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[German Version] (Oct 15 or 16, 1585, St. Elier – Jun 18, 1658, Saumur). With M. Amyraut and J. de la Place, the Reformed theologian and Hebraist taught from 1613 to 1621 and from 1624 to 1658 at the academy in Saumur. Following Elijah Levita and against the arguments of the two Buxtorfs, Cappellus (Capelle) was the first Christian theologian …

[German Version] The word hero is a Greek loanword. Depending on whether we give more weight to literary usage (Homer; Hesiod; Pseudo-Apollodorus; esp. Hes. Erga 156–173 and Hom. Il. VI 152–211) or cultic phenomena, what defines a hero is either feats of superhuman strength and birth from a divine and a human parent (making a hero a demigod) or a gravesite cult, sometimes associated with a temple (heroon; Ancestors, Cult of). If they are not debased local deities, heroes are prehistoric figures whose extraordinary deeds or…

[German Version] is a Hebrew title for God (אֲדׂנָי/ʾa donay) which appears frequently – 217 times in Ezekiel alone – in combination with the name יהוה ( Yahweh), which it gradually supplanted in early Judaism (cf. e.g. Exod 15:11 with 1QH 7.28). The latter phenomenon appears above all in the qere perpetuum of the divine name in the Masoretic manuscripts of the OT (Masoretes), in which – except in the double construction mentioned above – the consonants of …

[German Version] (1591, Blois – Feb 28, 1659, Paris), theologian and philologist. Born to Huguenot parents, he converted to Catholicism in response to the conflict between the Arminians and the adherents of F. Gomarus. He became an Oratorian in 1618. Morin's research focused on biblical scholarship (the Masoretic text, the LXX, and the Samaritan Pentateuch) and the doctrine of the sacraments. In debate over the doctrine of inspiration (III), he saw in L. Cappellus a Reformed witness against the “d…