The Hebrew Bible, which is also called the Tanakh (; , or ; also "Tenakh", "Tenak", "Tanach"), or sometimes the Miqra (מִקְרָא), is the canonical collection of Hebrew scriptures, including the Torah. These texts are almost exclusively in Biblical Hebrew, with a few passages in Biblical Aramaic (in the books of Daniel and Ezra, the verse , and some single words). The form of this text that is authoritative for Rabbinic Judaism is known as the Masoretic Text (MT) and consists of 24 books, while Protestant Bibles divide essentially the same material into 39 books. Catholic Bibles and Eastern / Greek Orthodox Bibles contain additional materials in their Old Testaments, derived from the Septuagint (texts translated into Koine Greek) and other sources.
Introduction
Hebrew Bible
Hebrew Bible | Introduction
The canonical collection of Hebrew scriptures, including the Torah. It is the canonical collection of Hebrew scriptures, including the Torah The Hebrew Bible, which is also called the Tanakh or sometimes the Miqra, is the canonical collection of Hebrew scriptures, including the Torah. It is a book of the Nevi'im in the Hebrew Bible.
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Jonah
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A prophet in the Hebrew Bible of the northern kingdom of Israel in about the 8th century BCE.
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Or is Jewish, and was born in Haifa, Israel. He earned an LL.B. in Law and Business from the Interdisciplinary Center, in Herzliya, Israel.
Tomer Or | Early life
The Hebrew language is a language native to Israel. Hebrew may also refer to:
Hebrew (disambiguation) | Introduction
In the Hebrew Bible the laws (see mitzvah) concerning the redemption of the first-born male are referred to in Exodus, Numbers and Leviticus: The redemption price for firstborn non-Levites was set at 5 shekels:
Pidyon haben | Biblical references
In the King James Version this chapter reads: Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him. When Herod the king had heard these things, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him. And when he had gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people together, he demanded of them where Christ should be born. And they said unto him, In Bethlehem of Judaea: for thus it is written by the prophet, And thou Bethlehem, in the land of Juda, art not the least among the princes of Juda: for out of thee shall come a Governor, that shall rule my people Israel.
Matthew 2 | Full text
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Quotations from the Hebrew Bible in the New Testament | Introduction
1QapGen. XXI.13: MT שיא (Gen. 13.16) ואשגה זרעך כעפר ארשא די לא ישכח בר אנוש לממדיה And I will multiply your seed like the dirt of the earth which no son of man (בר אנוש : [bar 'anowsh]) can count. [The text is Aramaic.] In the Hebrew of Genesis 13:16, the word translated as בר אנוש (son of man) was איש (man).
Son of man (Judaism) | 1QapGen
Itamar Ben-Avi was born as Ben-Zion Ben-Yehuda () in Jerusalem on July 31, 1882, the son of Deborah and Eliezer Ben-Yehuda. Eliezer is credited with reviving the Hebrew language; Itamar was brought up to be the first native speaker of Hebrew in the modern era. At his father's insistence, Itamar was not permitted to hear any language other than Hebrew at home. When he was very young, Itamar always wanted someone to play with, but his parents did not want him to speak with the other children who spoke different languages. He made friends with a dog which he called Ma`her (Hebrew: מהר), meaning "fast" in Hebrew.
Itamar Ben-Avi | Biography
As the conversation was between two Jews in Jerusalem, where Aramaic was the native language, there is no reason to think that they'd have spoken in Greek. This implies that even if based on a real conversation, the author of John heavily modified it to include Greek wordplay and idiom.
Born again | Historicity
Abutbul was born in Kiryat Ata, Israel, to a Sephardic Jewish family from Egypt and Algeria. He attended the Thelma Yellin High School of Arts in Givatayim.
Alon Abutbul | Early life
He call togeda all de leada dem ob de Jew priest dem an de Jew Law teacha dem. E aks um say. "Weh de Messiah gwine be bon at?" Dey tell King Herod say, "E gwine be bon een Betlem town een Judea. Cause de prophet write say [...]" Therefore when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, in the days of king Herod, lo! astronomers, came from the east to Jerusalem, and said, Where is he, that is born [the] king of Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and we have come to worship him.
Gullah language | The Bible in Gullah
"Was Jesus Born in Nazareth?" "The Presbyterian Guardian," Vol. 41 (Dec. 1972). PDF "The Sons of God in Genesis 6:1‑4," "Westminster Theological Journal" 43 (1981), 320‑348. "Psalm CXXXI: "Kg~mûl": The Problem of Meaning and Metaphor," "Hebrew Studies", 23 (1982), 51‑57. Link to JSTOR Preview
Willem A. VanGemeren | Journal and Periodical Articles
The Midrash of "Ki-Tetze" [כי תצא] claims that Moses was born aposthic. Other sources that Jacob, his son Gad and King David were also born aposthic. The book Abot De-Rabbi Natan (The Fathers According to Rabbi Nathan) contains a list of persons from the Israelite Scriptures that were "born circumcised": Adam, Seth, Noah, Shem, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, the wicked Balaam, Samuel, David, Jeremiah and Zerubbabel. Jewish law requires males born without a foreskin or who lost their foreskin through means other than a formal circumcision ceremony ("brit milah" ברית מילה) to have a drop of blood ("hatafat-dam", הטפת דם) let from the penis at the point where the foreskin would have been (or was) attached.
Aposthia | Aposthia in Judaism
Anachronistically, Abraham — who in the Bible is the very first Jew and the ancestor of all who followed, hence his appellation "Avinu" (Our Father)—is in the Judaeo-Spanish song already born, in the "juderia" (modern Spanish: "judería", Judaeo-Spanish: "djudería"), the Jewish quarter. Abraham became the first Jew by acknowledging the existence of one G-d. Abraham in the Bible is the very first man to be circumcised and perform circumcision. Much of this story is based on the account of Abraham's life written in the book "Maaseh Avraham Avinu Alav HaShalom" as well as the Midrash regarding the furnace and Zohar concerning Elijah the Prophet.
Kuando el rey Nimrod | Interpretations
He was born at Owlbury, Bishop's Castle, Shropshire. He called himself a Cambrian, implying Welsh blood in his veins. He was educated by Bernard Gilpin at Houghton-le-Spring and at Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he matriculated in 1570. The foundation of his Hebrew learning was laid, in his first year at Cambridge, by his attendance on the lectures of the French scholar Antoine Rodolphe Chevallier.
Hugh Broughton | Early life
The Hebrew Bible, which is also called the Tanakh (; , or ; also "Tenakh", "Tenak", "Tanach"), or sometimes the Miqra (מִקְרָא), is the canonical collection of Hebrew scriptures, including the Torah. These texts are almost exclusively in Biblical Hebrew, with a few passages in Biblical Aramaic (in the books of Daniel and Ezra, the verse , and some single words). The form of this text that is authoritative for Rabbinic Judaism is known as the Masoretic Text (MT) and consists of 24 books, while Protestant Bibles divide essentially the same material into 39 books. Catholic Bibles and Eastern / Greek Orthodox Bibles contain additional materials in their Old Testaments, derived from the Septuagint (texts translated into Koine Greek) and other sources.
Hebrew Bible | Introduction
Isaac Heinemann (Hebrew: יצחק היינמן) (born 5 June 1876; died 28 July 1957) was an Israeli rabbinical scholar and a professor of classical literature, Hellenistic literature and philology.
Isaac Heinemann | Introduction
Heimann (Hayyim) Michael (April 12, 1792 – June 10, 1846) was a Hebrew bibliographer born at Hamburg. He showed great acuteness of mind in early childhood, had a phenomenal memory, and was an indefatigable student. He studied Talmudics and received private instruction in all the branches of a regular school education. He was a born bibliophile, and began to collect valuable works when still a boy of twelve. With his progress in Hebrew literature his love for books increased also, the result of which was his magnificent library of 862 manuscripts and 5,471 printed works, covering all branches of Hebrew literature.
Heimann Joseph Michael | Introduction
Born in Erfoud in Morocco, Shetreet's family made aliyah to Israel in 1949 when he was three years old. He attended a religious elementary school, before studying at a yeshiva, winning the International Bible Contest at the age of 13. He went on to study law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, gaining an LLB in 1968 and LLM in 1970. He then went on to the University of Chicago, where he gained an LLD in 1973.
Shimon Shetreet | Early life
ʽAm () is the Biblical Hebrew for "people, nation, tribe". It may refer to
ʽAm | Introduction
Other scholars, however, such as Edward Greenstein of Bar-Ilan University’s Bible department, have criticized the work for its inaccuracies.
Hebrew Bible (Alter) | Introduction
Moshe Garsiel born and raised in Tel Aviv. Most of his academic studies were completed at Tel Aviv University: B.A. in Hebrew Bible and Hebrew Literature (1965), M.A. in Hebrew Bible (1968), Ph.D in Hebrew Bible (1974), Post-doctorate in Biblical Archaeology (1974-5).
Moshe Garsiel | Early life and education
Judah; "and because you lay so much stress upon a given word you shall have the good fortune of having a son who shall be like the prophet Samuel, and whose word all Israel will recognize as true." Soon afterward a son was born to Abba, whom he named Samuel.
Samuel of Nehardea | Birth
13 ותשׁכח יהוה עשׂך נוטה שׁמים ויסד ארץ ותפחד תמיד כל־היום מפני חמת המציק כאשׁר כונן להשׁחית ואיה חמת המציק׃
Son of man (Judaism) | Isaiah
A Hebrew birthday (also known as a Jewish birthday) is the date on which a person is born according to the Hebrew calendar. This is important for Jews, particularly when calculating the correct date for day of birth, day of death, a bar mitzva or a bat mitzva. This is because the Jewish calendar differs from the secular and Christian Gregorian calendar as well as from the Islamic calendar, in most years the two birthdays do not coincide - typically, they coincide just once in 19 years. Especially among Hasidic Jews, there is a custom that a boy's first haircut takes place on his third Hebrew birthday known as an "upsherin".
Hebrew birthday | Introduction
He was born of Jewish parents at Suwałki, Poland, on 3 December 1820. He was instructed at Pryerosl, Grodno, and Kalwarya in talmudic and rabbinical learning, and also acquired Russian and German. In August 1837, during a visit to Liverpool, he was induced to carefully study the Hebrew New Testament, with the result that on 13 April 1838 he was baptised a member of the Church of England. For a time he obtained a livelihood by giving lessons in Hebrew, but in January 1840 he entered Trinity College, Dublin, to prepare for ordination, and during the vacations studied at the Hebrew College, London.
Moses Margoliouth | Life
As a consequence of this avoidance of repetition, a single name was as a rule sufficient to identify a person. It became traditional to identify a son by his father's name and a chosen name, like Jaazaniah ben Shaphan (Ezekiel 8:11) only in later years of Hebrew history.
Jewish name | Early Biblical Era
The Hebrew Bible, known in Judaism by the acronym "Tanakh", is the collection of ancient writings that are considered sacred by both Jews and Christians. They tell the story of the Jewish people and their ancestors, starting from the creation narrative and concluding near the end of the 5th century BCE. Although the first mention of the name 'Israel' in archaeology dates to the 13th century BCE, contemporary information on the Israelite nation prior to the 9th century BCE is extremely sparse. In the following centuries a small number of local Hebrew documents, mostly seals and bullae, mention biblical characters, but more extensive information is available in the royal inscriptions from neighbouring kingdoms, particularly Babylon, Assyria and Egypt.
List of biblical figures identified in extra-biblical sources | Hebrew Bible (Protocanonical Old Testament)
The Hexateuch ("six scrolls") is the first six books of the Hebrew Bible: the Torah ("Pentateuch") and the book of Joshua.
Hexateuch | Introduction
This biography was titled "Avi" ("My Father") and was printed in his own made-up version of a Hebrew alphabet using Latin letters and some variations thereof. He pioneered and was chief editor of two short lived Hebrew weeklies in reformed Latin script. The first was "Hashavua Hapalestini" (The Palestinian Week, 1928) and the second was "Dror" (Liberty, 1934).
Itamar Ben-Avi | Journalism and literary career
Judah the Prince was born in 135 CE to Simeon ben Gamliel II. According to the Talmud he was of the Davidic line. He is said to have been born on the same day that Rabbi Akiva died as a martyr. The Talmud suggests that this was a result of Divine Providence: God had granted the Jewish people another leader of great stature to succeed Rabbi Akiva. His place of birth is unknown. Judah spent his youth in the city of Usha. His father presumably gave him the same education that he himself had received, including the Greek language. This knowledge of Greek enabled him to become the Jews' intermediary with the Roman authorities.
Judah ha-Nasi | Youth
Menahem was born in Tel Aviv, Israel, to a Jewish family.
Sun Menahem | Early life
The Hebrew Bible is the canonical collection of Hebrew scriptures and is the textual source for the Christian Old Testament. In addition to religious instruction, the collection chronicles a series of events that explain the origins and travels of the Hebrew peoples in the ancient Near East. The historicity of the collection of scriptures is a source of on-going debate. The events of the Hebrew Bible can be subdivided into 3 main sections: the Torah (instruction), the Nevi'im (prophets), and the Ketuvim (writings). The events listed in the Torah start with the creation of the universe and conclude with transfer of authority from Moses to Joshua and the death of Moses.
List of Hebrew Bible events | Introduction
He was born Conway Lee Bible on a farm near Midway, Tennessee.
Lee Bible | Early life
Heinemann was born in Frankfurt, Germany in 1876. In 1897, he received rabbinic ordination. He emigrated to then British Mandate of Palestine, now Israel, in 1939 and joined the faculty of Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Isaac Heinemann | Biography
Ishmael, a figure in the Tanakh and the Quran, was Abraham's first son according to Jews, Christians and Muslims. Ishmael was born to Abraham and Sarah's Egyptian handmaiden Hagar (Hājar) (). According to the Genesis account, he died at the age of 137 (). The Book of Genesis and Islamic traditions consider Ishmael to be the ancestor of the Ishmaelites/Arabians and patriarch of Qaydār. According to Muslim tradition, Ishmael the Patriarch and his mother Hagar are buried next to the Kaaba in Mecca under the area demarcated by the semi-circular Hijr Ismail wall.
Ishmael | Introduction
Born in Jerusalem, Israeli studied at Yeshivat Tifrach. He was a prominent student of Ben Zion Abba Shaul and Ovadia Yosef. In 1998 he moved to New York, where he received his "semikha" (rabbinic ordination) from Eliyahu Ben Haim.
Yitzhak Israeli | Early life
"Son of man", "son of Adam", or "like a man", are phrases used in the Hebrew Bible, various apocalyptic works of the intertestamental period, and in the Greek New Testament. In the indefinite form ("son of Adam", "son of man", "like a man") used in the Hebrew Bible it is a form of address, or it contrasts human beings against God and the angels, or contrasts foreign nations (like Persia and Babylon), which are often represented as animals in apocalyptic writings (bear, goat, or ram), with Israel which is represented as human (a "son of man"), or it signifies an eschatological human figure (the Jewish King Messiah).
Son of man | Introduction
In 1958, he married Batya Heifetz, with whom he had two sons. In 1968 he received his doctorate for his research on "Babylonian point vocalization". While studying at the University, he worked at a printing shop as a typesetter and proofreader. Then he became a proofreader on the editorial staff of the Hebrew Encyclopedia. He worked on the preparatory stage of the Encyclopedia Judaica and became Editorial Secretary of the "Tarbitz" quarterly. Working on the Bible Project of the Hebrew University, he became expert in deciphering ancient manuscripts of the Bible, including "The Aleppo Codex", on which he published a book.
Israel Yeivin | Biography
Jacob ben Reuben (יעקב בן ראובן) was a Karaite scholar and Bible exegete of the eleventh century. He wrote a brief Hebrew language commentary on the entire Bible, which he entitled "Sefer ha-'Osher," because, as he says in the introduction, the reader will find therein sufficient information, and will not need to have recourse to the many voluminous commentaries which the author himself had consulted. The book is, in fact, merely a compilation; the author's explanation of any given passage is frequently introduced by the abbreviations or (i.e., Arabic "ma'nahu" or "ya'ni" = "that is to say"); and divergent explanations of other commentators are added one after the other and preceded by the vague phrase ("another says").
Jacob ben Reuben (Karaite) | Introduction
Throughout the Bible, characters are given names at birth that reflect something of significance or describe the course of their lives. For example: Solomon meant peace, and the king with that name was the first whose reign was without war. Likewise, Joseph named his firstborn son Manasseh (Hebrew: "causing to forget")(Genesis 41:51); when Joseph also said, "God has made me forget all my troubles and everyone in my father's family." Biblical Jewish people did not have surnames which were passed from generation to generation. However, they were typically known as the child of their father. For example: דוד בן ישי (David ben Yishay) meaning, David, son of Jesse (1 Samuel 17:12,58).
Name | Biblical names
Matthew 2:6 is the sixth verse of the second chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament. The magi have informed King Herod that they had seen portents showing the birth of the King of the Jews. Herod has asked the leading Jewish religious figures about how to find out where Jesus was to be born. In this verse they tell him by quoting from the Book of Micah.
Matthew 2:6 | Introduction
Bitton was born in Bat Yam, Israel, to a Sephardic Jewish family.
Ben Bitton | Early life
The traditional Jewish understanding of the promise of salvation is interpreted as being rooted in "the seed of Abraham"; that is, physical lineage from Abraham. Jesus explained to Nicodemus that this doctrine was in error—that every person must have two births—natural birth of the physical body and another of the water and the spirit. This discourse with Nicodemus established the Christian belief that all human beings—whether Jew or Gentile—must be "born again" of the spiritual seed of Christ. The Apostle Peter further reinforced this understanding in . The "Catholic Encyclopedia" states that "[a] controversy existed in the primitive church over the interpretation of the expression "the seed of Abraham".
Born again | Interpretations
Ben-Harush was born in Netanya, Israel, to a Sephardic Jewish family.
Omri Ben Harush | Early life
Eliphaz ( "My Elohim is gold", Standard Hebrew Elifaz, Tiberian Hebrew ʾĔlîp̄az / ʾĔlîp̄āz) was the first-born son of Esau by his wife Adah. He had six sons, from which Omar was the firstborn, and the others were Teman, Zepho, Gatam, Kenaz and finally Amalek, who was born to his concubine Timna. The people of Amalek was the ancestral enemy of the Israelite people (Book of Exodus ; Book of Deuteronomy ). The Midrash relates that when Jacob escaped from Esau and fled to his uncle Laban in Haran, Esau sent Eliphaz to pursue and kill Jacob, his uncle, who was his Rabbi also.
Eliphaz | Introduction
Barry J. Beitzel (born August 6, 1942, in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania) is an Old Testament scholar, geographer, cartographer, and translator of the Bible. He currently resides in Mundelein, Illinois.
Barry J. Beitzel | Introduction
Joseph was born in Lisbon as the son of Abraham Athias. It seems Joseph was a member of the Jewish community in Recife between 1648-1653, but he and his cousin Jacob (1631-1690) settled in Amsterdam after the Portuguese reconquered Dutch Brazil. His first book, a prayer book according to the Sephardi rite, was published in 1658. In 1661 and 1667, he issued two editions of the Hebrew Bible with (Arabic) numbered verses. The second edition of his Bible was more carefully prepared than the first, and with more beautiful type and decorations. The mediaeval original he received from Moses Curiel.
Joseph Athias | Life
Burstein is Jewish, and was born in Petach Tikva, Israel.
Tal Burstein | Early life
Israel Knohl (; born 13 March 1952) is an Israeli Bible scholar and historian. He is the Yehezkel Kaufmann Professor of Biblical studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a Senior Fellow at Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. His books deal with the integration of scientific and archaeological discoveries with the biblical account, early Israelite beliefs, a survey of Israelite cult, and how and where the Israelites originated.
Israel Knohl | Introduction
Shemaryahu Talmon (Hebrew: שמריהו טלמון) (born Shemaryahu Zelmanowicz; 1920 in Skierniewice, Poland – December 15, 2010) was J. L. Magnes Professor of Bible at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, known particularly for his work in the Hebrew University Bible Project.
Shemaryahu Talmon | Introduction
The Hebrew Bible refers to the "Children of Israel" as Israelite descendants of a common ancestor Jacob. It also suggests that the nomadic travels of the Hebrews centered on Hebron in the first centuries of the second millennium BCE, leading to the establishment of the Cave of the Patriarchs as their burial site in Hebron. The Children of Israel, in this account, consisted of twelve tribes, each descended from one of Jacob's twelve sons, Reuven, Shimon, Levi, Yehuda, Yissachar, Zevulun, Dan, Gad, Naftali, Asher, Yosef, and Benyamin. The Book of Genesis, chapters 25–50, tells the story of Jacob and his twelve sons, who left Canaan during a severe famine and settled in Goshen of northern Egypt.
Jewish history | Ancient Israelites (until c. 586 BCE)
He was born to Oliver and Naomi (Smith) Angell in Providence, Rhode Island. He was a descendant of one of the original settlers in Rhode Island. He had a good education and developed an early interest in scientific matters. He married three times and had seventeen children.
Israel Angell | Early life and education
Abraham Regelson (1896–1981; Hebrew: אברהם רגלסון) was an Israeli Hebrew poet, author, children's author, translator, and editor.
Abraham Regelson | Introduction
Nakash was born in Tel Aviv, Israel, to parents of Sephardic Jewish descent. His father was born in Iraq, whereas his mother in Syria, prior to their immigration to Israel. In 1962, he immigrated to New York City where he worked as a stock boy and saved enough money to bring his brothers Raphael (Ralph) and Abraham (Avi) to the United States in 1966.
Joseph Nakash | Early life and education
Israel Yeivin (Hebrew: ישראל ייבין) (born January 7, 1923 in Berlin – died December 19, 2008) was an Israeli linguist, scholar of Masorah and the Hebrew language.
Israel Yeivin | Introduction
Kornfeld was born in 1876 in the Austro-Hungarian empire to Jewish parents. He came to the US as a child, and in 1899 was ordained a rabbi at Hebrew Union College.
Joseph Saul Kornfeld | Early life
Talmon was born in Poland in 1920, growing up and studying in the city of Breslau (which was then in Germany). He was educated at the Jüdisches Reform-Real Gymnasium in Breslau, Germany. He was a detainee at Buchenwald concentration camp during the Holocaust. During that time his parents and two sisters were killed, he managed to emigrate to Palestine. He obtained a PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1956. His thesis was on the text and versions of the Tanakh, especially "double meanings" in Biblical texts. He subsequently extended and refined his thesis, and contributed to many areas of biblical study.
Shemaryahu Talmon | Early life
In Exodus 4:22, the Israelites as a people are called "my firstborn son" by God using the singular form. In John, the focus shifts to the person of Jesus as representative of that title. The verse is part of the New Testament narrative in the third chapter of John in the discussion at Jerusalem between Jesus and Nicodemus, who is called a "ruler of the Jews". (v. 1) After speaking of the necessity of a man being born again before he could "see the kingdom of God", (v. 3) Jesus spoke also of "heavenly things" (v. 11–13) and of salvation (v.
John 3:16 | Biblical context
Possibly born in Xanten, Germany, he studied Hebrew grammar in Germany, where he became aquatinted with the works of Jonah ibn Janah and Abraham ibn Ezra, and Elias Levita often references Rabbi Samson's works. Later in his life he adopted the surname "Ha-Nakdan" ("the grammarian"), which his descendants also adopted, such as his grandson Joseph ben Kalonymus ha-Nakdan who was also a Hebrew grammarian.
Samson Ha-Nakdan | Biography
Levi was born in Rishon LeZion, Israel, to a Jewish family.
Barak Levi | Early life
Hezron () is a name which occurs several times in the Hebrew Bible. It may refer to:
Hezron | Introduction
Joshua () or Jehoshua ( "Yəhôšuaʿ") is the central figure in the Hebrew Bible's Book of Joshua. According to the books of Exodus, Numbers and Joshua, he was Moses' assistant and became the leader of the Israelite tribes after the death of Moses. His name was Hoshea () the son of Nun, of the tribe of Ephraim, but Moses called him Joshua (), the name by which he is commonly known. According to the Bible he was born in Egypt prior to the Exodus. According to the Hebrew Bible, Joshua was one of the twelve spies of Israel sent by Moses to explore the land of Canaan.
Joshua | Introduction
Eliyahu is Jewish, and was born in Ramat Gan, Israel.
Lior Eliyahu | Early life
Itamar Ben-Avi (; 31 July 1882 - 8 April 1943) was the first native speaker of Hebrew in modern times. He was a journalist and Zionist activist.
Itamar Ben-Avi | Introduction
It is generally used in Hebrew to indicate the third-person feminine singular genitive marker. Today, such a pronunciation only occurs in religious contexts and even then often only by careful readers of the scriptures.
He (letter) | Pronunciation
Descended from Swiss and Jewish ancestors, he was born in Jaffa in what was then Ottoman Syria; he moved to Jerusalem at an early age.
J. E. Hanauer | Biography
Johannes Leusden (also called Jan (informal), John (English), or Johann (German)) (26 April 1624 – 30 September 1699) was a Dutch Calvinist theologian and orientalist. Leusden was born in Utrecht. He studied in Utrecht and Amsterdam and became a Professor of Hebrew in Utrecht, where he died, aged 75. Leusden was one of the most prominent Bible experts of his time, and wrote several works about the Bible and about Hebrew philology ("Philologus Hebraeus", 1656; "Philologus Hebraeo-Mixtus", 1663; "Philologus Hebraeo-Latino-Belgicum", 1668; "Philologus Hebraeo-Graecus", 1670; "Korte Hebreusche en Chaldeusche taalkonst", 1686). In 1661, together with the Amsterdam book printer Joseph Athias, he published his "Biblia Hebraica", the first edition of the Hebrew Bible with numbered verses.
Johann Leusden | Introduction
-- "which will not be removed": [as translated,] will not be removed.″
Son of man | Jewish Bible
Born to a Jewish family, Shachtman graduated from Georgetown University and attended the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Noah Shachtman | Early life and education
A common Jewish practice worldwide is to give a Hebrew name to a child that is used religiously throughout its lifetime.
Hebrew name | Introduction
Never Yet Contested was born Joshua Solomon Jeremiah Jordan, in New York. He is of Guyanese and Grenadian descent. Never Yet Contested grew up in New York City and attended Brooklyn Technical High School. He received an undergraduate degree from Pennsylvania State University.
Never Yet Contested | Early life
It is the core scripture of Judaism and Samaritanism, honored in these religions as the most sacred of scripture. It is sometimes called the "Five Books of Moses" because according to the Jewish tradition, the Torah, as a divinely inspired text, was given to Moses by God himself on Mount Sinai during the Exodus of the Israelites from Egypt, which is portrayed as the founding event in the formation of the Israelite religion. Other than discussing the Exodus itself and the journey to the Promised Land, the Pentateuch has such themes as the origin of the world, of humanity and of the ancient Israelites, the ancestors of modern-day Jews.
Ancient Hebrew writings | The Hebrew Bible
Biblical Hebrew ( "Ivrit Miqra'it" or "Leshon ha-Miqra"), also called classical Hebrew, is an archaic form of Hebrew, a language in the Canaanite branch of Semitic languages, spoken by the Israelites in the area known as Israel, roughly west of the Jordan River and east of the Mediterranean Sea. The term "Hebrew" was not used for the language in the Bible, which was referred to as ("sefat kena'an", i.e. language of Canaan) or ("Yehudit", i.e. Judaean), but the name was used in Greek and Mishnaic Hebrew texts. Hebrew is attested epigraphically from about the 10th century BCE, and spoken Hebrew persisted through and beyond the Second Temple period, which ended in the siege of Jerusalem (CE 70).
Biblical Hebrew | Introduction
I am that I am is a common English translation of the Hebrew phrase , () – also "I am who I am", "I will become what I choose to become", "I am what I am", "I will be what I will be", "I create what(ever) I create", or "I am the Existing One". The traditional English translation within Judaism favors "I will be what I will be" because there is no present tense of the verb "to be" in the Hebrew language.
I Am that I Am | Introduction
Moshe Weinfeld (also "Weinfield", Hebrew: משה ויינפלד) (born 1925; died 29 April 2009), was a professor of Bible at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 1994, he won the Israel Prize for Bible.
Moshe Weinfeld | Introduction
According to the Torah, Hebron ( "Ḥeḇrōn") was a son of Kohath and grandson of Levi, consequently being the brother of Amram and uncle of Aaron, Miriam, and Moses. Hebron is portrayed in the text as the founder of the "Hebronite" faction of Levites; however, on some occasions, the Book of Chronicles treats the "Hebronites" as being distinct from the descendants of Kohath.
Hebron (biblical figure) | Introduction
He is Jewish, and lives in Mikhmoret, Israel.
Nimrod Mashiah | Introduction
Hebrew: "Human Anatomy, According to the Most Modern Investigations" (1860); "Or la-Yesharim" (Wilna, 1865), an anthology from the ancient and the modern classics, written in the poetic style of the Bible, and annotated with moral reflections and observations; "Massa Ge Ḥizzayon" (1886), metric translations from the Greek Sibyls; "A Hebrew-Russian-German Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Bible" (1896); "Darwin's Theory in Its Relation to the Organic Life of Languages" (1897); "Ma'arke Leshon 'Eber," a Hebrew grammar.
Joshua Steinberg | Works
YHWH (yod, he, vav, he), the name of the God of Israel, is called the tetragrammaton (= four letters). OT scholars believe that the name derives from the Hebrew verb “to be.” The name of God was revealed to Moses in the Old Testament book of Exodus 3:13-15. Through this passage, readers can see the personality of God revealed. Because the earliest writing in the Hebrew language did not utilize vowel marks and the Hebrew people revered God so much that they declined to pronounce the name aloud, the true pronunciation of the name of God has been lost due to a lack of use.
Old Testament theology | Identity of God
The earliest written sources refer to Biblical Hebrew by the name of the land in which it was spoken: 'the language of Canaan' (see Isaiah 19:18). The Hebrew Bible also shows that the language was called 'Judaean, Judahite' (see, for example, 2 Kings 18:26,28). In the Hellenistic period Greek writings use the names "Hebraios", "Hebraïsti" (Josephus, "Antiquities" I, 1:2, etc.), and in Mishnaic Hebrew we find 'Hebrew' and 'Hebrew language' (Mishnah Gittin 9:8, etc.). The origin of this term is obscure; suggested origins include the biblical Eber, the ethnonyms Ḫabiru, Ḫapiru, and ˁApiru found in sources from Egypt and the near east, and a derivation from the root "to pass" alluding to crossing over the Jordan River.
Biblical Hebrew | Nomenclature
Samson Ha-Nakdan (Hebrew: סמסון הנקדאן; 1240) was a 13th-century German-Jewish writer and Hebrew grammarian.
Samson Ha-Nakdan | Introduction
Within the Hebrew Bible, the first place one comes across the phrase "son of man" is in Book of Numbers at :
Son of man (Judaism) | Numbers
Ben-Haim was born in Rishon LeZion, Israel, to a Jewish family.
Tal Ben Haim | Early life
The final use of the phrase occurs in the First Epistle of Peter, rendered in the King James Version as: Here, the Greek word translated as "born again" is ().
Born again | Origin
He was born into a Indo-Israeli parents from Ashdod.
David Abraham Cheulkar | Early life
Encyclopaedia Biblica () is a scientific encyclopedia of the Hebrew Bible, published in Israel by Bialik Institute in the Hebrew language. The work is scientific, rather than religious, but because of its Jewish background, it only deals with the Hebrew Bible and some apocrypha, but not with the New Testament, which is considered a part of the Bible in Christianity. The work on the encyclopedia started in 1942, before the establishment of the state of Israel. Biblical encyclopedias in several languages existed then, but there was no such in work in Hebrew, which by that time was already the living spoken and literary language of the Jewish community in Palestine ("Yishuv").
Encyclopaedia Biblica (Israel) | Introduction
Born to Jewish family, Israel attended Hackley School in Tarrytown, New York. He does not have a college degree.
Samuel Israel III | Early life and education
In an interview in the "Boston Review", Appelfeld explained his choice of Hebrew: "I’m lucky that I’m writing in Hebrew. Hebrew is a very precise language, you have to be very precise–no over-saying. This is because of our Bible tradition. In the Bible tradition you have very small sentences, very concise and autonomic. Every sentence, in itself, has to have its own meaning."
Aharon Appelfeld | Choice of language
Bible was born in Jefferson City, Tennessee. He graduated from Jefferson City High School in 1908 and received a B.A. degree from Carson–Newman College in 1912. Bible played football while in college and was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, Iota chapter.
Dana X. Bible | Early life
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Hebrew University Bible Project | Introduction
Aharon Shabtai (Hebrew: אהרון שבתאי born 1939) is an Israeli poet and translator.
Aharon Shabtai | Introduction
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Index of Jewish history–related articles | J
Luria was born in 1534 in Jerusalem in what is now the Old Yishuv Court Museum to an Ashkenazi father, Solomon, and a Sephardic mother. "Sefer HaKavanot U'Ma'aseh Nissim" records that one day Luria's father remained in the Beth kneset alone, studying, when Eliyahu HaNavi appeared to him and said, "I have been sent to you by the Almighty to bring you tidings that your holy wife shall conceive and bear a child, and that you must call him Yitzchak. He shall begin to deliver Israel from the Klipot [husks, forces of evil]. Through him, numerous souls will receive their tikkun.
Isaac Luria | Early life
Rami Meir was born in a Mountain Jewish family on 11 April 1962 in Baku – capital city of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic. In the 1990s he immigrated with his family to Israel, where he started learning Hebrew and other ancient languages to be able to read religious texts in the original: he thoroughly studied world religions including such books as Torah, the Quran, the Old and New Testaments, Kabbalah; he got acquainted with Hindu and Greek mythologies. Besides that, he began putting lost parables of different peoples into written form as well as creating parables, philosophical lyrics and idioms of his own.
Rami Meir | Early years
Israel was born in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Paul Israel | Background
The Gospel of Luke links the birth of Jesus to this event. .
Census | Israel
The decision to have the characters speak in contemporary colloquial English was, by itself, the cause of much disquiet among those more accustomed to Jesus and his followers using the polished and formal words of the King James Bible.
The Man Born to Be King | Introduction
Isaac was born to an Oromo mother and a Yemeni Jewish father in Ethiopia in 1936. His actual date of birth is unknown. In high school, he randomly chose May 29 as his nominal birthday. He received his early education in Ethiopia.
Ephraim Isaac | Early life
Jortner was born on March 14, 1933, in Tarnów, Poland, into a Jewish family. He migrated with his parents as refugees to Palestine under the British Mandate during the Second World War in 1940. He received his Ph.D. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1960.
Joshua Jortner | Birth and education
In 1820, he went to Vienna, where he founded the first Hebrew journal in Austria, the literary magazine "Bikkurej ha-ittim" ("First Fruits of the Times"). In 1810, he translated the biblical book of Jeremiah into German; and from 1824 to 1827, he completed a German edition of the Old Testament in Hamburg. He died in Hamburg.
Salomon Jacob Cohen | Life