"""Beelzebub"" is in , written ""Ba‘al Zəbûb"", referring to a deity worshipped by the Philistines. The title ""Ba'al"", meaning ""Lord"" in Ugaritic, was used in conjunction with a descriptive name of a specific god. Opinions differ on what the name means. In one understanding, ""Ba‘al Zəbûb"" is translated literally as ""lord of the flies"". It was long ago suggested that there was a relationship between the Philistine god, and cults of flies—referring to a view of them as pests, feasting on excrement—appearing in the Hellenic world, such as Zeus Apomyios or Myiagros. This is confirmed by the Ugaritic text which"
"that as a designation for Jupiter it is simply an intentional perversion of his usual appellation """"Baal Shamem"""" (""lord of heaven"") is quite plausible, as attested by the perversion of Beelzebub into ""Βεελζεβούλ"" (Greek version) in , as well as the express injunction found in Tosef., 'Ab. Zarah, vi. (vii) and Babli 'Ab. Zarah, 46a that the names of idols may be pronounced only in a distorted or abbreviated form. The phrase ""abomination of desolation"" ( ""ha-šiqqūṣ məšōmêm"") is found in three places in the Book of Daniel, all within the literary context of apocalyptic visions. In the Gospel of"
"lord of the ""fly"". The word ""Ba‘al Zebûb"" in rabbinical texts is a mockery of the Ba'al religion, which ancient Hebrews considered to be idol worship. Jewish scholars have interpreted the title of ""Lord of Flies"" as the Hebrew way of calling Ba'al a pile of dung and comparing Ba'al followers to flies. Beelzebub Beelzebub or Beelzebul ( or ; ""Baʿal Zəvûv"") is a name derived from a Philistine god, formerly worshipped in Ekron, and later adopted by some Abrahamic religions as a major demon. The name Beelzebub is associated with the Canaanite god Baal. In theological sources, predominantly Christian,"
"slurred pronunciation of ""zebûb""; from ""zebel"", a word used to mean ""dung"" in the Targums; or from Hebrew ""zebûl"" found in in the phrase ""bêt-zebûl"", ""lofty house"". In any case, the form ""Beelzebub"" was substituted for ""Beelzeboul"" in the Syriac translation and Latin Vulgate translation of the gospels, and this substitution was repeated in the King James Version of the Bible, the resulting form ""Beelzeboul"" being mostly unknown to Western European and descendant cultures until some more recent translations restored it. Beelzebub is also identified in the New Testament as the devil, ""prince of the demons"". Biblical scholar Thomas Kelly"
"Greek ""diabolos"" ""slanderer"", from ""diaballein"" ""to slander"": ""dia-"" ""across, through"" + ""ballein"" ""to hurl"". In the New Testament, the words ""Satan"" and ""diabolos"" are used interchangeably as synonyms. Beelzebub, meaning ""Lord of Flies"", is the contemptuous name given in the Hebrew Bible and New Testament to a Philistine god whose original name has been reconstructed as most probably ""Ba'al Zabul"", meaning ""Baal the Prince"". The Synoptic Gospels identify Satan and Beelzebub as the same. The name Abaddon (meaning ""place of destruction"") is used six times in the Old Testament, mainly as a name for one the regions of Sheol. describes"
"the last large-scale public expression of witch hysteria in North America or Europe, and afterwards, Rev. Cotton Mather wrote a pamphlet, titled ""Of Beelzebub and his Plot"". The name ""Baʿal Zəvûv"" () is found in , where King Ahaziah of Israel, after seriously injuring himself in a fall, sends messengers to inquire of Ba‘al Zebûb, the god of the Philistine city of Ekron, to learn if he will recover. Elijah the Prophet then condemns Ahaziah to die by God's words because Ahaziah sought counsel from Ba‘al Zebûb rather than from God. Rabbinical literature commentary equates Baal Zebub of Ekron as"
"sees Behemoth as a product of the imagination of the author of Job, a symbol of God's power: in verse 24 he is described as having a ring (""snare"") through his nose, a sign that he has been tamed by Yahweh. The 17th-century political philosopher Thomas Hobbes named the Long Parliament 'Behemoth' in his book ""Behemoth"". It accompanies his book of political theory that draws on the lessons of English Civil War, the rather more famous ""Leviathan"". It is also the name of a character in Mikhail Bulgakov's novel, ""The Master and Margarita"". The Behemoth also appears in John Milton’s"
"the name as ""Baalzebub"" (βααλζεβούβ) and as ""Baal muian"" (βααλ μυιαν, ""Baal of flies""). However Symmachus the Ebionite may have reflected a tradition of its offensive ancient name when he rendered it as ""Beelzeboul"". In the Testament of Solomon, Beelzebul (not Beelzebub) appears as prince of the demons and says (6.2) that he was formerly a leading heavenly angel who was (6.7) associated with the star Hesperus (which is the normal Greek name for the planet Venus (Αφροδíτη) as evening star). Seemingly, Beelzebul here is synonymous with Lucifer. Beelzebul claims to cause destruction through tyrants, to cause demons to be"
"Cheyne suggested that it might be a derogatory corruption of ""Ba‘al Zəbûl"", ""Lord of the High Place"" (i.e., Heaven) or ""High Lord"". In Arabic translations, the name is rendered as ""Baʿlzabūl"" (بعلزبول). Texts of the Acts of Pilate (also known as the Gospel of Nicodemus) vary; they use ""Beelzebul"" or ""Beelzebub"". The name is used by Hades as a secondary name for the Devil, but it may vary with each translation of the text; other versions give the name Beelzebub as Beelzebub, but separates him from the devil. Beelzebub is commonly described as placed high in Hell's hierarchy. According to"
"for the morning star, which was later translated to ""Lucifer"" in English, is הילל (transliterated HYLL), meaning ""morning star"". Although this word, ""Heilel"", has come to be translated as ""morning-star"" from the Septuagint's translation of the Scriptures, the letter ה in Hebrew often indicates singularity, much as the English ""the,"" in which case the translation would be ה ""the"" ילל ""yell,"" or ""the wailing yell."" Later, for unknown reasons, Christian demonologists appeared to designate ""Satan"", ""Lucifer"", and ""Beelzebub"" as different entities, each with a different rank in the demonic hierarchy. One hypothesis is that this might have been an attempt"
"Tel Abib Tel Abib (, ""Tel Aviv"" (""the hill of (the season) Spring""), from Akkadian ""Tel Abûbi"" (""The Tel of the flood"") is the season of the year) is an unidentified ""tell"" (hill city) on the Kebar Canal, near Nippur in what is now Iraq. Tel Abib is mentioned in : Nahum Sokolow adopted the biblical place-name as the title for his Hebrew translation of Theodor Herzl's novel ""Altneuland"" (""Old New Land""). It later gave its name to the modern Israeli city of Tel Aviv (the Hebrew letter ב without dagesh represents a sound like [v], but archaic English translations"
"ben Yosef and Lazarus is called Eliezer ben Natan. Yeshua and Eliezer have been best friends from childhood, and Yeshua is characterized as a Merkabah mystic. The themes of the book include how we cope with a loss of faith, the terrible sacrifices we make for those we love, the transcendent meaning of Yeshua's mission, and how we go on after suffering a shattering trauma. Bible fiction The term Bible fiction refers to works of fiction which use characters, settings and events taken from the Bible. The degree of fictionalization in these works varies and, although they are often written"
"the spaceship Karnak for his conference on another planet, shortly after his return from the exile. He took Hassein with him so he could use his free time during this journey for the purpose of giving a proper education to his grandson. Hassein listens to his grandfather's stories patiently, and with admiration. Ahoon is a devoted old servant of Beelzebub who accompanies him and Hassein throughout the space journey. The name ""Beelzebub"" is a derogatory Hebrew renaming of the pre-Judaic Canaanite god Baal, meaning literally ""Lord House-fly"" (Baal-zevuv) (monotheistic Jewish reference to Baal was almost certainly pejorative, and grew to"
"book was still plausible. The book was immediately translated into Hebrew by Nahum Sokolow, who gave it the poetic title ""Tel Aviv"", using ""tel"" ('ancient mound') for 'old' and ""aviv"" ('spring') for 'new'. The name as such appears in the Book of Ezekiel, where it is used for a place in Babylonia to which the Israelites had been exiled (). The Hebrew title of the book was chosen as the name for a new neighbourhood of Jaffa, established in 1909 under the uninspired name of ""Ahuzat Bayit"", lit. ""Homestead"". The new name, Tel Aviv, replaced the original one only a"
"Beaufort castle before the Israeli withdrawal in 2000. The Hebrew original of ""Beaufort"" won Israel's 2006 Sapir Prize for Literature and the Yitzhak Sadeh Prize for Military Literature. Beaufort (novel) Beaufort (English translation of ""אם יש גן עדן""; in Hebrew: If There's a Heaven) is the first novel by Israeli author and media professional Ron Leshem. The work was initially published in 2005 and in English translation under this title in 2007. The novel was the basis for the 2007 Academy Award-nominated film ""Beaufort"". ""Beaufort"" is about an Israel Defense Forces unit stationed at the Beaufort Castle, Lebanon post in"
"instead. Similarly, e.g., Mephiboshet for Merib-ba`al son of Jonathan and Merib-ba'al son of Saul. Note that the Bible unashamedly uses ""ba`al"" as a common name meaning ""master"", as in, e.g., ""the master of this dog"". The Israel Antiquities Authority says archaeologists have discovered a rare 3,000-year-old inscription of a name mentioned in the Bible. The name ""Eshbaal Ben Beda"" appears on a large ceramic jar found in Khirbet Qeiyafa. Eshbaal of the Bible was a son of King Saul. Archaeologists Yosef Garfinkel and Saar Ganor say the jar belonged to a different Eshbaal, likely the owner of an agricultural estate."
"underground church. It will survive through the ages and comes to be known as the Catacomb of Callixtus. ""Ben-Hur"" is the romantic story of a fictional nobleman named Judah Ben-Hur, who tries to save his family from misfortune and restore honor to the family name, while earning the love of a modest female Jew named Esther. It is also a tale of vengeance and spiritual forgiveness that includes themes of Christian redemption and God's benevolence through the compassion of strangers. A popular theme with readers during Gilded Age America, when the novel was first published, was the idea of achieving"
"the book itself, the novel's title apparently refers to a verse in the Bible (2 Peter 3:7) reading ""the heavens and the earth ... [are] reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men."" William Faulkner, whose diction frequently echoes the King James Bible, liked the phrase, and many reviewers have traced it to a speech of Faulkner's against racism. Perhaps as relevant is a passage in ""Absalom, Absalom!"" in which Sutpen, a Faustus character of the sort that Pynchon deploys everywhere, seeks ""a wife who not only would consolidate the hiding but could would and"
"of Beelzebub, ""than whom, Satan except, none higher sat."" Beelzebub is also a character in John Bunyan's ""The Pilgrim's Progress"", first published in 1678. Sebastien Michaelis associated Beelzebub with the deadly sin of pride. However, according to Peter Binsfeld, Beelzebub was the demon of gluttony, one of the other seven deadly sins, whereas Francis Barrett asserted that Beelzebub was the prince of false gods. Within religious circles, the accusation of demon possession has been used as both an insult and an attempt to categorise unexplained behavior. Not only had the Pharisees disparagingly accused Jesus of using Beelzebub's demonic powers to"
"Beaufort (novel) Beaufort (English translation of ""אם יש גן עדן""; in Hebrew: If There's a Heaven) is the first novel by Israeli author and media professional Ron Leshem. The work was initially published in 2005 and in English translation under this title in 2007. The novel was the basis for the 2007 Academy Award-nominated film ""Beaufort"". ""Beaufort"" is about an Israel Defense Forces unit stationed at the Beaufort Castle, Lebanon post in Southern Lebanon during the South Lebanon conflict. It takes the form of a narrative written by the unit's commander, Liraz Librati, who was the last commander of the"
"[great] rabbi""), ""Moreinu VeRabeinu"" (""our teacher and our rabbi/master""), ""Rosh yeshiva"" (""[the] head [of the] yeshiva""), ""Rosh HaYeshiva"" (""head [of] the yeshiva""), ""Mashgiach"" (for Mashgiach ruchani) (""spiritual supervsor/guide""), ""Mora DeAsra"" (""teacher/decisor"" [of] the/this place""), ""HaGaon"" (""the genius""), ""Rebbe"" (""[our/my] rabbi""), ""HaTzadik"" (""the righteous/saintly""), ""ADMOR"" (""Adoneinu Moreinu VeRabeinu"") (""our master, our teacher and our rabbi/master"") or often just plain ""Reb"" which is a shortened form of ""rebbe"" that can be used by, or applied to, any married Jewish male as the situation applies. Note: A ""rebbetzin"" (a Yiddish usage common among Ashkenazim) or a ""rabbanit"" (in Hebrew and used among Sephardim)"
"through the universe, hence the temple's name for the spaceship. Another possible allegory about the three main characters in this book is that they might represent Gurdjieff's representation of the three human brains, or centers. 1) Beelzebub – Intellectual center 2) Hassein – Emotional center 3) Ahoon – Moving Center. Also, ""Karnak"" could be translated from Armenian to English as ""dead body"", and thus, this analogy shows how the mind educates the emotions. Mullah Nassr Eddin is an impartial teacher who had a wise saying for every life situation. Lentrohamsanin is a being who destroyed all of the traces of"
"name with a Hebrew word for ""pleasure""; thus the Douay-Rheims Bible in Genesis 2:8 has the wording ""And the Lord God had planted a paradise of pleasure"" rather than ""a garden in Eden"". The Hebrew term is translated ""pleasure"" in Sarah's secret saying in . Like the Genesis flood narrative, the Genesis creation narrative and the account of the Tower of Babel, the story of Eden echoes the Mesopotamian myth of a king, as a primordial man, who is placed in a divine garden to guard the Tree of Life. The Hebrew Bible depicts Adam and Eve as walking around"
"ben Shahar"""" may refer to the planet Venus as the morning star. The Hebrew word transliterated as ""Hêlêl"" or ""Heylel"" (pron. as ""Hay-LALE""), occurs only once in the Hebrew Bible. The Septuagint renders הֵילֵל in Greek as Ἑωσφόρος (""heōsphoros""), ""bringer of dawn"", the Ancient Greek name for the morning star. According to the King James Bible-based Strong's Concordance, the original Hebrew word means ""shining one, light-bearer"", and the translation given in the King James text is the Latin name for the planet Venus, ""Lucifer"". However, the translation of הֵילֵל with the name ""Lucifer"" has been abandoned in modern English translations"
"Hebrew from their exile in Babylon in which the Hebrew shall no longer be called Forsaken, but Hephzibah (My Delight Is in Her), and Jerusalem shall no longer be called Desolate, but Beulah (Married). This implies that the Hebrews have turned back to the worship of God. The idea the hymn presents that Heaven can be seen from Beulah land comes from John Bunyan's ""Pilgrim's Progress"" in which he states ""Therefore it is, I say, that the Enchanted ground is placed so nigh to the land Beulah and so near the end of their race [i.e. Heaven]."" Edgar Page Stites"
"kings upon the earth, The statement is clear, except for the final word, ""lof-geornest"" ('keenest to seek fame'), which is two-edged. It is no shame for a hero to seek fame, but it may be possible to be too eager for it. Beowulf (hero) Beowulf (; Old English: ""Bēoƿulf"" ) is a legendary Geatish hero in the epic poem named after him, one of the oldest surviving pieces of literature in the English language. A number of origins have been proposed for the name ""Beowulf"". Henry Sweet, a philologist and early linguist specializing in Germanic languages, proposed that the name"
"(heavenly) dwelling"", and ""Ba'al Zebub"" was a derogatory pun used by the Israelites. In regard to the god of Ekron, the belief that ""zebub"" may be the original affix to Baal and that it is a substitute for an original ""zbl"" which, after the discoveries of Ras Shamra, has been connected with the title of ""prince"", frequently attributed to Baal in mythological texts. Ba'al Zebub was used in Hebrew as a ""pun"" with Ba'al Zebul, where Zebul meant ""of the manor"", and in a derogatory manner Ba'al Zebub was used to offend the enemies of the Israelites. The Septuagint renders"
"of William Blake, for example several times in ""The Four Zoas"". Beulah (given name) Beulah (), a feminine given name, originated from the Hebrew word (בְּעוּלָ֑ה ""bə‘ūlāh""), used in the Book of Isaiah as a prophesied attribute of the land of Israel. The King James Bible transliterates the word and translates it as ""married"" (see ). An alternative translation is ""espoused"", see for example (Mechon Mamre). The ""Online Etymology Dictionary"" relates the word to ""baal"", meaning ""owner, master, lord"". Literary works have used ""Beulah"" as the name of a mystical place, somewhere between Earth and Heaven. It was so used"
"be used among other terms for Satan. The name later appears as the name of a demon or devil, often interchanged with Beelzebul), while the name ""Hassein"" has the same linguistic root with ""Husayn"" (). Sigmund Freud theorized Judaism and Christianity as expressing a relationship between father (Judaism) and son (Christianity). In this light, Gurdjieff's choice of grandfather and grandson suggests a pre-Judaic and post-Christian relationship. The spaceship Karnak derives its name from a famous temple in Egypt, located on the banks of the River Nile. When humans are liberated enough to ascend through the ancient knowledge, they could travel"
"what is being written about. Beelzebub is the protagonist of the book, who ruminates his past experiences in a solar system called ""Ors"" (our solar system) where he had been banished for rebelling against His Endlessness. He spent his exile in observation of the solar system, and of Earth and humans in particular. He visited Earth six times and observed it from just after its creation until 1922. Because of his help in the eradication of animal sacrifice on Earth, Beelzebub was pardoned from his sentence. Beelzebub tells the tales to his grandson Hassein while they are traveling together on"
"who sanctifies you (Lev. 22:32).” In addition to the references in the Torah, Chillul Hashem is mentioned extensively in Prophets and Writings, especially in the Book Ezekiel. The fact that it appears so frequently throughout the Hebrew Bible demonstrates its centrality and severity. A notable example is Ezekiel 36:20–24 in which the prophet laments the Jewish Exile to Babylonia and claims that the reality of exile — specifically, the Jewish people living outside their ancestral homeland — is itself a desecration of God’s name. The obligation to refrain from desecration of Hashem is one of the 613 commandments in rabbinical"
"the etymology of the term is unknown, one popular theory is that it comes from the Hebrew term , meaning ""useless."" Another theory is that the word is derived from the name Shelumiel, an Israeli chieftain. Others claim that the term originated with the character Peter Schlemihl, the main character of a novella by Adelbert von Chamisso. In American culture, the term ""schlemiel"" is known most for its usage in the theme song of the sitcom ""Laverne & Shirley"". The show's opening theme began with the title characters chanting, """"1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8. Schlemiel""! ""Schlimazel""! Hasenpfeffer Incorporated!"" Schlemiel Schlemiel (; sometimes spelled shlemiel"
"first of the passages in Job where it figures, the Septuagint gives Herper; in the second, the Vulgate quite irrelevantly inserts Arcturus; Karstens Niebuhr (1733–1815) understood Kesil to mean Sirius; Thomas Hyde (1636–1703) held that it indicated Canopus. Now ""kesil"" signifies in Hebrew ""impious"", adjectives expressive of the stupid criminality which belongs to the legendary character of giants; and the stars of Orion irresistibly suggest a huge figure striding across the sky. The Arabs accordingly named the constellation ""Al-gebbar"", ""the giant"", the Syriac equivalent being ""Gabbara"" in old Syriac version of the Bible known as ""Peshitta"". We may then safely"