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31Israelites — Twelve Tribes redirects here. For other uses, see The Twelve Tribes (disambiguation). B nai Israel redirects here. For synagogues of that name, see Congregation B nai Israel (disambiguation). For other uses, see Israelites (disambiguation) Part… …
32Baal — Ba al (pronounced: IPA| [baʕal] ; Hebrew: בעל) (ordinarily spelled Baal in English) is a Northwest Semitic title and honorific meaning master or lord that is used for various gods who were patrons of cities in the Levant, cognate to Assyrian Bēlu …
33Atargatis — For the metal band, see Atargatis (band). For the god in Robert E. Howard s Conan series, see Derketo (Conan) Atergatis redirects here. For the crab genus, see Atergatis (crab). Fertile Crescent myth series …
34Kirta — is a legendary Hurrian king. He is thought to have founded the dynasty of Mitanni, but no contemporary inscriptions from his time are known to exist. He may have lived around 1500 BC.The Epic of Keret from the clay tablets of Ugarit tells the… …
35Did God Have a Wife? — Did God Have a Wife?: Archaeology and Folk Religion in Ancient Israel, (Eerdmans, ISBN 0 8028 2852 3, 2005),[1] is a book by Syro Palestinian archaeologist William G. Dever, Professor Emeritus of Near Eastern Archeology and Anthropology at the… …
36Queen of heaven (Antiquity) — Queen of Heaven was a title given to a number of ancient goddesses in the ancient Mediterranean and Near East, in particular Isis, Innana and Astarte. Forms and content of worship varied. The title Queen of Heaven was later used by Christians of… …
37Judaism — /jooh dee iz euhm, day , deuh /, n. 1. the monotheistic religion of the Jews, having its ethical, ceremonial, and legal foundation in the precepts of the Old Testament and in the teachings and commentaries of the rabbis as found chiefly in the… …
38Baal, Baalim — • A word which belongs to the oldest stock of the Semite vocabulary and primarily means lord , owner Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Baal, Baalim Baal, Baalim …
39Origins of Judaism — This article discusses the historical roots of Judaism throughout the 1st millennium BCE. For the origins of the modern day religion of Judaism, see Origins of Rabbinic Judaism. Scenes from the Book of Esther decorate the Dura Europos synagogue… …
40Grove — 1) Heb. asherah, properly a wooden image, or a pillar representing Ashtoreth, a sensual Canaanitish goddess, probably usually set up in a grove (2 Kings 21:7; 23:4). In the Revised Version the word Asherah (q.v.) is introduced as a proper noun …
