Abraham ( Hebrew:, Modern:, Greek: Αβραάμ ( Avraam ), Tiberian:, Ashkenazi: Avrohom or Avruhom,

Hanukkah (, Tiberian:, usually spelled, pronounced in Modern Hebrew ; also romanized as Chanukah, Chanukkah, Chanuka, or Khanukah ), also known as the Festival of Lights, is an eight-day Jewish holiday commemorating the rededication of the Holy Temple ( the Second Temple ) in Jerusalem at the time of the Maccabean Revolt of the 2nd century BCE.

" Commentary to Leviticus " in The Torah: A Modern Commentary, edited by W. Gunther Plaut, New York: Union of American Hebrew Congregations.

For instance, the second word of the Arabic name of the festival, has the root F-Ṣ-Ḥ, which given the sound laws applicable to Arabic is cognate to Hebrew P-S-Ḥ, with " Ḥ " realized as in Modern Hebrew and in Arabic.

The Talmud describes the blind as having " much light " ( Aramaic סגי נהור ) and this phrase — sagee nahor — is the Modern Hebrew for euphemism.

Modern Hebrew Bibles call the two books Ezra and Nehemiah, as do other modern Bible translations.

The Essenes ( in Modern but not in Ancient Hebrew:, Isiyim ; Greek: Εσσήνοι, Εσσαίοι, or Οσσαίοι ; Essēnoi, Essaioi, Ossaioi ) were a sect of Second Temple Judaism that flourished from the 2nd century BCE to the 1st century CE which some scholars claim seceded from the Zadokite priests.

Modern Hebrew is written from right to left using the Hebrew alphabet, which is an abjad, or consonant-only script of 22 letters.

* Modern Hebrew phonology

* History of the Ancient and Modern Hebrew Language by David Steinberg

* Fully Transliterated Modern Hebrew Course ( with listing of verb roots and derived verbs )

* Modern Hebrew

* Hebrew ( pronunciation ); Biblical Hebrew Phonology or Modern Hebrew phonology

All varieties, from Biblical to Modern, use a typically Semitic templatic morphology with triconsonantal stems, though Mishnaic and Modern Hebrew have significant borrowed components of the lexicon that do not fit into this pattern.

Verbal morphology has remained relatively unchanged, though Mishnaic and Modern Hebrew have lost some modal distinctions of Biblical Hebrew and created others through the use of auxiliary verbs.

Significant syntactic changes have arisen in Modern Hebrew as a result of non-Semitic substrate influences.

Modern Hebrew tends to reserve this construction for phrases where the two components form a unified concept, whereas ordinary possession is more commonly expressed analytically with the preposition shel ' of ' ( etymologically consisting of the relativizer she-' that ' and the preposition le-' to ').

The latter construction is the one generally used in Modern Hebrew.

Modern scholarship tends to favour a Syriac origin ; but even so, the exercise must have been repeated in Greek very shortly afterwards — probably by Tatian himself.

The timeframe is also slightly different, in that " Renaissance " tends to refer to events over a generally earlier period than " Early Modern ".

Modern scholarship tends to challenge the accuracy of Roman historians.

Modern usage of ' diocese ' tends to refer to the sphere of a bishop's jurisdiction.

Modern scholarship tends to the second view.

Modern karate competition tends to transform Wadō-ryū away from its roots towards a new generic karate that appeals more to the demands of both spectators and competitors.

Modern scholarship tends to consider it relatively credible.

Modern deep house ( post-2000 ) often shares features with the related genre of tech house but tends to focus on musical complexity where tech house focuses on simplicity.

Modern thinking tends towards the latter view.

Modern winemaking tends to favour tank presses with pneumatic membranes, which squeeze the grapes more gently than continuous presses.

Modern understanding of the art of many cultures tends to be distorted by the modern privileging of fine art media over others, as well as the very different survival rates of works in different media.

International Dimensions of the Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka, Prof John P. Neelsen ( Tuebingen University, Germany ), 20th European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies, 8 – 11 July 2008: A shortcoming in international law as to internal colonialism and the right to self-determination renders the current types of international intervention not just inadequate to contribute to a negotiated solution of ethnic conflicts, but tends to inflame them.

Noun morphology is broadly similar to Standard Modern Greek, although Tsakonian tends to drop the nominative, final-ς (- s ) from masculine nouns, thus Tsakonian ο τσχίφτα for Standard o τρίφτης ( o tshifta / o triftis: " grater ").

Modern furniture making, however, tends to rely upon a combination of engineered woods and solid woods in frame making.

Modern linguistic and archaeological evidence tends to support this.

Modern historians reserve the term " mail " for chain mail and its varieties, specifically an interlinked mesh of metal rings.

`` To give up these notions required a revolution in thought '', Mr. Clark said in reminiscing about the abrupt changes in ideas he experienced when he began reading `` Organic Gardening '' And `` Modern Nutrition '' in a search for help with his problems.

Modern psychology has shown that paralleling `` the authoritarian personality '' is `` the bigoted personality '' in which insecurity, inferiority, suspicion, and distrust combine to provide a target for antagonism so indispensable that it will be manufactured if it does not exist naturally.

Modern use of AAC began in the 1950s with systems for users who had lost the use of speech following surgical procedures.

Modern anchors for smaller vessels have metal flukes which hook on to rocks on the bottom or bury themselves in soft bottoms.

Modern critics often fault Alcott for not being able to financially support his family.

From the Early Modern period, their name has become a term for female warriors in general.

Modern weapons include the Russian ZSU-23-4 Shilka and Tunguska-M1, South Korean K30 Biho and K263A1 radar-guided Vulcan, Chinese Type 95 SPAAA, Swedish CV9040 AAV, Polish PZA Loara, American M6 Bradley Linebacker and M1097 Humvee Avenger, Yugoslavian BOV-3, Canadian ADATS, aging German Gepard, Japanese Type 87 SPAAG and similar versions with the British Marksman turret ( which was also adapted for a number of other users ), Italian SIDAM 25 and Otomatic, and versions of the French AMX-13.

Riding a wave of international popularity, and despite his declining health, he travelled to the United States in 1965 for an exhibition of his works at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Modern coastal artillery ( for example, Russia's " Bereg " system ) is often self propelled, ( allowing it to avoid counter-battery fire ) and fully integrated, meaning that each battery has all of the support systems that it requires ( maintenance, targeting radar, etc.

Aegospotami ( Αἰγὸς Ποταμοί ) or Aegospotamos ( i. e. Goat Streams ) is the ancient Greek name for a small river issuing into the Hellespont ( Modern Turkish Çanakkale Boğazı ), northeast of Sestos.

* The Sabbath: Its Meaning for Modern Man.

Modern CPUs are typically 2-operand or 3-operand machines — the additional operands specify which one of many general purpose registers ( also called " general purpose accumulators ") are used as the source and destination for calculations.

Modern bicycle brakes may be: rim brakes, in which friction pads are compressed against the wheel rims ; internal hub brakes, in which the friction pads are contained within the wheel hubs ; or disc brakes, with a separate rotor for braking.

Modern usage uses a ' ten-foot ' pole, but the earliest instances in print involve a forty-foot pole, which is improbably long for operating a barge.

During the 1960s, De Palma began making a living producing documentary films, notably The Responsive Eye, a 1966 movie about The Responsive Eye op-art exhibit curated by William Seitz for Museum of Modern Art in 1965.

Modern barter and trade has evolved considerably to become an effective method of increasing sales, conserving cash, moving inventory, and making use of excess production capacity for businesses around the world.

In some published editions of the Bible, 1 & 2 Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah have been presented together as a single book, for example, in The Modern Reader's Bible ( 1907 ) and The Books of the Bible ( 2007 ).

Modern boomerangs used for sport are often made from carbon fibre-reinforced plastics, thin aircraft plywood, or other high-tech materials.

Modern biotechnology is often associated with the use of genetically altered microorganisms such as E. coli or yeast for the production of substances like synthetic insulin or antibiotics.

Modern biotechnology has evolved, making it possible to produce more easily and relatively cheaply human growth hormone, clotting factors for hemophiliacs, fertility drugs, erythropoietin and other drugs.

( 2002 ) Quest for Decisive Victory: From Stalemate to Blitzkrieg in Europe, 1899 – 1940, Modern War Studies.

Modern imaging systems like PostScript, Asymptote, Metafont, and SVG use Bézier splines composed of cubic Bézier curves for drawing curved shapes.

Modern historians have proposed wide ranging numbers for the infantry, from 20, 000 – 100, 000 with a consensus of perhaps 25, 000 ; estimates for the cavalry are in the range of 1, 000.

Following the release of Modern Times, Chaplin left with Goddard for another trip to the Far East.