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The Ovadya ha-Navi Family

Write the Great Book

עובדיה הנביא

(Obadiah)

Origin of the name, history and genealogy of the Ovadya ha-Navi lineage — a Jewish family name and the traces it left behind.

Fourth minor prophet. His single-chapter book — the shortest in the Hebrew Bible — foretells the fall of Edom for its alliance with the Babylonians during the capture of Jerusalem.

Geographic origin: Juda

Memory register · custodian, not owner

A book yet to be written

The Great Book of the Ovadya ha-Navi lineage has not yet been written.

Claude Opus 4.8 will compose an original work from archival items in the corpus that mention this lineage, in-depth web research, and family contributions already submitted. The work will comprise approximately 30 to 40 pages — introduction, 5 to 7 chapters, conclusion — and will be automatically enriched with each new contribution.

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Collection

Location of archival items, responsa and articles in the corpus that cite the lineage or its variants.

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Web research

Claude explores external sources (encyclopaedias, academic databases, digital archives).

03

Writing

Outline, chapters, bibliography — every page is sourced. Live streaming.

Get a single link: it signs you in if you already have an account, or creates one — no password. This finalises your proposal and lets you follow its review.

Lineage Map

ÉdomÉdomPlace of Origin — JudéeJudée
Place of Origin Diaspora Memory (transmitted)Regions reconstructed from documented origins and diaspora.

This book tells the story of the Ovadya ha-Navi. Your own family may also have its Great Book — search your name to discover it, or to bring it to life.

To explore more deeply the memory, family archives, and testimonies of the lineage Ovadya ha-Navi, remember and share its dedicated address:

zakhor.ai/ovadya-ha-navi

The address zakhor.ai/ovadya-ha-navi leads directly to this page. The archives, genealogy, and accounts that the community deposits there will complement the historical portrait presented here.

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Link

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HTML

<a href="https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/ovadya-ha-navi">Ovadya ha-Navi — Zakhor</a>

Citation

Ovadya ha-Navi — Zakhor, https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/familles/ovadya-ha-navi

Variants of the name (2)

One name, a hundred faces.

The same surname, transcribed differently across languages, eras, and diasporas.

Latin1

Abdias

עברית · Hebrew1

עובדיה הנביא

Does your family write this name differently?

Notable figures

  • 1.

    Ovadya

    Plus court livre de la Bible hébraïque

In memory

The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names at Yad Vashem records the women, men, and children murdered during the Shoah. You can search there for the people who bore the name Ovadya ha-Navi.

Search “Ovadya ha-Navi” on Yad Vashem

The search is performed directly in the Yad Vashem archives; Zakhor neither copies nor retains any personal data. The presence or absence of a name in the database is not exhaustive. Learn more

Diaspora regions

JudaÉdom

The days of this book

This book bears no memory day yet. The sources that document Ovadya ha-Navi give years and centuries, never a day; we do not invent one.

You know a date — a remembrance, a hilloula, the anniversary of a departure? Give it its day

Tags

#biblique#prophete#douze

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