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	Topics Amurru Topic Home Amurru (or Martu) are names given in AkkadianAkkadian language Overview Akkadian was a Semitic language spoken in ancient Mesopotamia, particularly by the Assyrians and Babylonians.... and SumerianFacts About Sumerian language The Sumerian language of ancient Sumer was spoken in Southern Mesopotamia from at least the 4th millennium BCE.... texts to the god of the AmoriteAmorite Amorite... /Amurru people, often forming part of personal names. He is sometimes called IluDingir SumerianThe Sumerian sign dingir originated as a star-shaped pictogram indicating a god in general, or the Sumerian god An... Amurru (DINGIR ^DMAR.TU). This god Amurru/Martu is sometimes described as a 'shepherd', and as a son of the sky-god Anu. He is sometimes called bêlu šadi or bêl šadê, 'lord of the mountain'; dúr-hur-sag-gá sikil-a-ke, 'He who dwells on the pure mountain'; and kur-za-gan ti-[la], 'who inhabits the shining mountain'. In CappadociaCappadocia In ancient geography, Cappadocia was an extensive inland district of Asia Minor.... n Zincirli inscriptions he is called ì-li a-bi-a, 'the god of my father'. Accordingly, it has been suggested by L. R. Bailey (1968) and Jean Ouelette (1969), that this Bêl Šadê might be the same as the Biblical ’El Šaddai who is the GodNames of God in Judaism In Judaism, the name of God is more than a distinguishing title.... of AbrahamAbraham Abraham is regarded as the founding patriarch of the Israelites whom God chose to bless, and to make into a blessing for a... , IsaacIsaac Isaac or Yitzchak is the son and heir of Abraham and the father of Jacob and Esau as described in the Hebrew Bible.... , and JacobJacob Jacob or Ya'akov, , also known as Israel , is the third Biblical patriarch.... in the "Priestly sourcePriestly source The Priestly Source is one of the sources of the Torah postulated by the documentary hypothesis. ... " of narrative, according to the documentary hypothesisDocumentary hypothesis In studying the Hebrew Bible, some historians and academics in the fields of linguistics and source criticism have proposed the th... . It is possible that Šaddai means 'He of the mountains' or even 'the breasted God' as early iconography of Yahweh at Kuntilet Arjud shows him to have been hermaphroditic (possessing both breasts and male genitals). Alternately, Bêl Šadê could have been the fertility-god 'Ba'al', possibly adopted by the CanaanCanaan Canaan .Canaan is an ancient term for a region approximating present-day Israel and Palestine plus adjoining coastal lands ... ites, a rival and enemy of the Hebrew God YHWH, and famously combatted by the HebrewHebrews Hebrews, were people who lived in Canaan, an area encompassing Israel, both banks of the Jordan River, Sinai, Lebanon, and ... prophetProphet In religion, a prophet is a person who has directly encountered God, of whose intentions he can then speak.... ElijahElijah (prophet) Overview Elijah , also Elias , Ilia , Ilie , is a prophet of the Hebrew Bible or Old Testament.... . Amurru's wife is sometimes the goddess Ašratum (see AsherahAsherah Asherah, generally taken as identical with the Ugaritic goddess Athirat, was a major northwest Semitic mother goddess,... ) who in northwest Semitic tradition and Hittite tradition appears as wife of the god ElEl (god) Summary El is a northwest Semitic word and name translated into English as either 'god' or 'God' or left untranslated as El, ... which suggests that Amurru may indeed have been a variation of that god. If Amurru was identical with El, it would explain why so few Amorite names are compounded with the name Amurru, but so many are compounded with Il; that is, with El. Amurru also has storm-god features. Like AdadAdad *Adad* in Akkadian and *Ishkur* in Sumerian are the names of the storm-god in the Babylonian-Assyrian pantheon, bo... , he bears the epithet raman 'thunderer', and he is even called bariqu 'hurler of the thunderbolt' and Adad ša a-bu-be 'Adad of the deluge'. Yet his iconography is distinct from that of Adad, and he sometimes appears alongside Adad with a baton of power or throwstick, while Adad bears a conventional thunderbolt. Another tradition about Amurru's wife (or one of Amurru's wives) gives her name as Belit-Seri, 'Lady of the Desert'. A third tradition appears in a Sumerian poem in pastoral style, which relates how the god Martu came to marry Adg~ar-kidug the daughter of the god Numushda of the city of Inab. It contains a speech expressing urbanite Sumerian disgust at uncivilized, nomadic Amurru life which Adg~ar-kidug ignores, responding only: "I will marry Martu!".