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- (c. 386 – c. 451 C.E.) was archbishop of Constantinople from April 10 ... His political rival, Cyril, bishop of Alexandria, used the Christological ...12 KB (1,909 words) - 16:23, 11 November 2022
- Saint Anne (also Ann or Anna) was the mother of the Virgin Mary. Born of the ... According to the apocryphal Infancy Gospel of James, Anne and her husband ...16 KB (2,499 words) - 20:47, 17 April 2023
- The Dialogue of the Saviour is one of the ancient works of the New ... The Dialogue of the Saviour teaches that the physical body and the ...17 KB (2,741 words) - 10:24, 29 January 2024
- Joseph (also Joseph the Betrothed, Joseph of Nazareth, and Joseph ... According the Matthew's Gospel, Joseph agonized over Mary's ...18 KB (2,901 words) - 07:38, 27 February 2023
- The Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria is the official name for ... the apostle and evangelist in the middle of the first century (approximately ...24 KB (3,712 words) - 21:25, 4 May 2020
- Nazareth is the capital and largest city in the North District of ... hills that form the most southerly points of the Lebanon mountain range ...14 KB (2,200 words) - 15:58, 11 November 2022
- Near East. Budge was was a strong proponent of liberal Christianity and was ... came to hold arguably the best collection of Ancient Near East artifacts ...13 KB (1,982 words) - 22:08, 3 May 2023
- Mary (מרים, Maryām, "Bitter") was the mother of Jesus ... have supported Jesus' public ministry, Mary was present at the crucifixion ...30 KB (4,633 words) - 15:58, 7 November 2022
- " "God Heals" ) is the name of an archangel in Judaism, Christianity ... Of the seven archangels in the angelology of post-Exilic Judaism, ...11 KB (1,746 words) - 05:15, 17 July 2022
- under Alexander the Great who became ruler of Egypt (323 B.C.E. — 283 B ... the dynasty he founded and in the tradition of cultural patronage and fusion ...22 KB (3,249 words) - 23:34, 2 December 2022
- she was prominent as the wife and sister of Osiris and mother of Horus. Isis' origins are uncertain but the first mention of the deity ...32 KB (5,200 words) - 06:08, 8 March 2024
- burning bush is a biblical representation of the numinosity of God, where ... light, illumination, and the burning heart of purity, love and clarity. From ...11 KB (1,770 words) - 06:58, 21 April 2023
- The virgin birth of Jesus is a religious tenet of Christianity and ... which state that Jesus "was incarnate of the Holy Spirit and the Virgin ...30 KB (4,795 words) - 20:34, 3 May 2023
- :For the council of 449, see Second Council of Ephesus. The Council of Ephesus, also known as the Third Ecumenical Council ...15 KB (2,352 words) - 08:26, 10 January 2024
- The Nag Hammadi library is a collection of early Christian gnostic ... Corpus Hermeticum and a partial translation of Plato's Republic. The ...16 KB (2,444 words) - 23:06, 10 November 2022
- and Irish poet and playwright. He was part of the generation of "thirties ... MacNeice was born in Belfast, the youngest son of John Frederick and ...17 KB (2,543 words) - 04:06, 4 November 2022
- The term Oriental Orthodoxy refers to the communion of Eastern Christian ... The Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria is considered the spiritual ...11 KB (1,534 words) - 01:18, 18 November 2022
- A tomb is a repository for the remains of the dead. Derived from the ... Most tombs reflect a system of religious beliefs, and are used by ...18 KB (2,713 words) - 03:55, 1 May 2023
- The Henotikon (or "act of union") was a document issued ... avoid language which offended the opponents of the Council of Chalcedon, which ...16 KB (2,523 words) - 18:33, 7 February 2022
- Cyril of Alexandria (c. 378 - 444 C.E.) was the Christian patriarch ... controversy against Nestorius, Patriarch of Constantinople, in which Cyril ...19 KB (2,930 words) - 07:26, 12 January 2024
- The Second Council of Ephesus was a church synod in 449 C.E. It was ... had been deposed by Patriarch Flavian of Constantinople on account of ...14 KB (2,124 words) - 17:40, 25 January 2023
- Sarah (Hebrew שָׂרָה ; Arabic سارة, Saara ; "a woman ... She was born in the major Mesopotamian city of Ur and moved with her clan ...14 KB (2,282 words) - 19:23, 15 September 2022
- also refer to the biological phenomenon of outbreeding or inbreeding. or endogamous rules concerning the selection of marriage partners. In the case ...16 KB (2,425 words) - 21:17, 26 May 2015
- The Amalekites were a biblical people and enemy of the Israelites ... The Amalekites are unknown historically and archaeologically outside ...15 KB (2,384 words) - 02:37, 24 July 2023
- The Seven Wonders of the World (or the Seven Wonders of the Ancient ... The original Seven Wonders of the World consists of: The Great Pyramid ...19 KB (2,688 words) - 19:50, 21 April 2023
- leader) often seen as the instigator of the Monophysite heresy. He ... The head of an influential monastery near Constantinople, Eutyches ...11 KB (1,657 words) - 05:26, 5 April 2021
- The Queen of Sheba, (tenth century B.C.E.), also known as Makeda ... Yaqut al-Hamawi, the star-worshipers of Harran in Turkey, and those ...22 KB (3,511 words) - 15:45, 7 December 2022
- economist who occupied the first chair of political economy in England ... Compton, Berkshire, England, the eldest son of the Reverend John Raven Senior ...11 KB (1,680 words) - 01:26, 11 November 2022
- quot;), or Hierogamy, refers to the coupling of a god and goddess or their ... The concept of the hieros gamos derives from ancient mythologies relating ...13 KB (2,025 words) - 23:49, 12 February 2022
- The Aksumite Empire or Axumite Empire (sometimes called the Kingdom ... to climate change and to defeat at the hands of Judith, a legendary Jewish Queen. ...22 KB (3,389 words) - 07:18, 16 June 2023
- [[File:Philippoteaux The Numbering of the Israelites.jpg|thumb|250px ... A census is the process of obtaining information about every member ...12 KB (1,796 words) - 23:49, 3 December 2023
- Dioscorus of Alexandria was the twenty-fifth bishop of Alexandria ... A disciple of Saint Cyril of Alexandria, whom he succeeded as patriarch ...14 KB (1,996 words) - 09:38, 24 November 2022
- May 3, 1898 – December 8, 1978) was one of the founders of the State of Israel. Meir served as the Minister of Labor, Foreign Minister, and from March ...15 KB (2,415 words) - 06:44, 1 January 2024
- D.C. in the United States, is one of the largest non-profit scientific ... Geographic Magazine has, through its use of photojournalism and quality ...17 KB (2,345 words) - 04:11, 11 March 2023
- "Warrior Lion"), was the brother of Moses and Miriam and founder ... for his leadership during the early stages of the Exodus, and especially ...22 KB (3,503 words) - 07:12, 13 June 2023
- people who first occupied the country west of the Euphrates from the second ... them as enemies and left several records of their defeat by Israelite heroes ...16 KB (2,552 words) - 17:17, 26 July 2023
- belonging to the subfamily Prunoideae of the family Rosaceae. It is ... it is described as "among the best of fruits," and in Numbers ...20 KB (2,967 words) - 20:41, 26 March 2024
- Christian religious teacher in Alexandria, Egypt. He taught a dualistic theology ... Basilides was a pupil of a hearer of St. Peter, Glaucias by name, ...17 KB (2,600 words) - 11:07, 20 September 2023
- constructed or modified for the purpose of making music. In principle ... musical expression. In the ancient cultures of China, Africa, Greece, the ...26 KB (3,752 words) - 21:15, 27 November 2021
- A late 19th-century artist's conception of the Ark of the Covenant, employing ... The Ark of the Covenant (Hebrew: ארון הברית,aron habrit) ...29 KB (4,905 words) - 02:49, 15 August 2023
- ; "Shoulder") was an Israelite city in the tribal area of ... pillar known as the "stone of witness." Shechem was ...12 KB (1,941 words) - 21:20, 6 October 2022
- civilization museums in the city, a series of laboratories for conservation ... for Romanian Literature and the Culture of the Romanian People") ...14 KB (2,039 words) - 07:06, 13 June 2023
- for dancers and stimulated a wave of creative experimentation in ... school and company, Denishawn, in 1915. One of her most famous pupils was ...12 KB (1,963 words) - 23:52, 21 August 2022
- persons, the man Jesus and the divine Son of God, or Logos, rather than ... The Assyrian Church of the East refused to drop support for Nestorius ...19 KB (2,813 words) - 16:23, 11 November 2022
- Brautigan wrote ten novels, two collections of short stories and over 500 ... Brautigan's work captured the zeitgeist of the 1960s youth culture ...15 KB (2,156 words) - 20:54, 16 April 2023
- "Date Palm") was the fore-mother of the Jews and the daughter-in ... played an important role in the lineage of Jesus. Her story involves life ...15 KB (2,478 words) - 03:57, 27 February 2023
- Egyptian mythology. It concerns the murder of the god Osiris, a primeval ... is integral to ancient Egyptian conceptions of kingship and succession, conflict ...56 KB (8,963 words) - 04:38, 18 November 2022
- pot. Qianlong reign in the Qing dynasty of China (c. 1700)]] archeology outside the United States) is one of the four sub-fields of anthropology ...28 KB (4,112 words) - 06:15, 12 August 2023
- Agatha Mary Clarissa, Lady Mallowan, Order of the British Empire DBE ... is often cited, by the Guinness Book of World Records and others, as ...25 KB (3,584 words) - 06:43, 16 June 2023
- The cross, found in many cultures and religions of the world, is an ... During the Roman Empire, the cross was an instrument of capital punishment ...36 KB (5,848 words) - 06:28, 11 January 2024
