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- 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 ...20 KB (3,308 words) - 00:11, 19 November 2023
- Religious exclusivism is the doctrine that the adherents of a particular ... it manifests in certain interpretations of the concepts of the Chosen people ...15 KB (2,291 words) - 10:03, 29 July 2022
- 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 ...8 KB (1,363 words) - 17:41, 25 January 2023
- "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 ...25 KB (4,166 words) - 07:12, 16 June 2023
- 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 ...12 KB (1,906 words) - 19:11, 13 February 2024
- In the Bible, Baal (also rendered Baʿal) was an important Canaanite ... The worship of this deity was prevalent in Canaan from ancient times ...25 KB (4,203 words) - 05:22, 26 August 2023
- The Apostolic Fathers were a group of early Christian leaders believed ... The authors are traditionally acknowledged as leaders in the early ...9 KB (1,377 words) - 15:52, 11 August 2023
- and/or historical significance, often the human remains of an important ... A relic is also the term for something that has survived the passage ...12 KB (1,900 words) - 19:40, 16 April 2023
- The Didache ( Διδαχὴ , Koine Greek for "Teaching" ... ) is the common name of a brief early Christian treatise (c. 50–160 ...25 KB (3,964 words) - 14:24, 29 January 2024
- 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 ...18 KB (2,906 words) - 16:08, 11 November 2022
- 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 ...18 KB (2,791 words) - 21:08, 16 April 2023
- 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& ...28 KB (4,576 words) - 20:04, 17 May 2023
- |image = [[Image:Shawnee Prophet, Tenskwatawa.jpg|none|200px]] ... The Shawnee, or Shawano, are a people native to North America. They ...25 KB (3,777 words) - 13:23, 27 January 2023
- 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 ...17 KB (2,919 words) - 05:23, 26 August 2023
- 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
- theoretical physicist and a founder of the field of quantum mechanics ... Paul Dirac was born in Bristol, England and grew up in the Bishopston ...20 KB (2,926 words) - 17:08, 26 March 2023
- Original sin is a Christian doctrine describing the first human act ... Used with the definite article ("the original sin"), the ...17 KB (2,619 words) - 02:15, 18 November 2022
- 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 ...12 KB (1,793 words) - 22:25, 26 September 2023
- 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 ...27 KB (4,005 words) - 23:30, 14 November 2022
- Moloch (also rendered as Molech or Molekh, from the Hebrew מלך ... While no particular form of Moloch is known due to the ambiguity of ...20 KB (3,200 words) - 21:06, 21 December 2022
- ) 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 ...11 KB (1,778 words) - 19:50, 15 August 2022
- 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 ...18 KB (2,627 words) - 10:48, 11 April 2024
- (December 14, 1503 – July 2, 1566) is the famed French prognosticator ... Since the publication of this text, which has rarely been out of print ...27 KB (4,102 words) - 10:08, 11 March 2023
- vehemently preached against what he saw as the moral corruption of the clergy ... In his youth, he was preoccupied with religion, studying both the ...11 KB (1,636 words) - 15:15, 15 December 2022
- 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 ...34 KB (5,503 words) - 00:39, 19 November 2023
- Apostasy is the formal renunciation of one's religion. One who ... Apostasy is distinguished from heresy in that the latter refers to ...23 KB (3,595 words) - 15:51, 11 August 2023
- The Ebionites (from Hebrew; אביונים, Ebyonim, "the poor ... Scholarly knowledge of the Ebionites is limited and fragmentary, deriving ...19 KB (2,894 words) - 18:00, 12 February 2024
- ), 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 ...59 KB (9,594 words) - 02:51, 1 August 2022
- and biblical scholar. After graduating from the University of Oxford, Pockocke ... Although he thought Islam a false faith, he also wanted to discredit ...17 KB (2,663 words) - 15:59, 21 December 2021
- ) is a hill in modern Israel near the Kibbutz of Megiddo, the site ... (Hebrew) and Tel al-Mutesellim (Arabic), the word tel meaning "hill ...12 KB (1,897 words) - 21:46, 28 October 2022
- 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 ...22 KB (3,408 words) - 11:01, 9 March 2023
- The Book of Judges (Hebrew: Sefer Shofetim ספר שופטים) refers ... The book revolves around the legends of these five major judges and ...19 KB (3,100 words) - 00:20, 19 November 2023
- 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 ...29 KB (4,602 words) - 13:45, 28 April 2023
- 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 ...13 KB (2,013 words) - 15:49, 11 August 2023
- :This article is about the French utopian socialist. For the mathematician ... reconstruction of society based on idea that the natural passions of man would ...19 KB (2,798 words) - 01:59, 4 December 2023
- The Book of Nehemiah is a late historiographical book of the Hebrew ... The text also occupies a different place in the Jewish and Christian ...20 KB (3,125 words) - 21:11, 17 May 2023
- 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 ...14 KB (2,282 words) - 19:23, 15 September 2022
- generally known as Cornplanter, was the son of a Seneca (Indian) mother ... Cornplanter urged neutrality during the American Revolutionary War ...15 KB (2,354 words) - 19:04, 14 January 2023
- ) is an Islamic term referring to the religious duty of Muslims to ... ), the plural of which is mujahideen ( ar|مجاهدين ...48 KB (7,155 words) - 12:39, 1 August 2022
- 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 ...28 KB (4,085 words) - 15:59, 26 October 2023
- 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 ...49 KB (8,351 words) - 19:22, 9 November 2022
- 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 ...16 KB (2,654 words) - 10:04, 26 January 2023
- 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 ...15 KB (2,361 words) - 20:33, 3 May 2023
- Apocrypha (from the Greek: ἀπόκρυφα , meaning "hidden" ... ) is a term used in a variety of different contexts. Originally, the ...29 KB (4,388 words) - 06:03, 11 August 2023
- 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 ...28 KB (4,452 words) - 17:00, 10 February 2024
- The term Messiah, literally "Anointed One," refers to the ... The concept of Messiah is prevalent in several world religions as ...41 KB (6,600 words) - 16:18, 9 November 2022
- 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. ...21 KB (3,307 words) - 02:36, 8 January 2024
- The Jesus Seminar refers to a group of "scholars with advanced ... One of the most active groups in biblical criticism, [http://www.religioustolerance ...36 KB (5,268 words) - 08:35, 3 April 2024
- Moses or Móshe (Hebrew: מֹשֶׁה) was the Hebrew liberator, prophet ... The Bible portrays Moses as the first person to learn the true name ...40 KB (6,642 words) - 20:52, 26 August 2020
- Esau (עֵשָׂו, Esav) was the oldest son of Isaac and Rebekah ... Although he stood first in the line of inheritance, Esau sold his ...18 KB (2,951 words) - 22:23, 20 February 2022
