"and Portuguese. The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean is an award-winning book by the British historian David Abulafia. First published in 2011, it is a history of the Mediterranean Sea from 22,000 BC to the present time, and provides one of the most comprehensive treatments of the subject since the works of Fernand Braudel. The book has been critically acclaimed and received the Mountbatten Literary Award from the Maritime Foundation, and the British Academy Medal. It has so far been translated into Dutch, Greek, Turkish, Spanish, Korean, German,"
"Sea"" (1 Kings 5:9; ""compare"" 1 Macc. 14:34, 15:11); however, it has also been called the ""Hinder Sea"" () because of its location on the west coast of Greater Syria or the Holy Land (and therefore behind a person facing the east), which is sometimes translated as ""Western Sea"", (Deut. 11:24; Joel 2:20). Another name was the ""Sea of the Philistines"" (, Exod. 23:31), from the people inhabiting a large portion of its shores near the Israelites. In Modern Hebrew, it is called ""HaYam HaTikhon"" () 'the Middle Sea'. In Modern Arabic, it is known as ' () 'the [White]"
"of the Bible uses the name, ""the River"", to refer to the Euphrates. Only the ""Red Sea"" (Exodus 23:31) and the Euphrates are mentioned to define the southern and eastern borders of the full land promised to the Israelites. The ""Red Sea"" corresponding to Hebrew ""Yam Suf"" was understood in ancient times to be the Erythraean Sea, as reflected in the Septuagint translation. Although the English name ""Red Sea"" is derived from this name (""Erythraean"" derives from the Greek for red), the term denoted all the waters surrounding Arabia—including the Indian Ocean and the Persian Gulf, not merely the sea"
"Molten Sea The Molten Sea or Brazen Sea ( ""cast metal sea"") was a large basin in the Temple in Jerusalem made by Solomon for ablution of the priests. It is described in and . It stood in the south-eastern corner of the inner court. According to the Bible it was five cubits high, ten cubits in diameter from brim to brim, and thirty cubits in circumference. The brim was ""like the calyx of a lily"" and turned outward ""about an hand breadth""; or about four inches. It was placed on the backs of twelve oxen, standing with their faces"
"Living Water Living water ( ""mayim-ḥayyîm""; , ""hydōr zōn"") is a biblical term which appears in both the Old and New Testaments. In and , the prophet describes God as ""the spring of living water"", who has been forsaken by his chosen people Israel. Later, the prophet Zechariah described Jerusalem as a source of ""living water"", ""half [flowing] east to the Dead Sea and half of it west to the Mediterranean Sea, in summer and in winter"" (). The Pulpit Commentary notes that the city of Jerusalem ""was, as we know, abundantly supplied with water by many conduits and subterranean"
"Red Sea and Southern Sea interchangeably. Historically, it was also known to western geographers as ""Mare Mecca"" (Sea of Mecca), and ""Sinus Arabicus"" (Gulf of Arabia). Some ancient geographers called the Red Sea the Arabian Gulf or Gulf of Arabia. The association of the Red Sea with the biblical account of the Israelites crossing the Red Sea is ancient, and was made explicit in the Septuagint translation of the Book of Exodus from Hebrew to Koine Greek in approximately the third century B.C. In that version, the ""Yam Suph"" () is translated as ""Erythra Thalassa"" (Red Sea). The Red Sea"
"Tehom Tehom (), literally the Deep or Abyss (Greek Septuagint: ""ábyssos""), refers to the Great Deep of the primordial waters of creation in the Bible. Tehom is a cognate of the Akkadian word ""tamtu"" and Ugaritic ""t-h-m"" which have similar meaning. As such it was equated with the earlier Sumerian Tiamat. Tehom is first mentioned in Genesis 1:2, where it is translated as ""deep"": It was from here that the waters of Noah's flood had their origin and the place that God temporarily receded the Red Sea for the Israelites to pass over before destroying the pursuing Egyptian army, and"
"Bible uses this term alongside two others: the Sea of the Arabah (' ), and the Eastern Sea ("""" ). The designation ""Dead Sea"" never appears in the Bible. In prose sometimes the term ' (, ""sea of death"") is used, due to the scarcity of aquatic life there. In Arabic the Dead Sea is called (""the Dead Sea""), or less commonly ' (, ""the Sea of Lot""). Another historic name in Arabic was the ""Sea of Zoʼar"", after a nearby town in biblical times. The Greeks called it ""Lake Asphaltites"" (Attic Greek , """", ""the Asphaltite sea""). The Dead"
"not entirely clear whether they are identical with Sea or are Sea's helpers). The ""bronze sea"" which stood in the forecourt of the Temple in Jerusalem probably corresponds to the ""sea"" in Babylonian temples, representing the ""apsu"", the cosmic ocean. In the New Testament Jesus' conquest of the stormy sea shows the conquering deity overwhelming the forces of chaos: a mere word of command from the Son of God stills the foe (Mark 4:35-41), who then tramples over his enemy, (Jesus walking on water - Mark 6:45, 47-51). In Revelation, where the Archangel Michael expels the dragon (Satan) from heaven"
"a barrier and a forbidding partition. (Quran 25:53) This has been compared to the ancient Akkadian myth of the ""Abzu"", the name for a fresh water underground sea that was given a religious quality in Sumerian and Akkadian mythology. Lakes, springs, rivers, wells, and other sources of fresh water were thought to draw their water from the ""Abzu"" underground sea, while the Ocean that surrounded the world was a saltwater sea. This underground sea is called Tehom in the Hebrew Bible. For example, Genesis 49:25 says, ""blessings of the heavens above, and Tehom lying beneath"". Wensinck explains, ""Thus it appears"
"as Flavius Josephus mention the sea by the name ""Sea of Ginosar"" after the small fertile plain of Ginosar that lies on its western side. Ginosar is yet another name derived from ""Kinneret"". In the New Testament the term ""sea of Galilee"" (, ""thalassan tēs Galilaias"") is used in the gospel of Matthew , the gospel of Mark , and in the gospel of John as ""the sea of Galilee, which is ""the sea"" of Tiberias"" (θαλάσσης τῆς Γαλιλαίας τῆς Τιβεριάδος, ""thalassēs tēs Galilaias tēs Tiberiados""), the late 1st century CE name. Sea of Tiberias is also the name mentioned"
"23:1-6, The majority of references to seas refer to a sea east and west of the land northward and the land southward . The Isthmus of Tehuantepec borders the Gulf of Mexico on the north and the Pacific Ocean on the south. The Old World Promised Land is bordered by inland bodies of water called ""seas"". The Book of Mormon does not indicate that its every mention of ""sea"" relates to an Oceanic body of water. The text does not identify any of the seas that bordered Book of Mormon lands as the waters they crossed to arrive there: ""great"
"Bible mentions whales in Genesis 1:21, Job 7:12, Ezekiel 32:2. The ""sea monsters"" in Lamentations 4:3 have been taken by some commentators to refer to marine mammals, in particular whales, although most modern versions use the word ""jackals"" instead (Lamentations 4:3). The story of Jonah being swallowed by a ""big Fish"" is told both in the Qur'an () and in the Bible. The Old Testament contains the Book of Jonah and in the New Testament, Jesus mentions this story in Matthew 12:40 (Jonah 1-4). Many religions have considered cattle to be sacred, most famously Hinduism from India and Nepal, but"
"Book of Mormon seas are oceans is to make extrapolations beyond what the scripture actually states. The logic that sea = ocean, fails in the case of many biblical verses that refer to a ""sea"" or ""the sea"". Even ""the great sea"" (the Mediterranean, Numbers 34:6) bordering the biblical Promise Land, is essentially an inland body of water. Rejecting hemispheric settings and accepting the scriptural location of Cumorah (D&C 128:20), LDS authors Olive, May and others, have concluded that the ""many waters"" crossed by Lehi's family involved the Atlantic Ocean. This view is clearly at odds with the Indian and"
"Historically, scholars argued whether these trips were possible. The biblical Book of Exodus tells the tale of the Israelites' crossing of a body of water, which the Hebrew text calls ""Yam Suph"" (). ""Yam Suph"" was traditionally identified as the Red Sea. Rabbi Saadia Gaon (882‒942), in his Judeo-Arabic translation of the Pentateuch, identifies the crossing place of the Red Sea as ""Baḥar al-Qulzum"", meaning the Gulf of Suez. In the 6th century BC, Darius the Great of Persia sent reconnaissance missions to the Red Sea, improving and extending navigation by locating many hazardous rocks and currents. A canal was"
"recorded in the New Testament. A famous story of the life of Christ from chapter four of the gospel of Mark follows the fifth section of Psalm 107, which describes the plight and eventual rescue of those on the sea. In the story of Jesus, while he and his disciples are on Lake Galilee in a boat, a storm swells. Jesus calms the storm by saying, “Peace! Be still!” (Mk. 4:39). In the same way, Psalm 107 describes the Israelites at sea when a storm arises. The waves “mounted up to heaven, they went down to the depths,” (v. 26)"
"Jonah Jonah or Jonas is the name given in the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh/Old Testament) to a prophet of the northern kingdom of Israel in about the 8th century BCE. He is the eponymous central figure of the Book of Jonah, in which he is called upon by God to travel to Nineveh and warn its residents to repent of their sins or face divine wrath. Instead, Jonah boards a ship to Tarshish. Caught in a storm, he orders the ship's crew to cast him overboard, whereupon he is swallowed by a giant fish. Three days later, after Jonah agrees to"
"definitions it is more properly a lake. Luke refers to it as a lake, as does Josephus, but Mark and John join Matthew in calling it a sea. As a result, ""Sea of Galilee"" is still the standard modern name. Matthew 4:13 Matthew 4:13 is the thirteenth verse of the fourth chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament. In the previous verse Jesus returned to Galilee after hearing of the arrest of John the Baptist. In this verse he leaves from Nazareth to Capernaum. In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: The World"
"the western sea off the edges of all maps lay the Otherworld, or Afterlife. In Judaism, west is seen to be toward the Shekinah (presence) of God, as in Jewish history the Tabernacle and subsequent Jerusalem Temple faced east, with God's Presence in the Holy of Holies up the steps to the west. According to the Bible, the Israelites crossed the Jordan River westward into the Promised Land. In Islam, while in India, people pray facing towards the west as in respect to India, Mecca is in the West-ward direction. In American literature (e.g., in ""The Great Gatsby"") moving West"
"bodies of water that were called respectively ""the east sea"" and ""the west sea."" There is no unequivocal indication in the Book of Mormon that the seas were intended to represent oceans, but the term ""lake"" is not used in the Book of Mormon to describe an inland body of water, and a parallel is seen between the American Promised Land of the Book of Mormon and the Biblical Promised Land, which is bordered by inland seas. The book of Mosiah in the Book of Mormon tells of a search party that was sent out from the land of Nephi"
"Song of the Sea The Song of the Sea (, Shirat HaYam, also known as Az Yashir Moshe and Song of Moses, or Mi Chamocha) is a poem that appears in the Book of Exodus of the Hebrew Bible, at . It is followed in verses 20 and 21 by a much shorter song sung by Miriam and the other women. The Song of the Sea was reputedly sung by the Israelites after their crossing the Red Sea in safety, and celebrates the destruction of the Egyptian army during the crossing, and looks forward to the future conquest of Canaan."
"from Syria in the Six-Day War. The Sea of Galilee (also called the Kinneret) is Israel's largest and most important freshwater lake, located in the northeast of the country. The pear-shaped lake is long from north to south, with a maximum width of in the north, covering . The Kinneret lies below sea level and reaches depths of . In a previous geological epoch the lake was part of a large inland sea which extended from the Hula marshes in northern Israel to south of the Dead Sea. The bed of the lake forms part of the Jordan Rift Valley."
"Wells in the Bible For reasons of climate in ancient Israel, references to water wells in the Bible are numerous and significant. The River Litani and the River Jordan are the only rivers of any size in the vicinity of the land of Canaan. Perennial brooks are very scarce and the wadis, or streambeds, while numerous and impetuous in the rainy season, are dry during the rest of the year. Job 6:16-17 compares faithless friends to these torrent-beds, swollen in the spring, but vanishing in the hot weather. Ben Sira twice enumerates water as the first among the ""principal things"
"Sanchuniathon with Ugaritic thmt and Akkadian Tiâmat. Tehom Tehom (), literally the Deep or Abyss (Greek Septuagint: ""ábyssos""), refers to the Great Deep of the primordial waters of creation in the Bible. Tehom is a cognate of the Akkadian word ""tamtu"" and Ugaritic ""t-h-m"" which have similar meaning. As such it was equated with the earlier Sumerian Tiamat. Tehom is first mentioned in Genesis 1:2, where it is translated as ""deep"": It was from here that the waters of Noah's flood had their origin and the place that God temporarily receded the Red Sea for the Israelites to pass over"
"God and the Jewish people is traditionally described as a marriage, and the splitting of the sea is considered to be an important event leading to that marriage, which ultimately took place 42 days later, at Mt. Sinai. A tune for the Ladino poem along with the entire text itself can be found in Isaac Levy's ""Anthology of Sepharadic Hazzanut"". The following settings exist for the Song of the Sea in the Catholic tradition: The following settings exist for the Song of the Sea in the Protestant tradition: A version of the song features in the 1998 animated film ""The"
"in 1965, Syria attempted to divert some of its headwaters in collaboration with Lebanon and Jordan. The diversion works would have reduced the water availability for Israel's carrier by about 35%, and Israel's overall water supply by about 11%. In the Hebrew Bible the Jordan is referred to as the source of fertility of a large plain (""Kikkar ha-Yarden""), said to be watered like ""the garden of the LORD"" (Genesis ). There is no regular description of the Jordan in the Bible; only scattered and indefinite references to it are given. Jacob crossed it and its tributary, the Jabbok (the"
"Crossing the Red Sea The Crossing of the Red Sea (Hebrew: קריעת ים סוף ""Kriat Yam Suph"" – Crossing of the Red Sea or Sea of Reeds) is part of the biblical narrative of the Exodus, the escape of the Israelites, led by Moses, from the pursuing Egyptians in the Book of Exodus. This story is also mentioned in the Quran in Surah 26: Al-Shu'ara' (The Poets) in verses 60–67. According to the Exodus account, Moses held out his staff, and the Red Sea was parted by God. The Israelites walked on the exposed dry ground and crossed the sea,"
"four rivers? The Jordan, the Yarmuk, the Keramyhon and Pigah."" According to this and other passages, the Talmudic Seven Seas include: Various transliterations for the sea names from Hebrew exist. For Helath: ""Chelath"" and ""Shelyith"". For Hiltha: ""Chiltha"" and ""Chultha"". For Sibkay: ""Sibchi"" and ""Somcho"". And for Aspamia: ""Apamia"". The 17th century churchman and scholar John Lightfoot mentions this set of seas in his ""Commentary on the New Testament"". A chapter titled ""The Seven Seas according to the Talmudists, and the four Rivers compassing the Land"" includes the ""Great Sea"" (now called the Mediterranean Sea), the ""Sea of Tiberias"" (Sea"
"the Sea of Galilee. The name is derived from either a lakeside village, Gergesa, the next larger city, Gadara, or the best-known city in the region, Gerasa. ""Gergesenes"" means ""those who come from pilgrimage or fight."" Many New Testament manuscripts refer to the ""Country of the Gadarenes"" or ""Gerasenes"" rather than the Gergesenes. Both Gerasa and Gadara were cities to the east of the Sea of Galilee and the River Jordan. They were both Gentile cities filled with citizens who were culturally more Greek than Semitic; this would account for the pigs in the biblical account. Gerasa and Gadara are"
"turquoise pool"", and ""I behold the tilapia in its"" [true] ""nature guiding the speedy boat in its waters."" Tilapia were one of the three main types of fish caught in Biblical times from the Sea of Galilee, specifically the ""Galilean Comb"" (""Tilapia galilea""). Today, in Modern Hebrew, the fish species is called ""amnon"" (Suggested derivative: Am= mother, Noon= fish.), although also known as ""St. Peter's fish"". The name ""St. Peter's fish"" comes from the story in the Gospel of Matthew about the apostle Peter catching a fish that carried a coin in its mouth, though the passage does not name"
"κήτη τὰ μεγάλα in Greek, and this was in turn translated as ""cete grandia"" in the Latin Vulgate. The tannin is listed in the apocalypse of Isaiah as among the sea beasts to be slain by Yahweh ""on that day"", translated in the King James Version as ""the dragon"". In Jewish mythology, Tannin is sometimes conflated with the related sea monsters Leviathan and Rahab. Along with Rahab, ""Tannin"" was a name applied to ancient Egypt after the Exodus to Canaan. In Jonah 2:1 (1:17 in English translation), the Hebrew text reads ""dag gadol"" (דג גדול), which literally means ""great fish""."
"Hebrew Bible's of Book of Genesis, Exodus, Deuteronomy, Psalms, Job, Ezekiel, Isaiah, and Jeremiah. They are explicitly listed among the creatures created by God on the fifth day of the Genesis creation narrative, translated in the King James Version as ""great whales"". The tannin is listed in the apocalypse of Isaiah as among the sea beasts to be slain by Yahweh ""on that day"", translated in the King James Version as ""the dragon"". In Jewish mythology, Tannin is sometimes conflated with the related sea monsters Leviathan and Rahab. Along with Rahab, ""Tannin"" was a name applied to ancient Egypt after"
"texts such as the Bible. It mentions whales in Genesis 1:21, Job 7:12, and Ezekiel 32:2. The ""leviathan"" described at length in Job 41:1-34 is generally understood to refer to a whale. The ""sea monsters"" in Lamentations 4:3 have been taken by some to refer to marine mammals, in particular whales, although most modern versions use the word ""jackals"" instead. The story of Jonah being swallowed by a great fish is told both in the Qur'an and in the Bible. A medieval column capital sculpture depicting this was made in the 12th century in the abbey church in Mozac, France."