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Ezechias (EZECHIA)
1. King of Judah (Heb. Ḥizqijjāh [6], Gk. 'Eẕnīz, Akkadian Ḥazaqijau) from c. 718 to 689 B.C. Succeeding his father Ahaz at the age of twenty-five, he at first… -
Ezechiel (EZECHIELE)
Third of the great writing prophets, who lived among the exiles of Babylon in the troubled period in which the new Israel was being prepared. SUMMARY: I. Time… -
Eznik
Called Kolpatzi, or of Kolb, an Armenian writer of the 5th century, who took part in the translation of the Bible and wrote an Adversus haereses, in 4 vols.… -
Ezra (Esdras) (EZR (ESDRAS))
Armenian Katholikos (639-51), who under the emperor Heraclius, when the latter had definitively vanquished Khosrow Parviz (628) and extended the frontiers of… -
Ezra, Fourth Book of (ESDRA, IV LIBRO DI)
One of the most important apocrypha of the Old Testament. A true jewel of Jewish apocalyptic literature, it enjoyed very wide diffusion, and was inserted as an… -
Ezrahite (EZRAHITA)
EZRAHITA: V. ETHAN. -
Ezra, Third Book of (ESDRA, III LIBRO DI)
An apocryphal book, whose material is found almost entirely in the canonical books: II Par. 35, 1-36, 21 = ch. 1; Estd. 1, 1-12 = 2, 1-14; Estd. 4, 7-24 = 2… -
Ezzolied (Anagengge) (EZZOLIED (ANEGENGE))
A song in Old German (c. 1060) on Christ and the redemption of the world, composed by Ezzo, canon of the cathedral of Bamberg. Together with the Memento mori…