Enciclopedia Cattolica Vol. V, 1950 Sacred Scripture Peoples and figures

Elisa

ELISA

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ELISA (Heb. 'Elīsa). - Firstborn of Javan (Gen. 10:4). The name returns in Ezek. 27:7: the "isles of E." carried on the purple trade with Tyre.

Exegetes, agreed in seeing Greece in Javan, differ over the identification of this "son" of his. Some, following the Targum of Ezekiel, see in it an indication of Magna Graecia, particularly Sicily; others think of a city on the African coast; others of Cyprus; others, finally, of Aeolia.

Angelo Penna

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. V (1950), col. 246.

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Penna, Angelo. “Elisa (Ebr. 'Elísa').” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. V, col. 246. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950. https://azioneromana.com/article/elisa-ebr-elisa.

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Penna, Angelo. “Elisa (Ebr. 'Elísa').” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. V, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950, col. 246. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/elisa-ebr-elisa.

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@incollection{ec5_elisa_ebr_elisa,
  author    = {Penna, Angelo},
  title     = {Elisa (Ebr. 'Elísa')},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {V},
  pages     = {246},
  note      = {Cited by column},
  publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1950},
  url       = {https://azioneromana.com/article/elisa-ebr-elisa}
}

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