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  • Thumbnail for Mary, mother of Jesus
    was a first-century Jewish woman of Nazareth, the wife of Joseph and the mother of Jesus. She is an important figure of Christianity, venerated under various...
    161 KB (18,544 words) - 22:00, 12 September 2024
  • The Secret Scripture is a 2008 novel written by Irish writer Sebastian Barry. The main character is an old woman, Roseanne McNulty, who now resides in...
    10 KB (886 words) - 23:46, 8 August 2024
  • meaning "rule" or "measuring stick". The use of the word "canon" to refer to a set of religious scriptures was first used by David Ruhnken, in the 18th century...
    130 KB (11,995 words) - 23:29, 5 September 2024
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    the Queen Mother of the West explicated the Scripture of Constant Purity and Quiet." In this account, the Queen Mother plays the role of Laozi's superior...
    31 KB (3,720 words) - 05:21, 4 September 2024
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    words from Xenophon's Anabasis. Her best subjects were literature and scripture. After returning to private education under a German Jewish governess...
    83 KB (8,644 words) - 22:11, 12 September 2024
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    A mother goddess is a major goddess characterized as a mother or progenitor, either as an embodiment of motherhood and fertility or fulfilling the cosmological...
    41 KB (5,058 words) - 14:25, 11 August 2024
  • Manichaean scripture includes nine main books: the Seven Treatises of Manichaeism, all personally written by Mani in Syriac, the Shabuhragan written by...
    12 KB (1,404 words) - 05:36, 2 May 2024
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    Bible (redirect from Holy Scripture)
    βιβλία, tà biblía, 'the books') is a collection of religious texts or scriptures, some, all, or a variant of which are held to be sacred in Christianity,...
    197 KB (22,691 words) - 19:44, 14 September 2024
  • collection of dialogues between a pupil and a rōshi (a Zen Buddhist teacher). Zen tradition values direct experience and communication over scriptures. (Some...
    951 bytes (106 words) - 03:31, 5 May 2021
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    religious scripture of Sikhism, regarded by Sikhs as the final, sovereign and eternal Guru following the lineage of the ten human gurus of the religion...
    73 KB (8,185 words) - 16:36, 12 September 2024
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    in Revelation 17:5 as "Mystery, Babylon the Great, the Mother of Harlots and Abominations of the Earth" (Greek: μυστήριον, Βαβυλὼν ἡ μεγάλη, ἡ μήτηρ...
    41 KB (4,135 words) - 20:19, 9 September 2024
  • Deborah, he received the news of the death of his mother, Rebecca. Scripture does not mention the place of Rebecca's interment, because her burial took...
    2 KB (219 words) - 13:09, 17 May 2024
  • the number 19 is key to decoding scriptures such as the Quran, and takes the view that it is meaningful that the names of both Elijah Muhammad and Louis...
    128 KB (16,777 words) - 17:14, 12 September 2024
  • called Sruti are broadly considered as core scriptures of Hinduism, but beyond the Sruti, the list of scriptures vary by the scholar. Several lists include...
    24 KB (2,716 words) - 19:53, 13 July 2024
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    Church of Christ, Scientist was founded in 1879 in Boston, Massachusetts, by Mary Baker Eddy, author of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, and...
    17 KB (1,720 words) - 01:43, 14 September 2024
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    Mary on August 15. Christian canonical scriptures do not record the death or Dormition of Mary. Hippolytus of Thebes, a 7th- or 8th-century author, writes...
    39 KB (4,692 words) - 22:59, 26 August 2024
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    Theotokos (redirect from Mother of God)
    Theotokos (Greek: Θεοτόκος) is a title of Mary, mother of Jesus, used especially in Eastern Christianity. The usual Latin translations are Dei Genitrix...
    38 KB (4,743 words) - 13:41, 9 September 2024
  • technique of comparing Scripture with Scripture is important for determining correct biblical doctrine. Formulating a doctrine on a single Scripture and ignoring...
    2 KB (235 words) - 01:31, 17 April 2023
  • single interpretation of any given passage. This Christian fundamentalist and evangelical hermeneutical approach to scripture is used extensively by...
    21 KB (2,519 words) - 16:54, 13 September 2024
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    Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy is, along with the Bible, one of the two central texts of the Christian Science religion...
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