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Jewish History
HistoricalJW
Today is the Hebrew Language Day!And here are some facts about this unique language: 1. The word “Hebrew” עברית is derived from the name “Eber” עבר, an ancestor of the
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Rabbi Reuvane
RabbiReuvane
Our community - American Jewish parents, schools, synagogues, & org’s - have failed. We & our children are virtually all illiterate. I mean that literally. Most of us don’t understand
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Samuel Perry
socofthesacred
THREAD: Thinking today about the ESV's practice of almost always translating the Hebrew word 'almah (young woman) as "virgin." It's probably to preserve the "virgin" of Isa. 7:14, but it
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Hebrew Words
HebreWords
The Modern Hebrew word for turtle and tortoise is צָב, but this is not the word's meaning in the Bible (Lev. 11:29), where it refers to a kind of "unclean"
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net
glamlordt
early Israel DID force SWANA/MENA jews to de-orientalize and abandon practices from diaspora countries bc it was seen as culturally inferior+wanted them to assimilate to the greater jewish monolith but
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Ancient Kemite
ancientkemite
To argue with Jews, Christians, and Muslims is equated to arguing with children about Santa Claus. First of all, the earliest surviving spiritual texts from Kemet come from the Pyramid
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Ancient Kemite
ancientkemite
STOP WITH THE ABRAHAMIC NONSENSE! THERE WAS NEVER AN ANCIENT NATION CALLED ISRAEL.The Hebrews was just the name of Aryan nomads who lived in the desert near Canaan (Ancient Palestine-Lebanon).
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Ajab
yakabikaj
My suspicion (just a hunch) is the Ahmadi Yiddish translation of the Qur'an was more about the political/symbolic significance of the language than a practical text. There are earlier Hebrew
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Andy 🇦🇺
AndyCandyPants
Let’s talk about Gadreel... The fallen angels appears in the famous Book of Enoch. The prophet describes him as the serpent which lead Eve astray, he also showed the weapons
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Kaspars Ozolins
lettlander
Mini thread: Why is it still 'all Greek' to Christians?Watched a great @biblingoapp webinar yesterday where Kevin made a keen observation:If you look at the Abrahamic faiths, Christianity is in
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Timothy Isaiah Cho
tisaiahcho
Even a cursory look at a Bible concordance and Biblical Hebrew dictionary shows that there are at least 10 Hebrew words that mean or connote "oppression" and any of its
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🕊 טליה ✡︎
taliathejew
thread on how Jews use (and don't use) God's name!! a lot of non-Jews don't know much about this, so please use the info to be more respectful of your
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𝔤𝔬𝔬𝔡 𝔳𝔦𝔟𝔢𝔰 𝔬𝔫𝔩𝔶
Rogatchover
שנו חכמים בלשון המשנה ברוך שבחר בהם ובמשנתםThe following is a list of words which I believe made their way into hebrew from translations of judeo Arabic by Ibn Tibbon
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Alex
seyyedreza
In Arabic, church is كنيسة (kenisa) and synagogue is کنیس (kenis).In Persian, church is کلیسا (kelisa) and synagogue is کنیسه (kenisa).A quick thread on why Middle Eastern languages have similar
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Philip Gorski
GorskiPhilip
Have evangelicals gone authoritarian? And if so why?A few ideas from "American Babylon."1. Christian Scripture uses a monarchical language of kingship and lordship that can be and has been used
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Danté Stewart (Stew)
stewartdantec
In the Hebrew Bible, there are two main verbs that refer to waiting. One is to wait with expectation; the other is to wait in the tension of enduring. It
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