Word: hebrews
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jerusalem's Hebrew University, Nairn and French Neurobiologist Jacques Le Magnen spoke to a gathering sponsored by the European Chemoreception Research Organization, joining some two dozen other scholars who reported on such topics as the sniffing power of infants, the sex life of guinea pigs and a three-nation T shirt-smelling study...
...demonstration on behalf of two dissidents who face trial on charges of "anti-Soviet propaganda" for teaching Hebrew in Moscow will be held this coming Sunday at 10 a.m. at the Young Jewish Adult Center in Brookline, Stern said. Sen. Paul Tsongas (D.-Mass.) and a representative of Amnesty International will attend, he added...
...have both Israeli and Arab civilians working under him. The armed forces will be responsible for security in the territories; civilians will take over all other tasks. The new governor will be Menachem Milson, a native-born Israeli who is a distinguished Arabist, a professor of Arabic literature at Hebrew University and a former adviser to the military government...
...name which reappears as the Philistine god in the biblical account of Samson. Pettinato writes that in some Eblaite personal names, the syllables ya and el mean "god," and that Ya might have been the proper name of a specific deity. Naturally that brings to mind the later Hebrew names for the one God, Yahweh (Jehovah) and El (Lord). Pettinato also finds in Ebla a possible Flood story, prophets and tribal leaders whose function is reminiscent of the biblical Judges...
...page addendum to the Pettinato book he offers extensive technical examples from specific Bible texts. Dahood reckons that nearly a third of the poetic passages in the Old Testament still "evade precise translation and gram matical analysis." The major reason: 1,700 of the 8,000 Hebrew words in the Bible occur only once. Dahood reported last month that 70 of those perplexing words have already been found at Ebla. Thus, he says, "not a single one of the Old Testaments in English is up to date." For accuracy, he thinks future translators and historians must rely far more...