Canaanite languages — Infobox Language family name=Cana ani region=Levant familycolor=Afro Asiatic fam2=Semitic fam3=West Semitic fam4=Central Semitic fam5=Northwest Semitic child1=Phoenician child2=Ammonite child3=Moabite child4=Edomite child5=Hebrew ( living )… … Wikipedia
Canaanite religion — is the name for the group of Ancient Semitic religions observed by the Canaanites living in the ancient Levant from at least the early Bronze Age through the first centuries of the Common Era. It is often thought of as a pagan religion because it … Wikipedia
ALPHABET, HEBREW — The origin of alphabetic script has always been a subject of human curiosity. According to Greek mythology, script was brought to Greece from Phoenicia. This tradition was accepted by the Greek and Roman writers, some of whom developed it even… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
Proto-Sinaitic script — A specimen of Proto Sinaitic script containing a phrase which may mean to Ba alat . The line running from the upper left to lower right may read mt l bclt … Wikipedia
alphabet — /al feuh bet , bit/, n. 1. the letters of a language in their customary order. 2. any system of characters or signs with which a language is written: the Greek alphabet. 3. any such system for representing the sounds of a language: the phonetic… … Universalium
WRITING — (Scripts, Materials, and Inscriptions). SCRIPTS AND MATERIALS General Survey From the end of the third millennium B.C.E., the art of writing was practiced in the ancient Near East (see alphabet ). Here, the pictographic, cuneiform, and… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
Canaan — /kay neuhn/, n. 1. the ancient region lying between the Jordan, the Dead Sea, and the Mediterranean: the land promised by God to Abraham. Gen. 12:5 10. 2. Biblical name of Palestine. 3. any land of promise. 4. a descendant of Ham, the son of Noah … Universalium
KAF — (Heb. כ ,ך ;כָּף), the eleventh letter of the Hebrew alphabet; its numerical value is 20. In the Proto Sinaitic and early Proto Canaanite inscriptions the kaf was drawn as a pictograph of the palm of the hand ! … Encyclopedia of Judaism
MEM — (Heb. מ, ם; מֵם), the 13th letter of the Hebrew alphabet; its numerical value is 40. In Proto Sinaitic and early Proto Canaanite inscriptions the mem was drawn as a pictograph representing water (mayim) or. In the later Proto Canaanite script the … Encyclopedia of Judaism
PROVERB — (Heb. מָשָׁל, mashal; pl. מְשָׁלִים, meshalim). The term proverb as a translation of the biblical Hebrew word mashal denotes certain specific literary forms, particularly of wisdom literature. Several of these forms are also referred to by the… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
