the Amorites

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• Mount of the Amorites —    The range of hills which rises abruptly in the wilderness of et Tih ( the wandering ), mentioned Deut. 1:19, 20, that great and terrible wilderness …   Easton's Bible Dictionary

• AMORITES — (Heb. אֱמֹרִי; Emori), the pre Israelite inhabitants of the land of Israel. The word appears approximately 85 times in the Hebrew Bible and is used to designate all or part of that population. The Semitic derivation of the word, and possibly also …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• Amorites —    Highlanders, or hillmen, the name given to the descendants of one of the sons of Canaan (Gen. 14:7), called Amurra or Amurri in the Assyrian and Egyptian inscriptions. On the early Babylonian monuments all Syria, including Palestine, is known… …   Easton's Bible Dictionary

• Amorites —    originally a pastoral, Semitic speaking hill people who began settling in the region of northern Babylonia in the last years of the third millennium B.c. The city dwelling Mesopotamians initially viewed the Amorites as odd and almost laughably …   Ancient Mesopotamia dictioary

• The Copenhagen School (theology) — The Copenhagen School of Biblical Studies, also known as The Minimalist School is a school of biblical exegesis, developing out of Higher Criticism, emphasizing that the Bible should be read and analysed primarily as a collection of narratives… …   Wikipedia

• AMORITES —    The word is derived from the Akkadian amurru, which designated Semitic speaking tribalgroups who toward the end of the third millennium B.C. settled in increasing numbers in northern and middle Babylonia. Their influx is thought to have… …   Historical Dictionary of Mesopotamia

• Book of the Wars of the Lord — The Book of the Wars of the Lord is one of several non canonical books referenced in the Bible which has now been completely lost. [ [http://www.aishdas.org/toratemet/en torah.html Student, Gil. On the Authorship of the Torah. ( Aishdas.org )]… …   Wikipedia

• Amorites — Inhabitants of Transjordan before the entry of the Israelites, perhaps settled by 1900 BCE. They resisted the newcomers but were expelled. Compiling the story in the 7th cent. BCE, the Deuteronomist editor regards their expulsion as the proper… …   Dictionary of the Bible

• AMORITES —    a powerful Canaanitish tribe, seemingly of tall stature, NE. of the Jordan; subdued by Joshua at Gibeon …   The Nuttall Encyclopaedia

• Criticism of the Bible — This article is about criticisms made against the Bible as a source of reliable information or ethical guidance. For the academic treatment of the bible as a historical document, see Biblical criticism. The Gutenberg Bible, the first printed… …   Wikipedia

• Exodus, the — Israel s departure from Egypt. Tradition had it that the twelve sons of Jacob and their families, a total of seventy persons (Gen. 46:27) went down into Egypt to escape the famine in Canaan. They grew to a great multitude, to the alarm of the… …   Dictionary of the Bible