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  • Her family was artistically talented and the four siblings included brothers ... Although Rossetti's poetry was largely overlooked in the wake ...
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  • quot;my messenger") is a book of the Hebrew Bible traditionally ... life, or indeed if he existed at all. The book was assigned the name ...
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  • The Book of Zechariah is a book of the Hebrew Bible and Christian ... The eleventh of the 12 books of the minor prophets, the Book of Zechariah ...
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  • Arabic: سليمان Sulayman) was the son of king David and the ... The name Solomon (Shlomo) means "peaceful," or "complete ...
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  • The Pentateuch (from Greek: Πεντετεύχως [meaning "five ... The five books of the Pentateuch are titled as follows: ...
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  • The Wisdom of Ben Sira (or The Wisdom of Jesus son of Sirach or merely ... From its original Hebrew, The Wisdom of Ben Sira was translated into ...
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  • of Florence from 1494, until his execution in 1498. He was known for religious ... In his youth, he was preoccupied with religion, studying both the ...
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  • Robert Morrison (born January 5, 1782 in Bullers Green, near Morpeth ... Morrison produced a Chinese translation of the New Testament in 1813 ...
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  • In the Judeo-Christian tradition, as well as in Confucianism and other ... Honor became a guiding principle in Western society, from its earliest ...
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  • The Acts of Paul and Thecla is a story of Saint Paul's influence ... One of the writings of the New Testament Apocrypha, the Acts of Paul ...
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  • and arché meaning rule) refers to a society in which male members predominate ... Anthropologists studying cultures around the world, and at different ...
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  • American folk artist. Moses was one of the most successful and famous ... She was born Anna Mary Robertson in Greenwich, New York and was one ...
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  • ) is a major Jewish festival, also known as Succoth, Sukkos, the Feast ... families eat, sleep, and entertain guests in temporary outdoor shelters ...
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  • wedding"), or Hierogamy, refers to the coupling of a god and goddess ... The concept of the hieros gamos derives from ancient mythologies relating ...
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  • ) was a city in ancient Israel, situated north of Bethel and south ... The Bible describes Shiloh as an assembly place for the people of ...
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  • of Vadstena, was a Christian mystic and the founder of the Bridgettine Order. prayers she said she received from Christ in revelation, which also spread ...
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  • In 1827, the young Marie married Colonel Charles Louis Constant d’Agoult ... Marie began her career as a writer in 1839. She was a friend of female ...
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  • The Rastafari movement (or "Rasta" for short) is a Jamaican ... The movement is called Rastafarianism by scholars, although some Rastafari ...
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  • The Book of Numbers is the fourth of the books of the Pentateuch, ... The main theme running through the Book of Numbers is the people& ...
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  • on a dry plateau about a mile inland from the northwestern shore of the ... The Dead Sea Scrolls have been lauded as the single most important ...
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