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- quot;), also referred to as King David, was the second and most famous king ... The successor to King Saul, who was the first official king of the ...25 KB (4,033 words) - 22:26, 25 January 2024
- Anglicanism (from Anglia, the Latin name for England) describes the ... Anglicanism has its roots in the Celtic Christianity of the earliest ...21 KB (3,167 words) - 05:52, 28 July 2023
- The Queen of Sheba, (tenth century B.C.E.), also known as Makeda ... Sheba may be derived from the ancient Egyptian word for star. According ...22 KB (3,511 words) - 15:45, 7 December 2022
- Orthodox Judaism is the Jewish tradition that adheres to a relatively ... and Haredi Judaism, which includes Hasidism. The Modern and Haredi variants ...17 KB (2,525 words) - 02:20, 18 November 2022
- רבי שלמה יצחקי), better known by the acronym Rashi (February 22 ... Acclaimed for his ability to present the basic meaning of the texts ...21 KB (3,376 words) - 17:23, 16 April 2023
- that became a prominent feature of the nineteenth century American ... The first known large camp meetings were led by Presbyterian minister ...15 KB (2,238 words) - 18:58, 25 November 2023
- exiting of a people from an area") is the second book of the Old Testament ... The Book of Exodus presents some of the Bible's most dramatic ...26 KB (4,281 words) - 07:28, 17 November 2023
- Phillis Wheatley (1753 – December 5, 1784) was the first African ... Although her poetry about the colonies' struggle for freedom ...13 KB (1,993 words) - 03:59, 24 November 2022
- In the Hebrew Bible, Jethro (Hebrew: יִתְרוֹ, Yitro; "His ... flocks that Moses famously encountered God in the burning bush and received ...13 KB (2,051 words) - 02:58, 1 August 2022
- [[Image:François Boucher 019.jpg|thumb|270px|Madame de Pompadour ... Concubinage refers to the state of a woman or youth (known as the ...20 KB (2,953 words) - 08:14, 14 January 2023
- Stigmata (from Greek: stizo, “to prick”) refers to the five wounds ... The causes of stigmata are largely mysterious, but some observers ...21 KB (3,372 words) - 18:00, 21 October 2022
- The Gospel of Mark is an ancient koine Greek document that describes ... According to early Church tradition, c. 140 C.E., the author of the ...15 KB (2,392 words) - 20:38, 17 May 2023
- The Book of Proverbs is one of the books of the "Writings" ... sections specifically attributed to Solomon in the text were truly written ...13 KB (2,047 words) - 00:28, 19 November 2023
- Esau (עֵשָׂו, Esav) was the oldest son of Isaac and Rebekah ... Although he stood first in the line of inheritance, Esau sold his ...18 KB (2,951 words) - 22:23, 20 February 2022
- Cyrene (Greek Κυρήνη, Kurene) was an ancient Greek colony in ... Cyrene became one of the great intellectual centers of the classical ...13 KB (1,919 words) - 18:50, 12 May 2020
- The term Holy Orders comes from the Latin Ordo (order) and the word ... leaders of their religious communities, hold the power to make their respective ...19 KB (2,961 words) - 11:04, 2 February 2024
- [[Image:Vestal.JPG|thumb|right|300px|In Roman times, the Vestal Virgins ... Virginity is a term used to describe the state of never having engaged ...20 KB (2,940 words) - 20:34, 3 May 2023
- The Gospel of Luke (literally, according to Luke; Greek, Κατά ... The author is characteristically concerned with social ethics, the ...37 KB (5,220 words) - 04:27, 24 May 2024
- an ancient cosmopolitan port city, sited on the Mediterranean coast, reaching ... Rediscovered in 1928, the site dates back to 6000 B.C.E., making it ...15 KB (2,267 words) - 01:27, 3 May 2023
- John the Apostle, also known as John the Divine and John the Son of ... According to the New Testament, John came from a family of fisherman ...15 KB (2,337 words) - 17:09, 4 May 2024
