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Elohim (ĕlōhēm`, ēlō`hĭm, ĕl`ōhēm), term used to designate the God of Israel. The use of Elohim in Israel's religious texts is an attempt to treat the particular Hebrew God, Yahweh, in a more general religious context. Elohim Old Testament a Hebrew word for God or gods Elohim spoken in place of the ineffable Yahweh. [Judaism: NCE, 22] See : God How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Specifically, he had targeted evidence pointing toward foreign involvement of Middle Easterners, a German national by the name of Andreas Strassmeir, and a group of Aryan bank robbers associated with a rural Oklahoma white separatist compound known as Elohim City. Gwynne Gulbord, head of ecumenical and interreligious concerns for the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, says: ``We have come to be afraid of and demonize the other, forgetting that we are all children of the holy -- whatever we may call that, whether it is Buddha or Allah or Elohim or God or Jesus. Finally, though, the idea whose native strangeness we can most clearly see afresh by the light of the Gospel of Judas is that of the immolation of God by God--an act so radically out of character for Yahweh Elohim that it cannot fail to bring his very identity as God into crisis. |
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