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...m youth, like wine left on its [[Sediment|dregs]], not poured from one jar to another— she has not gone into exile. So she tastes as she did, and her [[A ...the prophets, Jeremiah comes through most clearly as a person, ruminating to his scribe [[Baruch ben Neriah|Baruch]] about his role as a servant of [[Go ...

...ation of this Hebrew word is derived from an Akkadian word "Nabu," meaning to call. The Hebrew "Navi" has a passive sense and means "the one who has been ...<ref name= Bertman>{{cite book|last1=Bertman|first1=Stephen|title=Handbook to Life in Ancient Mesopotamia|date=2005|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] ...

...nd was worshiped in their temples, though houses of worship dedicated only to her are also attested. ...die."{{sfn|Sibbing-Plantholt|2022|p=146}} An [[epithet]] sometimes applied to her was "the lady of life and death," ''nin til₃-la ug<sub>5</su ...

.../directory/C/3878?page=4 Jewish Encyclopedia].</ref> Of special importance to the [[Canonical hours|Divine Office]] are three [[New Testament]] Canticles Prior to the [[Pope Pius X]]'s [[Reform of the Roman Breviary by Pope Pius X|1911 re ...

...t|20|km|mi|abbr=on}} southwest of [[Amman]], and {{convert|9|km|mi|sp=us}} to the north of [[Madaba]], on one of the highest summits of the mountains of ==Biblical reference to Heshbon== ...

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...tes. Only those descended from Aaron can be priests. Friedman then went on to say "P always speaks of two distinct groups, the priests and the Levites. W ...ig>יעמד</big>) the priests and Levites to divisions—each of them according to their duties as priests or Levites." ({{bibleverse|2|Chronicles|31:2|HE}}) ...

...ction between them varies between sources. She is attested in a variety of texts, including god lists, offering lists and a variant of the ''Ballad of Early ...Semitic languages|Semitic]] [[Root (linguistics)|root]] possibly referring to [[fermentation]], reconstructed as *ṮRŠ by John F. Healey.{{sfn|Healey|1999 ...

...e a spouse. From the [[Old Babylonian period]] onwards, she was considered to be the mother of [[Anu|An]] (Heaven) and [[Ki (goddess)|Ki]] (Earth),{{Sfn| ...er were rare, with that of king [[Ur-Nammu]] until recently being believed to be the only example. ...

...the centuries following the [[Babylonian captivity|Babylonian exile]] down to the close of the [[Middle Ages]].{{sfn|Charles|1911|p=169}} .... The only thing for certain that was predicted was the return of the Jews to their land, which occurred when [[Cyrus the Persian]] conquered Babylon in ...

...ingdom of Judah]], which was formed in about [[930s BC|930 BC]], according to the [[Hebrew Bible]], when the [[United Kingdom of Israel]] split, with the |<small>Death: killed by the troops assigned by Jehoiada the Priest to protect Joash.<br />Queen Mother, widow of Jehoram and mother of Ahaziah</s ...

...w, and the conduct of war".<ref name="coogan-2009-149" /> They are similar to other collections of laws found in the [[Torah]] (the first five books of t ...ws were observed for the first time under King [[Josiah]], giving credence to the theory that Deuteronomy was written around that time.{{sfn|Finkelstein| ...

...rt description|Roman Catholic ecclesiastical text traditionally attributed to Pope Gelasius I}} ...rt of the [[biblical canon]] by a [[Council of Rome]], traditionally dated to [[Pope Damasus I]] (366–383) and thus known as the '''Damasine List'''.<ref ...

...stament]] is "the oldest English painting to which an absolute date can be assigned (i.e. not after 716)."{{r|MWRM}}]] ...cal canon]] present what would be their Vulgate texts. In 716 it was taken to Italy as a gift for [[Pope Gregory II]]. ...

*[[Ninazu]] (possibly due to analogies with Nergal) *[[Ishum]] (in a single source, due to confusion between Sud and [[Sudaĝ]])}} ...

...ciated with [[Gula (goddess)|Gula]], and could be equated with her, though texts where they are two separate goddesses are known too. In one case, Bau is de ...eo-Babylonian period]]. She is also attested in texts from [[Uruk]] dating to the [[Seleucid Empire|Seleucid period]]. ...

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{{Short description|Byzantine co-emperor from 1403 to 1407}} ...ity of [[Thessaloniki|Thessalonica]] and surrounding territories from 1403 to his death in 1407, alongside his father [[John VII Palaiologos]]. Though th ...

...g a series of "divine announcements". The first line attributes authorship to "[[Joel (prophet)|Joel]] the son of Pethuel".<ref>Keller, C. A., ''28. Joel ...and signs of literary development suggest a late origin and its potential to have been a unifying piece within the prophetic canon.<ref>{{cite book ...

{{For|the novel by Ismail Kadare sometimes translated to the same name|The Siege (Kadare novel)}} ...ist]] known only as "K." arrives in a village and struggles to gain access to the mysterious authorities who govern it from a castle supposedly owned by ...