Old Aramaic, which had already become common in Mesopotamia, then became the official provincial administration language of first the Neo-Assyrian Empire, and then the Achaemenid Empire: the official lect is called Imperial Aramaic. Akkadian fell into disuse, but both it and Sumerian were still used in temples for some centuries.

The deuterocanonical books (from the Greek meaning "belonging to the second canon") are books and passages considered by the Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Oriental Orthodox Churches, and the Assyrian Church of the East to be canonical books of the Old Testament, but which Protestant denominations regard as apocrypha.They date from 300 …

The Tyndale Bible generally refers to the body of biblical translations by William Tyndale into Early Modern English, made c. 1522–1536.Tyndale's Bible is credited with being the first Bible translation in the English language to work directly from Hebrew and Greek texts, although it relied heavily upon the Latin Vulgate. Furthermore, it was the first English biblical translation …

The language of the Nabataean inscriptions, attested from the 2nd century BC, is close to Achaemenid Official Aramaic, but with local developments. Of the few innovations compared to Imperial Aramaic, the use of the object marker yt is a Western Aramaic feature, [5] although the older form ʔyt already occurs in Old Aramaic . [6]

Aleph (or alef or alif, transliterated ʾ) is the first letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician ʾālep ????, Hebrew ʾālef א, Aramaic ʾālap ????, Syriac ʾālap̄ ܐ, Arabic ʾ alif ا, Persian ʾalef ا, and North Arabian ????. It also appears as South Arabian ???? and Ge'ez ʾälef አ.. These letters are believed to have derived from an Egyptian hieroglyph depicting an ox's ...

The Old English Bible translations are the partial translations of the Bible prepared in medieval England into the Old English language.The translations are from Latin texts, not the original languages. Many of these translations were in fact Bible glosses, prepared to assist clerics whose grasp of Latin was imperfect and circulated in connection with the Vulgate Latin Bible that was …

The Adamic language, according to Jewish tradition (as recorded in the midrashim) and some Christians, is the language spoken by Adam (and possibly Eve) in the Garden of Eden.It is variously interpreted as either the language used by God to address Adam (the divine language), or the language invented by Adam with which he named all things (including Eve), as in the …

Old South Arabian (or Ṣayhadic or Yemenite) is a group of four closely related extinct languages spoken in the far southern portion of the Arabian Peninsula.They were written in the Ancient South Arabian script.. There were a number of other Old South Arabian languages (e.g. Awsānian), of which very little evidence has survived, however.

Modern English Bible translations consists of translations developed and published throughout the late modern period (c. 1700–1900) to present-day (c. 1900–).A multitude of recent attempts have been made to translate the Bible into English. Most modern translations published since c. 1900 are based on scholarly critical editions of the original Hebrew and Greek texts.

Amharic (/ æ m ˈ h ær ɪ k / or / ɑː m ˈ h ɑːr ɪ k /; (Amharic: አማርኛ), Amarəñña, IPA: [amarɨɲːa] ()) is an Ethiopian Semitic language, which is a subgrouping within the Semitic branch of the Afroasiatic languages.It is spoken as a first language by the Amharas, and also serves as a lingua franca for all other populations residing in major cities and towns of Ethiopia.

Biblical studies is the academic application of a set of diverse disciplines to the study of the Bible (the Old Testament and New Testament). For its theory and methods, the field draws on disciplines ranging from ancient history, historical criticism, philology, textual criticism, literary criticism, historical backgrounds, mythology, and comparative religion.

Dalet (dāleth, also spelled Daleth or Daled) is the fourth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician Dālet ????, Hebrew Dālet ד, Aramaic Dālath , Syriac Dālaṯ ܕ, and Arabic Dāl د (in abjadi order; 8th in modern order).Its sound value is the voiced alveolar plosive ([d]).. The letter is based on a glyph of the Proto-Sinaitic script, probably called dalt "door" (door in ...

Sumerian (Cuneiform: ???????? Emegir "native tongue") is the language of ancient Sumer.It is one of the oldest attested languages, dating back to at least 3000 BC. It is accepted to be a local language isolate and to have been spoken in ancient Mesopotamia, in the area that is modern-day Iraq.. Akkadian, a Semitic language, gradually replaced Sumerian as a spoken language …

The Trisagion (Greek: Τρισάγιον; 'Thrice Holy'), sometimes called by its opening line Agios O Theos, is a standard hymn of the Divine Liturgy in most of the Eastern Orthodox, Western Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, and Eastern Catholic churches.. In churches which use the Byzantine Rite, the Trisagion is chanted immediately before the Prokeimenon and the Epistle …