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- The Deuterocanonical books of the Bible are books considered by the ... considered non-canonical by other groups of Christians. ...14 KB (2,086 words) - 10:09, 29 January 2024
- 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 ...14 KB (2,273 words) - 19:59, 27 June 2023
- 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 ...14 KB (2,261 words) - 13:27, 27 January 2023
- 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 ...29 KB (4,388 words) - 06:03, 11 August 2023
- critic and university administrator, was one of the antirationalist Oxford ... Inspired by a careful study of Spinoza, Hampshire developed a detailed ...12 KB (1,807 words) - 21:06, 26 February 2023
- Apocalyptic literature is a genre of prophetical writing that developed ... The apocalyptic literature of Judaism and Christianity embraces a ...16 KB (2,523 words) - 06:03, 11 August 2023
- broadest sense, can mean the entire spectrum of Judaism's rabbinic writings ... begins with the classic rabbinic literature of the Talmudic era (Sifrut Hazal ...11 KB (1,477 words) - 16:16, 7 December 2022
- Nephilim are supernatural beings, specifically the offspring of human ... The Hebrew of “nephilim” is נפלים, which may mean “those ...15 KB (2,395 words) - 16:20, 11 November 2022
- 1797), was the foremost intellectual leader of non-Hasidic Jewry in eighteenth ... writing commentaries on virtually all of the classical sources of Jewish ...13 KB (1,989 words) - 16:13, 13 February 2024
- 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, ...12 KB (1,865 words) - 06:43, 5 November 2022
- " Hebrew: יהוֹיָקִים) was one of the last kings of Judah. The ... During Jehoiakim's reign as a vassal of Egypt, Nebuchadnezzar ...12 KB (1,854 words) - 20:02, 4 November 2023
- (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. ...17 KB (2,550 words) - 16:34, 29 January 2024
- 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 ...7 KB (1,081 words) - 06:34, 11 March 2024
- 1970), born Shmuel Yosef Czaczkes, recipient of the 1966 Nobel Prize for Literature ... Agnon, called by many "a man of unquestionable genius" and ...14 KB (2,157 words) - 20:00, 21 April 2023
- The Old Testament (OT) is the first division of the Christian biblical ... The Old Testament consists of many distinct books by various authors ...62 KB (8,829 words) - 16:26, 30 January 2024
- 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 ...32 KB (4,408 words) - 19:48, 21 April 2023
- Bookselling is the commercial trading of books, the retail and distribution ... (bookstores). Separately published book reviews such as The New York ...13 KB (2,008 words) - 19:27, 20 November 2023
- genesis%2011;&version=31; Chapter 11] of the Bible, the Tower of Babel ( ... humanity. God, observing the arrogance of humanity, resolves to confuse ...34 KB (5,579 words) - 04:46, 1 May 2023
- 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 ...11 KB (1,829 words) - 21:06, 20 July 2021
- Standard Hebrew Yirməyáhu), was one of the "greater prophets ... The name Jeremiah means "Raised-up/Appointed of the Lord.” ...32 KB (5,493 words) - 08:37, 31 July 2022
- Rakugo (落語 literally, "fallen words") is a form of Japanese ... to illustrate the spiritual principles of Buddhism such as the transiency ...16 KB (2,381 words) - 17:21, 16 April 2023
- The question of being (Greek, τό ὄν, the present participle of ... Philosophers often suppose a certain sense of being as primary, and ...32 KB (4,866 words) - 10:28, 26 September 2023
- 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 ...12 KB (1,836 words) - 21:25, 26 February 2023
- 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 ...9 KB (1,337 words) - 17:39, 31 October 2023
- ) is a hill in modern Israel near the Kibbutz of Megiddo, the site ... A rich archaeological site covering many levels of settlement, it ...12 KB (1,897 words) - 21:46, 28 October 2022
- ), the Jewish Festival of Rededication (also known as the Festival ... The holiday is a joyous one, celebrated with various traditions of ...28 KB (4,314 words) - 19:38, 29 January 2022
- 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 ...27 KB (4,480 words) - 20:50, 4 October 2022
- 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 ...14 KB (2,001 words) - 05:30, 5 November 2022
- 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 ...14 KB (2,137 words) - 04:37, 22 March 2024
- Enlightenment philosopher whose advocacy of religious tolerance resounded ... the Jewish faith while advancing the cause of reason. Towards the end of ...14 KB (2,061 words) - 16:58, 10 November 2022
- Euclid (also referred to as Euclid of Alexandria) (Greek: ... Egypt, almost certainly during the reign of Ptolemy I (323 B.C.E.–283 ...21 KB (2,999 words) - 04:41, 22 March 2024
- 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 ...26 KB (4,162 words) - 16:18, 7 November 2022
- Yerushalmi, was born August 1, 1932 (29th of Tamuz) – and assassinated ... views, exemplified in his promotion of a theocratic "Greater ...20 KB (3,012 words) - 04:16, 9 November 2022
- that gravitation might be a manifestation of an underlying geometrical structure ... Under the influence of Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer, Clifford ...12 KB (1,733 words) - 11:09, 10 May 2023
- 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 ...14 KB (2,238 words) - 22:37, 7 December 2022
- 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 ...18 KB (2,791 words) - 01:12, 11 November 2022
- An archangel is a superior or higher-ranking angel found in a number ... According to Christian and Jewish traditions, the number of archangels ...17 KB (2,515 words) - 02:14, 9 January 2023
- The original context of the term scapegoat was a Jewish purification ... The modern (almost clichéd) use of the term to describe an individual ...26 KB (4,249 words) - 02:32, 21 April 2023
- 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 ...11 KB (1,664 words) - 04:35, 22 November 2023
- The Assumption of Moses describes two or more Jewish apocryphal works ... Also called the Testament of Moses, this work begins with a brief ...13 KB (2,063 words) - 05:06, 18 August 2023
- 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 ...38 KB (5,130 words) - 23:59, 27 November 2023
- philosopher who was noted for his pursuit of natural theology and philosophy ... provide a rational argument in the defense of natural theology and Newtonianism. ...15 KB (2,384 words) - 02:22, 23 December 2022
- 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 ...28 KB (4,312 words) - 06:37, 18 November 2022
- 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 ...30 KB (4,391 words) - 02:50, 4 November 2022
- , in order to eliminate the dichotomy of mind and body—has more general ... thought. Here lies the attractiveness of monism, which subsumes all ...36 KB (5,370 words) - 20:00, 9 November 2022
- Philosophy of mind is the branch of philosophy that studies the nature ... Dualism and monism are the two major schools of thought that attempt ...49 KB (7,510 words) - 22:42, 28 March 2023
- writer. He has been dubbed the "Father of Modern Philosophy" and ... Descartes frequently sets his views apart from those of his predecessors ...25 KB (3,599 words) - 04:02, 8 December 2022
- Athanasius of Alexandria (also spelled "Athanasios") (c. 296 C.E. ... except that Athanasius includes the Book of Baruch and the Letter of Jeremiah ...20 KB (3,060 words) - 18:42, 19 August 2023
- Deuteronomy is the fifth book of the Hebrew Bible. It is part of Judaism ... The language of Deuteronomy is often inspiring and poetic, portrayed ...25 KB (3,999 words) - 07:26, 17 November 2023
- by the texts, traditions and experience of the Jewish people. Judaism ... Jewish philosophy can be considered to take two directions; the use ...28 KB (4,179 words) - 03:01, 1 August 2022
