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In philosophy and logic, the liar paradox encompasses paradoxical ... *"This statement is false." These statements are paradoxical ...

Arabic: الدّجّال, ad-dajjāl) ("The Deceiver/impostor"), ... quot;) is a common Arabic word, used in the sense of "false prophet ...

) was a non-Israelite prophet in the Hebrew Bible, his story occurring ... In rabbinical tradition, Balaam is seen both as a true prophet of ...

In Christian eschatology, the Antichrist or Anti-Christ is a powerful ... Antichrist is translated from the combination of two ancient Greek ...

, meaning "God will fortify"), was one of the last kings ... days, Jehoiachin was removed from office by the Babylonian army of King Nebuchadnezzar ...

The Book of Micah (Hebrew: ספר מיכה) is one of the books of ... The Book of Micah is also notable for its more hopeful passages, portraying ...

Jeroboam II (ירבעם השני) was the the fourteenth king of the ... The son and successor of Jehoash, Jeroboam's long reign, which ...

Hλίας), was a ninth-century B.C.E. prophet of the Hebrew Bible whose ... Elijah is considered to be one of the great prophets of the Abrahamic ...

Jezebel was the wife of King Ahab and thus Queen of Israel in the ... and Joram, who succeeded her husband on the throne. Her daughter, Athaliah ...

Eli (Hebrew: עֵלִי, "Ascent") was the high priest at ... be personally righteous but fails to control the sins of his sons, Hophni and ...

Asherdu and in Ugaritic as Athirat. She was the consort of the chief deity ... In the Judeo-Christian tradition Asherah is considered a false Canaanite ...

The First Epistle of John is a book of the Bible New Testament, the ... Purportedly by the same author or authors who wrote the Gospel of ...

In the Hebrew Bible, the Book of Jonah is the fifth in a series of ... The story is based on an obscure historical figure who probably lived ...

The Book of Jeremiah, is part of the Hebrew Bible, and is also included ... Together with the books of Isaiah and Ezekiel, the Book of Jeremiah ...

[[Image:Acts-2.jpg|thumb|300px|Christian ecstasy: Apostles receive ... Montanism was an early Christian sectarian movement beginning in the ...

) is the Islamic equivalent to hell. Its roots come from the Hebrew ... The Qur'an provides detailed descriptions of Jahannam that have ...

The Book of Ezekiel is a book of the Hebrew Bible named after the ... Ezekiel taught that people of Judah must not resist the Babylonian ...

The term Ahmadi (Urdu: احمدیہ Ahmadiyya) refers ... Following Mirza Ghulam Ahmad's death, the original Ahmadiyya ...

Blasphemy is the defamation of the name of one or more gods. In a ... The word blasphemy is derived from the Middle English blasfemen, which ...

[[Image:Isaiah.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Isaiah the Prophet in Hebrew ... A prophet (from the Greek word προφήτης, meaning one who ...

The Book of Isaiah is one of the books of the Hebrew Bible and the ... In the first 39 chapters, Isaiah prophesies doom for a sinful Kingdom ...

Religious exclusivism is the doctrine that the adherents of a particular ... it manifests in certain interpretations of the concepts of the Chosen people ...

The Second Epistle of John, also called 2 John, is a book of the New ... The author of 2 John is traditionally believed to be Apostle John ...

"she who lives") was a wife of the prophet Muhammad. Aisha was ... Aisha played a key role in the emergence of Islam, a faith and life ...

The Epistle to Titus is a book of the New Testament, one of the three ... While the letter is addressed from Paul, many scholars today doubt ...

In the Bible, Baal (also rendered Baʿal) was an important Canaanite ... The worship of this deity was prevalent in Canaan from ancient times ...

The Apostolic Fathers were a group of early Christian leaders believed ... The authors are traditionally acknowledged as leaders in the early ...

and/or historical significance, often the human remains of an important ... A relic is also the term for something that has survived the passage ...

The Didache ( Διδαχὴ , Koine Greek for "Teaching" ... ) is the common name of a brief early Christian treatise (c. 50–160 ...

c. 1370 B.C.E. - c. 1330 B.C.E.) was the chief consort of the Egyptian ... In Akhenaten's new state religion centered on the sun god, he ...

an island in Table Bay, 5 miles (8 km) off the coast of South Africa, approximately ... Initially a stopping point for passing ships in the sixteenth and ...

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& ...

|image = [[Image:Shawnee Prophet, Tenskwatawa.jpg|none|200px]] ... The Shawnee, or Shawano, are a people native to North America. They ...

20, 1819 – July 9, 1850), better known as the Báb, was a martyred Iranian ... The son of a merchant from Shiraz, Iran, the Báb announced himself ...

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

theoretical physicist and a founder of the field of quantum mechanics ... Paul Dirac was born in Bristol, England and grew up in the Bishopston ...

Original sin is a Christian doctrine describing the first human act ... Used with the definite article ("the original sin"), the ...

The Samaritan Pentateuch is the text of the the first five books of ... The Samaritans share with Jews a belief in the Torah and its laws ...

figure during his lifetime, he is the founder of Nichiren Buddhism ... on earth appealed to religious reformers in the post-World War II Japan, when ...

Moloch (also rendered as Molech or Molekh, from the Hebrew מלך ... While no particular form of Moloch is known due to the ambiguity of ...

) is a character in the Old Testament who served as one of the judges ... Unknown outside of the Bible, Jephthah is remarkable for several reasons ...

Freedom of speech is the ability to speak without censorship or limitation ... Freedom of speech is a key factor in the spread of information in ...

(December 14, 1503 – July 2, 1566) is the famed French prognosticator ... Since the publication of this text, which has rarely been out of print ...

vehemently preached against what he saw as the moral corruption of the clergy ... In his youth, he was preoccupied with religion, studying both the ...

The Book of Revelation, also called Revelation to John or Apocalypse ... Beast whose number is 666 and his False Prophet, the woman pursued by a ...

Apostasy is the formal renunciation of one's religion. One who ... Apostasy is distinguished from heresy in that the latter refers to ...

The Ebionites (from Hebrew; אביונים, Ebyonim, "the poor ... Scholarly knowledge of the Ebionites is limited and fragmentary, deriving ...

), or Jesus in the New Testament, is considered to be a Messenger ... Muslims believe that Jesus will return to earth near the Day of Judgment ...

and biblical scholar. After graduating from the University of Oxford, Pockocke ... Although he thought Islam a false faith, he also wanted to discredit ...

) is a hill in modern Israel near the Kibbutz of Megiddo, the site ... (Hebrew) and Tel al-Mutesellim (Arabic), the word tel meaning "hill ...

Enosh, Noah, Shem, Aram, and especially John the Baptist. They describe Abraham ... 60,000 and 70,000 Mandaeans and until the 2003 Iraq war, almost all ...

The Book of Judges (Hebrew: Sefer Shofetim ספר שופטים) refers ... The book revolves around the legends of these five major judges and ...

Islam dedicated to experiencing Allah/God as the epitome of divine Love. Sufis ... through ecstatic practice in order to efface the obstructing self. Sufis have ...

Born at Tyana in Asia Minor, Apollonius was educated at Tarsus and ... He is known mainly through a long account by the sophist writer Philostratus ...

:This article is about the French utopian socialist. For the mathematician ... reconstruction of society based on idea that the natural passions of man would ...

The Book of Nehemiah is a late historiographical book of the Hebrew ... The text also occupies a different place in the Jewish and Christian ...

rank") was a great woman of faith and the fore-mother of the Israelites ... Sarah was originally called Sarai. She was born in the major Mesopotamian ...

generally known as Cornplanter, was the son of a Seneca (Indian) mother ... Cornplanter urged neutrality during the American Revolutionary War ...

) is an Islamic term referring to the religious duty of Muslims to ... ), the plural of which is mujahideen ( ar|مجاهدين ...

The Seneca are a group of indigenous people native to North America ... The Seneca were one of the five original tribes of the Iroquois Nation ...

quot;) is a word used in Judaism to refer to the commandments, of which there ... Rabbis are divided between those who seek the purpose of the mitzvot ...

The Sermon on the Mount is believed to be a sermon given by Jesus ... Recent scholarship has led some to conclude that the sermon was meant ...

as Virgil or Vergil, is a Latin poet, the author of the Eclogues, the ... Virgil was born in the village of Andes, near Mantua in Cisalpine ...

Apocrypha (from the Greek: ἀπόκρυφα , meaning "hidden" ... ) is a term used in a variety of different contexts. Originally, the ...

Tunisia, and is sometimes viewed as one of the forerunners of modern historiography ... 1364–1365, he was offered employment by the Christian king of Seville ...

The term Messiah, literally "Anointed One," refers to the ... The concept of Messiah is prevalent in several world religions as ...

Comte de Lautréamont was the pen name of Isidore Lucien Ducasse ... in an early death are typical elements of the biography of a poète maudit. ...

The Jesus Seminar refers to a group of "scholars with advanced ... One of the most active groups in biblical criticism, [http://www.religioustolerance ...

Moses or Móshe (Hebrew: מֹשֶׁה) was the Hebrew liberator, prophet ... The Bible portrays Moses as the first person to learn the true name ...

Esau (עֵשָׂו, Esav) was the oldest son of Isaac and Rebekah ... Although he stood first in the line of inheritance, Esau sold his ...

teachings, which were most prominent in the first few centuries of the ... The origins of gnosticism are not clearly known, but there is general ...

—"the pharmacist"), was a Persian and Muslim poet, Sufi ... His most famous work, The Conference of the Birds, rejoices in the ...

born terrorist and physician who served as the second emir of al-Qaeda from ... in surgery. He became a leading figure in the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, an ...

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 ...

Lex Talionis (Latin for "law of retaliation") is the principle ... At the root of the non-biblical form of this principle is the belief ...

events, which may be conceived as affecting the world in general or a specific ... The very notions of fate and destiny imply a limitation of human freedom ...

Cohen or "priest") also known by the pseudonym Michael King, David ... Kahane was known in the United States and Israel for his strong political ...

influenced = The Frankfurt School, The Praxis School, Lucien ... critic. Most scholars consider him to be the founder of the tradition of ...

The Hopi are a Native American nation, the westernmost group of Pueblo ... The Hopi have generally maintained their culture, which is based on ...

George Eliot is the pen name of Mary Anne Evans Baptized Mary Anne ... 22, 1880) an English novelist who was one of the leading writers of the Victorian ...

Ulrich Zwingli or Huldrych Zwingli (1484 –1531) was the leader of ... of Swiss Catholic forces. His view on the memorial nature of the Lord ...

The Acts of the Apostles is a book of the New Testament. It is commonly ... Acts tells the story of the Early Christian church, with particular ...

buttes, pinnacles and spires blended with the largest protected mixed grass ... The Badlands Wilderness, designated by Congress in 1976, is located ...

sense of intelligence. Serpents are found in the mythology of many cultures ... The serpent is one of the oldest and most widespread mythological ...

refers to an act or event that goes against the ordinary laws of physics, ... proven to be fraudulent, others (such as the Paschal Fire in Jerusalem ...

quot;) in religion and philosophy refers to the belief that a part of a living ... The monotheistic religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam generally ...

In zoology, the placenta is a temporary vascular organ that forms ... The placenta facilitates important exchanges between the mother and ...

safety in Islamic law in return for paying the capital tax. This status was ... The term connotes an obligation of the state to protect the individual ...

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 ...

Philip IV (1268 – November 29, 1314), called the Fair (French: le ... A member of the House of Capet, Philip was born at the Palace of Fontainebleau ...

to Creation. Kabbalists believe that the Torah ("Divine Law" ... Historically, the term Kabbalah was first used in Jewish Talmudic ...

Akiba or Aqiba—was a Judean sage of the late first and early second ... Akiva set the standard of Judaism's strong yet flexible adherence ...

According to the Abrahamic religions, Noah's Ark was a large ... board his family and representatives of all the animals and birds. God's ...

The Moors were the medieval Muslim inhabitants of al-Andalus (the ... The Fall of Granada in 1492 saw the end of the Muslim presence in ...

short fiction, and a stage drama, including the award-winning novels Ragtime ... and short stories were also adapted for the screen, including "Welcome ...

In the arts, Baroque is a period as well as the style that used exaggerated ... One of the defining aspects of music of the Baroque era was its connection ...

), was a French author, poet, and statesman who was instrumental in ... Born during the French Revolution, de Lamartine was a more moderate ...

The question of the meaning of life is perhaps the most fundamental ... Science, while providing theories about the How and What of life, has ...

Saul of Tarsus), also known as Saint Paul or The Apostle Paul, (4–64 C.E ... Saul is described in the New Testament as a Hellenized Jew and Roman ...

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Majesty Haile Selassie I, Conquering Lion of the Tribe of Judah, King of Kings ... Ethiopia was different from that within. To the outside world, he was heir ...

[[Image:Blacktriangle.jpg|thumb|200 px|Artist's depiction of ... The acronym UFO, Unidentified Flying Object, refers to any real or ...

Scottish philosopher and historian. Hume was the third, the most radical and ... David Hume’s place in the history of philosophy is strongly associated ...

or is selectively responsive in following the directions of the person ... The trance state may be associated with hypnosis, meditation, channeling ...

Akhenaten, known as Amenhotep IV at the start of his reign, was a ... was Nefertiti, who has been made famous as the most “beautiful women in ...

The German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer (February 22, 1788 – ... Unlike German Idealism, the prevalent philosophy of his day, Schopenhauer’s ...

The relationship between church and state is the institutional form ... Caesar what is Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's ...

in its broadest sense to a denial of theism (the belief in the existence of ... (and even this is subtle vis-à-vis the divine), the claim about Buddhism ...

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

The Seventh-day Adventist Church is a Christian denomination that ... The Seventh-day Adventists are active advocates for freedom of religion ...

and mathematician, working mostly in the twentieth century. He and ... Russell was born at the height of Britain's economic and political ...

The Buxton Memorial Fountain, celebrating the emancipation of slaves in ... Slavery is the social and/or legal designation of specific persons ...

This name uses Eastern Slavic naming customs; the patronymic is Feofilaktovich ... of Ivan Turgenev and Fyodor Dostoyevsky in the late 1850s, but whose reputation ...

The Roman Catholic Church or Catholic Church is the Christian Church ... The Catholic Church is the largest Christian Church and the largest ...

painter, urban planner, writer, and one of the pioneers of what is now regarded ... Dedicated to providing better living conditions for the residents ...

In World War II, the Battle of France, also known as the Fall of France ... France was divided into a German occupation zone in the north and ...