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- 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
- teachings, which were most prominent in the first few centuries of the ... The origins of gnosticism are not clearly known, but there is general ...36 KB (5,554 words) - 19:08, 31 December 2023
- —"the pharmacist"), was a Persian and Muslim poet, Sufi ... His most famous work, The Conference of the Birds, rejoices in the ...25 KB (4,069 words) - 00:42, 25 March 2024
- 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 ...80 KB (10,642 words) - 07:25, 23 August 2023
- 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 ...26 KB (4,281 words) - 07:28, 17 November 2023
- Lex Talionis (Latin for "law of retaliation") is the principle ... At the root of the non-biblical form of this principle is the belief ...29 KB (4,671 words) - 22:22, 25 October 2022
- 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 ...22 KB (3,568 words) - 00:43, 25 March 2024
- Cohen or "priest") also known by the pseudonym Michael King, David ... Kahane was known in the United States and Israel for his strong political ...20 KB (3,012 words) - 04:16, 9 November 2022
- influenced = The Frankfurt School, The Praxis School, Lucien ... critic. Most scholars consider him to be the founder of the tradition of ...31 KB (4,665 words) - 06:56, 18 April 2024
- The Hopi are a Native American nation, the westernmost group of Pueblo ... The Hopi have generally maintained their culture, which is based on ...33 KB (5,396 words) - 13:43, 2 February 2024
- 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 ...21 KB (3,133 words) - 08:05, 23 January 2023
- Ulrich Zwingli or Huldrych Zwingli (1484 –1531) was the leader of ... of Swiss Catholic forces. His view on the memorial nature of the Lord ...22 KB (3,346 words) - 16:31, 11 November 2022
- 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 ...37 KB (5,957 words) - 07:25, 17 November 2023
- buttes, pinnacles and spires blended with the largest protected mixed grass ... The Badlands Wilderness, designated by Congress in 1976, is located ...20 KB (3,121 words) - 05:36, 26 August 2023
- sense of intelligence. Serpents are found in the mythology of many cultures ... The serpent is one of the oldest and most widespread mythological ...23 KB (3,735 words) - 10:04, 26 January 2023
- 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 ...43 KB (6,326 words) - 11:08, 10 March 2023
- quot;) in religion and philosophy refers to the belief that a part of a living ... The monotheistic religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam generally ...49 KB (7,494 words) - 19:39, 16 April 2023
- In zoology, the placenta is a temporary vascular organ that forms ... The placenta facilitates important exchanges between the mother and ...25 KB (3,557 words) - 20:43, 9 April 2023
- 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 ...49 KB (7,384 words) - 10:21, 29 January 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
- 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 ...23 KB (3,671 words) - 22:38, 28 March 2023
- to Creation. Kabbalists believe that the Torah ("Divine Law" ... Historically, the term Kabbalah was first used in Jewish Talmudic ...68 KB (10,629 words) - 21:49, 4 October 2022
- 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 ...23 KB (3,911 words) - 07:17, 16 June 2023
- According to the Abrahamic religions, Noah's Ark was a large ... board his family and representatives of all the animals and birds. God's ...50 KB (7,876 words) - 00:06, 5 March 2024
- 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 ...36 KB (5,672 words) - 21:18, 9 November 2022
- short fiction, and a stage drama, including the award-winning novels Ragtime ... and short stories were also adapted for the screen, including "Welcome ...37 KB (4,830 words) - 17:29, 12 February 2024
- 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 ...30 KB (4,617 words) - 10:52, 20 September 2023
- ), was a French author, poet, and statesman who was instrumental in ... Born during the French Revolution, de Lamartine was a more moderate ...30 KB (4,259 words) - 22:02, 30 April 2023
- The question of the meaning of life is perhaps the most fundamental ... Science, while providing theories about the How and What of life, has ...50 KB (7,753 words) - 02:49, 9 November 2022
- 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 ...56 KB (9,113 words) - 00:50, 23 December 2022
- | notableworks= Crime and Punishment'The Idiot'The Brothers ... 039; Don Quixote on Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Idiot)] Fambrough, Preston ...29 KB (4,183 words) - 07:25, 15 April 2024
