TAMMUZ — (Heb. תַּמּוּז), the post Exilic name of the fourth month of the Jewish year. The word, but not the month, occurs in Ezekiel 8:14 and is held to be identical with the Babylonian Dumuzi corresponding to Adonis of the Greeks. Tammuz as the name of… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
TAMMUZ — (Heb. תַּמּוּז; from Sumerian Dumuzi, Invigorator of the Child ), the Sumerian Babylonian fertility god. He is the invigorating power in dates, grain, and milk, and hence his role as a shepherd in Sumerian literature (Th. Jacobsen). In ancient… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
TAMMUZ, BENJAMIN — (1919–1989), Israeli writer and journalist. A native of Kharkov (Russia), Tammuz went to Ereẓ Israel in 1924. He studied at a yeshivah while attending the Herzlia secondary school in Tel Aviv. Later he worked as a laborer in British army camps, a … Encyclopedia of Judaism
TAMMUZ, FAST OF — TAMMUZ, FAST OF, communal fast occurring on the 17th of Tammuz, commemorating the breaching of the walls of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar (586 B.C.E.) and Titus (70 C.E.). The Jerusalem Talmud (Ta an. 4:8, 68c) maintains that both catastrophes… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
Tammuz — may refer to: Tammuz (deity), Babylonian and Sumerian god Tammuz (Hebrew month), the 10th month of the Hebrew calendar Tammuz (Babylonian calendar), a month in the Babylonian calendar Tammuz 1 or Osirak, formerly a nuclear reactor in Iraq See… … Wikipedia
Tammuz — (en árabe تمّوز, en hebreo תַּמּוּז) era una divinidad babilónica, consorte de Inanna, adoptada del panteón sumerio, en el que recibía el nombre de Dumuzi. En su honor recibía también ese nombre un mes del calendario empleado en la antigua… … Enciclopedia Universal
Tammuz — (hebr.) bezeichnet: Tammuz (Mythologie), eine Person aus der akkadischen und aramäischen Mythologie Tammus, einen Monat des jüdischen Kalenders Diese Seite ist eine Begriffsklärung zur Unterscheidung mehrerer mit demselben … Deutsch Wikipedia
Tammuz — [tä′mooz] n. [Heb tammūz < Akkadian tamūz, a god of fertility < Sumerian Dumu zi (lit., true son), god & legendary king] the tenth month of the Jewish year: see the Jewish calendar in the Reference Supplement … English World dictionary
Tammuz — Babylonian and Assyrian god (identified with Adon), probably from Babylonian Du uzu, contraction of Dumu zi the son who rises, also interpeted as the faithful son … Etymology dictionary
Tammuz (month) — For the deity, see Tammuz (deity).Tammuz (Arabic: تموز , Assyrian: ܬܡܘܙ , Hebrew: תמוז, Standard Tammuz Tiberian Unicode|Tammûz ) is the Arabic and Assyrian name for the month of July used in the Levant and Turkey, and tenth month of the civil… … Wikipedia
Tammuz (deity) — For other uses, see Tammuz. Fertile Crescent myth series … Wikipedia
