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Hadad
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Hadad. A god of the Amorites and
Canaanites.
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Prophecy, Treaty-making and Tribes in the Mari Documents During the Period of the Amorite Kings [from the end of the 19th Century B.C.E. Until 1760 B.C.E.].(Book review)
Magazine article from: Hebrew Studies Journal; 1/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII.] (Prophecy, Treaty-making and Tribes in the Mari Documents During the Period of the Amorite Kings [from the end of the 19th Century B.C.E. Until 1760 B.C.E.]). By Moshe Anbar. The Biblical Encyclopaedia...
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Mesopotamien: Die altbabylanische Zeit.
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...Amorite horde; there were many Amorite "tribes" and sub-sections of tribes ("clans"), and Amorite leaders conspired against and fought other Amorite leaders. Furthermore, many Amorites were present in the preceding Ur...
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New evidence for the authenticity of bst in Hebrew personal names and for its use as a divine epithet in Biblical texts
Magazine article from: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly; 4/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...In 1980 I. J. Gelb collated fifteen Amorite personal names containing the noun *bast...as authentic in itself because of the Amorite evidence, extrabiblical sources contain...Semitic personal names containing bt." The Amorite attestations, more numerous than the...
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Remarks on the canaanite origin of Eve
Magazine article from: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly; 1/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...plural PNN) with exact parallels in Amorite and the texts from Ebla.2 Though the...biblical PN Adam were easily identified in Amorite and in the Ebla texts, such is not the...biblical hawwa. Knudsen compares the Amorite PNN ha-ia-tum and [h]a-a-ia...
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 "Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ)")
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Jerusalem in history: notes on the origins of the city and its tradition of tolerance.
Magazine article from: Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ); 9/22/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...Jews but Canaanites, Amorites, Jebusites, Hittites...name of a Canaanite-Amorite god, while "uru...Amoritic.(4) The Amorites, according to the Bible...historians believe that the Amorites are an offshoot of the...your father was an Amorite, and your mother a...
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 "Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA)")
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Qatna, One of Syria's Ancient KingdomsQatna, One of Syria's Ancient Kingdoms.
News Wire article from: Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA); 9/7/2009; 700+ words
; ...and a regional power when immigrating Amorite tribes established a royal court here...parallel to Yamkhad further north, another Amorite kingdom. Early on, Mari to the east...and a regional power when immigrating Amorite tribes established a royal court here...
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Tue Cult of Asherah in Ancient Israel and Judah: Evidence for a Hebrew Goddess. (Reviews of Books).
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 1/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...Ugaritic Athirat (and that both relate to Amorite Ashratum) and that asherah in the Hebrew...Hadley also looks at information about Amorite Ashratum, considering especially the...Amurru, perhaps as the consort of the Amorite god Amurru. This view was suggested...
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The onomastic evidence for Bronze-Age West Semitic.
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 7/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...Buccellati's dissertation on Ur III Amorites, Huffmon's dissertation on Mari Amorite, Zadok's contribution to the...various other studies of so-called Amorite material. (2) Although the term Amorite is generally reserved for names...
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The Future of Biblical Archaeology: Reassessing Methodologies and Assumptions
Magazine article from: Trinity Journal; 10/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...facts). The essay by Alan Millard, "Amorites and Israelites: Invisible Invaders...foreign invaders into Babylonia - the Amorites - cannot be explicitly substantiated...reflect a certain dialectal name type). Amorites are present in the texts of ancient Mesopotamia...
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The prophets today.('The Prophets: Who They Were, What They Are')(Book Review)
Magazine article from: New Criterion; 1/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...striking. He confronts a coalition of Amorite chieftains, and God comes to his...raining hailstones down on the Amorites, and granting yet another miracle...still until Joshua finishes off the Amorites. After the death of Joshua, an...
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Amorites
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Amorites , a people of Canaan. There is evidence...Hammurabi, put an end (18th cent. BC) to Amorite domination and issued a famous code of...Israelite codes. At the time of Joshua the Amorites were living both E and W of the Dead Sea...
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Hammurabi
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...the early life of Hammurabi. His name, sometimes written Khammurapikh, is West Semitic, and he was the sixth ruler of the Amorite dynasty founded by Shumu-Abum in 1894 B.C. On his accession Hammurabi inherited a kingdom of moderate size, one of a...
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Ugarit
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Syria. Between 3000 and 2000 BC, important ethnic changes took place at Ugarit, brought about by the northward migrations of Amorites and Semitic Canaanites. Early in the 2d millennium, because of invasions from the north and east, Ugarit turned to an alliance...
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Isin
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...ancient Semitic kingdom of N Babylonia. The city became important after the third dynasty of Ur fell to the Elamites and the Amorites (c.2025 BC). The phase from c.2025-c.1763 BC is sometimes called the Isin-Larsa period. Many city-states vied...
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Jordanian Americans
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America
...largely sedentary, settling in the region. The cities of Bayda and Jericho grew up during this time. After the Bronze Age, Amorites, Western Semites, Hyksos and Hittites successively invaded the area. Since biblical times, the area came under the control...
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