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How could the Sages suppress such sefarim such as Yechezkel and Kohelet?

The rabbis had to make decisions in the face of mountains of candidate books. Most were rejected for inclusion in the Tanakh because they had secular or Hellenistic tendencies, or disagreed with the ...
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What tribe was Shmuel from?

Shmuel was from shevet Levi. Rashi explains that this is explicit in Divrei Hayomim: אלקנה. לוי היה, מבני אביאסף בן קרח, כן נתייחס בדברי הימים (א ה ח): Elkonoh. He was a Levite of the sons of Aviosof,...
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What tribe was Shmuel from?

There is a Midrash (Yalkut Shimoni 42:5) which discusses all the kings and judges that came from the various tribes. In that piece it writes: עלי ושמואל משבט לוי Eli and Shmuel came from the tribe of ...
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Nature of cryptic prophecies

Jonah's prophecy, "Nineveh will be overturned (נהפכת)," was originally ambiguous, even to Jonah himself; but once it came to pass, it became clear that it meant that their evil deeds were ...
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Nature of cryptic prophecies

Aish haTorah in their Discovery seminars uses the case of large and small letters written in the list of the sons of Haman, Megilas Esther 9:7-9 There are 3 small letters: letter ת in  ...
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Lack of the name Hashem Tzevaot in the Torah

Berachot 31b: מיום שברא הקדוש ברוך הוא את עולמו, לא היה אדם שקראו להקדוש ברוך הוא ״צבאות״, עד שבאתה חנה וקראתו ״צבאות״ From the day that the Holy One, Blessed be He, created His world, there was no ...
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Are Biblical Hebrew words for “sister” & “bride” interchangeable? Can “sister” mean “friend”?

The quoted opinion by the OP is mistaken and based on a figurative reading of the verses in Shir haShirim (Song of Songs), which is written in a language of metaphore. The text is talking about very ...
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Is anyone in the Tanakh referred to by their mother's name?

Even though it doesn't exactly answer the question, Shemot 18:3 says that Gershom & Eliezer are Tzipporah's sons (below, translation from Sefaria.org): וְאֵ֖ת שְׁנֵ֣י בָנֶ֑יהָ אֲשֶׁ֨ר שֵׁ֤ם ...
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Is anyone in the Tanakh referred to by their mother's name?

Saul, son of the Canaanite woman וְשָׁא֖וּל בֶּן־הַֽכְּנַעֲנִֽית in Bereshit 46:10
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Are there any multi-word names in the Tanakh?

Disclaimer: This list is not comprehensive. I'll update with more names suggested in the comments or that I have come across. Yeshayahu had a son named מהר שלל חש בז (Maher Shalal Chash Baz) (Isaiah ...
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Is anyone in the Tanakh referred to by their mother's name?

דינה בת לאה - Dinah Bat Leah Genesis 34:1
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