• Cyrus Herzl Gordon (June 29, 1908 – March 30, 2001) was an American scholar of Near Eastern cultures and ancient languages. Gordon was born in Philadelphia...
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    individual who had supplied the copy of the inscription. In the 1960s, Cyrus H. Gordon provided a new translation, and stated his conclusion that it was genuine...
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  • was accepted at the time but was contested about a century later by Cyrus H. Gordon, a scholar of Near Eastern Cultures and ancient languages, who reexamined...
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    S. H. Hooke (1 January 2004). Middle Eastern Mythology. Courier Corporation. pp. 87–89. ISBN 978-0-486-43551-0. OCLC 1014895211. Cyrus H. Gordon. Notes...
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  • non-hereditary leadership rather than a position of legal pronouncements. Cyrus H. Gordon argued the shophetim may have come from among the hereditary leaders...
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    (ed.). Boundaries of the ancient Near Eastern world: a tribute to Cyrus H. Gordon. "Notices on Pe'ah, Fay' and Feudum" by Alauddin Samarrai. Pg. 248-250...
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    Variants of the language were also spoken in Mari and Nagar. According to Cyrus H. Gordon, although scribes might have spoken it sometimes, Eblaite was probably...
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    Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik; 119 (1997), pp. 297–300. Cyrus H. Gordon, "Before the Bible: The common background of Greek and Hebrew civilization...
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    Ereshkigal mentioned by Inanna in Inanna's Descent into the Underworld. Cyrus H. Gordon and Gary A. Rendsburg note that the Near Eastern motif of seven years...
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  • Updated. Crown Publishing Group. p. 3. ISBN 9780307566041. Cyrus H. Gordon; Gary A. Rendsburg; Nathan H. Winter, eds. (1987). Eblaitica: Essays on the Ebla Archives...
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    Miley Ray Cyrus (/ˈmaɪli ˈsaɪrəs/ MY-lee SY-rəs, born Destiny Hope Cyrus on November 23, 1992) is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. Regarded...
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    in Near Eastern literature, including by the Near Eastern scholar Cyrus H. Gordon, who noted the instance in the Book of Jashar, excerpted in Samuel...
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  • Guiana Colton Gordon (born 1998), American baseball pitcher Cyrus H. Gordon (1908–2001), American linguist-semitologist Daniel Gordon (disambiguation)...
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  • Gordon Cyrus is a Swedish musician, record producer, sound engineer, and designer. Cyrus was a member of the rock/pop group Whale along with Cia Berg and...
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    (ed.). Boundaries of the ancient Near Eastern world: a tribute to Cyrus H. Gordon. "Notices on Pe'ah, Fay' and Feudum" by Alauddin Samarrai. Pg. 248–250...
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    homoerotic relationships in Near Eastern literature, including by Cyrus H. Gordon, who noted the instance in the Book of Jashar, excerpted in Samuel...
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  • Leo Frobenius Cyrus H. Gordon Fritz Graebner A. C. Haddon Alice Beck Kehoe David H. Kelley A. L. Kroeber W. J. Perry Friedrich Ratzel W. H. R. Rivers Everett...
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  • Essays on the Ebla Archives and Eblaite Language, Volume 4, edited by Cyrus H. Gordon and Gary A. Rendsburg, University Park, USA: Penn State University...
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    ISSN 0544-3733. Gordon, Cyrus H., "Further Notes on the Hagia Triada Tablet no. 31", Kadmos, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 28-30, 1976 Gordon, Cyrus H., "The Language...
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    εὐπατρίδην. Cyrus H. Gordon translates this text as The city of the Amathusans (honored) the noble Ariston (son) of Aristonax. Gordon's translation is...
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    Hoffner, Harry A. (ed.). Orient and Occident: Essays Presented to Cyrus H. Gordon on the Occasion of His Sixty-fifth Birthday. Butzon & Bercker. ISBN 9783766688057...
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  • Cyrus (Persian: کوروش) is a male given name and the name of several Persian kings, particularly Cyrus the Great (c. 600–530 BC), but also Cyrus I of Anshan...
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    movement of the 1970s, when, two years after attending a lecture by Cyrus H. Gordon in 1976, American anthropologist Marta Weigle introduced Enheduanna...
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    Studies. 65: 35–53. doi:10.1017/s0066154615000010. S2CID 162771440. Cyrus H. Gordon, Azitawadd's Phoenician Inscription, Journal of Near Eastern Studies...
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  • Magic and Divination 1; Groningen: STYX, 1999), pp. 197–198, pl. 209. Cyrus H. Gordon, "Two Magic Bowls in Teheran," in Orientalia 20, 1951, pp. 306–311...
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  • "Flowers" is a song by American singer Miley Cyrus from her eighth studio album Endless Summer Vacation (2023). Columbia Records released it as the album's...
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    inscribed in the rock below the Decalogue, "Eva and Hobe 3-13-30." Scholar Cyrus H. Gordon believed that Phoenicians and other Semitic-speaking groups had crossed...
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    and the Sabbatical Year", Orient and Occident: Essays presented to Cyrus H. Gordon on the Occasion of his Sixty-fifth Birthday (ed. Harry Hoffner, Jr...
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    a PhD from Dropsie in 1923. Translated the letters of the Ramchal. Cyrus H. Gordon (1908–2001), Near East scholar – did not graduate R. Laird Harris (1911–2008)...
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  • Mischsprache (Berliner Beiträge zur Keilschriftforschung II,2; Berlin, 1935). Cyrus H. Gordon, "The Aramaic Incantation in Cuneiform," Archiv für Orientforschung...
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