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Isaac (name) Isaac ( / ˈaɪzək / EYE-zək) transliterated from Yitzhak, Yitzchok ( Hebrew: יִצְחָק, Modern: Yīṣḥaq, Tiberian: Yīṣḥāq) was one of the three patriarchs in the Hebrew Bible, whose story is told in the book of Genesis . Isaac is a given name derived from Judaism and a given name among Jewish, Christian, and ...
Isaac the Syrian (Syriac: ܡܪܝ ܐܝܣܚܩ ܕܢܝܢܘܐ; Arabic: إسحاق النينوي Ishaq an-Naynuwī; Greek: Ἰσαὰκ Σῦρος; c. 613 – c. 700), also remembered as Saint Isaac the Syrian, Isaac of Nineveh, Abba Isaac, Isaac Syrus and Isaac of Qatar, was a 7th-century Syriac Christian bishop and theologian best remembered for his written works on Christian asceticism.
Isaac ben Solomon Luria Ashkenazi ( Hebrew: יִצְחָק בן שלמה לוּרְיָא אשכנזי; c. 1534 [1] – July 25, 1572 [2] ), commonly known in Jewish religious circles as Ha'ari [a], Ha'ari Hakadosh [b] or Arizal, [c] was a leading rabbi and Jewish mystic in the community of Safed in the Galilee region of Ottoman Syria, now Israel.
Isaac in Islam. The biblical patriarch Isaac ( Arabic: إِسْحَاق or إِسْحٰق [note] ʾIsḥāq) is recognized as a prophet of God by Muslims. [1] As in Judaism and Christianity, Islam maintains that Isaac was the son of the patriarch and prophet Abraham from his wife Sarah. Muslims hold Isaac in deep veneration because they believe ...
The Synagogue in Radnice, where Wise was a rabbi in 1843–1846. Wise was born on 29 March 1819 in Steingrub in Bohemia (today Lomnička, a part of Plesná in the Czech Republic ). [3] [4] The son of Leo Weis, a schoolteacher, he received his early Hebrew education from his father and grandfather, later continuing his Hebrew and secular studies ...
Isaac Don Levine (January 19, 1892 – February 15, 1981) was a 20th-century Russian-born American journalist and anticommunist writer, who is known as a specialist on the Soviet Union. [1] He worked with Soviet ex-spy Walter Krivitsky in a 1939 expose of Stalin's purges and other terrorism in the Soviet Union.
Isaac is one of the three patriarchs of the Israelites and an important figure in the Abrahamic religions, including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.Isaac first appears in the Book of Genesis, later adopted by the Hebrew tradition of the Torah, in which he is considered to be the son of Abraham and Sarah, the father of Jacob and Esau, and the grandfather of the twelve tribes of Israel.
Harvard University. Occupation. Professor. Ephraim Isaac (born 29 May 1936) is an Ethiopian scholar of ancient Ethiopian Semitic languages and of African and Ethiopian civilizations. He is the director of the Institute of Semitic Studies based in Princeton, NJ. [1] and the chair of the board of the Ethiopian Peace and Development Center.