creation
  ...s://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/900_B.C. 900 B.C]., and having no [[written]] [[language]] until such a late date, they had several [[different]] stories of [[creat ...part of the later collections of the "[[sacred]] [[scriptures]]" of the [[Hebrew]] and [[Christian]] [[religions]]. And through identification with these [[
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• 96:5 The Teachings of Moses
  ...n.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses Moses] because the [[Hebrews]] had no written [[language]] at the time of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Exodus the exodus]. The ...with the [[traditions]] of the [[Melchizedek]] teachings, organized the [[Hebrew]] [[ceremonial]] [[system]] of [[worship]].
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• Messiah
  '''Messiah''' (Hebrew מָשִׁיח Mašíaḥ or Māšîªḥ; in modern Jewish texts in Englis ...bes of Israel, and herald the "Messianic Age" of global peace. In Standard Hebrew, The Messiah is often referred to as מלך המשיח, Méleḫ ha-Mašía
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• Revised Standard Version
  The '''Revised Standard Version''' (RSV) is an [[English language|English]] [[Bible translation|translation]] of the [[Bible]] published in t ...]] [[Masoretic Text]] for the [[Old Testament]]. However, they amended the Hebrew in a number of places. In the [[Book of Isaiah]], they sometimes followed r
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• Allah
  ...differences between the concept of God as portrayed in the Qur'an and the Hebrew Bible.[7] ...Cognates of the name "Allāh" exist in other Semitic languages, including [[Hebrew]] and Aramaic.[3] The corresponding Aramaic form is אֱלָהָא ʼĔlāh
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• 159:5 The Positive Nature of Jesus' Religion
  ...y day, appropriated the cream of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanakh Hebrew scriptures] for the instruction of his followers and for inclusion in the t ...ng [[Jesus]] unfailingly avoided distracting details. He shunned flowery [[language]] and avoided the mere [[poetic]] imagery of a play upon [[words]]. He [[ha
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• Motherhood
  ...in nearly every language on earth, countering the natural localization of language. * ma, mama or Ibu in Indonesian language
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• 123:3 Events of the Sixth Year (1 B.C.)
  ...anguage] was the [[copy]] of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Septuagint Hebrew scriptures]—a complete version of [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.p
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• El
  ...itic languages. They include Ugaritic ʾil, pl. ʾlm; Phoenician ʾl pl. ʾlm; Hebrew ʾēl, pl. ʾēlîm; Aramaic ʾl; Akkadian ilu, pl. ilānu. ...form meaning "gods" is ʾilhm, equivalent to Hebrew ʾelōhîm "gods". But in Hebrew this word is also regularly used for semantically singular "God" or "god".
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• Genesis
  ...ית (''B'reshit'' or ''Bərêšîth''), after the first word of the [[text]] in Hebrew (meaning ''"in the beginning"''). This is in line with the pattern of namin ...s: Noah, [[Abraham]], Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, and others. It establishes the Hebrew God, YHWH or Elohim, as the creator of the [[universe]] who has formed a sp
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• Humanities
  ...tudy of important works of the literature in that language, as well as the language itself (grammar, vocabulary, etc.). ...stribution of wealth. The noun ''law'' derives from the late [[Old English language|Old English]] ''lagu'', meaning something laid down or fixed. see [https://
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