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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Elamite
People from Elam, the old civilisation centred on Susa in what is now southwestern Iran. Ezra has them among those resettled in Samaria who opposed rebuilding Jerusalem, and Acts puts them in the Pentecost crowd.
People from Elam, the old civilisation centred on Susa in what is now southwestern Iran. Ezra has them among those resettled in Samaria who opposed rebuilding Jerusalem, and Acts puts them in the Pentecost crowd.
Elamites came from Elam, an ancient civilization centered on Susa in what is now southwestern Iran, one of the oldest urban cultures in the Near East and extensively documented in Mesopotamian and Persian records. Ezra lists Elamites among the peoples resettled in Samaria who wrote to oppose the rebuilding of Jerusalem, and Acts names them among the nations represented at Pentecost.
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- Ezra 4:9
- Acts 2:9
