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    Mozarab (Spanish: mozárabes [moˈθaɾaβes]; Portuguese: moçárabes [muˈsaɾɐβɨʃ]; Catalan: mossàrabs [muˈsaɾəps], from Arabic: مُسْتَعْرَب, romanized: musta‘rab, lit. 'Arabized') is first documented in Christian sources from the 11th century; the term Mozarab was not used by Muslims to describe Christians.

  2. Nov 6, 2015 · An Eberite (that is, Hebrew) or descendant of Eber: – Hebrew (-ess, woman). So a Hebrew is a descendant of Eber, but this word also identifies where the Hebrews came from. The Bible tells us Eber was the son of Shem, who was the son of Noah, (Genesis 10:1, 11:11-26). If we continued tracing the family lineage, it would take us to Adam and Eve.

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  4. A Theory is Born. One of the first books to suggest the Native American Lost Tribe theory was written by a Jew, the Dutch rabbi, scholar, and diplomat Manasseh ben Israel. In The Hope of Israel(1650), Ben Israel suggested that the discovery of the Native Americans, a surviving remnant of the Assyrian exile, was a sign heralding the messianic era.

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  5. Oct 11, 2021 · The Jewish Museum, New York. In this week’s Torah reading of Lekh-l’kha, which deals with Abraham’s journey to the land of Canaan and his early adventures there, we see the first appearance in the Bible of one of its most confounding, but also most enduring, words: ivri, which, via Greek and Latin, has come into English as “Hebrew.”.

  6. The origin of the word Hebrew is thought to come from the proper name “Eber,” listed in Genesis 10:24 as the great-grandson of Shem and an ancestor of Abraham. Another etymology traces the original root word back to the phrase “from the other side”—in that case, Hebrew would be a word designating an “immigrant,” which Abraham ...

  7. Bible. The Masoretic Text [a] ( MT or 𝕸; Hebrew: נֻסָּח הַמָּסוֹרָה, romanized : Nūssāḥ hamMāsōrā, lit. 'Text of the Tradition') is the authoritative Hebrew and Aramaic text of the 24 books of the Hebrew Bible ( Tanakh) in Rabbinic Judaism. The Masoretic Text defines the Jewish canon and its precise letter-text, with ...

  8. The Dead Sea Scrolls, discovered near Qumran beginning in 1947, have changed all that. The biblical manuscripts from the Dead Sea Scrolls have thrown a new light on the textual history of the Hebrew Bible. These 200 or so biblical manuscripts, almost all very fragmentary, lead us back to the text of the Old Testament as it circulated in ...

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