Jethro (father-in-law of Moshe),
3.1
,
4.1
Jewish laws
dietary
lex talionis
(law of retaliation),
4.1
See also
Commandments
; Torah
Jews
Judeans known as,
6.1
,
6.2
See also
Israelites
Jezebel (queen of Israel)
Job,
2.1
,
6.1
,
7.1
Joel (prophet)
Jonathan (son of Saul),
5.1
,
5.2
Joseph (son of Yaakov/Israel), slavery and triumph in Egypt
Joshua,
5.1
,
5.2
Joshua (Book of),
5.1
,
5.2
,
7.1
Josiah (king of Judah)
Judah, Kingdom of (southern area)
conquest by Babylon,
itr.1
,
6.1
northern Israel breaks away from
prophets warn
See also
Israel, United Kingdom of
Judges (Book of),
5.1
,
7.1
Judith (Book of)
Justice, Y
HWH
as God of,
4.1
,
5.1
,
6.1
,
6.2
,
7.1
Ketuvim,
7.1
,
7.2
King List (Sumerian),
1.1
,
1.2
Kings (Book of),
5.1
,
6.1
,
7.1
Languages
Akkadian (Old Babylonian),
itr.1
,
1.1
,
1.2
Hebrew,
itr.1
,
3.1
metaphor as basis of all
Leviticus (Book of),
4.1
,
7.1
Lex talionis
(law of retaliation),
4.1
Literature, Hebrew
birth of
evolution of, in exile
See also
Bible
Lot (nephew of Avram),
2.1
,
2.2
imprisonment of
saved from Sodom’s destruction
Love and Death in the American Novel
(Fiedler),
1.1
Mahn-hu
(manna),
4.1
Mamre (modern Hebron), Avram’s settlement in
Man and Time
(Puech),
itr.1
Manasseh (king of Judah)
Manna, defined
Mathematics, Sumerian
Medicine, Sumerian
Men
as prostitutes,
1.1
,
1.2
,
1.3
relationships between, valued in
warrior societies,
1.1
,
1.2
,
5.1
Merab (daughter of Saul)
Mesopotamia
early communities in,
1.1
,
1.2
See also
Babylon
;
Sumer
Metallurgy
Metaphor
basis of all thought/language
See also
Correspondences, primitive religious
Micah (prophet)
Michal (wife of David; daughter of Saul),
5.1
,
5.2
,
5.3
,
5.4
,
5.5
Midwives, refusal to murder newborn Israelites by
Miles, Jack,
God: A Biography
,
7.1
Mishna
Moab (Moav)
Moloch (Canaanite god)
Monotheism
combining moral and legal realms
development of,
2.1
,
2.2
,
4.1
,
6.1
Egyptian pharaoh decrees
See also
Hebrew God
;
Y
HWH
Moon
influence over primitive man
Sumerian worship of,
1.1
,
1.2
symbols for,
2.1
,
2.2
Moses.
See
Moshe (Moses)
Moshe (Moses)
birth of
character of, vs. Avraham
circumcision of,
3.1
,
4.1
death of
as Egyptian name
encounters Y
HWH
on Mount Sinai,
3.1
,
3.2
,
4.1
,
4.2
,
4.3
,
4.4
leads Israelites from Egypt
plagues and,
3.1
,
3.2
response to broken commandments
Myths
history vs.,
4.1
,
4.2
,
4.3
,
4.4
Sumerian,
1.1
,
1.2
,
1.3
,
2.1
Nanna-Sin (Sumerian god),
1.1
,
1.2
,
2.1
Naomi
Nathan (prophet),
5.1
,
5.2
,
6.1
,
6.2
Nebuchadnezzar
Neviim,
7.1
,
7.2
Newman, John Henry
New Testament
Niebuhr, Reinhold
Ninkasi (Sumerian goddess)
Ninkilim (Sumerian goddess)
Ninsun (Sumerian goddess, mother of Gilgamesh),
1.1
,
1.2
,
1.3
Ninurta (Sumerian god)
Noah
Sumerian antecedent to,
1.1
,
1.2
Obed (son of Ruth)
Odyssey
(Homer),
2.1
Old Testament.
See
Bible
;
Commandments
;
Torah
;
specific books
Oral tradition
Bible and,
itr.1
,
2.1
,
4.1
,
4.2
,
4.3
of nomads
Original sin, doctrine of
Palestine, term origin
Passover
Patriarchs
Joseph (son of Yaakov/Israel)
Yaakov/Jacob/Israel (son of Yitzhak),
2.1
,
3.1
,
3.2
,
3.3
See also
Avraham (formerly Avram)
;
Avram (later Avraham)
;
Moshe (Moses)
;
Yitzhak (son of Avraham)
Patronal gods, of Sumer,
1.1
,
2.1
,
2.2
,
2.3
Persians
Pharaohs, of Egypt
Akhnaton
Avram and,
2.1
,
3.1
dynastic marriage arranged with Solomon
Joseph and,
3.1
,
3.2
Moshe and,
3.1
,
3.2
,
3.3
,
3.4
Rameses II,
3.1
,
3.2
,
4.1
Tutankhamon
unnamed who enslaves Israelites (Seti I),
3.1
,
3.2
See also
Egypt
Philistines
David as vassal to
as enemies of Israelites,
5.1
,
5.2
,
5.3
,
5.4
,
5.5
,
5.6
,
5.7
Phoenicians
Pottery
Present moment, concept of,
4.1
,
4.2
,
4.3
Processive worldview, vs. cyclical worldview
Prophets
Amos,
6.1
,
6.2
,
6.3
Elijah the Tishbite
Hosea
Isaiah of Judah,
6.1
,
7.1
Jeremiah
Joel
Micah
Nathan,
5.1
,
5.2
,
6.1
,
6.2
Samuel,
5.1
,
5.2
,
5.3
,
6.1
Prostitutes
in
Epic of Gilgamesh
,
1.1
,
1.2
,
1.3
in Sumerian rituals,
1.1
,
1.2
Psalms (Book of),
5.1
,
5.2
,
6.1
,
7.1
,
7.2
See also
David (king of Israel), poetry of
Pua (midwife)
Puech, Henri-Charles,
Man and Time
,
itr.1
Ra (Egyptian god)
Rachel (wife of Yaakov/Israel)
Rameses II (Egyptian pharaoh),
3.1
,
3.2
,
4.1
Reality.
See
Cyclical worldview
Rebecca/Rivka (wife of Yitzhak)
Rehoboam (son of Solomon)
Rivka/Rebecca (wife of Yitzhak)
Rosenzweig, Franz
Ruach
(wind, breath),
5.1
,
6.1
Rublev, Andrei
Ruth (Book of),
6.1
,
7.1
,
7.2
Sabbath, innovation of
Sacrifice.
See
Human sacrifice
Samaria, capital of Kingdom of Israel,
6.1
,
6.2
Samuel (prophet),
5.1
,
5.2
,
5.3
,
6.1
Sappho
Sara (formerly Sarai, wife of Avraham)
death and burial of
pregnancy of,
2.1
,
2.2
renamed by God
See also
Sarai (later Sara, wife of Avram)
Sarai (later Sara, wife of Avram)
barrenness of,
2.1
,
2.2
in Egypt
migration to Canaan
See also
Sara (formerly Sarai, wife of Avraham)
Sarna, Nahum
Saul (king of Israelites)
