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The Deuterocanonical books of the Bible are books considered by the ... considered non-canonical by other groups of Christians. ...

The Book of Jeremiah, is part of the Hebrew Bible, and is also included ... The Septuagint version also includes the Book of Baruch and the supposed ...

The text of the first part of the Shema is as follows: diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house ...

in the KJV) as separate from the book of Baruch. The American Bible Society ... He mentions the Book of Baruch in his prologue to the Jeremias and ...

critic and university administrator, was one of the antirationalist Oxford ... Inspired by a careful study of Spinoza, Hampshire developed a detailed ...

Apocalyptic literature is a genre of prophetical writing that developed ... The apocalyptic literature of Judaism and Christianity embraces a ...

broadest sense, can mean the entire spectrum of Judaism's rabbinic writings ... begins with the classic rabbinic literature of the Talmudic era (Sifrut Hazal ...

Nephilim are supernatural beings, specifically the offspring of human ... The Hebrew of “nephilim” is נפלים, which may mean “those ...

1797), was the foremost intellectual leader of non-Hasidic Jewry in eighteenth ... writing commentaries on virtually all of the classical sources of Jewish ...

to live in England, he was also the founder of the first Hebrew printing press ... Born to a family of Portuguese Marranos who settled in Amsterdam, ...

" Hebrew: יהוֹיָקִים) was one of the last kings of Judah. The ... During Jehoiakim's reign as a vassal of Egypt, Nebuchadnezzar ...

(also called the Torah, or first five books of the Hebrew Bible) was not literally ... Moses himself is the primary or sole author of the Pentateuch. ...

the Nobel Prize for Literature. The texture of his poems and stories, sometimes ... in central Russia. He came from a long line of landed gentry and serf owners ...

1970), born Shmuel Yosef Czaczkes, recipient of the 1966 Nobel Prize for Literature ... Agnon, called by many "a man of unquestionable genius" and ...

The Old Testament (OT) is the first division of the Christian biblical ... The Old Testament consists of many distinct books by various authors ...

the West to the ancient, Koine Greek version of the Hebrew Bible (often called ... to its authors. It formed the basis of the Old Latin versions and ...

Bookselling is the commercial trading of books, the retail and distribution ... (bookstores). Separately published book reviews such as The New York ...

genesis%2011;&version=31; Chapter 11] of the Bible, the Tower of Babel ( ... humanity. God, observing the arrogance of humanity, resolves to confuse ...

Gedaliah (died c. 585 B.C.E. or later) was the Jewish governor of ... Gedaliah had been a member of the minority faction in Judah, along ...

Standard Hebrew Yirməyáhu), was one of the "greater prophets ... The name Jeremiah means "Raised-up/Appointed of the Lord.” ...

Rakugo (落語 literally, "fallen words") is a form of Japanese ... to illustrate the spiritual principles of Buddhism such as the transiency ...

The question of being (Greek, τό ὄν, the present participle of ... Philosophers often suppose a certain sense of being as primary, and ...

Substance, in philosophy, has to do with the question or problem of ... The origin of the term goes back to the ancient Greeks. The English ...

and in the New York Central Railroad. Most of his fortune was gifted to the ... career as a stenographic clerk to Bernard Baruch of the War Industries Board ...

) is a hill in modern Israel near the Kibbutz of Megiddo, the site ... A rich archaeological site covering many levels of settlement, it ...

), the Jewish Festival of Rededication (also known as the Festival ... The holiday is a joyous one, celebrated with various traditions of ...

reasoning cannot replace direct experience of God. He also mounted a strong ... Judah Ha-Levi is regarded as one of the greatest Hebrew poets. More ...

Jewish works refer to him by the acronym of his title and name, RaMBaM ... Maimonides is typically regarded as the greatest of the medieval Jewish ...

and a leading philosopher and psychologist of the French Enlightenment. He ... 30, 1715, at Grenoble, France to a family of lawyers. Like his elder brother ...

Enlightenment philosopher whose advocacy of religious tolerance resounded ... the Jewish faith while advancing the cause of reason. Towards the end of ...

Euclid (also referred to as Euclid of Alexandria) (Greek: ... Egypt, almost certainly during the reign of Ptolemy I (323 B.C.E.–283 ...

The Masoretic Text (MT) is the Hebrew text of the Jewish Bible (Tanakh ... The MT was primarily copied, edited, and distributed by a group of ...

Yerushalmi, was born August 1, 1932 (29th of Tamuz) – and assassinated ... views, exemplified in his promotion of a theocratic "Greater ...

that gravitation might be a manifestation of an underlying geometrical structure ... Under the influence of Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer, Clifford ...

Rachael) was the younger and favorite wife of Jacob, sister of Leah and mother ... A native of Haran, and the younger daughter of Jacob's uncle ...

In Judaism, the name of God represents the Jewish conception of the ... Kabbalistic tradition makes more direct use of the sacred names of God, using ...

An archangel is a superior or higher-ranking angel found in a number ... According to Christian and Jewish traditions, the number of archangels ...

The original context of the term scapegoat was a Jewish purification ... The modern (almost clichéd) use of the term to describe an individual ...

The Brooklyn Bridge (originally the New York and Brooklyn Bridge) ... on May 24, 1883. On that first day, a total of 1,800 vehicles and 150,300 ...

The Assumption of Moses describes two or more Jewish apocryphal works ... Also called the Testament of Moses, this work begins with a brief ...

His other major works include The Winds of War and War and Remembrance ... Wouk was born in the Bronx, the second of three children born to Esther ...

philosopher who was noted for his pursuit of natural theology and philosophy ... provide a rational argument in the defense of natural theology and Newtonianism. ...

view that everything in existence is of an all-encompassing immanent ... have been discussed as long ago as the time of the Ancient Greek philosophers ...

Paris, where he eventually became Professor of Philosophy. He was a leading ... they had been viewed as a single body of work, when in fact Marx had ...

, in order to eliminate the dichotomy of mind and body—has more general ... thought. Here lies the attractiveness of monism, which subsumes all ...

Philosophy of mind is the branch of philosophy that studies the nature ... Dualism and monism are the two major schools of thought that attempt ...

writer. He has been dubbed the "Father of Modern Philosophy" and ... Descartes frequently sets his views apart from those of his predecessors ...

Athanasius of Alexandria (also spelled "Athanasios") (c. 296 C.E. ... except that Athanasius includes the Book of Baruch and the Letter of Jeremiah ...

Deuteronomy is the fifth book of the Hebrew Bible. It is part of Judaism ... The language of Deuteronomy is often inspiring and poetic, portrayed ...

by the texts, traditions and experience of the Jewish people. Judaism ... Jewish philosophy can be considered to take two directions; the use ...

, Safad) is a city in the Northern District of Israel. It is a center ... Although Safed played no role in either Jewish of Christian biblical ...

quot; worn by observant Jews on the corners of four-cornered garments, including ... are worn only by men in remembrance of God's presence in the ...

nature," derived from the arrangement of Aristotle's works) is ... A central part of metaphysics is ontology, which is the study of being ...

who gained his position in the history of Western philosophy by opening ... Fichte must be credited with reintroducing the idea of a direct contact ...

), also known as a state within a state, connotes a form of clandestine ... to a conspiracy designed to thwart the will of the people. It is typically ...

The term social contract describes a broad class of philosophical ... Common to all of these theories is the notion of a sovereign will ...

Political philosophy is a branch of philosophy, which studies fundamental ... existing or possible theories and practices of social, political matters, ...

Most broadly, mind is the organized totality of the mental processes of an ... Aspects of mind are also attributed to complex animals, which are ...

site in Upper Egypt, located about 160 km southwest of Cairo. For the past century, the vicinity of Oxyrhynchus has been continually ...

German philosopher, the main representative of nineteenth century German Idealism ... system practically unrivaled in the scope of its ambition. Hegel’s highly ...

best known for his role as the director of the Manhattan Project, the ... position to lobby for international control of atomic energy and to avert ...

community. The word literally means out of communion, or no longer in ... Excommunication is the most grave of all ecclesiastical censures. ...

meanings. The first describes the members of the early Christian movement ... Jewish Christians predominated in the movement of early Christianity ...

for God (or the gods), with the purpose of delivering a divinely inspired ... the Mari tablets, discovered on the banks of the Euphrates in northern Mesopotamia ...

Nazi human experimentation, in the context of this article, refers ... such atrocities as amputation and removal of body parts without anesthesia ...

World War II between the global superpowers of the Soviet Union and the United ... Instead, the "war" took the form of an arms race involving nuclear ...

Hebron is a city in the southern Judea region of the West Bank, 30 ... The most famous historic site in Hebron sits on the Cave of the Patriarchs ...

The Age of Enlightenment, sometimes called the Age of Reason, refers ... to establishing an authoritative system of aesthetics, ethics, government ...

any person anointed by a prophet or priest of God, especially a Davidic king ... The concept of Messiah is prevalent in several world religions as ...

Epistemology or theory of knowledge is the branch of philosophy that ... Much of the debate in this field has focused on analyzing the nature ...

who is generally regarded as one of the most accomplished and influential ... Mathematica, Newton enunciated his law of universal gravitation and three ...

are usually credited with being the founders of analytic philosophy. A prolific ... Russell was born at the height of Britain's economic and political ...

Prose is a form of written or spoken language that follows the natural ... Works of philosophy, history, economics, journalism, and most fiction ...

main_interests = Aesthetics, History of Western Philosophy, Metaphilosophy ... without organs, deterritorialization, line of flight, nomad thought, plane ...

The Books of Kings (Hebrew: Sefer Melachim ספר מלכים) are ... Throughout the narrative, the author looks back to the golden age ...

history. For Freud it began as that part of the mind that contained our ... the collective unconscious, an accumulation of inherited experiences of all ...

philosophy, primarily on the foundations of logic, the philosophy of mathematics ... Wittgenstein is widely regarded as having been one of the most influential ...

The question of the meaning of life is perhaps the most fundamental ... This question has resulted in a wide range of competing answers and ...

quot;) refers to an esoteric collection of Jewish mystical doctrines about ... Rabbis) as a reference to the full body of Judaism's oral law. Over ...

039;at 'Azza) is a narrow coastal strip of land along the eastern Mediterranean ... Following the 1948 creation of the State of Israel, hundreds of thousands ...

The philosophy of science, a sub-branch of epistemology, is the branch ... ==Questions Addressed by Philosophy of Science== Philosophy of science ...

Many ancient cultures speculated on the nature of the human mind, ... method, which revolutionized the treatment of psychological disorders. ...

writer famous for his literary depictions of a libertine sexuality as well ... and blasphemy against Christianity. Many of the characters in his works ...

| work_institution = University of Vienna | alma_mater = University of Vienna | doctoral_advisor = Jean-Martin ...

in most cases, a constitutional declaration of belief in a Supreme Being. recognize each other through a process of landmarks and regularity. There ...

The Shroud of Turin is an ancient linen cloth which some believe is ... negative on its fibers, at or near the time of his proclaimed resurrection ...

physicist. He is best known for his theory of relativity and specifically ... to physics include his special theory of relativity, which reconciled ...

Philosophy is the systematic study of the foundations of human knowledge ... Traditionally at least, it is not the pursuit of knowledge for knowledge’s ...

Radulescu was a prolific translator of foreign literature into Romanian ... Among his many accomplishments, Radulescu is considered one of the ...

and endless debate as the topic of God. In the English language ... Throughout history, the vast majority of people in the world have ...

a French stage actress who starred in some of the most popular French plays ... for her day. She sought the attention of those who could influence her ...