Ava
Ava
A German poetess, the first woman known to have written in German and probably identical with a recluse of that name who died in Austria in the vicinity of Melk, A.D. 1127. Almost nothing is known of her life or personality. She herself tells us in a passage in her work that she was the mother of two sons who helped her in procuring the material for her poems. These poems are metrical versions of stories from the New Testament and consist of a “Life of Jesus”, “Antichrist”, “The Gifts of the Holy Ghost”, “The Last Judgment”, and “John the Baptist”. They are preserved in two manuscripts, one at Verona, the other at Gorlitz. The “John the Baptist” is found only in the latter manuscript. Ava’s authorship of this poem, as well as that of the “Life of Jesus” has been questioned, but hardly on sufficient grounds. The poems are naive in tone and display deeply religious sentiments, but, except for occasional passages, they are destitute of poetic merit. Their technique is often crude, assonance taking the place of rhyme and alliteration being not infrequent. The chief source from which Ava drew her material was the New Testament, but she also made use of older German poems and possibly other writings such as the Apocryphal Gospel of the Infancy of the Saviour by the Pseudo-Matthew.
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ARTHUR F.J. REMY Transcribed by Joseph P. Thomas
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume IICopyright © 1907 by Robert Appleton CompanyOnline Edition Copyright © 2003 by K. KnightImprimatur. +John M. Farley, Archbishop of New York
Fuente: Catholic Encyclopedia
Ava
(Hebrews Avva’, , ruin; Sept. , 2Ki 17:24), also IVAH (Hebrews Ivvah’, , same signif.; Sept. , 2Ki 18:34; 2Ki 19:13; but in Isa 37:13, unites with the preceding word, v. r. ), the capital of a small monarchical state conquered by the Assyrians, and from which King Shalmaneser sent colonies into Samaria. The early Jewish translators (Symmachus and the Targums) understand it as a mere appellative; but it is associated with other proper names as a city. Some take it for the river, or rather the town which gave name to the river Ahava of Ezr 8:21 (Bellermann, Handbuch, 3, 374); but this name is quite different in the Hebrews (). Iken (Dissertt. Philol. Theolog. p. 152) would identify it with the Phoenician town Avatha, mentioned in the Notitia Vet. Dignitatum Imper. Romans (but the reading here is rather doubtful, see Reland, Palaest. p. 232 sq.); or with the town of Abeje, between Beirut and Sidon, which Paul Lucas mentions as the seat of a Druse prince. Michaelis supposes it to be the land of the Avites between Tripoli and Beirut, because they are described as worshippers of Nibhaz (2Ki 17:31), an idol which he compares with the great stone dog that formerly stood in that quarter, on which account the Lycus obtained its name of Nahr el-Kelb, Dog River (comp. Mannert, VI, 1:380). This, however, rests upon a confusion of the Avim of 2Ki 17:31, with those of Deu 2:23; Jos 13:3. SEE AVITE. Avva or Ivvah was doubtless a city of Mesopotamia, in the region indicated by the associated names (Babylon, Cuth, Hamath, Sepharvaim), perhaps somewhere farther east, in the direction of the classical Aria.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Ava
a place in Assyria from which colonies were brought to Samaria (2 Kings 17:24). It is probably the same with Ivah (18:34; 19:13; Isa. 37:13). It has been identified with Hit on the Euphrates.
Fuente: Easton’s Bible Dictionary
Ava
Ava, in Assyria; colonists thence re. peopled Samaria after the removal of the Israelites (2Ki 17:24). Probably the same as Ivah (2Ki 18:34). The Assyrians according to their usual policy, having conquered Ivah, transplanted its inhabitants to Samaria, vacated by Israel’s deportation. (See IVAH.)
Fuente: Fausset’s Bible Dictionary
Ava
ava. See AVVA.
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Ava
Ava (2Ki 17:24), also Ivah (2Ki 18:34; 2Ki 19:13; Isa 37:13), the capital of a small monarchical state conquered by the Assyrians, and from which king Shalmaneser sent colonies into Samaria. It is most probable that Ava was a Syrian or Mesopotamian town, of which no trace can now be found either in ancient writers or in the Oriental topographers.
Fuente: Popular Cyclopedia Biblical Literature
Ava
[A’va]
Place subject to Assyria from which colonists were sent to Samaria: possibly the same as AHAVA and IVAH. 2Ki 17:24.
Fuente: Concise Bible Dictionary
Ava
Called also Ivah.
A district near Babylon
2Ki 17:24; 2Ki 18:34; 2Ki 19:13; Ezr 4:9
Fuente: Nave’s Topical Bible
Ava
A’va. (ruin). A place in the empire of Assyria, apparently the same as Ivan. 2Ki 17:24.