Judaism
There are 298 items in Judaism:
1 Enoch
The First book of Enoch is one of the Old Testament pseudepigrapha, in other words, a composition attributed to a personage from the Hebrew Bible, but not included in either the Jewish or the Christian Bible. …1 Enoch: the Son of Man
The First book of Enoch is one of the Old Testament pseudepigrapha, in other words, a composition attributed to a personage from the Hebrew Bible, but not included in either the Jewish or the Christian Bible. It contains a description…Tyre's Tribute to Šalmaneser III
Tyre (Phoenician רצ, ṣūr, "rock"; Greek Τύρος; Latin Tyrus): port in Phoenicia and one of the main cities in the eastern Mediterranean. Tyre's tribute on the…The Nimrud Slab
Nimrud Slab or Kalah Orthostat (797 BCE): inscription by Assyrian king Adad-Nirari III, in which he describes his successes in the west. …The Stela of Mesha
The Stela of Mesha: building inscription from ancient Moab, famous because it describes events from the history of Israel that are also described in the Bible. …The Siloam Inscription
Siloam Inscription: inscription from Jerusalem, now in the Istanbul Archaeological Museum, documenting the cutting of a water tunnel. Siloam Inscription After the…4Q242 Prayer of Nabonidus
In October 539 BCE, the Persian king Cyrus took Babylon, the ancient capital of an oriental empire covering modern Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and Israel. In a broader sense, Babylon was the ancient world's capital of scholarship and science. The subject…
ABC 5: Chronicle Concerning the Early Years of Nebuchadnezzar II ("Jerusalem Chronicle") |
ABC 5 (Jerusalem Chronicle)
The Chronicle Concerning the Early Years of Nebuchadnezzar II (ABC 5) is one of the historiographical texts from ancient Babylonia. It deals with several subjects, but the reference to the capture of Jerusalem in 597 BCE has attracted most attention,…Abu Isa' al-Isfahani
Messiah (mâšîah, "the anointed one"): Jewish religious concept, a future savior who will, in some sense, come to restore Israel. The nature of both the Messiah and the restoration wasa matter of debate, and there were several claimants.Abu Isa' al-Isfahani The rise of Islam and the…
Al-Mabiyat, Jewish funerary inscription in a late Nabataean / early Arabic script |
Alexander and the king of Kasiah
Genesis Rabbah is a commentary on the Biblical book of Genesis, and has the form of a collection of rabbinical stories and fairy tales. It was written at the end of the fourth century CE. One of the stories (to…