Bible Dictionary: Amarna

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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

AMARNA, TELL EL-

tel-el-a-mar'-na. See TELL EL-AMARNA.

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Editor's Preface
... and it must be no slight satisfaction to him to find that on the whole his system
of transliteration is confirmed by the cuneiform tablets of Tel el-Amarna. ...
/.../history of egypt chaldaea syria babylonia and assyria v 1/editors preface.htm

Chapter xxxiii
... made. Such tokens of respect to the number of seven were the customary homage
tendered to kings according to the el-Amarna tab1ets. ...
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Canaan
... The cuneiform tablets found at Tel el-Amarna in Upper Egypt give us a vivid picture
of its condition at the close of the Eighteenth dynasty. ...
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Introduction
... of early Oriental history, and reversed the critical judgments which had prevailed
in regard to it, was that of the cuneiform tablets of Tel el-Amarna. ...
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Egypt
... king. He left the city of his fathers, and built a new capital farther north,
where its ruins are now known as Tel el-Amarna. Here ...
/.../sayce/early israel and the surrounding nations/chapter v egypt.htm

Chapter xiv
... before"""east". Damméseq is the ancient city of Damascus, known also
later from the Amarna tablets as Dimaski. 16. That Abram ...
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History Of Egypt, Chaldaea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, V 5
... Atonu and Khuitniatonu -- Change of physiognomy in Khuniaton, his character, his
government, his relations with Asia: the tombs of Tel el-Amarna and the art of ...
/.../history of egypt chaldaea syria babylonia and assyria v 5/title page.htm

The Place of the Old Testament in Divine Revelation
... by conquest and by commerce, the dominant civilization of the Euphrates valley had
been regnant in the land of Canaan, The Tell-el-Amarna letters, written from ...
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The Old Testament and Archeology
... to certain inscriptions which throw considerable light on conditions in Palestine
before the Hebrew conquest, namely, the so-called Tel-el-Amarna tablets.[7 ...
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The Christian View of the Old Testament
... Style, 21. Taylor Cylinder, 138 f. Tel-el-Amarna tablets, 125 ff. Temple, 179. Textual
criticism, 68 ff., 74. Tiglath-pileser IV, 134 ff. Tirhaka, 139 f. ...
/.../eiselen/the christian view of the old testament/index 2.htm

Thesaurus

Amarna
... Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia AMARNA, TELL EL-.
tel-el-a-mar'-na. See TELL EL-AMARNA. ...
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El-amarna
El-amarna. Elamarna, El-amarna. Elamites . Int. Standard Bible
Encyclopedia TELL EL-AMARNA; TABLETS. tel-el-a-mar'-na, I ...
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Lachish (22 Occurrences)
... Lachish has been identified with Tell-el-Hesy, where a cuneiform tablet has been
found, containing a letter supposed to be from Amenophis at Amarna in reply to ...
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Arvad (2 Occurrences)
... The inhabitants were called Arvadites. The name is written Aruada or Arada in the
Tell-el-Amarna tablets. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. ARVAD; ARVADITES. ...
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Elamarna
... Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia TELL EL-AMARNA; TABLETS. tel-el-a-mar'-na,
I. INTRODUCTION 1. Name 2. Discovery 3. Physical Character II. ...
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Tablets (31 Occurrences)
... Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia TELL EL-AMARNA; TABLETS. tel-el-a-mar'-na,
I. INTRODUCTION 1. Name 2. Discovery 3. Physical Character II. ...
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Melchizedek (12 Occurrences)
... One of the Amarna tablets is from Ebed-Tob, king of Jerusalem, the successor of
Melchizedek, in which he claims the very attributes and dignity given to ...
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Tell (3056 Occurrences)
... (n.) A hill or mound. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. TELL EL-AMARNA; TABLETS.
tel-el-a-mar'-na, I. INTRODUCTION 1. Name 2. Discovery 3. Physical Character II ...
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Melchisedec (10 Occurrences)
... having neither beginning of days nor end of life"; he "abideth a priest continually."
The answer is perhaps to be had among the Tell el-Amarna Letters, among ...
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Canaan (102 Occurrences)
... 4. History (1) Stone Age (2) Bronze Age (3) A Babylonian Province (4) Jerusalem
Founded (5) The Hyksos (6) Egyptian Conquest (7) Tell el-Amarna Tablets 5. The ...
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Subtopics

Amarna

Related Terms

El-amarna

Lachish (22 Occurrences)

Arvad (2 Occurrences)

Elamarna

Tablets (31 Occurrences)

Melchizedek (12 Occurrences)

Tell (3056 Occurrences)

Melchisedec (10 Occurrences)

Canaan (102 Occurrences)