Hittite vessel terminating in a stag’s forepart, ca. 14th–13th century BCE; silver with gold inlay, central Anatolia. Metropolitan Museum, 1989.281.10; public-domain image. Ritual material culture, not evidence that it held blood or belonged to Papanikri’s or Leviticus’s rites
Entity
Hebrew verb in offering and purification instructions; meaning depends on action, target, and beneficiary, rather than declaring someone outside a religion.
صيغ للاسم: ritual atonement، kipper
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Hittite vessel terminating in a stag’s forepart, ca. 14th–13th century BCE; silver with gold inlay, central Anatolia. Metropolitan Museum, 1989.281.10; public-domain image. Ritual material culture, not evidence that it held blood or belonged to Papanikri’s or Leviticus’s rites
Entity
Religious classification concerning sacred access and purification; not automatically moral condemnation or a modern medical diagnosis.
صيغ للاسم: ritual impurity
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William Holman Hunt, The Scapegoat, mid-1850s; Lady Lever catalogue dates the painting to 1854, LL3623. Public-domain reproduction via Wikimedia Commons. Later religious artistic interpretation, not an archaeological depiction of Leviticus’s rite or a portrayal of Azazel
Entity
Analytical term for removing what is considered harmful or polluting from communal or sacred space; transfer, expulsion and slaughter are distinct functions.
صيغ للاسم: ritual removal
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Modern diagram of ritualization: a house surrounded by circles suggesting accumulated practices and relationships. A conceptual illustration, not a reconstruction of an ancient house or rite
Entity
The acquisition of special qualities by familiar practices or places; an analytical concept that need not separate ritual from everyday life.
صيغ للاسم: ritualization، ritualisation
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A modern conceptual illustration places river and vessel together to contrast two distinct procedures. It depicts no documented ordeal or specific artifact; the tablet's marks are decorative and not legible text. IL Archive / CC0
Entity
An ancient procedure referring a difficult dispute to a river with divine status; legal and archival witnesses differ.
صيغ للاسم: river ordeal، divine River
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Copper-alloy votive plaque with a Sabaean dedicatory inscription, South Arabia, late first millennium BCE. A witness to Sabaean writing, not to the queen's identity. Met 1993.169; public domain
Site
An ancient South Arabian kingdom centered in present-day Yemen and prominent in the first millennium BCE; its attestation does not establish the Queen of Sheba's biography.
صيغ للاسم: Saba، Sheba، kingdom of Saba
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Original diagram distinguishes text, interpretation, hypothesis and practice; comparison is not proof of borrowing or event
Entity
An offering replaces a person or another offering in a particular text; this alone establishes neither ritual origin nor borrowing.
صيغ للاسم: Sacrificial substitution
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Modern comparison of an ancient outside author’s account. Josephus uses Greek philosophical language; this is neither the groups’ own manifesto nor an account of all Jews
Entity
Jewish group without a surviving doctrinal library of its own; known through others.
صيغ للاسم: Sadducees، Sadducean
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BES19s 77.1, Firʿ Wadi al-Khudari, Mafraq, Jordan. Its reading invokes Allat and then Allah. This photograph shows stone and writing; animal and human drawings are not identified as depictions of these deities. Original preserved without cropping or alteration
Entity
Ancient North Arabian script preserving names and prayers; not one uniform creed.
صيغ للاسم: Safaitic، Safaitic script، Safaitic inscriptions
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Modern map of textual plurality, not a settled genealogy. Affinities with Masoretic, Greek or pre-Samaritan witnesses do not divide all copies into three closed families. The Samaritan Pentateuch shares earlier history and includes Gerizim readings
Entity
Samaritan Hebrew five-book tradition sharing an older textual history, with linguistic and theological variants, including readings involving Mount Gerizim.
صيغ للاسم: Samaritan Pentateuch
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Samuel Butler’s self-portrait of 1878, held by St John’s College, Cambridge. A digital reproduction of a painting, rather than a photograph of the person
Person
English writer and translator of Homer who lived from 1835 to 1902.
صيغ للاسم: Samuel Butler
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A working tool for this study, not an automatic test or universally weighted checklist
Person
Scholar whose influential “Parallelomania” appeared in 1962.
صيغ للاسم: Samuel Sandmel، Sandmel
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New College courtyard, University of Edinburgh, photographed in 2017. Institutional context for Cho’s thesis, completed in 2007; neither a portrait nor a photograph from the thesis year
Person
Researcher who studied the ranks and roles of heavenly beings in Ugarit and the Hebrew Bible.
صيغ للاسم: Sang Youl Cho
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Georg Pencz, Sarah Presenting Hagar to Abraham, ca. 1543, The Met 2012.136.766.2; later artistic depiction
Person
Abraham's wife and Isaac's mother in Genesis; her story with Hagar and Ishmael appears in chapters 16 and 21, not in the Genesis 22 scene itself.
صيغ للاسم: Sarai
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Person
Religion scholar who has studied the textual diversity and demonology of the Testament of Solomon.
صيغ للاسم: Sarah L. Schwarz
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K.3401 from Nineveh, a Neo-Assyrian witness to Sargon’s birth legend, British Museum. A copy later than the king, not Moses’ basket or an image of the infant. © Marie-Lan Nguyen / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY 2.5
Ancient text
Akkadian account of a rescued infant’s ascent to kingship; surviving witnesses postdate Sargon of Akkad.
صيغ للاسم: Sargon Birth Legend
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Sargon II in a relief from Dur-Sharrukin, modern Khorsabad in Iraq, dated by the Louvre to his reign, 721–705 BCE. This source crop shows the king in the scene catalogued as AO 19873 and AO 19874
Person
Sargon II was an Assyrian king of the late eighth century BCE; ORACC dates his reign about 721–705 BCE
صيغ للاسم: Sargon II، Sargon the Second
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K.3401 from Nineveh, a Neo-Assyrian witness to Sargon’s birth legend, British Museum. A copy later than the king, not Moses’ basket or an image of the infant. © Marie-Lan Nguyen / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY 2.5
Artifact
Akkadian clay tablet from Nineveh preserving Sargon’s birth story in the Neo-Assyrian period, many centuries after the king’s lifetime.
صيغ للاسم: Sargon birth tablet K.3401
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The protagonist does not date the story; the copy does not identify its first formulation
Person
Third-millennium BCE king associated with later birth and ascent traditions.
صيغ للاسم: Sargon of Akkad، Sargon I
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Person
Syriac literature scholar who distinguishes the Syriac Alexander Romance, Christian Legend and poem.
صيغ للاسم: Sebastian P. Brock
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Modern editorial paraphrase of three Isaiah passages, not a manuscript or full translation. Wording is attested; historical meaning and layered dating remain research questions
Entity
Scholarly label for Isaiah 40–55, substantially linked to exile and Cyrus; not proof of one author or one year for every verse.
صيغ للاسم: Second Isaiah، Deutero-Isaiah، Isaiah 40–55
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Qumran remains in a modern photograph. They provide a setting for the scrolls, not a portrait of every Jewish group or proof of an Essene identification. This is not a temple or heavenly-world reconstruction
Entity
Diverse Jewish traditions under Persian, Hellenistic and Roman rule, not one creed.
صيغ للاسم: Second Temple Judaism، Second Temple period
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Modern guide: primary and secondary burial require anatomical and stratigraphic context. Isolated bones may result from transfer, disturbance or erosion; pigment does not identify a doctrine
Entity
Redeposition of remains after earlier mortuary treatment or deposition, established from context.
صيغ للاسم: secondary burial، redeposition of human remains
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Modern diagram: buildings, equipment and repeated burial indicate investment in place. Year-round residence needs additional evidence; settlement alone does not establish a temple
Entity
Reduced residential mobility and prolonged or recurring occupation; architecture alone does not establish year-round residence.
صيغ للاسم: sedentism، residential sedentism، semi-sedentism
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Modern written comparison of examples of Semitic divine vocabulary: ʾēl, ilu, and ʾilāh. The lines mark comparison, not direct borrowing or identical divine figures
Entity
An ancient Semitic word for a deity; its linguistic use does not alone identify a particular divine figure.
صيغ للاسم: El
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Modern simplified diagram of examples in the Semitic family: Akkadian (akk), Hebrew (heb), Aramaic (arc), and Arabic (ara). It does not provide the full classification or dates of divergence
Entity
A language family including Akkadian, Ugaritic, Hebrew, Aramaic and Arabic.
صيغ للاسم: Semitic languages، Semitic language
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Modern diagram of Deuteronomy 32:8: sons of Israel in the Masoretic text, sons of God in 4QDeutj, and angels of God in a common Greek reading. The variant alone does not establish that the Most High and Yahweh are distinct. Not a manuscript photograph
Entity
Traditional designation for ancient Greek translations of Jewish scriptures, whose readings sometimes differ from the Hebrew Masoretic Text.
صيغ للاسم: Septuagint
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Modern paraphrase of Genesis 3/32, Exodus 25 and Isaiah 6. Not a historical depiction of the beings or a fixed taxonomy for all Judaism
Entity
Six-winged beings in Isaiah 6’s throne vision, associated with praise and purification; not automatically identical to cherubim or every angel.
صيغ للاسم: seraphim، seraph
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Bronze head from a statuette identified by Turin’s Museo Egizio as King Shabaka, of the Twenty-fifth Dynasty. The museum dates the object to 722–655 BCE; inventory Cat. 1394. The image is released by the museum under CC0
Person
Shabaka was a Kushite king of Egypt’s Twenty-fifth Dynasty in the late eighth century BCE
صيغ للاسم: Shabaka
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Modern conceptual illustration of primeval water, an emerging mound and sunrise; neither an excavated Egyptian artifact nor a reconstruction of one text. © IL Archive, CC0
Artifact
A Memphite inscription from Shabaka’s reign, about 710 BCE, associating Ptah’s creation with heart and tongue; its ancient-copy claim does not independently date the wording.
صيغ للاسم: Shabaka Stone
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Relief at the top of the Sun-God Tablet from Sippar, ninth century BCE. Shamash sits before a solar disc; a Babylonian king and two intermediary figures stand to the left. British Museum, 91000. Photograph by Prioryman, 22 January 2012
Entity
Mesopotamian god of the sun and justice, shown before Hammurabi on an eighteenth-century BCE stele preserved in the Louvre.
صيغ للاسم: Shamash، Šamaš
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Modern explanation of Shapshu’s roles in the passages consulted; her warning does not mean El actually deposed Mot in the scene
Entity
Ugaritic sun goddess; involved in Baal’s crisis and intervening verbally in the Mot conflict.
صيغ للاسم: Shapshu، Shapash، Šapšu
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Structural continuity proves neither a copied Ugaritic tablet nor a deity-to-angel identity
Entity
Inherited material reaching several texts without direct dependence between them.
صيغ للاسم: Shared tradition
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Soleb temple in Sudan, from Amenhotep III’s reign; photograph by Hans Birger Nilsen, 2017. Context for the Egyptian list, not a photograph of the Yhw entry or a temple of Yahweh
Entity
Egyptian designation for mobile pastoral groups; Yhw occurs in their lists without automatically identifying a deity or Israel.
صيغ للاسم: Shasu
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Sheol in Job 7:7–10 and Genesis 37:33–35: an original modern diagram comparing two textual contexts only; not an afterlife map or an ancient artifact
Entity
Hebrew textual term involving death, descent and lost return; it does not automatically mean later punitive Gehenna.
صيغ للاسم: Sheol
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Modern diagram separating acknowledgment of a creator from exclusive worship. The Quran rejects worship of intermediaries and conditions angelic intercession on permission; it does not categorically abolish all intercession
Entity
Associating others with God in Quranic discourse; not equivalent to denying God’s existence.
صيغ للاسم: shirk، associating partners with God
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Bronze ritual menat bearing the heads of Shu and Tefnut, from Egypt’s Late Period, 664–380 BCE. Walters Art Museum, 54.1515. Instruments of this type were used with beaded collars in rituals
Entity
Shu and Tefnut are an Egyptian divine pair associated with air and moisture respectively
صيغ للاسم: Shu and Tefnut، Shu، Tefnut
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McMahon Hall at the Catholic University of America, Washington, photographed in 2018. Institutional context for Griffith's career, not his portrait or a documented office. w_lemay, CC0
Person
American scholar (1938–2026) of Syriac and early Arabic Christianity and encounters with Islam.
صيغ للاسم: Sidney Griffith، Sidney H. Griffith
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A view of the Sinai desert in Egypt, 22 November 2008. It shows the peninsula’s landscape without identifying the mountain meant by the biblical narratives
Site
Sinai is a peninsula in eastern Egypt; in the Torah the name also denotes the mountain of revelation to Moses
صيغ للاسم: Sinai، Mount Sinai
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Modern building-biography guide: construction, occupation, transformation and closure. Some sequences preserve rebuilding in place; memory is an interpretation to test, not a belief recovered from a plan
Entity
How a group forms relationships to the past through narratives, practices, objects and places.
صيغ للاسم: social memory
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