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Zerubbabel was the Persian-appointed governor of Yehud (post-exilic Judah), a province of the Persian Empire, in the early part of the reign of Darius I (from 522 BCE). He is assumed to have been born ...
Zadok is an elusive biblical character. He appears as a dramatis persona in only two places in the Hebrew Bible: in the David Narrative in the so-called Deuteronomistic history (DtrH) (2 Samuel, 1 ...
Texts and contextsThe name ‘Yhwh’, vocalized, normally, ‘Yahweh’, occurs some 6,877 times in the Hebrew Bible in 5,815 verses (in Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia, the standard edition of the Bible u ...
NameYehud is the Aramaic version of ‘Judah’ (Hebrew Yehudah). In the Persian empire, where Aramaic was the common language of the western part of the empire, it was the name of the administrative pro ...
The ‘Writings’ represents Ketubim (Hebrew for ‘writings’), the third section of the Hebrew Bible. This section, also known as Hagiographa (Greek for the ‘holy writings’), includes everything ...
Typology (‘study of type’) in biblical exegesis is a method of biblical interpretation whereby an element in the Old Testament is seen to prefigure one in a later part of the Old Testament (the Jew ...