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Levant and Anatolia
Ugarit and Canaan, the Hittites and the Hurrians — the neighbours of Israel whose gods share its names.
Wiki entries 4
- Elijah Elijah (Hebrew <span class="hebrew"אֵלִיָּהוּ</span Eliyyahu, "My God is Yah") is one of the most theologically significant prophets of the Hebrew…
- Nabataeans The Nabataeans (Nabataean Aramaic נבטו Nabaṭu; Greek Ναβαταῖοι Nabataîoi; Arabic ٱلْأَنْبَاط al-Anbāṭ) were an ancient North Arabian people who from…
- Nephilim The Nephilim (Hebrew: nephilim, conventionally 'the fallen ones,' rendered gigantes — 'giants' — in the Greek Septuagint) are the figures introduced…
- Petra Petra (Greek Πέτρα 'rock'; Nabataean Aramaic רקמו Raqmū; Hebrew רֶקֶם Reqem; Arabic ٱلْبَتْرَاء al-Batrāʾ) is the rock-cut capital of the Nabataean…
Articles 3
- The Rain Over Helicon The third article in the Odyssey sequence turns from excavation and transmission to method. M. L. West's The East Face of Helicon does not rest on…
- The World Behind the Odyssey Christopher Nolan's 2026 film has put the Odyssey before more people in one summer than the poem may have reached in the previous decade. This…
- The First Mosques Faced Petra, Not Mecca For roughly the first Islamic century, the mosques do not face Mecca. On Dan Gibson's survey of the oldest datable sanctuaries, their qibla walls…