Next to Ibn Adonijah the critical study of the Masorah has been most advanced by Elijah Levita, who published his famous " Massoret ha-Massoret " in 1538.

While the return to Judaism of the Marano Usques caused much rejoicing among the Italian Jews, this was counterbalanced by the deep grief into which they were plunged by the conversion to Christianity of two grandsons of Elijah Levita, Leone Romano and Vittorio Eliano.

Elia Levita ( 13 February 1469 – 28 January 1549 ), ( Hebrew: אליהו בן אשר הלוי אשכנזי ) also known as Elijah Levita, Elias Levita, Élie Lévita, Eliahu Bakhur (" Eliahu the Bachelor ") was a Renaissance Hebrew grammarian, scholar and poet.

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The most important writer of old Yiddish literature was Elijah Levita ( known as Elye Bokher ) who translated and adapted the chivalric romance of Bevis of Hampton, via its Italian version, Buovo d ’ Antona.

In particular, 1 Kings 18: 7-8 reads: And as Obadiah was in the way, behold, Elijah met him: and he knew him, and fell on his face, and said, Art thou that my lord Elijah?

Jews were slow to return to the town, but by 1750 the Rabbi Elijah Synagogue was built as the first Jewish synagogue in Casablanca.

According to Bamidbar Rabbah, Ezra was doubtful of the correctness of some words in the Torah and said, " Should Elijah ... approve the text, the points dots that he scribed above the letters will be disregarded ; should he disapprove, the doubtful words will be removed from the text ".

According to the Books of Kings, Elijah defended the worship of Yahweh over that of the Phoenician god Baal ; he raised the dead, brought fire down from the sky, and was taken up in a whirlwind ( either accompanied by a chariot and horses of flame or riding in it ).

Elijah did not give a direct answer to the Lord's question but evades and equivocates, implying that the work the Lord had begun centuries earlier had now come to nothing, and that his own work was fruitless.

Elijah then goes beyond the prophecy he was given and tells Ahab that his entire kingdom will reject his authority ; that Jezebel will be eaten by dogs within Jezreel ; and that his family will be consumed by dogs as well ( if they die in a city ) or by birds ( if they die in the country ).

It generally resonates better with existing Muslim views than with Christianity: it foretells the coming of Muhammad by name ; rather than describing the crucifixion of Jesus, it describes him being raised up into heaven, similar to the description of Elijah in 2 Kings, Chapter 2 ; and it calls Jesus a " prophet " whose mission was restricted to the " house of Israel ".

According to tradition Jonah was the boy brought back to life by Elijah the prophet, and hence shares many of his characteristics ( particularly his desire for ' strict judgment ').

After Fard's departure in June 1934, the Nation of Islam was led by Elijah Muhammad, who established mosques called Temples, Schools named Muhammad University of Islam, businesses, farms and real estate holdings in the United States and abroad.

He was given his Muslim name, Farrakhan, by Elijah Muhammad.

After replacing his surname with an “ X ,” Clay was given his Muslim name, Muhammad Ali, by Elijah Muhammad.

An official Nation of Islam platform referred to as " The Muslim Program " was written by Elijah Muhammad in his book Message to the Blackman in America ( 1965 ).

This was, Elijah Muhammad claims, long before Adam.

In his Comment on the Gospel of Matthew, which stems from a 6th century Latin translation, it is written: " In this place Jesus said Elijah was come and referred to John the Baptist it does not appear to me that by Elijah the soul is spoken of, lest I fall into the doctrine of transmigration, which is foreign to the Church of God, and not handed down by the apostles, nor anywhere set forth in the scriptures " ( ibid., 13: 1: 46 – 53 ).

Afterwards he was visited by either a Bath Kol ( Heavenly voice ) or the prophet Elijah, who told him that he would be rewarded with the birth of a noble son " who would illuminate the world with his Torah knowledge.

) The team's starting halfback, Paul Hornung, was injured early in the season, but running back Elijah Pitts did a good job as a replacement, gaining 857 combined rushing and receiving yards.

( The final captions reveal that David led police to Elijah, who was committed to an institution for the criminally insane.

In 1961 and 1962 George Lincoln Rockwell, the leader of the American Nazi Party, was invited to speak by Elijah Muhammad at a Nation of Islam rally.

De Leon ascribed the work to Shimon bar Yochai, a rabbi of the 2nd century during the Roman persecution who, according to Jewish legend, hid in a cave for thirteen years studying the Torah and was inspired by the Prophet Elijah to write the Zohar.

Conversely, Elijah Delmedigo ( c. 1458 – c. 1493 ), in his Bechinat ha-Dat endeavored to show that the Zohar could not be attributed to Shimon bar Yochai, arguing that if it were his work, the Zohar would have been mentioned by the Talmud, as has been the case with other works of the Talmudic period, that had bar Yochai known by divine revelation the hidden meaning of the precepts, his decisions on Jewish law from the Talmudic period would have been adopted by the Talmud, that it would not contain the names of rabbis who lived at a later period than that of Simeon ; and that if the Kabbalah was a revealed doctrine, there would have been no divergence of opinion among the Kabbalists concerning the mystic interpretation of the precepts.

These men, who had gone to Palestine from Europe either as pilgrims or as crusaders, chose Mount Carmel in part because it was the traditional home of Elijah.

Their former habit of a mantle with black and white or brown and white stripes — the black or brown stripes representing the scorches the mantle of Elijah received from the fiery chariot as it fell from his shoulders — was discarded and they wore the same habit as the Dominicans, except that the cloak was white.

According to Kourouniotes, however, the southern peak has never been called Diaforti, only " Ayios Ilias " after the chapel of St. Elijah below the summit.

Melanchthon wrote in 1520, " I would rather die than be separated from Luther ," whom he afterward compared to Elijah, and called " the man full of the Holy Ghost.

Armstrong proclaimed that behind world events during his lifespan loomed various Biblical prophecies, and that he was called by God as an ' Apostle ' and end-time ' Elijah ' to proclaim the Gospel of God's Kingdom to the World before the return of Jesus Christ.

When he did finally emigrate, Elijah Craig purchased in what was then Fayette County of Virginia, in 1782, where he planned and laid out the nearby town originally called Lebanon, incorporated in 1784.

Also in that same year, a national conference of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people chaired by Elijah Harper, titled The Sacred Assembly, called for a national holiday to celebrate the contributions of Aboriginal peoples to Canada.

A darker, modernized film version using stop motion animation called The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb was released in 1993, and the 2002 direct-to-DVD animated movie, The Adventures of Tom Thumb and Thumbelina brought together the two most famous tiny people of literature, with Tom voiced by Elijah Wood.

Elijah has often called the band an " art project ", or " art movement ".

Elijah Baley is called in to investigate, at the request of the Solarian government.

Until 1988, the lake was called Clarks Hill Lake, after the nearby South Carolina town of Clarks Hill, and the Revolutionary War hero Elijah Clarke, whose burial place, on the grounds of Georgia's Elijah Clark State Park, is on the western shore of the lake.

), he is supposed to have called Elijah.

He called the solution to the problem " the widow's cruse ", after a bible story of Elijah coming to stay with an old widow and making her cup of oil inexhaustible.

When Elijah Muhammad started the celebration, he called it Saviour's Day.

In his role, he played three parts of the same ego-a sinister American sounding clown called Odd Bob, a mysterious European sounding ringmaster called Elijah Spellman, and the infamous Pied Piper of Hamelin.

He also had a journal on WWE. com called the Elijah Experience, where he discussed the happenings on ECW on Sci-Fi.

Jonathan Foer, ( played by Elijah Wood ) a young American Jew, goes on a quest to find the woman, Augustina, who saved his grandfather during the Holocaust in a small Ukrainian town called Trachimbrod that was wiped off the map when the Nazis liquidated Eastern European shtetls.

After Miller's death, John Mottley ( 1692 – 1750 ) brought out a book called Joe Miller's Jests, or the Wit's Vade-Mecum ( 1739 ), published under the pseudonym of Elijah Jenkins Esq.

He first worked at a restaurant owned by his uncle Elijah, called the Pride of Spokane.