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.

A tradition, which resembles that of Hannah and Samuel in the Hebrew Bible, states that Ezekiel's mother prayed to God in old age for the birth of an offspring and was given Ezekiel as a gift from God.

Muslim exegesis preserves a tradition, which parallels that of the Hebrew Bible, which states that Hezekiah was the king that ruled over Jerusalem during Isaiah's time.

Eliezer Zamenhof street in Tel Aviv: the street sign in Hebrew and Esperanto states he is the creator of the international language Esperanto.

The Hebrew Bible, or Torah, states that God revealed the design for the menorah to Moses and describes the construction of the menorah as follows ():

Brichtothe states that it is " not mere sentimental respect for the physical remains that is ... the motivation for the practice, but rather an assumed connection between proper sepulture and the condition of happiness of the deceased in the afterlife " According to Brichtothe, the early Israelites apparently believed that the graves of family, or tribe, united into one, and that this unified collectivity is to what the Biblical Hebrew term Sheol refers.

" So God said to him, ' Since you have asked for this and not for long life or wealth for yourself, nor have asked for the death of your enemies but for discernment in administering justice, I will do what you have asked ...'" ( 1 Kings 3: 11-12 ) The Hebrew Bible also states that: " The whole world sought audience with Solomon to hear the wisdom God had put in his heart.

William G. Dever states " that we now have direct Bronze and Iron Age parallels for every feature of the ' Solomonic temple ' as described in the Hebrew Bible ".

It is also based on the Hebrew Torah that states in Deuteronomy 31: 24, 25 and 26 ; After Moses finished writing the words of this Torah in a book from beginning to end.

115b ) states that a peculiar section in the Book of Numbers ( 10: 35 — 36, surrounded by inverted Hebrew letter nuns ) in fact forms a separate book.

Goliath (; Arabic: جالوت, Ǧālūt, جليات Ǧulyāt ) or Goliath of Gath ( one of five city states of the Philistines ) is a figure in the Hebrew Bible ( Christian Old Testament ).

) states that a standard copy of the Hebrew Bible was kept in the court of the Temple in Jerusalem for the benefit of copyists ; there were paid correctors of Biblical books among the officers of the Temple ( Talmud, tractate Ketubot 106a ).

Historically, Christianity has taught supersessionism ( replacement theology ), which implies or outright states that Christianity has superseded Judaism, that the Mosaic Covenant of the Hebrew Bible has been superseded by the New Covenant of Jesus, wherein salvation is brought about by the grace of God, and not by obedience to the Torah.

The Hebrew Bible states that the Hebrews were strongly opposed to sacrificing first-born children as a molk to Yahweh himself.

When Matthew 1: 22 states: " Behold the virgin shall be with child " it uses the Greek term " parthenos " as " virgin " as in the Septuagint translation of Isaiah, while the original Masoretic Isaiah uses the Hebrew " almah ".

In his Nobel biography, Kahneman states that his collaboration with Tversky began after Kahneman had invited Tversky to give a guest lecture to one of Kahneman's seminars at Hebrew University in 1968 or 1969.

In his brief survey of Arabic translations of the Bible, al-Masʿūdī states that the Israelites rely for exegesis and translation of the Hebrew books — i. e., the Torah, Prophets, and Psalms, twenty-four books in all, he says — on a number of Israelites whom they praise highly, almost all of whom he has met in person.

The entire region was heavily contested between the successor states of Alexander's empire, the Seleucid Empire and Ptolemaic Egypt, during the six Syrian Wars of the 3rd – 1st centuries BCE: " After two centuries of peace under the Persians, the Hebrew state found itself once more caught in the middle of power struggles between two great empires: the Seleucid state with its capital in Syria to the north and the Ptolemaic state, with its capital in Egypt to the south ... Between 319 and 302 BCE, Jerusalem changed hands seven times.

During the annulment hearing, Henry VIII looked at the Hebrew version of Leviticus 20: 21, which states that it is unclean for a man to take his brother's wife and that, if a man did, the union would be childless.

The Hebrew Bible states that " these words " be spoken of " when you lie down, and when you rise up " Deuteronomy 6: 7.

" The reason for this procedure is that the Hebrew word for " blessed " ( baruch ) is related to " knee " ( berech ); while the verse in Psalms states, " The Lord straightens the bent.

Kutub al-Lughah is a work of Hebrew linguistics by Saadia Gaon, twelve " Books on Language " which are also designated as the twelve parts of a work entitled " The Book on Language ", in which, as the author himself states in his " Sefer ha-Galui ", he sought to explain the " i ' rab ", or the grammatical formation of the Hebrew language.

In Hebrew and Christian tradition, Nimrod is traditionally considered the leader of those who built the Tower of Babel in the land of Shinar, though the Bible never actually states this.

" Raymond Brown states that the 3rd century BCE translators of the Septuagint may have understood the Hebrew word " almah " to mean virgin in this context.

The Jewish Encyclopedia article on the Hebrew Alphabet states: " Not until the revolts against Nero and against Hadrian did the Jews return to the use of the old Hebrew script on their coins, which they did from motives similar to those which had governed them two or three centuries previously ; both times, it is true, only for a brief period.