Although he did not attend any celebrated schools or universities, he was a master of Greek and Hebrew and could read the Bible in the original.

Discoveries recently made of old Biblical manuscripts in Hebrew and Greek and other ancient writings, some by the early church fathers, in themselves called for a restudy of the Bible.

At one time I became disturbed in the faith in which I had grown up by the apparent inroads being made upon both Old and New Testaments by a `` Higher Criticism '' of the Bible, to refute which I felt the need of a better knowledge of Hebrew and of archaeology, for it seemed to me that to pull out some of the props of our faith was to weaken the entire structure.

In the Hebrew Bible and the Qur ' an, Aaron ( or ; Ahărōn, Hārūn, Greek ( Septuagint ): Ααρών ), who is often called "' Aaron the Priest "' () and once Aaron the Levite () ( Exodus 4: 14 ), was the older brother of Moses, ( Exodus 6: 16-20, 7: 7 ; Qur ' an 28: 34 ) and a prophet of God.

Writing that would later be incorporated into the Hebrew Bible names Sheol as the place of the dead.

Using his excellent knowledge of Greek, which was then rare in the West, to his advantage, he studied the Hebrew Bible and Greek authors like Philo, Origen, Athanasius, and Basil of Caesarea, with whom he was also exchanging letters.

Ahab (; ; ) was king of Israel and the son and successor of Omri according to the Hebrew Bible.

The Hebrew Bible says that dogs licked his blood, according to the prophecy of Elijah.

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The Book of Amos is a prophetic book of the Hebrew Bible, one of the Twelve Minor Prophets.

The Bible translation is a treatment of the Hebrew word olam and the Greek word aion.

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The Hebrew term Abaddon (, ), an intensive form of the word " destruction ", appears as a place of destruction in the Hebrew Bible.

According to the Brown Driver Briggs lexicon, the Hebrew abaddon ( Hebrew: אבדון ; avadon ) is an intensive form of the Semitic root and verb stem abad ( א ָ ב ַ ד ) " perish " ( transitive " destroy "), which occurs 184 times in the Hebrew Bible.

The term abaddon appears six times in the Masoretic text of the Hebrew Bible ; abaddon means destruction or " place of destruction ", or the realm of the dead, and is associated with Sheol.

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Abiathar ( אביתר, Ebyathar, Evyatar, the father is pre-eminent or father of plenty ), in the Hebrew Bible, son of Ahimelech or Ahijah, High Priest at Nob, the fourth in descent from Eli ( 1 Sam.

Reform Judaism has developed an egalitarian prayer service in the vernacular ( along with Hebrew in many cases ) and emphasizes personal connection to Jewish tradition.

Unlike his contemporaries, he emphasizes the difference between the Hebrew Bible " apocrypha " and the Hebraica veritas of the protocanonical books.

The following verses, commonly referred to by the first word of the verse immediately following the Shema as the V ' ahavta, or in Classical Hebrew W ' ahav ' ta meaning " And you shall love ...", contain the commands to love God ( the Talmud emphasizes that you will, at some point, whether you choose to or not therefore " shall " future tense, love God ), with all one's heart, soul, and might ; then the verse goes on to remind you to remember all commandments and " teach them diligently to your children and speak of them when you sit down and when you walk, when you lie down and when you rise " ( Deut 6: 7 ); to recite the words of God when retiring or rising ; to bind those words " on thy arm and thy head " ( classically Jewish oral tradition interprets as tefillin ), and to inscribe them on the door-posts of your house and on your gates ( referring to mezuzah ).

The second ( unvocalized Hebrew ) emphasizes the idea of musical space, with several large gaps in the piece, as well as bizarre vocal experiments.

Judah ben Samuel of Regensburg ( born 1140 in Speyer-Feb. 22, 1217 in Regensburg ), also called HeHasid or ' the Pious ' in Hebrew, was the initiator of the Chassidei Ashkenaz, a movement of Jewish mysticism in Germany considered different from kabbalistic mysticism because it emphasizes specific prayer and moral conduct.

stresses the importance in Israelite religious observance of the new month ( Hebrew:, Rosh Chodesh, " beginning of the month "): "... in your new moons, ye shall blow with the trumpets over your burnt-offerings ..." Similarly in.

The study of Torah ( in its widest sense, to include both poetry, narrative, and law, and both the Hebrew Bible and the Talmud ) is in Judaism itself a sacred act of central importance.

* Abib ( Barley ) in the Hebrew Bible: a description of the importance of aviv in the Karaite calendar by the World Karaite Movement

The importance of Ibn Ezra's grammatical writings has already been treated in Grammar, Hebrew.

This proclamation, written in Hebrew, French, German, and Italian, speaks in extravagant terms of the importance of this revived institution and of the greatness of its imperial protector.

As new immigrants arrived, Hebrew language instruction was of utmost importance.

His unique contribution was to emphasize the importance of reviving Hebrew and Jewish culture both in Palestine and throughout the Diaspora, something that was recognized only belatedly, when it became part of the Zionist program after 1898.

In light of the national importance of creating a new Hebrew repertoire, the effort received support of national institutions.

While most Zionists regarded Yiddish as a derivative language characteristic of the Jewish Diaspora and to be abandoned by the Jewish people in favor of Hebrew, Borochov was a committed Yiddishist and Yiddish philologist and wrote extensively on the importance of the language.

A common title of God in the Hebrew Bible is Elohim ( Hebrew: אלהים ); as opposed to other titles of God in Judaism, this name also describes gods of other religions, angels, or even humans of great importance ( John 10: 34-36 ).

Hebrew itself remained in vigorous use for religious and official uses such as for all religious events, Responsa, for writing Torah scrolls, and along with Aramaic, retained a position of importance for the writing of marriage contracts and other literary purposes.

In 956 his pupil Dunash Ibn Tamim wrote an extensive commentary on Sefer Yetzirah, a mystical work of cosmogony which attributes great importance to the letters of the Hebrew alphabet and their combinations in determining the structure of the universe.

Various chiastic structures are also seen in the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament, where biblical writers used chiasmus to give meaning to their writings or to highlight details of particular importance.

Given the rise to dominance of Hebrew as a means of communication among Jewish communities in the Middle East, and the increasing prestige of English, as well as the economic importance of local vernaculars ( especially Turkish ), the situation appears grim.

* Jewish catacombs with inscriptions in Hebrew, Greek and Latin show the importance of the Jewish population here in the 4th and 5th centuries.