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  • In pre-Jewish Mesopotamian religion, the Tree of Life was depicted ... in many cultures throughout the world. In ancient Mesopotamian and Canaanite ...
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  • The Therapeutae (meaning: "healers") were an ancient order ... Therapeutae were widely established in the ancient world but the particular ...
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  • Amorite (Sumerian Mar.tu, Akkadian Amurrūm, Egyptian Amar, Hebrew ... Akkadian in style, that are preserved in ancient inscriptions. Many of these ...
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  • destroyed. The synthesis of Greek and Egyptian customs, beliefs and practices ... his father is unknown, he was described in ancient times as either the son ...
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  • and Bilquis (Arabic), was the ruler of an ancient kingdom located in the areas ... Sheba may be derived from the ancient Egyptian word for star. According ...
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  • modern Tell Mardikh, Syria) was an ancient city about 55 km southwest ... King Ibrium and his son Ibbi-Sipish. Its religion appears to have included ...
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  • Ancient Egypt as a general historical term broadly refers to the civilization ... Egyptian civilization had a bias towards unity, rather than towards ...
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  • meaning The Moon is Born) was a pharaoh of ancient Egypt and the founder of ... of Egypt and successfully reasserted Egyptian power in its formerly subject ...
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  • Rehoboam (Hebrew: רחבעם, Rehav'am) was a king in ancient ... several Judean towns against attack, the Egyptian king Shishak successfully ...
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  • reign (subject to the debates surrounding Egyptian chronology) are from 1367 ... Practitioners consider both the ancient Egyptian religion and their modern ...
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  • דַּרְיָוֵשׁ (Daryawesh) and the ancient Greek sources call him Dareios ... as a fervent believer in the monotheistic religion of Zoroaster. He was also ...
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  • many elements of their worship in ancient Egyptian religion were derived from ... The myth of Osiris was deeply influential in ancient Egyptian religion ...
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  • known for his excavations at Ur in Sumer, ancient Mesopotamia (present-day ... to excite those who regard science and religion as complementary approaches ...
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  • The concept of the hieros gamos derives from ancient mythologies relating ... In ancient Sumerian cosmology, heaven (An) and earth (Ki) were originally ...
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  • A concept of Divine Right is also found in ancient and non-Christian ... to the throne in God's name. The ancient Roman Catholic tradition ...
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  • common form of religious expression. Most ancient religions involved belief ... culture of moral laxity. Philosophers of religion who view religion's ...
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  • The ruins of ancient Shechem were rediscovered in 1903, situated at ... a Canaanite settlement, mentioned on an Egyptian stele of a noble at the ...
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  • the cultural arts of the western tribes, ancient Egyptian artifacts, and ... abstract and generalize stylistic norms. Ancient Egyptian art, also usually ...
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  • the island of Thera, including the ancient Minoan settlement at Akrotiri ... studies utilizing conventional Egyptian chronology, of about a century ...
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  • which was used throughout the entire Ancient Near East. Documents found ... divine honors claimed by the Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt. Sargon's heirs ...
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