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  Aramaea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Aramaea (also spelled Aramea) is the historical land of the Aramaeans.
Aramaea was located in central Syria, including where the city of Aleppo (aka Halab) now stands.
Some Aramaeans of today dream of an independent Aramaea in Lebanon where the Syriac Maronites (who have partly an Aramaean heritage by the side of the Phoenician heritage) now predominate.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Aramaea   (228 words)

  
 Aramaea - TheBestLinks.com - Arabic language, Aramaic, Jesus, Lebanon, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
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In the Hebrew Bible it is called Aram-Naharaim "Aram of two Rivers" to distinguish it from the other Aram.
www.thebestlinks.com /Aramaea.html   (215 words)

  
 Aramaea - Unipedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
In the Hebrew Bible, it is called "Aram-Naharaim", meaning "Aram of two rivers", to distinguish it from other Arams.
The Arameans (speakers of Aramaic) never succeeded in unifying their city states into a single "kingdom of Aramaea".
Some Arameans of today dream of an Aramaea in Lebanon where the Syriac Maronites (who are Arameans) now predominate.
www.unipedia.info /Aramea.html   (254 words)

  
 The Aramaeans   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
They were mostly The Aramaeans settled in the area "east of Antioch, stretching from the northern reaches of the land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers westward almost to the Mediterranean sea, and southward to the environs of Damascus, was often called by the local inhabitants, Aram."
Abraham's wife was brought to him from what may have been Aramaea and therefore, according to the Hebrew tradition, the Patriarchs--the founders of the Hebrews--came from that district before settling in Palestine.
Also, Abraham sent his messenger to Harran in quest of a wife, Rebekah, for his son Isaac, and dispatched Jacob in person to marry Leah and Rachel (see Genesis 24:4; 29:21 seq.).
humwww.ucsc.edu /gweltaz/courses/israel/encyclopaedia/aramaeans.html   (246 words)

  
 Aramaea: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Aramaea is the land of the Arameans (A member of one of a group of Semitic peoples inhabiting Aram and parts of Mesopotamia from the 11th to the 8th century BC)
Aramaea was located in central Syria (An Asian republic in the Middle East at the east end of the Mediterranean; site of some of the world's most ancient centers of civilization; involved in state-sponsored terrorism)
The Arameans (speakers of Aramaic) never succeeded in unifying their city states into a single "kingdom of Aramaea", Exception Handler: No article summary found.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /ref/aramaea   (1066 words)

  
 Who Owns the Holy Land Part 1
So Abraham left Aramaea (which is today Northeastern Syria) and went forth to the land of Canaan.
From this it is possible to reconstruct a general account of what took place in the Holy Land before the reign of King David.
The stories of the patriarchs Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, shadowy figures though these now are, nevertheless point to a time when semi-nomadic tribes from Aramaea began to infiltrate into the land of the Canaanite city-states.
www.jesusseminar.com /Periodicals/4R_Articles/HolyLandI/holylandi.html   (3916 words)

  
 FictionPress.Com Story : Aramaea   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Kaitlyn started to tell Abby that it would in fact hurt her but was distracted by another group walking down the hall past them.
Aramaea kept to themselves, they had their own following of fans, boys and wannabes and as a rule loathed all things and people “popular”.
Kaitlyn had been partnered with Adrienne in Biology and once they managed to put their differences aside they had become something akin to friends.
www.fictionpress.com /read.php?storyid=1929691   (1996 words)

  
 Noah (per Bisshop Ussher's Annals of the World): Flood ~ 2349 - 2348 BC (Camping ~5000 BC)
ARAMAEA (Sept. and later versions SYRIA) was the name given by the
Hebrews to the tract of country lying between Phoenicia on the west,
Aram, or Aramaea, seems to have corresponded generally to
www.bethelmorganhill.org /srch_scriptures/RacesAram.htm   (5212 words)

  
 Prophecy In The News Articles List   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
From Greece to India and as far south as Egypt, Alexander’s reign would change the way power was meted out, and would eventually lead to regional agreements with the Romans.
It was the Greeks who gave the territory around Damascus the name "Syria." But culturally and linguistically, the land was known as Aramaea.
In the two centuries that preceded the Assyrian captivity, Israel’s kings and the monarchs of Aramaea had maintained a working relationship.
www.prophecyinthenews.com /articledetail.asp?Article_ID=104   (4493 words)

  
 Isaiah 7   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
With a close study of the events referred to we may date the oracle in this chapter to 734 B.C. On the throne in Nineveh is Tiglathpileser III, a ruthless and powerful king.
Syria, the ancient Aramaea, with its main city in Damascus, and Ephraim, the northern Israelite state, with its main city Samaria, united to form a coalition against the kingdom of Judah with its capital in Jerusalem.
Ahaz, Uzziah's unbelieving grandson, was on the throne in Jerusalem.
www.christianleadershipcenter.org /isa4.htm   (4346 words)

  
 The Solar Zodiac — Archaeoastronomy Archive
Although our knowledge of that country’s astronomy is as yet limited it is certain that the Akkadian names of the months were intimately connected with the divisions of this great circle; the calendar probably being taken from the stars about 2000 BC, according to Professor Archibald Henry Sayce, of Oxford.
Thence it passed to the Jews through Assyria and Aramaea, as the identity of its titles in those countries indicates; and the eleven, or twelve, signs for a time became with that people objects of idolatrous worship, as is evident from their history detailed in the 2d Book of the Kings, xxiii, 5.
In the Babylonian Creation Legend, or Epic of Creation, discovered by George Smith in 1872,[2] the signs were Mizrata,-a very similar word appears for the Milky Way,- generally supposed to be the original of the biblical Mazzaroth; Mazzaloth being the form used in the Targums and later Hebrew writings.
archaeoastronomy.co.uk /?p=430   (1912 words)

  
 Palestine Human Rights Campaign, New Zealand   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
These accounts combine history, legend and the point of view of the victors, so modern archaeologists and historians have analysed them to reconstruct a general account of what took place.
This points to a gradual infiltration of semi-nomadic tribes from Aramaea into the land of Canaanite city-states.
There was also the arrival of a group of Hebrews from Egypt (the Moses tradition).
www.palestine.org.nz /566.html   (3019 words)

  
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But it rings true if his elder brother died in the tenth plague and Tuthmosis IV became Pharaoh in his place.
By Aramaea is meant the regions where the descendants of Aram settled; that is the area north east of Israel including the city of Damascus.
Phoenicia was the narrow coast-land along the north eastern Mediterranean.
www-personal.buseco.monash.edu.au /~hyndman/bible/times/chap6.htm   (816 words)

  
 Arameans of Mesopotamia: Aramean (Syrian) Scholars
While I was pregnant I dreamed a reoccurring dream in which a voice kept saying to me "and the child shall be called Aramaea"..
Once I had given up and declared "OK THE CHILD SHALL BE CALLED ARAMAEA!!" The Dream stopped.
Now I am researching what Aramaea means, who they were/are, and why the heck a little baby in New Zealand should be named Aramaea.
www.aramnaharaim.org /scholars.htm   (2916 words)

  
 CriticWeb::Archive - The Holy Land   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Genesis: chapter 12 contains the seed of the Jewish claim to the Holy Land.
Abraham, from whom all Jews claim to be descended, left his home in Aramaea (where north-eastern Syria is today) at God's command and cruised southwest into the land of the Canaanites.
It is to be hoped that such a conquest is not the long-term goal of the Sharon government.
www.critic.co.nz /showfeature.php?id=777   (2672 words)

  
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