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    18889; 35.60306 Deir Alla (Arabic: دير علا) is the site of an ancient Near Eastern town in Balqa Governorate, Jordan. The Deir Alla Inscription, datable...
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    The Deir 'Alla inscription or Balaam inscription, known as KAI 312, is a famous inscription discovered during a 1967 excavation in Deir 'Alla, Jordan...
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    spread among them and seventy thousand of them were dead. In 1967, at Deir Alla, Jordan, archaeologists found an inscription with a story relating visions...
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  • Tablets from Tell Deir 'Alla (Part II)". Andrews University Seminary Studies. 27 (2). de Vreeze, M. (2019). "The Late Bronze Deir 'Alla Tablets: A Renewed...
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  • "South-Central" group which together with Aramaic forms Central Semitic. The Deir Alla Inscription and Samalian have been identified as language varieties falling...
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    struggled to fit into either category, such as the Stele of Zakkur and the Deir Alla Inscription. The Northwest Semitic languages are a language group that...
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  • Modern Hebrew word for human breasts in dual grammatical number. The Deir Alla Inscription contains shaddayin as well as elohin rather than elohim. Scholars...
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    Another Sukkot is a city east of the Jordan River, identified as tell Deir Alla, a high debris mound in the plain north of the Zarqa River and about one...
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  • possibly also a Northwest Semitic language, but likely not Canaanitic. The Deir Alla Inscription, written in a dialect with Aramaic and South Canaanitic characteristics...
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  • Succoth-benoth, Babylonian deity The biblical site of Succoth in Transjordan (now Deir Alla) This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Succoth...
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    Shasu threatened the "Way of Horus" north from Gaza. Evidence shows that Deir Alla (Succoth) was destroyed, likely by an earthquake, after the reign of Queen...
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    large sections still lying course-on-course. Debris at six sites (Hazor, Deir 'Alla, Gezer, Lachish, Tell Judeideh, and 'En Haseva) is tightly confined stratigraphically...
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    itself is attested by his mention along with the Moon-God Šaggar in the Deir Alla Inscription, the subject of which is largely the Sun-goddess Šamāš, thus...
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    explains that "Some interpreters end the quotation after verse 15." The Deir Alla Inscription, the oldest alphabetic West Semitic epigraph, uses red for...
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    بن الجراح) is a historic mosque and mausoleum located in the town of Deir Alla, Jordan. It contains the purported tomb of Abu Ubayda ibn al-Jarrah, one...
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  • Hoftijzer, Jacob; Kooij, Gerrit Van der (January 1991). The Balaam Text from Deir ʻAlla Re-evaluated: Proceedings of the International Symposium Held at Leiden...
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    Iron Age, several Moabite cultic sites have been found in places such as Deir Alla, Damiyah, Ataruz or Khirbet al-Mudayna. According to II Kings, at times...
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    Pantheon (religion) Rephaim Sons of God Heavenly host War in Heaven Deir Alla inscription Archon (Gnosticism) Sakenfeld, Katharine ed., "The New Interpreter's...
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    signs resemble the Cypro-Minoan script. Three inscribed clay tablets from Deir Alla (SUCCOTH) also have been attributed to the Philistines. These signs resemble...
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  • archaeological sites in the Jordan Valley: Tell el-Mazar on the west bank; Tell Deir 'Alla and Tell es-Sa'idiyeh [de] on the east bank. "Damiyah El-Jadideh". Middle...
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    com/image/I0000NLzQXXVWtzM Sharp photo Judean pillar figure Khirbet el-Qom Deir Alla Inscription Pugat https://flickr.com/photos/101561334@N08/28347811027/in/photostream/...
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    Kepen) Dan, former Laish (Tel Dan, Tell el-Qadi) Damascus (Dimasqu) Deir Alla (Pethor?) Dhiban (Dibon) Dor (D-jr, Dora) Dura-Europos (Dur) Ebla (Tell...
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  • Proto-Sinaitic, and its origin hasn't been discovered. Canaanite languages Deir Alla Woodard, Roger (2008), The Ancient Languages of Syria-Palestine and Arabia...
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    The main room in building A contained benches, like the space where the Deir Alla inscription was found, among other parallels between the two. Meshel said...
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    Soqotri people Socotra South Gileadite Afro-Asiatic 770s BC People of Deir Alla Deir Alla Sumerian language isolate 0s AD Sumerians Sumer and Akkad Sutean...
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    is discussed in these sources: Deir Alla Inscription. Deir Alla, circa 9th–8th century BCE. In, e.g., "The Deir ʿAlla Plaster Inscriptions (2.27) (The...
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  • several of the larger tells in this part of the Jordan Valley (e.g. Tell Deir 'Alla, Tell al-Sa'idiyeh) as well as to the natural resources desirable in metal...
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    Park 34th Street Wall Baughman Center Gainesville's sister cities are: Deir Alla, Jordan Duhok, Iraq (2006) Jacmel, Haiti Kfar Saba, Israel (1998) Matagalpa...
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    Judah." Cannabis has been found at another religious archaeological site, Deir Alla, as hemp fibre. It is believed that several citadels were built one upon...
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  • legible ostraca found in the treasury of Ahab – written in early Hebrew. Deir Alla Inscription (c. 840–760 BC) 9th or 8th century BC inscription about a...
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