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  2. Adon - Wikipedia

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    The pluralization of adon "my lord" is adonai "my lords." [2] Otto Eissfeldt theorizes that adonai is a post positive element attested to in Ugaritic writing.He points to the myth of the struggle between Baal and Yam as evidence.

  3. Adonais - Wikipedia

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    It is a pastoral elegy, in the English tradition of John Milton's Lycidas. [1] Shelley had studied and translated classical elegies. The title of the poem is modelled on ancient works, such as Achilleis (a poem about Achilles ), an epic poem by the 1st-century AD Roman poet Statius , and refers to the untimely death of the Greek Adonis , a god ...

  4. Names of God in Judaism - Wikipedia

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    Memra d'Adonai – 'The Word of the L ORD ' (plus variations such as 'My Word') – restricted to the Aramaic Targums (the written Tetragrammaton is represented in various ways such as YYY, YWY, YY, but pronounced as the Hebrew Adonai) Mi She'amar V'haya Ha`olam – 'He who spoke, and the world came into being'.

  5. Names of God in Christianity - Wikipedia

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    Adonai has a similar context and refers to God as a powerful ruler. [13] [14] Similarly, El Shaddai, derived from "shad" i.e. Lord, also points to the power of God. [13] Yahweh is the principal name in the Old Testament by which God reveals himself and is the most sacred, distinctive and incommunicable name of God. [13]

  6. Ugaritic texts - Wikipedia

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    ISBN 978-3-927120-24-2. – the second edition (and the first in English) of the standard collection of Ugaritic texts [17] Manfried Dietrich (1976). Die keilalphabetischen Texte aus Ugarit: einschließlich der keilalphabetischen Texte außerhalb Ugarits ("KTU"). Butzon & Bercker. – the first edition of the standard collection of Ugaritic ...

  7. Adonis - Wikipedia

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    Ovid's portrayal of Venus's desperate love for Adonis became the inspiration for many literary portrayals in Elizabethan literature of both male and female courtship. [ 54 ] William Shakespeare 's erotic narrative poem Venus and Adonis (1593), a retelling of the courtship of Aphrodite and Adonis from Ovid's Metamorphoses , [ 55 ] [ 56 ] was the ...

  8. Or Adonai - Wikipedia

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    Or Adonai (Hebrew: אור אֲדֹנָי), The Light of the Lord, is the primary work of Rabbi Hasdai Crescas (c. 1340 - 1410/1411), a Jewish philosopher. As some Jews prefer to not use even the respectful title Adonai (Lord) other than in prayer (see names of God in Judaism ), the book is sometimes called Or Hashem (אור השם) in verbal ...

  9. El (deity) - Wikipedia

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    El (/ ɛ l / EL; also ' Il, Ugaritic: 𐎛𐎍 ʾīlu; Phoenician: 𐤀𐤋 ʾīl; [6] Hebrew: אֵל ʾēl; Syriac: ܐܺܝܠ ʾīyl; Arabic: إل ʾil or إله ʾilāh [clarification needed]; cognate to Akkadian: 𒀭, romanized: ilu) is a Northwest Semitic word meaning 'god' or 'deity', or referring (as a proper name) to any one of multiple major ancient Near Eastern deities.