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  • traded with Roman traders as well as with Egyptian and Persian merchants. ... the Aksumites practiced a polytheistic religion not unlike the Greek’s ...
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  • tablets have helped locate the Hebrew religion and culture in its wider ... bearing a striking resemblance to early Egyptian art in many of its features ...
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  • Egyptian religion permeated every aspect of life. It dominated life ... to inform modern thought. While Egyptian religion no longer exists in ...
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  • was (relatively) common in Syriac and Egyptian Christianity at the time ... For the Egyptian renunciants, the move to the desert was also seen ...
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  • annunciation was given by an angel to the Egyptian slave Hagar in Genesis 16:7 ... *[http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/christianity/holydays/annunciation ...
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  • from Asia. The city is adjacent to the Egyptian village of Taba, to the ... 1020 and 928 B.C.E. From its humble Egyptian origins, the mining industry ...
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  • The birth of Moses occurred at a time when the current Egyptian monarch ... draw out") is most certainly a royal Egyptian name: the element -mose ...
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  • the structure of the tomb. Thus, for Egyptian pharaohs who believed death ... entirely made of such materials. Egyptian tombs, taking the form of ...
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  • evidence suggests that early Israelite religion did not always have had ... from Hebrew exposure to ancient Egyptian practices. Lisa Ann Bargeman ...
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  • was supposedly born, by purifying Egyptian mysteries with the new higher ... the Rosicrucian Order was founded by Egyptian “Ormusse” or “Licht ...
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  • began in the late nineteenth century. Egyptian jurist Qasim Amin, the author ... in its very first issues in 1892. Egyptian, Turkish, Iranian, Syrian ...
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  • The Biblical Exodus Inscribed Upon an Egyptian Stele. Edfu Books, 2001 ... Category: Religion Category: Philosophy and religion Category: Christianity ...
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  • of Aphrodite and Adonis, and of the Egyptian Isis and Osiris—all of ... a feature of the calendar by the Jewish religion during the Babylonian exile ...
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  • Like the first Christian hermits of the Egyptian desert, they were mostly ... Category: Philosophy and religion Category: Religion Therapeutae|145853108 ...
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  • cemetery in the United Kingdom. The ancient Egyptian Great Pyramid of Giza, marking the tomb of Egyptian Pharaoh Khufu, is also a well-known tourist attraction ...
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  • Fundamentalism refers to any sect or movement within a religion that ... is adduced from the state of mainstream religion: static or falling attendance ...
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  • Northern Sudan, lying between the Egyptian border and Khartoum, has ... to about twenty-four kilometers near the Egyptian frontier. The coastal plain ...
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  • are known as Adnanite; Abraham took his Egyptian wife Hagar (or Hajar) and ... outward physical characteristics, race or religion. A related ideology, Pan ...
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  • by primitive cultures was the first religion.John Ferguson McLennan, ... that totemism was the earliest form of religion, considered totemic practices ...
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  • be used to perfectly correlate the Egyptian chronology with the modern ... increasingly public aspects of the Egyptian religion. These positions include ...
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  • polity came to know of this retiring Egyptian "monk." ... praxis to Anthony, who was raised as an Egyptian Christian. Indeed, E. C ...
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  • has become closely connected with the religion of Christianity, where it ... In later times, the Egyptian Christians (Copts), attracted by its ...
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  • they acted as either agents or vassals of Egyptian powers. ... seem to have adopted Canaanite religion to a great degree, including ...
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  • Israeli War. Just prior to the war, the Egyptian Army took over Isdud, and ... to the city were Jews of Moroccan and Egyptian descent. In the 1960s Ashdod ...
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  • to excite those who regard science and religion as complementary approaches ... to Wadi Halfa, Sudan, an area rich in Egyptian antiquities. ...
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  • *Griggs, C. Wilfred. Early Egyptian Christianity from its Origins ... Category:religion Category:Christianity Category:philosophy and religion ...
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  • Ancient Egypt).Gaston Maspero, Manual of Egyptian Archaeology, (IndyPublish ... and Smenkhkare back to the familiar Egyptian religion. There is great speculation ...
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  • to contain a series of Phoenician and Egyptian chronology, from the first ... to Cumberland utterly subversive of religion, morality, and civil society ...
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  • Dynasty of Egypt. (It is listed in Egyptian campaign accounts and the ... characteristics which are partly Egyptian and partly Greek. Of this ...
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  • him to the various ascetics living in the Egyptian desert. Under the bishop ... of debate and persecution for the young Egyptian cleric (see below). In his ...
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  • Expulsion of the Hyksos according to the Egyptian texts. Nevertheless, Josephus ... postulates that the entire mainstream Egyptian chronology is three hundred ...
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  • eventually became the normative Jewish religion, and this in turn was inherited ... nomads from southern Transjordan. An Egyptian inscription at Karnak from ...
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  • the document in the Cairo Geniza, an Egyptian synagogue storeroom containing ... Category:religion category:philosophy and religion 168121350 ...
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  • Sheep are common symbols in culture and religion. In Catal Huyuk in ancient Turkey, clay heads of rams, along with heads of bulls, are found ...
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  • is that the name goes back to the Egyptian period when the Ancient ... Berbers goes back to a very ancient Egyptian period. They were mentioned ...
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  • in his favor, signed by at least 75 Egyptian bishops, had arrived at ... being recognized as the official religion of the Roman Empire. ...
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  • into modern times with the common Egyptian usage of the term Hashasheen ... remained ignorant of Islam as a religion and of its internal divisions ...
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  • H. Cline and Jill Rubalcaba, The Ancient Egyptian World (Oxford University ... Baka religion is animist. They revere a supreme god called Komba, ...
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  • by the birds, it also forewarns the Egyptian captivity and eventual release ... son Ishmael (born of Hagar the Egyptian) is the source from which ...
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  • by reducing the numbers of insects. In religion, amphibians have often been ... Amphibians also play an important role in human culture and religion ...
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  • Additions to Esther are the work of an Egyptian Jew, writing around 170 ... Category:religion Category:philosophy and religion 163938621 ...
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  • == Anthropomorphism in religion == From the perspective of believers of a religion where the deity or deities ...
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  • and substantial trade network. Egyptian artifacts found at the site ... these altars be sincerely devoted to true religion, in which ethics play just ...
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  • sealed their dead in clay containers. Ancient Egyptian practices used large stone coffins, known as sarcophagi to contain the bodies of the dead, mainly ...
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  • of the Bath. After becoming Sirdar of the Egyptian Army he headed the victorious ... day of rest, and guaranteed freedom of religion to all citizens of the Sudan ...
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  • == Culture and religion == [[Image:AleppoAlJdeida.jpg|left|thumb|A ... that was relatively common in Syriac and Egyptian Christianity at the time ...
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  • trade with the West since ancient times. Egyptian trade with India and Roman ... in a Coptic translation in 1945, at the Egyptian village of Nag Hammadi, ...
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  • ) and are a brief glimpse of early Hebrew religion, most of the details ... and cadeuceus), was used to denote the Egyptian god Thoth, the Greek god ...
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  • while the other facet concentrated on religion, in particular High Church ... and the corresponding disintegration of religion. In contrast, Waugh's ...
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  • V. Fox. The Song of Songs and the Ancient Egyptian Love Songs. (Madison, WI: ... with ancient Mesopotamian and Egyptian love poetry, though it is ...
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  • cenobitic (communal) monasticism in the Egyptian desert. The term likely ... Category:Religion Category:Christian leaders category:Philosophy and ...
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  • E. – 415 C.E.) was a popular Hellenized Egyptian female philosopher, mathematician ... Category:Philosophy and religion 60320644 ...
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  • of plunder from the city." Like the Egyptian pharaohs had done to the ... Of the customs, religion, and social structure of the Ammonites, little ...
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  • Recovered ancient Egyptian furniture includes a third millennium B ... diverse history, and its architecture, religion, furniture and culture in ...
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  • Nebuchadnezzar II, in a move to counter Egyptian influence in the region ... Category:religion Category:Judaism Category:religious figures ...
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  • of Constantinople, the defeat of the Egyptian Mamluks and wars against ... of Constantinople, the defeat of the Egyptian Mamluks and wars against ...
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  • of two natures in Christ. A group of 13 Egyptian bishops and perhaps others ... Category:philosophy and religion Category:religion Category:Christianity ...
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  • fulfill his destiny, she offered her Egyptian slave, Hagar, to him for ... category:philosophy and religion category:religion 103373145 ...
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  • (Arabic,مندائية) is a monotheistic religion with a strongly dualistic ... has been reported of them and their religion has come primarily from ...
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  • of its history as an enduring universal religion that gave birth to the later ... siege in order to face Zedekiah's Egyptian allies. After defeating ...
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  • in stone-age cave drawings and Ancient Egyptian tombs. Theories regarding ... as part of a rite of passage. In terms of religion, it is most prevalent in ...
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  • ==The Religion of the Temple== ===Intellectual and cultural significance=== ... and archaeological) that for most people, religion was not exclusively Yahwistic ...
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  • meant to invoke divine presence. Each religion has its own sacraments that ... (Anglican Church) Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion, Article XXV: ...
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  • , others oppose this view and claim that the religion dimension is ... The first major peace initiative began in 1977 when Egyptian President ...
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  • === Religion and Philosophy === In his work Fasl al-Maqāl (translated ... He is also the main character in Destiny, Egyptian filmmaker's ...
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  • salvation. The Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion.] Church Society. Retrieved ... evidence its authoritative status among Egyptian Jewry until the Middle Ages. ...
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  • Japanese sculpture is associated with religion, and it's use declined ... The ancient art of Egyptian sculpture evolved to represent the ancient ...
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  • (June 19, 1951 – July 31, 2022) was an Egyptian-born terrorist and ... He became a leading figure in the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, an Egyptian ...
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  • ardent monotheist who repressed Canaanite religion and attempted to centralize ... soon after the Assyrians learned of an Egyptian force marching to Jerusalem ...
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  • a few generations before Benedict, in the Egyptian desert. Following the ascetic ... made such great contributions to religion, economics, education, and ...
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  • This term had been borrowed from Ancient Egyptian Fnkhw "Syrians." ... In terms of archeology, language, and religion, there is little to ...
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  • Khan, who had little interest in Russian religion and culture. It is also ... the Egyptian Pharaoh placed as next to the king after him of ...
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  • Qur'an. Arab writings relating to religion also includes many sermons ... to investigate more fully the Islamic religion were invaluable in studying ...
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  • Egypt, as he may have been a Hellenized Egyptian. From all accounts his personal ... Category:Philosophy and religion 64039821 ...
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  • were closely related (in terms of religion and culture), certain elements ... Study in Semitic and Indo-European Religion. London: University of London ...
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  • seminal personalities of philosophy and religion tried to answer—such as ... writing was used internationally and even Egyptian traders and statements communicated ...
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  • a team of archaeologists who have found Egyptian coins in the port city of ... areas, matrilineal in others—language, religion, subsistence and habitat ...
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  • throughout Antiquity, through until the Egyptian and Phoenician periods when ... describes how the Egyptian pharaoh Necho II sent out an expedition ...
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  • [[Image:Egypt-region-map-cities.gif|thumb|260px|right|Sites of Egyptian ... in Roman works of silver and ivory, or in Egyptian cotton and silk fabrics ...
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  • He is also known for making Christianity the official state religion ... as the only legitimate imperial religion, ending state support for ...
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  • is an Afro-Asiatic language closely related to Egyptian and Semitic-Canaanite languages. The language is called Tamasheq by western Tuareg in Mali ...
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  • of the Tabernacle. Ceramics and ancient Egyptian figurines were found. ... Hebrew Epic; Essays in the History of the Religion of Israel. Cambridge, Mass: ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Economics Category:Industry and business [[Image:Grote bazaar - straat.JPG ...
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  • Rabin took part in the Israeli-Egyptian armistice talks in Rhodes ... Damascus sought the assistance of the Egyptian president, Gamal Abdel Nasser ...
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  • ninth century. This manuscript is in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. The longer ... Category:religion 202788679 ...
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  • least during the Graeco-Roman period of Egyptian history. Numerous papyri ... citizens. Therefore, for example, an Egyptian could marry an aunt, but ...
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  • of Palestine, irrespective of race and religion. League of Nations ... with Egypt was legalized in the 1979 Egyptian-Israeli Peace Treaty, and ...
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  • characteristic of the Alexandrian (Egyptian) allegorical tradition which ... Category:philosophy and religion Category:philosophers category:religion ...
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  • exchange on the Senate floor was related to his religion and the issue of slavery: Benjamin Wade of Ohio accused him of being an "Israelite in Egyptian ...
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  • remains. The line once connected to the Egyptian railway system to the south ... television (Al Jazeera, Lebanese, and Egyptian entertainment programs) ...
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  • through 622 B.C.E.), in the court of the Egyptian Pharaohs (down to the Lagid ... Among the earliest records of human religion are accounts of castration ...
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  • a central figure in the Druze religious religion following his claim to be ... to Song Dynasty era China. The Fatimid Egyptian sea captain known as Domiyat ...
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  • Freedom of religion is a political principle guaranteeing freedom ... on December 10, 1948, defines freedom of religion and belief as follows: ...
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  • southern land Shumeru. Biblical Shinar, Egyptian Sngr and Hittite Šanhar ... may be regarded as contrasting poles of Sumerian religion. ...
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  • their Greek identity, Orthodox Christian religion and independence, chose ... liberation from Turkish rule due to Egyptian intervention. Crete had ...
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  • Found in the mythology, folklore, and religion of virtually all world ... *Egyptian mythology – Seth *Estonian mythology – Kaval-Ants (The ...
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  • no evidence remains of earlier Greek or Egyptian musical theories. Another ... Category:Philosophy and religion Pythagoras|26327028|Pythagoreanism|31739915 ...
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  • and have been featured in prominent works of religion and literature, such as the eight plagues mentioned in the Bible and being referenced Plato ...
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  • themselves is unknown, although the Egyptian place name "Keftiu ... and Greek. If the values of these Egyptian names are accurate, then ...
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  • While there, they learned that the great Egyptian lord with whom they had ... their father's coffin and many Egyptian officials accompanying them. ...
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