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  • The Book of Ezra is a book of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old ... In describing the initial stages of the rebuilding of the Temple of ...
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  • c. 30 C.E. whom Pontius Pilate freed at the Passover feast in Jerusalem ... Barabbas had been charged with the crime of treason against Rome—the ...
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  • Rehoboam (Hebrew: רחבעם, Rehav'am) was a king in ancient ... Rehoboam's reign has been dated to roughly the last quarter of ...
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  • Nathan was a tenth century B.C.E. Israelite prophet who lived in the ... According to the Bible, it is through Nathan that God first delivered ...
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  • The Temple in Jerusalem was originally built in ancient Jerusalem ... The original Temple was destroyed in 586 B.C.E. by the Babylonians ...
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  • Passover (Pesach, Pesakh)—also called the Festival of Unleavened ... The name Passover (Pesakh, meaning "skipping" or passing ...
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  • Jeroboam ("increase of the people"), the son of Nebat, ... Appointed by King Solomon as the leader of forced labor gangs in Jerusalem ...
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  • The Book of Lamentations (Hebrew מגילת איכה) is a book of ... The text is traditionally read by Jewish people on Tisha B'Av ...
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  • Jezebel was the wife of King Ahab and thus Queen of Israel in the ... and Joram, who succeeded her husband on the throne. Her daughter, Athaliah ...
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  • The Book of Haggai is one of the Books of the Minor Prophets in the ... Like many other texts in the prophetic corpus, little is known of ...
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  • In biblical times the shofar was used as a signaling device in time ... The method of playing the shofar is similar to that of bugle, with ...
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  • , "Ewe"—also spelled Rachael) was the younger and favorite ... A native of Haran, and the younger daughter of Jacob's uncle ...
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  • Jerusalem (Hebrew: יְרוּשָׁלַיִם Yerushalayim; Arabic: ... From 1948 until the Six-Day War of 1967, Jerusalem was a divided city ...
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  • The Dead Sea Scrolls (Hebrew: מגילות ים המלח) comprise ... The Dead Sea Scrolls are widely acknowledged to be among the greatest ...
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  • is Israel's official memorial to the victims of the Holocaust, ... The origin of the name is from a Biblical verse (Isaiah, chapter 56 ...
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  • Arabic: سليمان Sulayman) was the son of king David and the ... The name Solomon (Shlomo) means "peaceful," or "complete ...
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  • The Queen of Sheba, (tenth century B.C.E.), also known as Makeda ... Sheba may be derived from the ancient Egyptian word for star. According ...
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  • on a dry plateau about a mile inland from the northwestern shore of the ... The Dead Sea Scrolls have been lauded as the single most important ...
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  • The Book of Wisdom (also known as the Wisdom of Solomon or simply ... According to Saint Melito in the second century C.E., the Book of ...
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  • The historic Philistines (Hebrew: פלשתים, plishtim) were a people ... In the Hebrew Bible, the Philistines were usually portrayed as implacable ...
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  • The Book of Mormon is one of the sacred texts of the Latter Day Saint ... Along with the Bible, the Book of Mormon is esteemed as part of the ...
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  • The Books of Kings (Hebrew: Sefer Melachim ספר מלכים) are ... Throughout the narrative, the author looks back to the golden age ...
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  • [[Image:Legend of the Jew calling the Devil from a Vessel of Blood ... allegations that a person or group engages in human sacrifice, often accompanied ...
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  • The Books of Samuel (Hebrew: ספר שמואל—Sefer Sh'muel ... The Books of Samuel originally formed a single text, which probably ...
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  • Described as a 'scrap of paper' that changed history, the ... The Balfour Declaration led to the 1922 League of Nations mandate ...
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  • as a major prophet and some regard him as the Messiah. Many Hindus also ... as a social activist and as uninterested in social issues, as offering ...
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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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  • ), 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 ...
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  • "given" or "lent") was the first king of the ancient ... Described in the Bible as a man of uncommon promise and valor, Saul ...
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  • has a long history, extending back to the Greco-Roman world and culminating ... The dominant form of anti-Semitism from the nineteenth century until ...
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  • ) is a holy Islamic city in Saudi Arabia's Makkah province, in ... The city is revered by Muslims for containing the holiest site of ...
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  • According to the Abrahamic religions, Noah's Ark was a large ... God selected Noah, a man "righteous in his generation," to build ...
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  • comprising an archipelago of seven islands in the Mediterranean Sea. A country ... had a long and turbulent history. Situated in the middle of the Mediterranean ...
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  • Nīnewē; Arabic: نينوى, Naīnuwa), was the capital of the ancient Neo ... First mentioned in ancient texts around 1800 B.C.E., Nineveh became ...
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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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  • The First Crusade (1096–1099) was the first of a series of religious ... popular response across all social classes in western Europe. Mobs of predominantly ...
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  • an institution, or a private individual. In the more traditional sense ... In addition, with the collection of media other than books for storing ...
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  • several screenplays for Hollywood, and in turn, many of his works, which ... adventure to fuel his stories and experience the political world of various ...
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  • to Creation. Kabbalists believe that the Torah ("Divine Law" ... Historically, the term Kabbalah was first used in Jewish Talmudic ...
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  • Muhammed, and sometimes Mahomet, following the Latin or Turkish), is the ... biographers, Muhammad was born c. 570 C.E. in Mecca (Makkah) and died June ...
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  • born terrorist and physician who served as the second emir of al-Qaeda from ... from Cairo University with a degree in medicine and a master's ...
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  • natural and intuitive phenomenon operating in the spheres of time, pitch ... Generally, music is known through the cognition of specific arrangements ...
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  • 7 (seven) is a number, numeral, and glyph that represents the number ... In addition, it is classified as a real number, A real number is a ...
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  • (and associated military operations) using the toxic properties of chemical ... Chemical weapons are classified as weapons of mass destruction by ...
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  • ) is the capital and largest city of Mexico, and the most populous ... Mexico City is one of the most important cultural and financial centers ...
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