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Takamitsu Muraoka (村岡 崇光, Muraoka Takamitsu, born 1938 in Hiroshima) is a Japanese Semiticist. He was Chair of Hebrew, Israelite Antiquities, and Ugaritic at Leiden University in the Netherlands from 1991 to 2003 and is most notable for his studies of Hebrew and Aramaic linguistics and the ancient translations of the Bible, notably of the Septuagint.
t. e. The New English Translation of the Septuagint and the Other Greek Translations Traditionally Included under That Title ( NETS) is a modern translation of the Septuagint (LXX), that is the scriptures used by Greek-speaking Christians and Jews of antiquity. [1] The translation was sponsored by the International Organization for Septuagint ...
In the Bible, Melchizedek ( / mɛlˈkɪzədɛk /; [1] Biblical Hebrew: מַלְכִּי־צֶדֶק, romanized: malkī-ṣeḏeq, 'king of righteousness,' 'my king is righteousness,' or ‘my king is Zedek ’ [2] ), also transliterated Melchisedech or Malki Tzedek, was the king of Salem and priest of El Elyon (often translated as 'most high ...
The noun chesed inherits both senses, on one hand 'zeal, love, kindness towards someone' and on the other 'zeal, ardour against someone; envy, reproach'. In its positive sense it is used to describe mutual benevolence, mercy or pity between people, devotional piety of people towards God, as well as the grace, favour or mercy of God towards ...
A New Concordance of the Bible (full title A New Concordance of the Bible: Thesaurus of the Language of the Bible, Hebrew and Aramaic, Roots, Words, Proper Names Phrases and Synonyms) by Avraham Even-Shoshan is a concordance of the Hebrew text of the Hebrew Bible, first published in 1977. The source text used is that of the Koren edition of 1958.
Papyrus Fouad 266, dating to c. 100 BCE, contains part of a Greek translation ( Septuagint) of Deuteronomy. Deuteronomy ( Ancient Greek: Δευτερονόμιον, romanized : Deuteronómion, lit. 'second law'; Latin: Liber Deuteronomii) [1] is the fifth book of the Torah (in Judaism ), where it is called Devarim ( Biblical Hebrew ...
Targum. 11th century Hebrew Bible with targum, perhaps from Tunisia, found in Iraq: part of the Schøyen Collection. A targum ( Imperial Aramaic: תרגום 'interpretation, translation, version') was an originally spoken translation of the Hebrew Bible (also called the Tanakh) that a professional translator ( מְתוּרגְמָן ...
