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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Apocrypha (from the Greek: ἀπόκρυφα , meaning "hidden" ... ) is a term used in a variety of different contexts. Originally, the ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • The term Messiah, literally "Anointed One," refers to the ... The concept of Messiah is prevalent in several world religions as ...
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  • 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. ...
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  • The Jesus Seminar refers to a group of "scholars with advanced ... One of the most active groups in biblical criticism, [http://www.religioustolerance ...
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  • Moses or Móshe (Hebrew: מֹשֶׁה) was the Hebrew liberator, prophet ... The Bible portrays Moses as the first person to learn the true name ...
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  • Esau (עֵשָׂו, Esav) was the oldest son of Isaac and Rebekah ... Although he stood first in the line of inheritance, Esau sold his ...
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  • teachings, which were most prominent in the first few centuries of the ... The origins of gnosticism are not clearly known, but there is general ...
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  • —"the pharmacist"), was a Persian and Muslim poet, Sufi ... His most famous work, The Conference of the Birds, rejoices in the ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Lex Talionis (Latin for "law of retaliation") is the principle ... At the root of the non-biblical form of this principle is the belief ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Cohen or "priest") also known by the pseudonym Michael King, David ... Kahane was known in the United States and Israel for his strong political ...
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  • influenced = The Frankfurt School, The Praxis School, Lucien ... critic. Most scholars consider him to be the founder of the tradition of ...
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  • The Hopi are a Native American nation, the westernmost group of Pueblo ... The Hopi have generally maintained their culture, which is based on ...
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  • 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 ...
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