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    'Second Book of Ezra'. The events take place in the second half of the 5th century BC. Listed together with the Book of Ezra as Ezra–Nehemiah, it represents...
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    Nehemiah (redirect from Nehemya)
    Catholic Church, where his feast day is July 13, the same as his contemporary, Ezra. He is also considered a saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church, where his...
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  • 33-35, citing Nehemya Aluny, 'Ten Dunash Ben Labrat's Riddles', The Jewish Quarterly Review, New Series, 36 (1945), 141-46. Nehemya Aluny, 'Ten Dunash...
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    leaving his wife. Following two illegible lines, the text reads: Aluny, Nehemya (ed.), 'Ten Dunash Ben Labrat's Riddles', The Jewish Quarterly Review,...
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    2000 years old. The first reference is from Nehemiah 8:9–10: And Neḥemya ... and ῾Ezra ... and the Levi'im said to all the people, 'This day is holy to...
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  • Persian. In the Bible, particularly in the books of Daniel, Esther, Ezra, and Nehemya, it is given as Pārās (פָּרָס). A Greek folk etymology connected the...
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    (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1948), pp. 33–35, citing Nehemya Aluny, "Ten Dunash Ben Labrat's Riddles", The Jewish Quarterly Review,...
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    families of which being Rottenburg and Ashkenazi, among others. In Ibn Ezra's commentary on Obadiah 1:20, he writes: "Who are [among] the Canaanites....
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  • שכנא ילין, in the Festschrift for Mordechai Breuer, 1992, pp. 295-353. Nehemya Allony, העתקי כתר ארם צובא בירושלים ובגולה ("Copies of the Aleppo Codex...
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