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| Jewish term fir tge hebrew bible; acronym for the hebrew words for law, prophets, and writings. there are three divisions of the jewish bible |
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| Hebrew word for binding, specifically Abraham's binding of isaac in genesis 22 |
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| God who defeats Tiamat and becomes the head of the babylonian pantheon according to the enuma elish |
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| "Babylonian Noah" because he survies the flood sccording to the epic of gilgamesh |
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| Canaanite King of Hazor whom the Isrealites defeat twice in the Bible, once in the book of Joshua and again in Judges |
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| is David's military commander who eliminates a number of threats to David's kingship; for example, he is responsible for the death of Saul's military commander Abner, David's son Absalom and Absalom's military commander Amasa |
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| The moabite stone, it is named after the king of moab who defeated the isrealite king ahab and looted the "vessels of Yahweh" and offered them to the moabite god chemosh |
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| name of Sarah's maidservent and the mother of Abraham's son Ishmael |
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| Greek translation of the old testement. means "seventy" because according to ledgend in 72 days, 72 people wrote it |
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| Greek word meaning "successors". Specifically refering to Alexander the Great's generals who assumed controll after he died |
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| Led to the establishment of the Hasmonean dynasty. |
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