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  • n  the ethnic group claiming descent from Abraham and Isaac (especially from Isaac's son Jacob); the nation whom God chose to receive his revelation and with whom God chose to make a covenant (Exodus 19)
  • n  a New Testament book traditionally included among the epistle of Saint Paul but now generally considered not to have been written by him
  • n  the ancient Canaanitic language of the Hebrews that has been revived as the official language of Israel
  • n  a person belonging to the worldwide group claiming descent from Jacob (or converted to it) and connected by cultural or religious ties
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    For the ancient Hebrews, fertility, pregnancy and birth were not first and foremost biological events; they were theological metaphors. "And the two shall become one flesh" is how they said it in the creation stories of Genesis. "One flesh" in the obvious
    July 7, 2013 - Las Vegas Review-Journal
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  • Isaac Asimov in New Brunswick Home News Tribune
    Rabbi Levi Azimov of Chabad of South Brunswick explained that the sukkah "is reminiscent of the Clouds of Glory, which protected the Jews in the desert, referring to the biblical account of the ancient Hebrews' supernatural sojourn through the Sinai...
  • Lee Strobel in BP News
    No, I don't think so,Strobel said. "In Hebrews we're told that we are appointed once to die and then the judgment. That statement would indicate that there's no hope for some kind of experience after death. At least I don't have a...

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