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577 relations: Abba (given name), Abd Allah ibn Saba', Abraham, Abu Hatim Ahmad ibn Hamdan al-Razi, Abu Mansur al-Baghdadi, Abu Ya'qub al-Sijistani, Acronym, Acts of the Apostles, Adam, Adoption in Judaism, Aelia Capitolina, Age of Enlightenment, Agora, Ahmadiyya, Al-Ghazali, Al-Masih ad-Dajjal, Al-Mufaddal ibn Umar al-Ju'fi, Albert Kalthoff, Alexander the Great, Alexandria, Ali, Alms, Amy-Jill Levine, Analgesic, Ananias of Damascus, Ancient history, Ancient Rome, Angel, Anglicanism, Aniconism in Christianity, Annals (Tacitus), Annas, Anno Domini, Annunciation to the shepherds, Anointing, Antichrist, Antioch, Antiquities of the Jews, Antony Theodore, Apocalypse, Apocalypticism, Apocryphon of James, Apostles in the New Testament, Aramaic, Arrest of Jesus, Arthur Drews, Ascension of Jesus, Atheism, Augustus, Authorship of the Bible, ... Expand index (527 more) »
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- 1st-century BCE Jews
- 1st-century apocalypticists
- 1st-century executions
- 1st-century rabbis
- 30s deaths
- Ascetics
- Deified men
- Exorcists
- God in Christianity
- Jewish messiah claimants
- Judean people
- Justice gods
- Killed deities
- Life-death-rebirth gods
- Names of God
- People considered avatars by their followers
- People executed by crucifixion
- People from Bethlehem
- Prophets in the Druze faith
- Prophets of the New Testament
- Rabbis of the Land of Israel
- Savior gods
Abba (given name)
Abba is a form of ab, meaning "father" in many Semitic languages.
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Abd Allah ibn Saba'
ʿAbd Allāh ibn Sabāʾ al-Ḥimyarī (عبد الله بن سبأ الحميري), sometimes also called Ibn Sabāʾ, Ibn al-Sawdāʾ, or Ibn Wahb, was a 7th-century figure in Islamic history associated with a group of followers called the Sabaʾiyya (سبئية).
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Abraham
Abraham (originally Abram) is the common Hebrew patriarch of the Abrahamic religions, including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Jesus and Abraham are Angelic visionaries, founders of religions and prophets in the Druze faith.
Abu Hatim Ahmad ibn Hamdan al-Razi
Abū Ḥātim Aḥmad ibn Ḥamdān al-Rāzī (ابو حاتماحمد بن حمدان الرازی) was a Persian Ismaili philosopher of the 9th century, who died in 322 AH (935 CE).
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Abu Mansur al-Baghdadi
Abū Manṣūr ʿAbd al-Qāhir ibn Ṭāhir bin Muḥammad bin ʿAbd Allāh al-Tamīmī al-Shāfiʿī al-Baghdādī (أبو منصور عبدالقاهر ابن طاهر بن محمد بن عبدالله التميمي الشافعي البغدادي), more commonly known as Abd al-Qāhir al-Baghdādī (عبد القاهر البغدادي) or simply Abū Manṣūr al-Baghdādī (أَبُو مَنْصُورالبغدادي) was an Arab Sunni scholar from Baghdad.
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Abu Ya'qub al-Sijistani
Abu Ya'qub Ishaq ibn Ahmad al-Sijistani (أبو يعقوب إسحاق بن أحمد السجستاني) or al-Sijzi (السجزي) was a 10th-century Persian Ismaili missionary active in the northern and eastern Iranian lands.
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Acronym
An acronym is an abbreviation of a phrase that usually consists of the initial letter of each word in all caps with no punctuation.
Acts of the Apostles
The Acts of the Apostles (Πράξεις Ἀποστόλων, Práxeis Apostólōn; Actūs Apostolōrum) is the fifth book of the New Testament; it tells of the founding of the Christian Church and the spread of its message to the Roman Empire.
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Adam
Adam is the name given in Genesis 1–5 to the first human. Jesus and Adam are prophets in the Druze faith.
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Adoption in Judaism
Adoption does not exist formally as a practice in Jewish Law (''Halacha''), although rabbinic texts were not uniform on whether or not they recognized the validity of adoption and several examples of adoption take place in the Hebrew Bible and texts from the Second Temple Judaism.
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Aelia Capitolina
Aelia Capitolina (full name in Colonia Aelia Capitolina) was a Roman colony founded during Emperor Hadrian's visit to Judaea in 129/130 AD, centered around Jerusalem, which had been almost totally razed after the siege of 70 AD.
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Age of Enlightenment
The Age of Enlightenment (also the Age of Reason and the Enlightenment) was the intellectual and philosophical movement that occurred in Europe in the 17th and the 18th centuries.
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Agora
The agora (ἀγορά, romanized:, meaning "market" in Modern Greek) was a central public space in ancient Greek city-states.
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Ahmadiyya
Ahmadiyya, officially the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama'at (AMJ) is an Islamic messianic movement originating in British India in the late 19th century. It was founded by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (1835–1908), who said he had been divinely appointed as both the Promised Mahdi (Guided One) and Messiah expected by Muslims to appear towards the end times and bring about, by peaceful means, the final triumph of Islam; as well as to embody, in this capacity, the expected eschatological figure of other major religious traditions.
Al-Ghazali
Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsiyy al-Ghazali (أَبُو حَامِد مُحَمَّد بْن مُحَمَّد ٱلطُّوسِيّ ٱلْغَزَّالِيّ), known commonly as Al-Ghazali (ٱلْغَزَالِيُّ;,; – 19 December 1111), known in Medieval Europe by the Latinized Algazelus or Algazel, was a Persian Sunni Muslim polymath.
Al-Masih ad-Dajjal
Al-Masih ad-Dajjal, otherwise referred to simply as the Dajjal, is an evil figure in Islamic eschatology who will pretend to be the promised Messiah and later claim to be God, appearing before the Day of Judgment according to the Islamic eschatological narrative.
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Al-Mufaddal ibn Umar al-Ju'fi
Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Mufaḍḍal ibn ʿUmar al-Juʿfī (أبو عبد ﷲ المفضل بن عمر الجعفي), died before 799, was an early Shi'i leader and the purported author of a number of religious and philosophical writings.
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Albert Kalthoff
Albert Kalthoff (5 March 1850, Barmen – 11 May 1906, Bremen) was a German Protestant theologian, who along with Emil Felden (1874–1959), Oscar Mauritz (1867–1959), Moritz Schwalb (1833–1916) and Friedrich Steudel (1866–1939) formed a group in Bremen, named the Deutscher Monistenbund (German Monists League), who no longer believed in Jesus as a historical figure.
Alexander the Great
Alexander III of Macedon (Alexandros; 20/21 July 356 BC – 10/11 June 323 BC), most commonly known as Alexander the Great, was a king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon.
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Alexandria
Alexandria (الإسكندرية; Ἀλεξάνδρεια, Coptic: Ⲣⲁⲕⲟϯ - Rakoti or ⲁⲗⲉⲝⲁⲛⲇⲣⲓⲁ) is the second largest city in Egypt and the largest city on the Mediterranean coast.
Ali
Ali ibn Abi Talib (translit) was the cousin and son-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, and was the fourth Rashidun caliph who ruled from 656 to 661, as well as the first Shia imam. Jesus and Ali are Deified men.
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Alms
Alms are money, food, or other material goods donated to people living in poverty.
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Amy-Jill Levine
Amy-Jill Levine (born 1956) is Rabbi Stanley M. Kessler Distinguished Professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies at Hartford International University for Religion and Peace.
Analgesic
An analgesic drug, also called simply an analgesic, antalgic, pain reliever, or painkiller, is any member of the group of drugs used for pain management.
Ananias of Damascus
Ananias of Damascus (Ἀνανίας, romanized: Ananíās; Aramaic: ܚܢܢܝܐ, romanized: Ḥananyō; "favoured of the ") was a disciple of Jesus at Damascus from Syria, mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles in the Bible, which describes how he was sent by Jesus to restore the sight of Saul of Tarsus (who later was called Paul the Apostle) and provide him with additional instruction in the way of the Lord.
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Ancient history
Ancient history is a time period from the beginning of writing and recorded human history through late antiquity.
Ancient Rome
In modern historiography, ancient Rome is the Roman civilisation from the founding of the Italian city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD.
Angel
In Abrahamic religious traditions (such as Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) and some sects of other belief-systems like Hinduism and Buddhism, an angel is a heavenly supernatural or spiritual being.
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Anglicanism
Anglicanism is a Western Christian tradition which developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, in the context of the Protestant Reformation in Europe.
Aniconism in Christianity
Aniconism is the absence of material representations of the natural and supernatural world in various cultures.
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Annals (Tacitus)
The Annals (Annales) by Roman historian and senator Tacitus is a history of the Roman Empire from the reign of Tiberius to that of Nero, the years AD 14–68.
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Annas
Annas (also Ananus or Ananias;Goodman, Martin, "Rome & Jerusalem", Penguin Books, p.12 (2007),; Ἅννας,; 23/22 BC – death date unknown, probably around AD 40) was appointed by the Roman legate Quirinius as the first High Priest of the newly formed Roman province of Judaea in AD 6 – just after the Romans had deposed Archelaus, Ethnarch of Judaea, thereby putting Judaea directly under Roman rule.
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Anno Domini
The terms anno Domini. (AD) and before Christ (BC) are used when designating years in the Julian and Gregorian calendars.
Annunciation to the shepherds
The annunciation to the shepherds is an episode in the Nativity of Jesus described in the Bible in Luke 2, in which angels tell a group of shepherds about the birth of Jesus.
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Anointing
Anointing is the ritual act of pouring aromatic oil over a person's head or entire body.
Antichrist
In Christian eschatology, Antichrist refers to a kind of person prophesied by the Bible to oppose Jesus Christ and falsely substitute themselves as a savior in Christ's place before the Second Coming.
Antioch
Antioch on the Orontes (Antiókheia hē epì Oróntou)Ἀντιόχεια ἡ ἐπὶ Ὀρόντου; or Ἀντιόχεια ἡ ἐπὶ Δάφνῃ "Antioch on Daphne"; or Ἀντιόχεια ἡ Μεγάλη "Antioch the Great"; Antiochia ad Orontem; Անտիոք Antiokʽ; ܐܢܛܝܘܟܝܐ Anṭiokya; אנטיוכיה, Anṭiyokhya; أنطاكية, Anṭākiya; انطاکیه; Antakya.
Antiquities of the Jews
Antiquities of the Jews (Antiquitates Iudaicae; Ἰουδαϊκὴ ἀρχαιολογία, Ioudaikē archaiologia) is a 20-volume historiographical work, written in Greek, by historian Josephus in the 13th year of the reign of Roman emperor Domitian, which was 94 CE.
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Antony Theodore
Antony Theodore (born 1954) is a bilingual German poet, pastor and educator who writes in both English and German.
Apocalypse
Apocalypse is a literary genre originating in Judaism in the centuries following the Babylonian exile (597-587 BCE) but persisting in Christianity and Islam.
Apocalypticism
Apocalypticism is the religious belief that the end of the world is imminent, even within one's own lifetime.
Apocryphon of James
The Apocryphon of James, also called the Secret Book of James or the Apocryphal Epistle of James, is a Gnostic epistle.
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Apostles in the New Testament
In Christian theology and ecclesiology, the apostles, particularly the Twelve Apostles (also known as the Twelve Disciples or simply the Twelve), were the primary disciples of Jesus according to the New Testament.
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Aramaic
Aramaic (ˀərāmiṯ; arāmāˀiṯ) is a Northwest Semitic language that originated in the ancient region of Syria and quickly spread to Mesopotamia, the southern Levant, southeastern Anatolia, Eastern Arabia and the Sinai Peninsula, where it has been continually written and spoken in different varieties for over three thousand years.
Arrest of Jesus
The arrest of Jesus was a pivotal event in Christianity recorded in the canonical gospels.
Arthur Drews
Christian Heinrich Arthur Drews (1 November 1865 – 15 July 1935) was a German writer, historian, philosopher, and important representative of German monist thought.
Ascension of Jesus
The Ascension of Jesus (anglicized from the Vulgate lit) is the Christian belief, reflected in the major Christian creeds and confessional statements, that Jesus ascended to Heaven after his resurrection, where he was exalted as Lord and Christ, sitting at the right hand of God.
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Atheism
Atheism, in the broadest sense, is an absence of belief in the existence of deities.
Augustus
Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus (born Gaius Octavius; 23 September 63 BC – 19 August AD 14), also known as Octavian (Octavianus), was the founder of the Roman Empire.
Authorship of the Bible
There is much disagreement within biblical scholarship today over the authorship of the Bible.
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Avatar
Avatar is a concept within Hinduism that in Sanskrit literally means.
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Avesta
The Avesta is the primary collection of religious texts of Zoroastrianism from at least the late Sassanid period (ca. 6th century CE).
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Baháʼí Faith
The Baháʼí Faith is a religion founded in the 19th century that teaches the essential worth of all religions and the unity of all people.
Baháʼí Studies Review
Baháʼí Studies Review was a peer-reviewed academic journal, published annually from 1991 to 2015, that covered contemporary issues regarding the principles, history, and philosophy of the Baháʼí Faith.
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Baháʼu'lláh
Baháʼu'lláh (born Ḥusayn-ʻAlí; 12 November 1817 – 29 May 1892) was an Iranian religious leader who founded the Baháʼí Faith.
Baptism of Jesus
The baptism of Jesus, the ritual purification of Jesus with water by John the Baptist, was a major event described in the three synoptic Gospels of the New Testament (Matthew, Mark and Luke).
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Barabbas
Barabbas was, according to the New Testament, a prisoner who was chosen over Jesus by the crowd in Jerusalem to be pardoned and released by Roman governor Pontius Pilate at the Passover feast.
Bargain of Judas
The Bargain of Judas is a biblical episode related to the life of Jesus which is recorded in all three Synoptic Gospels,, and.
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Bart D. Ehrman
Bart Denton Ehrman (born October 5, 1955) is an American New Testament scholar focusing on textual criticism of the New Testament, the historical Jesus, and the origins and development of early Christianity.
Beelzebub
Beelzebub or Baʿal Zebub (בַּעַל־זְבוּב Baʿal-zəḇūḇ), also spelled Beelzebul or Belzebuth, and occasionally known as the Lord of the Flies, is a name derived from a Philistine god, formerly worshipped in Ekron.
Beheading of John the Baptist
The beheading of John the Baptist, also known as the decollation of Saint John the Baptist or the beheading of the Forerunner, is a biblical event commemorated as a holy day by various Christian churches.
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Bethany
Bethany (Βηθανία,Murphy-O'Connor, 2008, p. Syriac: ܒܝܬ ܥܢܝܐ Bēṯ ʿAnyā), locally called in Arabic Al-Eizariya or al-Aizariya (العيزرية, "place of Lazarus"), is a Palestinian town in the Jerusalem Governorate of Palestine, bordering East Jerusalem, in the West Bank.
Bethlehem
Bethlehem (بيت لحم,,; בֵּית לֶחֶם) is a city in the Israeli-occupied West Bank of the State of Palestine, located about south of Jerusalem.
Biblical Aramaic
Biblical Aramaic is the form of Aramaic that is used in the books of Daniel and Ezra in the Hebrew Bible.
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Biblical canon
A biblical canon is a set of texts (also called "books") which a particular Jewish or Christian religious community regards as part of the Bible.
Biblical Hebrew
Biblical Hebrew (rtl ʿīḇrîṯ miqrāʾîṯ or rtl ləšôn ham-miqrāʾ), also called Classical Hebrew, is an archaic form of the Hebrew language, a language in the Canaanitic branch of the Semitic languages spoken by the Israelites in the area known as the Land of Israel, roughly west of the Jordan River and east of the Mediterranean Sea.
Biblical inerrancy
Biblical inerrancy is the belief that the Bible "is without error or fault in all its teaching"; or, at least, that "Scripture in the original manuscripts does not affirm anything that is contrary to fact".
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Biblical Magi
In Christianity, the Biblical Magi (or; singular), also known as the Three Wise Men, Three Kings, and Three Magi, are distinguished foreigners who visit Jesus after his birth, bearing gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh in homage to him.
Bodhisattva
In Buddhism, a bodhisattva (English:; translit) or bodhisatva is a person who is on the path towards bodhi ('awakening') or Buddhahood.
Book of Leviticus
The Book of Leviticus (from Λευιτικόν,; וַיִּקְרָא,, 'And He called'; Liber Leviticus) is the third book of the Torah (the Pentateuch) and of the Old Testament, also known as the Third Book of Moses.
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Book of Revelation
The Book of Revelation or Book of the Apocalypse is the final book of the New Testament (and therefore the final book of the Christian Bible).
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Book of Zechariah
The Book of Zechariah is a Jewish text attributed to Zechariah, a Hebrew prophet of the late 6th century BC.
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Bread of Life Discourse
The Bread of Life Discourse is a portion of the teaching of Jesus which appears in chapter 6 of John's Gospel (verses 22–59) and was delivered in the synagogue at Capernaum.
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Brethren of Purity
The Brethren of Purity (Ikhwān Al-Ṣafā; also The Brethren of Sincerity) were a secret society of Muslim philosophers in Basra, Iraq, in the 9th or 10th century CE.
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Brothers of Jesus
The brothers of Jesus or the adelphoi (of the same womb)Greek singular noun adelphos, from a- ("same", equivalent to homo-) and delphys ("womb," equivalent to splanchna). Jesus and brothers of Jesus are people from Nazareth.
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Bruno Bauer
Bruno Bauer (6 September 180913 April 1882) was a German philosopher and theologian.
Buddhism
Buddhism, also known as Buddha Dharma and Dharmavinaya, is an Indian religion and philosophical tradition based on teachings attributed to the Buddha, a wandering teacher who lived in the 6th or 5th century BCE.
Burton L. Mack
Burton L. Mack (1931 – March 9, 2022) was an American author and scholar of early Christian history and the New Testament.
Byzantine Iconoclasm
The Byzantine Iconoclasm (lit) were two periods in the history of the Byzantine Empire when the use of religious images or icons was opposed by religious and imperial authorities within the Ecumenical Patriarchate (at the time still comprising the Roman-Latin and the Eastern-Orthodox traditions) and the temporal imperial hierarchy.
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Caesarea Maritima
Caesarea (Kaisáreia; Qēsaryah; Qaysāriyyah), also Caesarea Maritima, Caesarea Palaestinae or Caesarea Stratonis, was an ancient and medieval port city on the coast of the Eastern Mediterranean, and later a small fishing village.
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Caiaphas
Josef Ben Caiaphas (c. 14 BC – c. 46 AD), known simply as Caiaphas in the New Testament, was the Jewish high priest during the years of Jesus' ministry, according to Josephus.
Calendar era
A calendar era is the period of time elapsed since one epoch of a calendar and, if it exists, before the next one.
Calling of the disciples
The calling of the disciples is a key episode in the life of Jesus in the New Testament.
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Calming the storm
Calming the storm is one of the miracles of Jesus in the Gospels, reported in Matthew, Mark, and Luke (the Synoptic Gospels).
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Calvary
Calvary (Calvariae or Calvariae locus) or Golgotha (Golgothâ) was a site immediately outside Jerusalem's walls where, according to Christianity's four canonical gospels, Jesus was crucified.
Candida Moss
Candida R. Moss (born 26 November 1978) is an English public intellectual, journalist, New Testament scholar and historian of Christianity, and as of 2017, the Edward Cadbury Professor of Theology in the Department of Theology and Religion at the University of Birmingham.
Capernaum
Capernaum (Nahum's village; Kafr Nāḥūm) was a fishing village established during the time of the Hasmoneans, located on the northern shore of the Sea of Galilee.
Catacombs of Rome
The Catacombs of Rome (Catacombe di Roma) are ancient catacombs, underground burial places in and around Rome, of which there are at least forty, some rediscovered only in recent decades.
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Catechism
A catechism (from κατηχέω, "to teach orally") is a summary or exposition of doctrine and serves as a learning introduction to the Sacraments traditionally used in catechesis, or Christian religious teaching of children and adult converts.
Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.
Catholic devotions
Catholic devotions are particular customs, rituals, and practices of worship of God or honour of the saints which are in addition to the liturgy of the Catholic Church.
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Census of Quirinius
The Census of Quirinius was a census of the Roman province of Judaea taken in 6 CE, upon its formation, by the governor of Roman Syria, Publius Sulpicius Quirinius.
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Centurion
In the Roman army during classical antiquity, a centurion (centurio,. label; kentyríōn, or), was a commander, nominally of a century, a military unit originally consisting of 100 legionaries.
Charismatic authority
In the field of sociology, charismatic authority is a concept of organizational leadership wherein the authority of the leader derives from the personal charisma of the leader.
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Chicken
The chicken (Gallus domesticus) is a large and round short-winged bird, domesticated from the red junglefowl of Southeast Asia around 8,000 years ago. Most chickens are raised for food, providing meat and eggs; others are kept as pets or for cockfighting. Chickens are common and widespread domestic animals, with a total population of 23.7 billion, and an annual production of more than 50 billion birds.
Christ (title)
Christ, used by Christians as both a name and a title, unambiguously refers to Jesus.
Christ Carrying the Cross
Christ Carrying the Cross on his way to his crucifixion is an episode included in the Gospel of John, and a very common subject in art, especially in the fourteen Stations of the Cross, sets of which are now found in almost all Roman Catholic churches, as well as in many Lutheran churches and Anglican churches.
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Christ Pantocrator (Sinai)
Christ Pantocrator of Saint Catherine's Monastery is one of the oldest Byzantine religious icons, dating from the 6th century AD.
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Christian Church
In ecclesiology, the Christian Church is what different Christian denominations conceive of as being the true body of Christians or the original institution established by Jesus Christ.
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Christian denomination
A Christian denomination is a distinct religious body within Christianity that comprises all church congregations of the same kind, identifiable by traits such as a name, particular history, organization, leadership, theological doctrine, worship style and, sometimes, a founder.
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Christian eschatology
Christian eschatology is a minor branch of study within Christian theology which deals with the doctrine of the "last things", especially the Second Coming of Christ, or Parousia.
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Christian mortalism
Christian mortalism is the Christian belief that the human soul is not naturally immortal and may include the belief that the soul is "sleeping" after death until the Resurrection of the Dead and the Last Judgment, a time known as the intermediate state.
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Christian pilgrimage
Christianity has a strong tradition of pilgrimages, both to sites relevant to the New Testament narrative (especially in the Holy Land) and to sites associated with later saints or miracles.
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Christian theology
Christian theology is the theology – the systematic study of the divine and religion – of Christian belief and practice.
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Christianity
Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.
Christianity in the 1st century
Christianity in the 1st century covers the formative history of Christianity from the start of the ministry of Jesus (–29 AD) to the death of the last of the Twelve Apostles and is thus also known as the Apostolic Age.
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Christians
A Christian is a person who follows or adheres to Christianity, a monotheistic Abrahamic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.
Christmas
Christmas is an annual festival commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ, observed primarily on December 25 as a religious and cultural celebration among billions of people around the world.
Christology
In Christianity, Christology is a branch of theology that concerns Jesus.
Chronology of Jesus
A chronology of Jesus aims to establish a timeline for the events of the life of Jesus.
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Church Slavonic
Church Slavonic is the conservative Slavic liturgical language used by the Eastern Orthodox Church in Belarus, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Poland, Ukraine, Russia, Serbia, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, Slovenia and Croatia.
Circumcision of Jesus
The circumcision of Jesus is an event from the life of Jesus, according to the Gospel of Luke chapter 2, which states: And when eight days were fulfilled to circumcise the child, his name was called Jesus, the name called by the angel before he was conceived in the womb.
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Classical antiquity
Classical antiquity, also known as the classical era, classical period, classical age, or simply antiquity, is the period of cultural European history between the 8th century BC and the 5th century AD comprising the interwoven civilizations of ancient Greece and ancient Rome known together as the Greco-Roman world, centered on the Mediterranean Basin.
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Classics
Classics or classical studies is the study of classical antiquity.
Cleansing of the Temple
In all four canonical gospels of the Christian New Testament, the cleansing of the Temple narrative tells of Jesus expelling the merchants and the money changers from the Temple.
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Cleansing ten lepers
Jesus' cleansing of ten lepers is one of the miracles of Jesus reported in the Gospels (Gospel of Luke).
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Commissioning of the Twelve Apostles
The commissioning of the Twelve Apostles is an episode in the ministry of Jesus that appears in all three Synoptic Gospels: Matthew 10:1–4, Mark 3:13–19 and Luke 6:12–16.
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Common Era
Common Era (CE) and Before the Common Era (BCE) are year notations for the Gregorian calendar (and its predecessor, the Julian calendar), the world's most widely used calendar era.
Confession of Peter
In Christianity, the Confession of Peter (translated from the Matthean Vulgate Latin section title: Confessio Petri) refers to an episode in the New Testament in which the Apostle Peter proclaims Jesus to be the Christ (Jewish Messiah).
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Confessionalism (religion)
In Christianity, confessionalism is a belief in the importance of full and unambiguous assent to the whole of a movement's or denomination's teachings, such as those found in Confessions of Faith, which followers believe to be accurate summaries of the teachings found in Scripture and to show their distinction from other groups - they hold to the Quia form of confessional subscription.
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Consanguinity
Consanguinity (from Latin consanguinitas 'blood relationship') is the characteristic of having a kinship with a relative who is descended from a common ancestor.
Conversion of Paul the Apostle
The conversion of Paul the Apostle (also the Pauline conversion, Damascene conversion, Damascus Christophany and the "road to Damascus" event) was, according to the New Testament, an event in the life of Saul/Paul the Apostle that led him to cease persecuting early Christians and to become a follower of Jesus.
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Conversion to Judaism
Conversion to Judaism (translit or translit) is the process by which non-Jews adopt the Jewish religion and become members of the Jewish ethnoreligious community.
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Coptic language
Coptic (Bohairic Coptic) is a group of closely related Egyptian dialects, representing the most recent developments of the Egyptian language, and historically spoken by the Copts, starting from the third century AD in Roman Egypt.
Criterion of dissimilarity
The criterion of dissimilarity (often used as a shorthand for criterion of double dissimilarity;The Historical Jesus and the Final Judgment Sayings in Q (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen Zum Neuen Testament) by Brian Han Gregg (30 June 2006) page 29 it is also called criterion of discontinuity, originality or dual irreducibility) is used in Biblical criticism to determine if a statement attributed to Jesus may be authentic.
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Criterion of embarrassment
The criterion of embarrassment is a type of biblical historical analysis in which a historical account is deemed likely to be true under the inference that the author would have no reason to invent a historical account which might embarrass them.
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Criterion of multiple attestation
The criterion of multiple attestation, also called the criterion of independent attestation or the cross-section method, is a tool used by Biblical scholars to help determine whether certain actions or sayings by Jesus in the New Testament are from the Historical Jesus.
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Crown of thorns
According to the New Testament, a woven crown of thorns (or label) was placed on the head of Jesus during the events leading up to his crucifixion.
Crucifix
A crucifix (from the Latin cruci fixus meaning '(one) fixed to a cross') is a cross with an image of Jesus on it, as distinct from a bare cross.
Crucifixion
Crucifixion is a method of capital punishment in which the condemned is tied or nailed to a large wooden cross, beam or stake and left to hang until eventual death.
Crucifixion darkness
The crucifixion darkness is an event described in the synoptic gospels in which the sky becomes dark in daytime during the crucifixion of Jesus for roughly three hours.
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Crucifixion of Jesus
The crucifixion of Jesus occurred in 1st-century Judaea, most likely in AD 30 or AD 33.
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Cynicism (philosophy)
Cynicism (κυνισμός) is a school of thought in ancient Greek philosophy, originating in the Classical period and extending into the Hellenistic and Roman Imperial periods.
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Damascus
Damascus (Dimašq) is the capital and largest city of Syria, the oldest current capital in the world and, according to some, the fourth holiest city in Islam.
Date of the birth of Jesus
The date of the birth of Jesus is not stated in the gospels or in any historical sources and the evidence is too incomplete to allow for consistent dating.
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David
David ("beloved one") was a king of ancient Israel and Judah and the third king of the United Monarchy, according to the Hebrew Bible and Old Testament. Jesus and David are Angelic visionaries and people from Bethlehem.
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Davidic line
The Davidic line or House of David is the lineage of the Israelite king David.
De Gruyter
Walter de Gruyter GmbH, known as De Gruyter, is a German scholarly publishing house specializing in academic literature.
Denial of Peter
The Denial of Peter (or Peter's Denial) refers to three acts of denial of Jesus by the Apostle Peter as described in all four Gospels of the New Testament.
Descent from the Cross
The Descent from the Cross (Ἀποκαθήλωσις, Apokathelosis), or Deposition of Christ, is the scene, as depicted in art, from the Gospels' accounts of Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus taking Christ down from the cross after his crucifixion (John 19).
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Disciple whom Jesus loved
The phrase "the disciple whom Jesus loved" (ho mathētēs hon ēgapā ho Iēsous) or, in John 20:2; "the other disciple whom Jesus loved" (label), is used six times in the Gospel of John, but in no other New Testament accounts of Jesus.
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Docetism
In the history of Christianity, docetism (from the δοκεῖν/δόκησις dokeĩn "to seem", dókēsis "apparition, phantom") was the doctrine that the phenomenon of Jesus, his historical and bodily existence, and above all the human form of Jesus, was mere semblance without any true reality.
Doubting Thomas
A doubting Thomas is a skeptic who refuses to believe without direct personal experience – a reference to the Gospel of John's depiction of the Apostle Thomas, who, in John's account, refused to believe the resurrected Jesus had appeared to the ten other apostles until he could see and feel Jesus's crucifixion wounds.
Druze
The Druze (دَرْزِيّ, or دُرْزِيّ, rtl), who call themselves al-Muwaḥḥidūn (lit. 'the monotheists' or 'the unitarians'), are an Arab and Arabic-speaking esoteric ethnoreligious group from West Asia who adhere to the Druze faith, an Abrahamic, monotheistic, syncretic, and ethnic religion whose main tenets assert the unity of God, reincarnation, and the eternity of the soul.
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Dura-Europos church
The Dura-Europos church (or Dura-Europos house church) is the earliest identified Christian house church.
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E. P. Sanders
Ed Parish Sanders (April 18, 1937 – November 21, 2022) was a liberal and secularized New Testament scholar and a principal proponent of the "New Perspective on Paul".
Earl Doherty
Earl J. Doherty (born 1941) is a Canadian author of The Jesus Puzzle (1999), Challenging the Verdict (2001), and Jesus: Neither God Nor Man (2009).
Early Christian art and architecture
Early Christian art and architecture (or Paleochristian art) is the art produced by Christians, or under Christian patronage, from the earliest period of Christianity to, depending on the definition, sometime between 260 and 525.
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Early Christianity
Early Christianity, otherwise called the Early Church or Paleo-Christianity, describes the historical era of the Christian religion up to the First Council of Nicaea in 325.
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Early Muslim conquests
The early Muslim conquests or early Islamic conquests (translit), also known as the Arab conquests, were initiated in the 7th century by Muhammad, the founder of Islam.
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East–West Schism
The East–West Schism, also known as the Great Schism or the Schism of 1054, is the break of communion between the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches since 1054.
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Easter
Easter, also called Pascha (Aramaic, Greek, Latin) or Resurrection Sunday, is a Christian festival and cultural holiday commemorating the resurrection of Jesus from the dead, described in the New Testament as having occurred on the third day of his burial following his crucifixion by the Romans at Calvary.
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Eastern Christianity
Eastern Christianity comprises Christian traditions and church families that originally developed during classical and late antiquity in the Eastern Mediterranean region or locations further east, south or north.
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Eastern Orthodoxy
Eastern Orthodoxy, otherwise known as Eastern Orthodox Christianity or Byzantine Christianity, is one of the three main branches of Chalcedonian Christianity, alongside Catholicism and Protestantism.
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Ecclesiastical History (Eusebius)
The Ecclesiastical History (Ἐκκλησιαστικὴ Ἱστορία, Ekklēsiastikḕ Historía; Historia Ecclesiastica), also known as The History of the Church and Church History, is a 4th-century chronological account of the development of Early Christianity from the 1st century to the 4th century, composed by Eusebius, the bishop of Caesarea.
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Ecumenical council
An ecumenical council, also called general council, is a meeting of bishops and other church authorities to consider and rule on questions of Christian doctrine, administration, discipline, and other matters in which those entitled to vote are convoked from the whole world (oikoumene) and which secures the approbation of the whole Church.
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Edom
Edom (Edomite: 𐤀𐤃𐤌; אֱדוֹם, lit.: "red"; Akkadian: 𒌑𒁺𒈪, 𒌑𒁺𒈬; Ancient Egyptian) was an ancient kingdom in Transjordan, located between Moab to the northeast, the Arabah to the west, and the Arabian Desert to the south and east.
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Egalitarianism
Egalitarianism, or equalitarianism, is a school of thought within political philosophy that builds on the concept of social equality, prioritizing it for all people.
Elijah
Elijah (ʾĒlīyyāhū, meaning "My God is Yahweh/YHWH"; Greek form: Elias /eːˈlias/) was a Jewish prophet and a miracle worker who lived in the northern kingdom of Israel during the reign of King Ahab (9th century BC), according to the Books of Kings in the Hebrew Bible. Jesus and Elijah are Angelic visionaries and prophets in the Druze faith.
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Elisha
Elisha (or 'God is my salvation'; Koine Greek: Ἐλισαῖος Elisaîos or Ἐλισαιέ Elisaié; Eliseus) was, according to the Hebrew Bible, a Jewish prophet and a wonder-worker.
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Elizabeth (biblical figure)
Elizabeth (also spelled Elisabeth; Hebrew: אֱלִישֶׁבַע "My God is abundance", Standard Hebrew: Elišévaʿ, Tiberian Hebrew: ʾĔlîšéḇaʿ; Greek: Ἐλισάβετ Elisabet / Elisavet) was the mother of John the Baptist, the wife of Zechariah, and maternal aunt of Mary, mother of Jesus, according to the Gospel of Luke and in Islamic tradition. Jesus and Elizabeth (biblical figure) are Judean people and prophets of the New Testament.
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Emmaus
Emmaus (Greek: Ἐμμαούς, Emmaous; Emmaus; عمواس, ʻImwas) is a town mentioned in the Gospel of Luke of the New Testament.
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Empty tomb
The empty tomb is the Christian tradition that the tomb of Jesus was found empty after his crucifixion.
Entering heaven alive
Entering heaven alive (called by various religions "ascension", "assumption", or "translation") is a belief held in various religions.
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Epistle to the Galatians
The Epistle to the Galatians is the ninth book of the New Testament.
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Erasmus
Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus (English: Erasmus of Rotterdam or Erasmus; 28 October c.1466 – 12 July 1536) was a Dutch Christian humanist, Catholic theologian, educationalist, satirist, and philosopher.
Eschatology
Eschatology concerns expectations of the end of present age, human history, or the world itself.
Essenes
The Essenes (Hebrew:, Isiyim; Greek: Ἐσσηνοί, Ἐσσαῖοι, or Ὀσσαῖοι, Essenoi, Essaioi, Ossaioi) or Essenians were a mystic Jewish sect during the Second Temple period that flourished from the 2nd century BCE to the 1st century CE.
Eternal life (Christianity)
Eternal life traditionally refers to continued life after death, as outlined in Christian eschatology.
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Eucharist
The Eucharist (from evcharistía), also known as Holy Communion, the Blessed Sacrament and the Lord's Supper, is a Christian rite that is considered a sacrament in most churches, and as an ordinance in others.
Eusebius
Eusebius of Caesarea (Εὐσέβιος τῆς Καισαρείας; 260/265 – 30 May 339), also known as Eusebius Pamphilus (from the Εὐσέβιος τοῦ Παμφίλου), was a Greek Syro-Palestinian historian of Christianity, exegete, and Christian polemicist.
Exorcism
Exorcism is the religious or spiritual practice of evicting demons, jinns, or other malevolent spiritual entities from a person, or an area, that is believed to be possessed.
Fakhr al-Din al-Razi
Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī (فخر الدين الرازي) or Fakhruddin Razi (فخر الدين رازی) (1149 or 1150 – 1209), often known by the sobriquet Sultan of the Theologians, was an influential Iranian and Muslim polymath, scientist and one of the pioneers of inductive logic.
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Fall of man
The fall of man, the fall of Adam, or simply the Fall, is a term used in Christianity to describe the transition of the first man and woman from a state of innocent obedience to God to a state of guilty disobedience.
Fall of the Western Roman Empire
The fall of the Western Roman Empire, also called the fall of the Roman Empire or the fall of Rome, was the loss of central political control in the Western Roman Empire, a process in which the Empire failed to enforce its rule, and its vast territory was divided between several successor polities.
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Farewell Discourse
In the New Testament, chapters 14–17 of the Gospel of John are known as the Farewell Discourse given by Jesus to eleven of his disciples immediately after the conclusion of the Last Supper in Jerusalem, the night before his crucifixion.
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Feeding the multitude
In Christianity, feeding the multitude comprises two separate miracles of Jesus, reported in the Gospels, in which Jesus used modest resources to feed thousands of followers who had gathered to see him heal the sick.
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Finding in the Temple
The Finding in the Temple, also called Christ among the Doctors or the Disputation (the usual names for the subject in art), is an episode in the early life of Jesus depicted in chapter 2 of the Gospel of Luke.
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First Epistle to the Corinthians
The First Epistle to the Corinthians (Α΄ ᾽Επιστολὴ πρὸς Κορινθίους) is one of the Pauline epistles, part of the New Testament of the Christian Bible.
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First seven ecumenical councils
In the history of Christianity, the first seven ecumenical councils include the following: the First Council of Nicaea in 325, the First Council of Constantinople in 381, the Council of Ephesus in 431, the Council of Chalcedon in 451, the Second Council of Constantinople in 553, the Third Council of Constantinople from 680 to 681 and finally, the Second Council of Nicaea in 787.
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Five Holy Wounds
In Catholic tradition, the Five Holy Wounds, also known as the Five Sacred Wounds or the Five Precious Wounds, are the five piercing wounds that Jesus Christ suffered during his crucifixion.
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Flagellation of Christ
The Flagellation of Christ, in art sometimes known as Christ at the Column or the Scourging at the Pillar, is an episode from the Passion of Jesus as presented in the Gospels.
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Flight into Egypt
The flight into Egypt is a story recounted in the Gospel of Matthew (Matthew 2:13–23) and in New Testament apocrypha.
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Foil (narrative)
In any narrative, a foil is a character who contrasts with another character, typically, a character who contrasts with the protagonist, in order to better highlight or differentiate certain qualities of the protagonist.
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Forum (Roman)
A forum (Latin: forum, "public place outdoors",: fora; English: either fora or forums) was a public square in a Roman municipium, or any civitas, reserved primarily for the vending of goods; i.e., a marketplace, along with the buildings used for shops and the stoas used for open stalls.
Four Evangelists
In Christian tradition, the Four Evangelists are Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, the authors attributed with the creation of the four canonical Gospel accounts.
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Fra Angelico
Fra Angelico, OP (born Guido di Pietro; 18 February 1455) was a Dominican friar and Italian Renaissance painter of the Early Renaissance, described by Giorgio Vasari in his Lives of the Artists as having "a rare and perfect talent".
Gabriel
In the Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity, Islam and the Baháʼí Faith), Gabriel is an archangel with the power to announce God's will to mankind.
Galilean dialect
The Galilean dialect was the form of Jewish Aramaic spoken by people in Galilee during the late Second Temple period, for example at the time of Jesus and the disciples, as distinct from a Judean dialect spoken in Jerusalem.
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Galilee
Galilee (hagGālīl; Galilaea; al-jalīl) is a region located in northern Israel and southern Lebanon.
Géza Vermes
Géza Vermes, (22 June 1924 – 8 May 2013) was a British academic, Biblical scholar, and Judaist of Jewish–Hungarian descent—one who also served as a Roman Catholic priest in his youth—and scholar specialized in the field of the history of religion, particularly ancient Judaism and early Christianity.
Geʽez
Geez (or; ግዕዝ, and sometimes referred to in scholarly literature as Classical Ethiopic) is an ancient South Semitic language.
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Genealogy
Genealogy is the study of families, family history, and the tracing of their lineages.
Gentile
Gentile is a word that today usually means someone who is not Jewish.
Gerd Theissen
Gerd Theißen (or Theissen; born 24 April 1943) is a German Protestant theologian and New Testament scholar.
Gethsemane
Gethsemane is a garden at the foot of the Mount of Olives in East Jerusalem where, according to the four Gospels of the New Testament, Jesus Christ underwent the Agony in the Garden and was arrested before his crucifixion.
Ghulat
The (exaggerators, extremists) were a branch of early Shiʿa.
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Giotto
Giotto di Bondone (– January 8, 1337), known mononymously as Giotto and Latinised as Giottus, was an Italian painter and architect from Florence during the Late Middle Ages.
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Gnosis
Gnosis is the common Greek noun for knowledge (γνῶσις, gnōsis, f.). The term was used among various Hellenistic religions and philosophies in the Greco-Roman world.
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Gnosticism
Gnosticism (from Ancient Greek:, romanized: gnōstikós, Koine Greek: ɣnostiˈkos, 'having knowledge') is a collection of religious ideas and systems that coalesced in the late 1st century AD among Jewish and early Christian sects.
God in Christianity
In Christianity, God is the eternal, supreme being who created and preserves all things.
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God in Islam
In Islam, God (Allāh, contraction of ٱلْإِلَٰه, lit.) is seen as the creator and sustainer of the universe, who lives eternally and will eventually resurrect all humans.
God the Son
God the Son (Θεὸς ὁ υἱός, Deus Filius; האל הבן) is the second Person of the Trinity in Christian theology. Jesus and God the Son are god in Christianity.
Good Friday
Good Friday is a Christian holy day observing the crucifixion of Jesus and his death at Calvary.
Gospel
Gospel (εὐαγγέλιον; evangelium) originally meant the Christian message ("the gospel"), but in the 2nd century it came to be used also for the books in which the message was reported.
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Gospel in Islam
Injil (ʾInjīl, alternative spellings: Ingil or Injeel) is the Arabic name for the Gospel of Jesus (Isa).
Gospel of James
The Gospel of James (or the Protoevangelium of James) is a second-century infancy gospel telling of the miraculous conception of the Virgin Mary, her upbringing and marriage to Joseph, the journey of the couple to Bethlehem, the birth of Jesus, and events immediately following.
Gospel of John
The Gospel of John (translit) is the fourth of the New Testament's four canonical gospels.
Gospel of Judas
The Gospel of Judas is a non-canonical Gnostic gospel.
Gospel of Luke
The Gospel of Luke tells of the origins, birth, ministry, death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus.
Gospel of Mark
The Gospel of Mark is the second of the four canonical gospels and one of the three synoptic Gospels.
Gospel of Matthew
The Gospel of Matthew is the first book of the New Testament of the Bible and one of the three synoptic Gospels.
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Gospel of Peter
The Gospel of Peter (tò katà Pétron euangélion), or the Gospel according to Peter, is an ancient text concerning Jesus Christ, only partially known today.
Gospel of Thomas
The Gospel of Thomas (also known as the Coptic Gospel of Thomas) is an extra-canonical sayings gospel.
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Great Commission
In Christianity, the Great Commission is the instruction of the resurrected Jesus Christ to his disciples to spread the gospel to all the nations of the world.
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Great Fire of Rome
The Great Fire of Rome (incendium magnum Romae) began on the 18th of July 64 AD.
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Greek colonisation
Greek colonisation refers to the expansion of Archaic Greeks, particularly during the 8th–6th centuries BC, across the Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea.
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Greg Boyd (theologian)
Gregory A. Boyd (born June 2, 1957) is an American theologian, pastor, and author.
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Gregorian calendar
The Gregorian calendar is the calendar used in most parts of the world.
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Guru
Guru (गुरु; IAST: guru; Pali: garu) is a Sanskrit term for a "mentor, guide, expert, or master" of certain knowledge or field.
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Halakha
Halakha (translit), also transliterated as halacha, halakhah, and halocho, is the collective body of Jewish religious laws that are derived from the Written and Oral Torah.
Heaven in Christianity
In Christianity, heaven is traditionally the location of the throne of God and the angels of God,Ehrman, Bart.
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Hebrew Bible
The Hebrew Bible or Tanakh (. Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. Hebrew), also known in Hebrew as Miqra (Hebrew), is the canonical collection of Hebrew scriptures, comprising the Torah, the Nevi'im, and the Ketuvim.
Hebrew calendar
The Hebrew calendar (translit), also called the Jewish calendar, is a lunisolar calendar used today for Jewish religious observance and as an official calendar of Israel.
Hebrew language
Hebrew (ʿÎbrit) is a Northwest Semitic language within the Afroasiatic language family.
Hellenistic Judaism
Hellenistic Judaism was a form of Judaism in classical antiquity that combined Jewish religious tradition with elements of Hellenistic culture.
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Hellenistic period
In classical antiquity, the Hellenistic period covers the time in Mediterranean history after Classical Greece, between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and the death of Cleopatra in 30 BC, which was followed by the ascendancy of the Roman Empire, as signified by the Battle of Actium in 31 BC and the Roman conquest of Ptolemaic Egypt the following year, which eliminated the last major Hellenistic kingdom.
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Helmut Koester
Helmut Heinrich Koester (December 18, 1926 – January 1, 2016) was an American scholar who specialized in the New Testament and early Christianity at Harvard Divinity School.
Herod Antipas
Herod Antipas (Ἡρῴδης Ἀντίπας, Hērǭdēs Antipas) was a 1st-century ruler of Galilee and Perea. Jesus and Herod Antipas are 1st-century BCE Jews and 30s deaths.
Herod the Great
Herod I or Herod the Great was a Roman Jewish client king of the Herodian Kingdom of Judea. Jesus and Herod the Great are 1st-century BCE Jews.
Herodian dynasty
The Herodian dynasty was a royal dynasty of Idumaean (Edomite) descent, ruling the Herodian Kingdom of Judea and later the Herodian Tetrarchy as a vassal state of the Roman Empire.
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Herodian kingdom
The Herodian kingdom was a client state of the Roman Republic ruled from 37 to 4 BCE by Herod the Great, who was appointed "King of the Jews" by the Roman Senate.
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Herodian tetrarchy
The Herodian tetrarchy was a regional division of a client state of Rome, formed following the death of Herod the Great in 4 BCE.
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Herodias
Herodias (Ἡρῳδιάς, Hērōidiás; c. 15 BC – after AD 39) was a princess of the Herodian dynasty of Judaea during the time of the Roman Empire.
Hinduism
Hinduism is an Indian religion or dharma, a religious and universal order by which its followers abide.
Historical Jesus
The term "historical Jesus" refers to the life and teachings of Jesus as interpreted through critical historical methods, in contrast to what are traditionally religious interpretations.
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Historical reliability of the Acts of the Apostles
The historical reliability of the Acts of the Apostles, the principal historical source for the Apostolic Age, is of interest for biblical scholars and historians of Early Christianity as part of the debate over the historicity of the Bible.
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Historical reliability of the Gospels
The historical reliability of the Gospels is evaluated by experts who have not reached complete consensus.
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Historicity of Jesus
The historicity of Jesus is the question of whether Jesus historically existed (as opposed to being a purely mythological figure).
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Holy anointing oil
The holy anointing oil (oil of anointing) formed an integral part of the ordination of the priesthood and the High Priest as well as in the consecration of the articles of the Tabernacle (Exodus 30:26) and subsequent temples in Jerusalem.
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Holy Face of Jesus
The Holy Face of Jesus is a title for specific images which some Catholics believe to be miraculously formed representations of the face of Jesus Christ.
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Holy Lance
The Holy Lance, also known as the Lance of Longinus (named after Saint Longinus), the Spear of Destiny, or the Holy Spear, is alleged to be the lance that pierced the side of Jesus as he hung on the cross during his crucifixion.
Holy Nail
Relics that are claimed to be the Holy Nails with which Jesus was crucified are objects of veneration among some Christians, particularly Roman Catholics and the Eastern Orthodox.
Holy Name of Jesus
In Catholicism, the veneration of the Holy Name of Jesus (also Most Holy Name of Jesus, Santissimo Nome di Gesù) developed as a separate type of devotion in the early modern period, in parallel to that of the Sacred Heart.
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Holy Spirit
In Judaism, the Holy Spirit, otherwise known as the Holy Ghost, is the divine force, quality and influence of God over the universe or his creatures. Jesus and Holy Spirit are god in Christianity and names of God.
Holy Spirit in Christianity
For the majority of Christian denominations, the Holy Spirit, or Holy Ghost, is believed to be the third Person of the Trinity, a triune God manifested as God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit, each being God. Jesus and Holy Spirit in Christianity are creator gods and god in Christianity.
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Holy Week
Holy Week (lit) is the most sacred week in the liturgical year in Christianity.
Human history
Human history is the development of humankind from prehistory to the present.
Ibrahim ibn al-Husayn al-Hamidi
Ibrahim ibn al-Husayn ibn Abi'l-Su'ud al-Hamidi was the second Tayyibi Isma'ili Dāʿī al-Muṭlaq in Yemen from 1151 to his death in 1162.
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Icon
An icon is a religious work of art, most commonly a painting, in the cultures of the Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, and Catholic churches.
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Image of Edessa
According to Christian tradition, the Image of Edessa was a holy relic consisting of a square or rectangle of cloth upon which a miraculous image of the face of Jesus Christ had been imprinted—the first icon.
Impenitent thief
The impenitent thief is a man described in the New Testament account of the Crucifixion of Jesus. Jesus and impenitent thief are 30s deaths, people executed by crucifixion and people executed by the Roman Empire.
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Imperial Roman army
The Imperial Roman Army was the military land force of the Roman Empire from 27 BC to 476 AD, and the final incarnation in the long history of the Roman army.
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Incarnation (Christianity)
In Christian theology, the doctrine of incarnation teaches that the pre-existent divine person of Jesus Christ, God the Son, the second person of the Trinity, and the eternally begotten Logos (Koine Greek for "word"), took upon human nature and "was made flesh" by being conceived in the womb of a woman, the Virgin Mary, also known as the Theotokos (Greek for "God-bearer" or "Mother of God").
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Infancy Gospel of Thomas
The Infancy Gospel of Thomas is an apocryphal gospel about the childhood of Jesus.
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Infancy gospels
Infancy gospels (Greek: protoevangelion) are a genre of religious texts that arose in the 2nd century.
Intermediate state (Christianity)
In some forms of Christianity, the intermediate state or interim state is a person's existence between death and the universal resurrection.
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Ioudaios
Ioudaios (Ἰουδαῖος; pl. Ἰουδαῖοι Ioudaioi). is an Ancient Greek ethnonym used in classical and biblical literature which commonly translates to "Jew" or "Judean". The choice of translation is the subject of frequent scholarly debate, given its central importance to passages in the Bible (both the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament) as well as works of other writers such as Josephus and Philo.
Isa (name)
Isa (translit) is a classical Arabic name and a translation of Jesus.
Islam
Islam (al-Islām) is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion centered on the Quran and the teachings of Muhammad, the religion's founder.
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Islamic eschatology
Islamic eschatology (عِلْمآخر الزمان في الإسلام) is a field of study in Islam concerning future events that would happen in the end times.
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Islamic views on Jesus's death
The biblical account of the crucifixion, death, and resurrection of Jesus (ʿĪsā) recorded in the Christian New Testament is traditionally rejected by the major branches of Islam, but like Christians they believe that Jesus ascended to heaven and he will, according to Islamic literary sources, return before the end of time.
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Isma'ilism
Isma'ilism (translit) is a branch or sect of Shia Islam.
Israel
Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Southern Levant, West Asia.
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Israelites
The Israelites were a group of Semitic-speaking tribes in the ancient Near East who, during the Iron Age, inhabited a part of Canaan.
Itinerant teacher
Itinerant teachers (also called "visiting" or "peripatetic" teachers) are traveling schoolteachers.
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Ja'far ibn Mansur al-Yaman
Ja'far ibn Mansur al-Yaman (جعفر بن منصور اليمن) was an Isma'ili missionary and theological writer of the 10th century.
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Jack Finegan
Jack Finegan (July 11, 1908 – July 15, 2000) was an American biblical scholar and Professor of New Testament History and Archaeology at the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, California.
James Dunn (theologian)
James Douglas Grant Dunn (21 October 1939 – 26 June 2020), also known as Jimmy Dunn, was a British New Testament scholar, who was for many years the Lightfoot Professor of Divinity in the Department of Theology at the University of Durham.
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James, brother of Jesus
James the Just, or a variation of James, brother of the Lord (Iacobus from יעקב, and Ἰάκωβος,, can also be Anglicized as "Jacob"), was a brother of Jesus, according to the New Testament. Jesus and James, brother of Jesus are founders of religions.
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Jehovah's Witnesses
Jehovah's Witnesses is a nontrinitarian, millenarian, restorationist Christian denomination.
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Jerusalem
Jerusalem is a city in the Southern Levant, on a plateau in the Judaean Mountains between the Mediterranean and the Dead Sea.
Jerusalem during the Second Temple period
Jerusalem during the Second Temple period describes the history of the city during the existence there of the Second Temple, from the return to Zion under Cyrus the Great (c. 538 BCE) to the siege and destruction the city by Titus during the First Jewish–Roman War in 70 CE.
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Jesuism
Jesuism or Jesusism is a belief system considering itself to be the true representation of the teachings of Jesus and contrasts itself from the teachings of mainstream Christianity.
Jesus in Ahmadiyya Islam
Ahmadiyya Islam considers Jesus (ʿĪsā) as a mortal man, entirely human, and a prophet of God born to the Virgin Mary (Maryam).
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Jesus in Christianity
In Christianity, Jesus is the Son of God as chronicled in the Bible's New Testament, and in most Christian denominations He is held to be God the Son, a prosopon (Person) of the Trinity of God. Jesus and Jesus in Christianity are god in Christianity.
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Jesus in comparative mythology
The study of Jesus in comparative mythology is the examination of the narratives of the life of Jesus in the Christian gospels, traditions and theology, as they relate to Christianity and other religions.
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Jesus in Islam
In Islam, Jesus (translit) is believed to be the penultimate prophet and messenger of God and the Messiah sent to guide the Children of Israel with a book called the (Evangel or Gospel).
Jesus in the Talmud
There are several passages in the Talmud which are believed by some scholars to be references to Jesus.
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Jesus predicts his betrayal
Jesus predicts his betrayal three times in the New Testament, a narrative which is included in all four Canonical Gospels.
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Jesus Seminar
The Jesus Seminar was a group of about 50 biblical criticism scholars and 100 laymen founded in 1985 by Robert Funk that originated under the auspices of the Westar Institute.
Jesus walking on water
Jesus walking on the water, or on the sea, is recorded as one of the miracles of Jesus recounted in the New Testament.
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Jesus' authority questioned
The authority of Jesus is questioned whilst he is teaching in the Temple in Jerusalem, as reported in all three synoptic gospels:, and.
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Jesus, King of the Jews
In the New Testament, Jesus is referred to as the King of the Jews, both at the beginning of his life and at the end.
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Jewish Christianity
Jewish Christians were the followers of a Jewish religious sect that emerged in Judea during the late Second Temple period (first century AD).
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Jewish Koine Greek
Jewish Koine Greek, or Jewish Hellenistic Greek, is the variety of Koine Greek or "common Attic" found in a number of Alexandrian dialect texts of Hellenistic Judaism, most notably in the Septuagint translation of the Hebrew Bible and associated literature, as well as in Greek Jewish texts from Palestine.
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Jewish name
Jewish names, specifically one's given name, have varied over time and by location and ethnic group.
Jewish Palestinian Aramaic
Jewish Palestinian Aramaic or Jewish Western Aramaic was a Western Aramaic language spoken by the Jews during the Classic Era in Judea and the Levant, specifically in Hasmonean, Herodian and Roman Judaea and adjacent lands in the late first millennium BCE, and later in Syria Palaestina and Palaestina Secunda in the early first millennium CE.
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Jewish views on Jesus
Adherents of Judaism do not believe that Jesus of Nazareth was the Messiah nor do they believe he was the Son of God.
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Jews
The Jews (יְהוּדִים) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites of the ancient Near East, and whose traditional religion is Judaism.
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Joachim
Joachim was, according to Christianity, the husband of Saint Anne, the father of Mary, mother of Jesus, and the maternal grandfather of Jesus. Jesus and Joachim are 1st-century BCE Jews, Angelic visionaries and people from Nazareth.
Joe Nickell
Joe Nickell (born December 1, 1944) is an American skeptic and investigator of the paranormal.
Johannine literature
Johannine literature is the collection of New Testament works that are traditionally attributed to John the Apostle, John the Evangelist, or to the Johannine community.
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John 1:1
John 1:1 is the first verse in the opening chapter of the Gospel of John in the New Testament of the Christian Bible.
John 21
John 21 is the twenty-first and final chapter of the Gospel of John in the New Testament of the Christian Bible.
John 4
John 4 is the fourth chapter of the Gospel of John in the New Testament of the Christian Bible.
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John Dominic Crossan
John Dominic Crossan (born 17 February 1934) is an Irish-American New Testament scholar, historian of early Christianity and former Catholic priest who was a prominent member of the Jesus Seminar, and emeritus professor at DePaul University.
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John Mark
John Mark is named in the Acts of the Apostles as an assistant accompanying Paul and Barnabas on their missionary journeys.
John P. Meier
John Paul Meier (August 8, 1942 – October 18, 2022) was an American biblical scholar and Catholic priest.
John the Apostle
John the Apostle (Ἰωάννης; Ioannes; Ge'ez: ዮሐንስ), also known as Saint John the Beloved and, in Eastern Orthodox Christianity, Saint John the Theologian, was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus according to the New Testament. Jesus and John the Apostle are Angelic visionaries, Judean people and prophets in the Druze faith.
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John the Baptist
John the Baptist (–) was a Jewish preacher active in the area of the Jordan River in the early 1st century AD. Jesus and John the Baptist are 0s BC births, 1st-century apocalypticists, 30s deaths, Judean people, prophets in the Druze faith and prophets of the New Testament.
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Jonah
Jonah or Jonas is a Jewish prophet in the Hebrew Bible hailing from Gath-hepher in the Northern Kingdom of Israel around the 8th century BCE.
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Jordan River
The Jordan River or River Jordan (نَهْر الْأُرْدُنّ, Nahr al-ʾUrdunn; נְהַר הַיַּרְדֵּן, Nəhar hayYardēn), also known as Nahr Al-Sharieat (نهر الشريعة.), is a river in the Levant that flows roughly north to south through the freshwater Sea of Galilee and on to the salt water Dead Sea.
Joseph of Arimathea
Joseph of Arimathea (Ἰωσὴφ ὁ ἀπὸ Ἀριμαθαίας) is a Biblical figure who assumed responsibility for the burial of Jesus after his crucifixion.
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Josephus
Flavius Josephus (Ἰώσηπος,; AD 37 – 100) was a Roman–Jewish historian and military leader. Jesus and Josephus are Judean people.
Joses
Joses (Ἰωσῆς) is a name, usually regarded as a form of Joseph, occurring many times in the New Testament. Jesus and Joses are people from Nazareth.
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Judaea (Roman province)
Judaea (Iudaea; translit) was a Roman province from 6 to 132 AD, which incorporated the Levantine regions of Idumea, Philistia, Judea, Samaria and Galilee, extending over parts of the former regions of the Hasmonean and Herodian kingdoms of Judea.
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Judaean Desert
The Judaean Desert or Judean Desert (Bariyah al-Khalil, Midbar Yehuda) is a desert in the West Bank and Israel that lies east of the Judaean Mountains, so east of Jerusalem, and descends to the Dead Sea.
Judaism
Judaism (יַהֲדוּת|translit.
Judaizers
The Judaizers were a faction of the Jewish Christians, both of Jewish and non-Jewish origins, who regarded the Levitical laws of the Old Testament as still binding on all Christians.
Judas Iscariot
Judas Iscariot (Ἰούδας Ἰσκαριώτης Ioúdas Iskariṓtēs; died AD) was—according to Christianity's four canonical gospels—a first-century Jewish man who became a disciple and one of the original Twelve Apostles of Jesus Christ. Jesus and Judas Iscariot are 30s deaths.
Jude, brother of Jesus
Jude (alternatively Judas or Judah; Ἰούδας) is one of the brothers of Jesus according to the New Testament. Jesus and Jude, brother of Jesus are people from Nazareth.
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Judea
Judea or Judaea (Ἰουδαία,; Iudaea) is a mountainous region of the Levant.
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Judgement Day in Islam
In Islam, "the promise and threat" of Judgement Day (Day of Resurrection or Day of Judgement), is when "all bodies will be resurrected" from the dead, and "all people" are "called to account" for their deeds and their faith during their life on Earth.
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Julian calendar
The Julian calendar is a solar calendar of 365 days in every year with an additional leap day every fourth year (without exception).
Karl Rahner
Karl Rahner (5 March 1904 – 30 March 1984) was a German Jesuit priest and theologian who, alongside Henri de Lubac, Hans Urs von Balthasar, and Yves Congar, is considered to be one of the most influential Catholic theologians of the 20th century.
Kashmir
Kashmir is the northernmost geographical region of the Indian subcontinent.
Ki Tissa
Ki Tisa, Ki Tissa, Ki Thissa, or Ki Sisa (—Hebrew for "when you take," the sixth and seventh words, and first distinctive words in the parashah) is the 21st weekly Torah portion (parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the ninth in the Book of Exodus.
Kingdom of heaven (Gospel of Matthew)
Kingdom of heaven (Greek: Βασιλεία τῶν οὐρανῶν) is a phrase used in the Gospel of Matthew.
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Kingship and kingdom of God
The concept of the kingship of God appears in all Abrahamic religions, where in some cases the terms kingdom of God and kingdom of Heaven are also used.
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Kiss of Judas
The kiss of Judas, also known as the Betrayal of Christ, is the act with which Judas identified Jesus to the multitude with swords and clubs who had come from the chief priests and elders of the people to arrest him, according to the Synoptic Gospels.
Koine Greek
Koine Greek (Koine the common dialect), also known as Hellenistic Greek, common Attic, the Alexandrian dialect, Biblical Greek, Septuagint Greek or New Testament Greek, was the common supra-regional form of Greek spoken and written during the Hellenistic period, the Roman Empire and the early Byzantine Empire.
Kregel Publications
Kregel Publications is an Evangelical Christian book publisher based in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
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Krishna
Krishna (Sanskrit: कृष्ण) is a major deity in Hinduism. Jesus and Krishna are creator gods, Killed deities, life-death-rebirth gods and savior gods.
L. Michael White
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Lamb of God
Lamb of God (Amnòs toû Theoû; Agnus Dei) is a title for Jesus that appears in the Gospel of John.
Language of Jesus
There exists a consensus among scholars that the language of Jesus and his disciples was Aramaic.
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Last Adam
The Last Adam, also given as the Final Adam or the Ultimate Adam, is a title given to Jesus in the New Testament.
Last Judgment
The Last Judgment, Final Judgment, Day of Reckoning, Day of Judgment, Judgment Day, Doomsday, Day of Resurrection or The Day of the Lord (translit or label) is a concept found across the Abrahamic religions and the Frashokereti of Zoroastrianism.
Last Supper
The Last Supper is the final meal that, in the Gospel accounts, Jesus shared with his apostles in Jerusalem before his crucifixion.
Latin
Latin (lingua Latina,, or Latinum) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.
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Lazarus of Bethany
Lazarus of Bethany (Latinised from Lazar, ultimately from Hebrew Eleazar, "God helped") is a figure within the Christian Bible, mentioned in the New Testament in the Gospel of John, whose life is restored by Jesus four days after his death.
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Levite
Levites (Lǝvīyyīm) or Levi are Jewish males who claim patrilineal descent from the Tribe of Levi.
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Light of the World
"Light of the World" (Phṓs tou kósmou) is a phrase Jesus used to describe himself and his disciples in the New Testament.
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Liminal deity
A liminal deity is a god or goddess in mythology who presides over thresholds, gates, or doorways; "a crosser of boundaries".
List of books about Jesus
This is a bibliography of works with information or interpretations of the life and teachings of Jesus. The list is grouped by date, and sorted within each group (except for the very earliest works) alphabetically by name of author.
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List of founders of religious traditions
These are historical figures credited with founding religions or religious philosophies, or who codified older known religious traditions. Jesus and List of founders of religious traditions are founders of religions.
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List of High Priests of Israel
This article gives a list of the High Priests (Kohen Gadol) of Ancient Israel up to the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 AD.
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List of messiah claimants
This is a list of notable people who have been said to be a messiah, either by themselves or by their followers.
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List of people claimed to be Jesus
This is a partial list of notable people who have been claimed, either by themselves or by their followers, to be the reincarnation or incarnation of Jesus, or the Second Coming of Christ. Jesus and list of people claimed to be Jesus are Jewish messiah claimants.
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List of people who have been considered deities
This is a list of notable people who were considered deities by themselves or others.
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List of statues of Jesus
There are many statues of Jesus, including.
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Literary genre
A literary genre is a category of literature.
Logos (Christianity)
In Christianity, the Logos (lit) is a name or title of Jesus Christ, seen as the pre-existent second person of the Trinity.
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Longinus
Longinus (Greek: Λογγίνος) is the name given to the unnamed Roman soldier who pierced the side of Jesus with a lance; who in medieval and some modern Christian traditions is described as a convert to Christianity. His name first appeared in the apocryphal Gospel of Nicodemus.
Louis Feldman
Louis Harry Feldman (October 29, 1926 – March 25, 2017) was an American professor of classics and literature.
Luke 2
Luke 2 is the second chapter of the Gospel of Luke in the New Testament, traditionally attributed to Luke the Evangelist, a companion of Paul the Apostle on his missionary journeys.
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Luke the Evangelist
Luke the Evangelist is one of the Four Evangelists—the four traditionally ascribed authors of the canonical gospels. Jesus and Luke the Evangelist are prophets in the Druze faith.
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Magi
Magi, or magus, is the term for priests in Zoroastrianism and earlier Iranian religions.
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Maimonides
Moses ben Maimon (1138–1204), commonly known as Maimonides and also referred to by the Hebrew acronym Rambam (רמב״ם), was a Sephardic rabbi and philosopher who became one of the most prolific and influential Torah scholars of the Middle Ages.
Major religious groups
The world's principal religions and spiritual traditions may be classified into a small number of major groups, though this is not a uniform practice.
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Malachi
Malachi, also known as Malachias, is the name used by the author of the Book of Malachi, the last book of the Nevi'im (Prophets) section of the Tanakh.
Malchus
Malchus (translit) was the servant of the Jewish High Priest Caiaphas who participated in the arrest of Jesus as written in the four gospels.
Manger
A manger or trough is a rack for fodder, or a structure or feeder used to hold food for animals.
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Mani (prophet)
Mani (– 2 March AD 274 or 26 February AD 277) was an Iranian prophet and the founder of Manichaeism, a religion most prevalent in late antiquity. Jesus and Mani (prophet) are founders of religions and people executed by crucifixion.
Manichaeism
Manichaeism (in New Persian آیینِ مانی) is a former major world religion,R.
Manifestation of God (Baháʼí Faith)
The Manifestation of God (مظهر ظهور maẓhar ẓohūr) is a concept in the Baháʼí Faith that refers to what are commonly called prophets.
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Marcan priority
Marcan priority (or Markan priority) is the hypothesis that the Gospel of Mark was the first of the three synoptic gospels to be written, and was used as a source by the other two (Matthew and Luke).
Margaret M. Mitchell
Margaret M. Mitchell (born 1956) is an American biblical scholar and professor of early Christianity.
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Mary in Islam
Maryam bint Imran is revered in Islam.
Mary Magdalene
Mary Magdalene (sometimes called Mary of Magdala, or simply the Magdalene or the Madeleine) was a woman who, according to the four canonical gospels, traveled with Jesus as one of his followers and was a witness to his crucifixion and resurrection. Jesus and Mary Magdalene are Angelic visionaries.
Mary of Bethany
Mary of Bethany is a biblical figure mentioned by name in the Gospel of John and probably the Gospel of Luke in the Christian New Testament.
Mary, mother of Jesus
Mary was a first-century Jewish woman of Nazareth, the wife of Joseph and the mother of Jesus. Jesus and Mary, mother of Jesus are 1st-century BCE Jews, Angelic visionaries, people from Nazareth and prophets of the New Testament.
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Masih (title)
(المسيح) is the Arabic translation of the Hebrew title (label, 'Messiah') or the Greek title (label, 'Christ'), meaning "the anointed one".
Massacre of the Innocents
The Massacre (or Slaughter) of the Innocents is a biblical story, recounted in the Nativity narrative of the Gospel of Matthew (2:16–18) in which Herod the Great, king of Judea, orders the execution of all male children who are two years old and under in the vicinity of Bethlehem.
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Master Jesus
Master Jesus is the theosophical concept of Jesus in theosophy and the Ascended Master Teachings.
Matthew 1
Matthew 1 is the first chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament.
Matthew 1:19
Matthew 1:19 is the nineteenth verse of the first chapter in the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament.
Matthew 1:20
Matthew 1:20 is the twentieth verse of the first chapter in the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament.
Matthew 2
Matthew 2 is the second chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament.
Matthew 2:1
Matthew 2:1 is the first verse of the second chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament.
Matthew 2:12
Matthew 2:12 is the twelfth verse of the second chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament.
Matthew 5:44
Matthew 5:44, the forty-fourth verse in the fifth chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament, also found in Luke 6:27–36, is part of the Sermon on the Mount.
Matthew the Apostle
Matthew the Apostle (Saint Matthew) (Koine Greek: Ματθαῖος, romanized: Matthaîos; Aramaic: ܡܬܝ, romanized: Mattāy) is named in the New Testament as one of the twelve apostles of Jesus. Jesus and Matthew the Apostle are prophets in the Druze faith.
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Maundy (foot washing)
Maundy (from Old French mandé, from Latin mandatum meaning "command"), or Washing of the Saints' Feet, Washing of the Feet, or Pedelavium or Pedilavium, is a religious rite observed by various Christian denominations.
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Mental health of Jesus
The question of whether the historical Jesus was in good mental health has been explored by multiple psychologists, philosophers, historians, and writers.
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Messiah
In Abrahamic religions, a messiah or messias is a saviour or liberator of a group of people.
Messiah in Judaism
The Messiah in Judaism is a savior and liberator figure in Jewish eschatology who is believed to be the future redeemer of the Jews.
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Messianic Secret
The Messianic Secret is a motif in the Gospel of Mark, in which Jesus is portrayed as commanding his followers to maintain silence about his Messianic mission.
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Michael Grant (classicist)
Michael Grant (21 November 1914 – 4 October 2004) was an English classicist, numismatist, and author of numerous books on ancient history.
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Michael Servetus
Michael Servetus (Miguel Serveto; Michel Servet; also known as Miguel Servet, Miguel de Villanueva, Revés, or Michel de Villeneuve; 29 September 1509 or 1511 – 27 October 1553) was a Spanish theologian, physician, cartographer, and Renaissance humanist. Jesus and Michael Servetus are founders of religions.
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Middle East and North Africa
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA), also referred to as West Asia and North Africa (WANA) or South West Asia and North Africa (SWANA), is a geographic region which comprises the Middle East and North Africa together.
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Ministry of Jesus
The ministry of Jesus, in the canonical gospels, begins with his baptism near the River Jordan by John the Baptist, and ends in Jerusalem in Judea, following the Last Supper with his disciples.
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Miracle
A miracle is an event that is inexplicable by natural or scientific lawsOne dictionary defines as: "A surprising and welcome event that is not explicable by natural or scientific laws and is therefore considered to be the work of a divine agency." and accordingly gets attributed to some supernatural or praeternatural cause.
Miracles of Jesus
The miracles of Jesus are miraculous deeds attributed to Jesus in Christian and Islamic texts.
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Mishneh Torah
The Mishneh Torah (repetition of the Torah), also known as Sefer Yad ha-Hazaka (label), is a code of Rabbinic Jewish religious law (halakha) authored by Maimonides (Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon/Rambam).
Mocking of Jesus
The mocking of Jesus occurred several times, after his trial and before his crucifixion according to the canonical gospels of the New Testament.
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Monotheism
Monotheism is the belief that one god is the only deity.
Moses
Moses; Mōše; also known as Moshe or Moshe Rabbeinu (Mishnaic Hebrew: מֹשֶׁה רַבֵּינוּ); Mūše; Mūsā; Mōÿsēs was a Hebrew prophet, teacher and leader, according to Abrahamic tradition. Jesus and Moses are Angelic visionaries, founders of religions and prophets in the Druze faith.
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Mount Sinai
Mount Sinai (הַר סִינָֽי Har Sīnay; Aramaic: ܛܘܪܐ ܕܣܝܢܝ Ṭūrāʾ dəSīnăy; Coptic: Ⲡⲧⲟⲟⲩ Ⲥⲓⲛⲁ), also known as Jabal Musa (جَبَل مُوسَىٰ, translation: Mountain of Moses), is a mountain on the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt.
Muhammad
Muhammad (570 – 8 June 632 CE) was an Arab religious, social, and political leader and the founder of Islam. Jesus and Muhammad are Angelic visionaries, founders of religions and prophets in the Druze faith.
Muhammad ibn Isma'il
Muhammad ibn Isma'il al-Maktum was the eldest son of Isma'il al-Mubarak and the seventh imam in Isma'ilism.
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Muhammad in Islam
In Islam, Muḥammad (مُحَمَّد) is venerated as the Seal of the Prophets and earthly manifestation of primordial divine light (Nūr), who transmitted the eternal word of God (Qur'ān) from the angel Gabriel (Jabrāʾīl) to humans and jinn.
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Muslims
Muslims (God) are people who adhere to Islam, a monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic tradition.
Myrrhbearers
In Eastern Orthodox Christian tradition the Myrrhbearers (Μυροφόροι; Myrophora; мироноснице; Жены́-мѷроно́сицы; mironosițe) are the individuals mentioned in the New Testament who were directly involved in the burial or who discovered the empty tomb following the resurrection of Jesus. Jesus and Myrrhbearers are Angelic visionaries.
Names and titles of Jesus in the New Testament
Two names and a variety of titles are used to refer to Jesus in the New Testament.
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Nativity of Jesus
The nativity of Jesus, nativity of Christ, birth of Jesus or birth of Christ is documented in the biblical gospels of Luke and Matthew.
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Nature (journal)
Nature is a British weekly scientific journal founded and based in London, England.
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Nazareth
Nazareth (النَّاصِرَة|an-Nāṣira; נָצְרַת|Nāṣəraṯ; Naṣrath) is the largest city in the Northern District of Israel.
Nero
Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (born Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus; 15 December AD 37 – 9 June AD 68) was a Roman emperor and the final emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, reigning from AD 54 until his death in AD 68.
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New Age
New Age is a range of spiritual or religious practices and beliefs which rapidly grew in Western society during the early 1970s.
New Revised Standard Version
The New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) is a translation of the Bible in contemporary English.
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New Testament
The New Testament (NT) is the second division of the Christian biblical canon.
New Testament apocrypha
The New Testament apocrypha (singular apocryphon) are a number of writings by early Christians that give accounts of Jesus and his teachings, the nature of God, or the teachings of his apostles and of their lives.
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Nicene Creed
The Nicene Creed (Sýmvolon tis Nikéas), also called the Creed of Constantinople, is the defining statement of belief of mainstream Christianity and in those Christian denominations that adhere to it.
Nicodemus
Nicodemus (Nikódēmos) is a New Testament figure venerated as a saint in a number of Christian traditions.
Nikephoros Kallistos Xanthopoulos
Nikephoros Kallistos Xanthopoulos (Νικηφόρος Κάλλιστος Ξανθόπουλος; Latinized as Nicephorus Callistus Xanthopulus) was a Greek ecclesiastical historian and litterateur of the late Byzantine Empire.
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Noah
Noah appears as the last of the Antediluvian patriarchs in the traditions of Abrahamic religions. Jesus and Noah are prophets in the Druze faith.
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Old Testament
The Old Testament (OT) is the first division of the Christian biblical canon, which is based primarily upon the 24 books of the Hebrew Bible, or Tanakh, a collection of ancient religious Hebrew and occasionally Aramaic writings by the Israelites.
Old Testament messianic prophecies quoted in the New Testament
The books of the New Testament frequently cite Jewish scripture to support the claim of the Early Christians that Jesus was the promised Jewish Messiah.
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Olive skin
Olive skin is a human skin tone.
Oral gospel traditions
Oral gospel traditions is the hypothetical first stage in the formation of the written gospels as information was passed by word of mouth.
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Ordinance (Christianity)
An ordinance is a term used by certain Christian denominations for a religious ritual that was instituted by Jesus for Christians to observe.
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Outline of Jesus
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Wikipedia articles on the life and influence of Jesus.
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Palm branch
The palm branch, or palm frond, is a symbol of victory, triumph, peace, and eternal life originating in the ancient Near East and Mediterranean world.
Palm Sunday
Palm Sunday is the Christian moveable feast that falls on the Sunday before Easter.
Parable
A parable is a succinct, didactic story, in prose or verse, that illustrates one or more instructive lessons or principles.
Parable of the Good Samaritan
The parable of the Good Samaritan is told by Jesus in the Gospel of Luke.
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Parable of the Growing Seed
The Parable of the Growing Seed (also called the Seed Growing Secretly) is a parable of Jesus which appears only in.
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Parable of the Prodigal Son
The Parable of the Prodigal Son (also known as the parable of the Two Brothers, Lost Son, Loving Father, or of the Forgiving Father) is one of the parables of Jesus in the Bible, appearing in Luke 15:11–32.
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Parables of Jesus
The parables of Jesus are found in the Synoptic Gospels and some of the non-canonical gospels.
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Paradox
A paradox is a logically self-contradictory statement or a statement that runs contrary to one's expectation.
Paramahansa Yogananda
Paramahansa Yogananda (born Mukunda Lal Ghosh; January 5, 1893March 7, 1952) was an Indian-American Hindu monk, yogi and guru who introduced millions to meditation and Kriya Yoga through his organization, Self-Realization Fellowship (SRF) / Yogoda Satsanga Society (YSS) of India – the only one he created to disseminate his teachings.
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Passion of Jesus
The Passion (from Latin patior, "to suffer, bear, endure") is the short final period before the death of Jesus, described in the four canonical gospels.
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Passover
Passover, also called Pesach, is a major Jewish holidayand one of the Three Pilgrimage Festivals.
Patrologia Graeca
The Patrologia Graeca (PG, or Patrologiae Cursus Completus, Series Graeca) is an edited collection of writings by the Church Fathers and various secular writers, in the Greek language.
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Patronymic
A patronymic, or patronym, is a component of a personal name based on the given name of one's father, grandfather (more specifically an avonymic), or an earlier male ancestor.
Paul the Apostle
Paul (Koinē Greek: Παῦλος, romanized: Paûlos), also named Saul of Tarsus (Aramaic: ܫܐܘܠ, romanized: Šāʾūl), commonly known as Paul the Apostle and Saint Paul, was a Christian apostle (AD) who spread the teachings of Jesus in the first-century world. Jesus and Paul the Apostle are people executed by the Roman Empire.
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Pauline epistles
The Pauline epistles, also known as Epistles of Paul or Letters of Paul, are the thirteen books of the New Testament attributed to Paul the Apostle, although the authorship of some is in dispute.
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Pella, Jordan
Pella (Πέλλα) was an ancient city in what is now northwest Jordan, and contains ruins from the Neolithic, Chalcolithic, Bronze Age, Iron Age, Canaanite, Hellenistic and Islamic periods.
Penitent thief
The Penitent Thief, also known as the Good Thief, Wise Thief, Grateful Thief, or Thief on the Cross, is one of two unnamed thieves in Luke's account of the crucifixion of Jesus in the New Testament. Jesus and Penitent thief are 30s deaths, people executed by crucifixion and people executed by the Roman Empire.
Perea
Perea or Peraea (Greek: Περαία, "the country beyond") was the term used mainly during the early Roman period for part of ancient Transjordan.
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Pharisees
The Pharisees (lit) were a Jewish social movement and a school of thought in the Levant during the time of Second Temple Judaism.
Philip Ball
Philip Ball (born 1962) is a British science writer.
Philip the Apostle
Philip the Apostle (Φίλιππος; Aramaic: ܦܝܠܝܦܘܣ; ⲫⲓⲗⲓⲡⲡⲟⲥ, Philippos) was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus according to the New Testament. Jesus and Philip the Apostle are people executed by crucifixion.
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Pilate's court
In the canonical gospels, Pilate's court refers to the trial of Jesus in praetorium before Pontius Pilate, preceded by the Sanhedrin Trial.
Pontius Pilate
Pontius Pilate (Póntios Pilátos) was the fifth governor of the Roman province of Judaea, serving under Emperor Tiberius from 26/27 to 36/37 AD.
Pope Benedict XVI
Pope BenedictXVI (Benedictus PP.; Benedetto XVI; Benedikt XVI; born Joseph Alois Ratzinger; 16 April 1927 – 31 December 2022) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 19 April 2005 until his resignation on 28 February 2013.
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Pope John Paul II
Pope John Paul II (Ioannes Paulus II; Jan Paweł II; Giovanni Paolo II; born Karol Józef Wojtyła,; 18 May 19202 April 2005) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 1978 until his death in 2005. Jesus and Pope John Paul II are Nonviolence advocates.
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Prayers of Jesus
There are a number of times in which the canonical gospels describe Jesus Christ praying to God.
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Pre-existence of Christ
The pre-existence of Christ asserts the existence of Christ prior to his incarnation as Jesus.
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Precursor (religion)
In religion, a precursor, also known as forerunner, predecessor, harbinger or herald, is a holy person who announced the approaching appearance of a central figure of the religion or who identified a central figure of the religion during the latter's childhood.
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Prefect
Prefect (from the Latin praefectus, substantive adjectival form of praeficere: "put in front", meaning in charge) is a magisterial title of varying definition, but essentially refers to the leader of an administrative area.
Presentation of Jesus
The Presentation of Jesus is an early episode in the life of Jesus Christ, describing his presentation at the Temple in Jerusalem.
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Progressive revelation (Baháʼí)
Progressive revelation is a core teaching in the Baháʼí Faith that suggests that religious truth is revealed by God progressively and cyclically over time through a series of divine Messengers, and that the teachings are tailored to suit the needs of the time and place of their appearance.
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Prophecy
In religion, a prophecy is a message that has been communicated to a person (typically called a prophet) by a supernatural entity.
Prophets and messengers in Islam
Prophets in Islam (translit) are individuals in Islam who are believed to spread God's message on Earth and serve as models of ideal human behaviour.
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Proselyte
The biblical term "proselyte" is an anglicization of the Koine Greek term προσήλυτος (proselytos), as used in the Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) for "stranger", i.e. a "newcomer to Israel"; a "sojourner in the land", and in the Greek New Testament for a first-century convert to Judaism, generally from Ancient Greek religion.
Prosopon
Prosopon originally meant 'face' but is used as a theological term in Christian theology as designation for the concept of a divine person.
Q source
The Q source (also called The Sayings Gospel, Q Gospel, Q document(s), or Q; from Quelle, meaning "source") is an alleged written collection of primarily Jesus' sayings (λόγια). Q is part of the common material found in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke but not in the Gospel of Mark.
Qadi Baydawi
Qadi Baydawi (also known as Naṣir ad-Din al-Bayḍawi, also spelled Baidawi, Bayzawi and Beyzavi; d. June 1319, Tabriz) was a Persian jurist, theologian, and Quran commentator.
Quest for the historical Jesus
The quest for the historical Jesus consists of academic efforts to determine what words and actions, if any, may be attributed to Jesus, and to use the findings to provide portraits of the historical Jesus.
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Quran
The Quran, also romanized Qur'an or Koran, is the central religious text of Islam, believed by Muslims to be a revelation directly from God (Allah).
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Rabbi
A rabbi (רַבִּי|translit.
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Raising of Jairus' daughter
The raising of Jairus' daughter is a reported miracle of Jesus that occurs in the synoptic Gospels, where it is interwoven with the account of the healing of a bleeding woman.
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Rūḥ
Rūḥ or The Spirit (الروح, al-rūḥ) is mentioned twenty one times in the Quran, where it is described as issuing from command of God.
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Reconciliation (theology)
Reconciliation, in Christian theology, is an element of salvation that refers to the results of atonement.
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Reformation
The Reformation, also known as the Protestant Reformation and the European Reformation, was a major theological movement in Western Christianity in 16th-century Europe that posed a religious and political challenge to the papacy and the authority of the Catholic Church.
Reincarnation
Reincarnation, also known as rebirth or transmigration, is the philosophical or religious concept that the non-physical essence of a living being begins a new life in a different physical form or body after biological death.
Rejection of Jesus
There are a number of episodes in the New Testament in which Jesus was rejected.
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Relic
In religion, a relic is an object or article of religious significance from the past.
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Religious text
Religious texts, including scripture, are texts which various religions consider to be of central importance to their religious tradition.
Renaissance
The Renaissance is a period of history and a European cultural movement covering the 15th and 16th centuries.
Repentance
Repentance is reviewing one's actions and feeling contrition or regret for past wrongs, which is accompanied by commitment to and actual actions that show and prove a change for the better.
Restoration of Peter
The Restoration of Peter (also known as the Re-commissioning of Peter) is an incident described in John 21 of the New Testament in which Jesus appeared to his disciples after his resurrection and spoke to Peter in particular.
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Resurrection of Jesus
The resurrection of Jesus (anástasis toú Iēsoú) is the Christian belief that God raised Jesus from the dead on the third day after his crucifixion, starting – or restoring – his exalted life as Christ and Lord.
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Revelation
In religion and theology, revelation (or divine revelation) is the disclosing of some form of truth or knowledge through communication with a deity (god) or other supernatural entity or entities.
Richard Burridge (priest)
Richard Alan Burridge (born 11 June 1955) is a Church of England priest, biblical scholar and a former Dean of King's College London.
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Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins (born 26 March 1941) is a British evolutionary biologist, zoologist, and author.
Road to Emmaus appearance
According to the Gospel of Luke, the road to Emmaus appearance is one of the early post-resurrection appearances of Jesus after his crucifixion and the discovery of the empty tomb.
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Robert E. Van Voorst
Robert E. Van Voorst (born June 5, 1952) is an American theologian and educator.
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Robert M. Price
Robert McNair Price (born July 7, 1954) is an American New Testament scholar who argues in favor of the Christ myth theorythe claim that a historical Jesus did not exist.
Roman Empire
The Roman Empire was the state ruled by the Romans following Octavian's assumption of sole rule under the Principate in 27 BC, the post-Republican state of ancient Rome.
Roman governor
A Roman governor was an official either elected or appointed to be the chief administrator of Roman law throughout one or more of the many provinces constituting the Roman Empire.
Roza Bal
The Roza Bal, Rouza Bal, or Rozabal is a shrine located in the Khanyar quarter in downtown area of Srinagar in Kashmir, India.
Sabbath
In Abrahamic religions, the Sabbath or Shabbat (from Hebrew שַׁבָּת) is a day set aside for rest and worship.
Sabellianism
In Christian theology, Sabellianism is the belief that there is only one Person ('hypostasis' in the Greek language of the fourth century Arian Controversy) in the Godhead.
Sacrament
A sacrament is a Christian rite that is recognized as being particularly important and significant.
Sadducees
The Sadducees (lit) were a sect of Jews active in Judea during the Second Temple period, from the second century BCE to the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE.
Sadhu
Sadhu (साधु, IAST: (male), sādhvī or sādhvīne (female)), also spelled saddhu, is a religious ascetic, mendicant or any holy person in Hinduism and Jainism who has renounced the worldly life.
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Sage (philosophy)
A sage (σοφός, sophós), in classical philosophy, is someone who has attained wisdom.
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Saint Anne
According to apocrypha, as well as Christian and Islamic tradition, Saint Anne was the mother of Mary, the wife of Joachim and the maternal grandmother of Jesus. Jesus and Saint Anne are 1st-century BCE Jews, Angelic visionaries, Judean people and people from Bethlehem.
Saint Catherine's Monastery
Saint Catherine's Monastery (دير القدّيسة كاترين), officially the Sacred Autonomous Royal Monastery of Saint Catherine of the Holy and God-Trodden Mount Sinai, is a Christian monastery located in the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt.
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Saint Joseph
Joseph (translit) was a 1st-century Jewish man of Nazareth who, according to the canonical Gospels, was married to Mary, the mother of Jesus, and was the legal father of Jesus. Jesus and Saint Joseph are Angelic visionaries, people from Bethlehem and people from Nazareth.
Saint Joseph's dreams
Saint Joseph's dreams are four dreams described in the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament in which Joseph, the legal father of Jesus, is visited by an angel of the Lord and receives specific instructions and warnings of impending danger.
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Saint Peter
Saint Peter (died AD 64–68), also known as Peter the Apostle, Simon Peter, Simeon, Simon, or Cephas, was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus Christ and one of the first leaders of the early Christian Church. Jesus and Saint Peter are people executed by crucifixion and people executed by the Roman Empire.
Saint Stephen
Stephen (wreath, crown, and by extension 'reward, honor, renown, fame', often given as a title rather than as a name; c. AD 5 – c. 34) is traditionally venerated as the protomartyr or first martyr of Christianity.
Salvation in Christianity
In Christianity, salvation (also called deliverance or redemption) is the saving of human beings from sin and its consequences—which include death and separation from God—by Christ's death and resurrection, and the justification entailed by this salvation.
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Samaria
Samaria is the Hellenized form of the Hebrew name Shomron (translit), used as a historical and biblical name for the central region of Israel, bordered by Judea to the south and Galilee to the north.
Samaritan woman at the well
The Samaritan woman at the well is a figure from the Gospel of John.
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Sanhedrin
The Sanhedrin (Hebrew and Middle Aramaic סַנְהֶדְרִין, a loanword from synedrion, 'assembly,' 'sitting together,' hence 'assembly' or 'council') was a legislative and judicial assembly of either 23 or 71 elders, existing at both a local and central level in the ancient Land of Israel.
Sanhedrin trial of Jesus
In the New Testament, the Sanhedrin trial of Jesus refers to the trial of Jesus before the Sanhedrin (a Jewish judicial body) following his arrest in Jerusalem and prior to the trial before Pontius Pilate.
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Satan
Satan, also known as the Devil, is an entity in Abrahamic religions that seduces humans into sin or falsehood.
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Sea of Galilee
The Sea of Galilee (יָם כִּנֶּרֶת, Judeo-Aramaic: יַמּא דטבריא, גִּנֵּיסַר, بحيرة طبريا), also called Lake Tiberias or Kinneret, is a freshwater lake in Israel.
Second Coming
The Second Coming (sometimes called the Second Advent or the Parousia) is the Christian belief that Jesus Christ will return to Earth after his ascension to Heaven (which is said to have occurred about two thousand years ago).
Second Temple
The Second Temple was the reconstructed Temple in Jerusalem, in use between and its destruction in 70 CE.
Second Temple Judaism
Second Temple Judaism is the Jewish religion as it developed during the Second Temple period, which began with the construction of the Second Temple around 516 BCE and ended with the Roman siege of Jerusalem in 70CE.
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Septuagint
The Septuagint, sometimes referred to as the Greek Old Testament or The Translation of the Seventy (Hē metáphrasis tôn Hebdomḗkonta), and often abbreviated as LXX, is the earliest extant Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible from the original Hebrew.
Sermon on the Mount
The Sermon on the Mount (anglicized from the Matthean Vulgate Latin section title: Sermo in monte) is a collection of sayings spoken by Jesus of Nazareth found in the Gospel of Matthew (chapters 5, 6, and 7).
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Sermon on the Plain
In Christianity, the Sermon on the Plain refers to a set of teachings by Jesus in the Gospel of Luke, in 6:20–49.
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Seventy disciples
The seventy disciples (Greek: ἑβδομήκοντα μαθητές, hebdomikonta mathetes), known in the Eastern Christian traditions as the seventy apostles (Greek: ἑβδομήκοντα απόστολοι, hebdomikonta apostoloi), were early emissaries of Jesus mentioned in the Gospel of Luke.
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Sexuality of Jesus
The traditional understanding of Christian churches and theologians is that Jesus did not marry and remained celibate until his death.
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Shirk (Islam)
Shirk (lit) in Islam is a sin often roughly translated as 'idolatry' or 'polytheism', but more accurately meaning 'association '. It refers to accepting other divinities or powers alongside God as associates.
Shroud of Turin
The Shroud of Turin (Sindone di Torino), also known as the Holy Shroud (Sacra Sindone), is a length of linen cloth that bears a faint image of the front and back of a man.
Siege of Jerusalem (70 CE)
The Siege of Jerusalem of 70 CE was the decisive event of the First Jewish–Roman War (66–73 CE), in which the Roman army led by future emperor Titus besieged Jerusalem, the center of Jewish rebel resistance in the Roman province of Judaea.
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Simeon (Gospel of Luke)
Simeon (Συμεών) at the Temple is the "just and devout" man of Jerusalem who, according to, met Mary, Joseph, and Jesus as they entered the Temple to fulfill the requirements of the Law of Moses on the 40th day from Jesus' birth, i. e. the presentation of Jesus at the Temple. Jesus and Simeon (Gospel of Luke) are 1st-century BCE Jews and prophets of the New Testament.
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Simon of Cyrene
Simon of Cyrene (Standard Hebrew Šimʿon, Tiberian Hebrew Šimʿôn;, Simōn Kyrēnaios) was the man compelled by the Romans to carry the cross of Jesus of Nazareth as Jesus was taken to his crucifixion, according to all three Synoptic Gospels: He was also the father of the disciples Rufus and Alexander.
Simon, brother of Jesus
Simon (Σίμων) is described in the New Testament as one of the brothers of Jesus. Jesus and Simon, brother of Jesus are people from Nazareth.
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Sin
In a religious context, sin is a transgression against divine law or a law of the deities.
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Sobe (sister of Saint Anne)
Sobe, also known as Sovin, was the mother of St. Elizabeth and sister of St. Anne. Jesus and Sobe (sister of Saint Anne) are 1st-century BCE Jews.
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Social change
Social change is the alteration of the social order of a society which may include changes in social institutions, social behaviours or social relations.
Socinianism
Socinianism is a Nontrinitarian Christian belief system developed and co-founded during the Protestant Reformation by the Italian Renaissance humanists and theologians Lelio Sozzini (Latin: Laelius Socinus) and Fausto Sozzini (Latin: Faustus Socinus), uncle and nephew, respectively.
Son of God (Christianity)
In Christianity, the title Son of God refers to the status of Jesus as the divine son of God the Father.
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Son of man
"Son of man", "son of Adam", or "as a man", are phrases used in the Hebrew Bible, various apocalyptic works of the intertestamental period, and in the Greek New Testament.
Son of man (Christianity)
Son of man is an expression in the sayings of Jesus in Christian writings, including the Gospels, the Acts of the Apostles and the Book of Revelation.
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Sortes (ancient Rome)
Sortes (Latin singular: sors) were a frequent method of divination among the ancient Romans.
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Spirituality
The meaning of spirituality has developed and expanded over time, and various meanings can be found alongside each other.
Split of Christianity and Judaism
Christianity began as a movement within Second Temple Judaism, but the two religions gradually diverged over the first few centuries of the Christian Era, and the Christian movement perceived itself as distinct from the Jews by the fourth century.
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Spread of Christianity
Christianity began as a Second Temple Judaic sect in the 1st century in the Roman province of Judea, from where it spread throughout and beyond the Roman Empire.
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Stolen body hypothesis
The stolen body hypothesis posits that the body of Jesus Christ was stolen from his burial place.
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Subordinationism
Subordinationism is a Trinitarian doctrine wherein the Son (and sometimes also the Holy Spirit) is subordinate to the Father, not only in submission and role, but with actual ontological subordination to varying degrees.
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Substitution hypothesis
The substitution hypothesis or twin hypothesis states that the sightings of a risen Jesus are explained not by physical resurrection, but by the existence of a different person, a twin or lookalike who could have impersonated Jesus after his death, or died in the place of Jesus on the cross.
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Sunni Islam
Sunni Islam is the largest branch of Islam, followed by 85–90% of the world's Muslims, and simultaneously the largest religious denomination in the world.
Synod of Elvira
The Synod of Elvira (Concilium Eliberritanum, Concilio de Elvira) was an ecclesiastical synod held at Elvira in the Roman province of Hispania Baetica, now Granada in southern Spain.
Synoptic Gospels
The gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke are referred to as the synoptic Gospels because they include many of the same stories, often in a similar sequence and in similar or sometimes identical wording.
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Syriac language
The Syriac language (Leššānā Suryāyā), also known natively in its spoken form in early Syriac literature as Edessan (Urhāyā), the Mesopotamian language (Nahrāyā) and Aramaic (Aramāyā), is an Eastern Middle Aramaic dialect. Classical Syriac is the academic term used to refer to the dialect's literary usage and standardization, distinguishing it from other Aramaic dialects also known as 'Syriac' or 'Syrian'.
Tacitus
Publius Cornelius Tacitus, known simply as Tacitus (–), was a Roman historian and politician.
Tahrif
(تحريف) is a term used by most Muslims to refer to believed alterations made to the previous revelations of God—specifically those that make up the Tawrat, the Zabur or Psalms, and the Injil.
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Talmud
The Talmud (תַּלְמוּד|Talmūḏ|teaching) is the central text of Rabbinic Judaism and the primary source of Jewish religious law (halakha) and Jewish theology.
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Targum
A targum (תרגום 'interpretation, translation, version') was an originally spoken translation of the Hebrew Bible (also called the Tanakh) that a professional translator (מְתוּרגְמָן mǝturgǝmān) would give in the common language of the listeners when that was not Biblical Hebrew.
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Tawhid
Tawhid (تَوْحِيد|translit.
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Tektōn
The Ancient Greek noun (τέκτων) is a common term for an artisan/craftsman, in particular a carpenter, woodworker, or builder.
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Temple in Jerusalem
The Temple in Jerusalem, or alternatively the Holy Temple, refers to the two religious structures that served as the central places of worship for Israelites and Jews on the modern-day Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem.
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Temptation of Christ
The temptation of Christ is a biblical narrative detailed in the gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke.
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The Buddha
Siddhartha Gautama, most commonly referred to as the Buddha ('the awakened'), was a wandering ascetic and religious teacher who lived in South Asia during the 6th or 5th century BCE and founded Buddhism. Jesus and the Buddha are ascetics, Deified men and founders of religions.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, informally known as the LDS Church or Mormon Church, is the largest Latter Day Saint denomination, tracing its roots to its founding by Joseph Smith during the Second Great Awakening.
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The Daily Beast
The Daily Beast is an American news website focused on politics, media, and pop culture.
The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
The Jewish War
The Jewish War is a work of Jewish history written by Josephus, a first-century Roman-Jewish historian.
The Messiah's Donkey
In Jewish tradition, the Messiah's Donkey (Hebrew: חמורו של משיח) refers to the donkey upon which the Messiah will arrive to redeem the world at the end of days.
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The Urantia Book
The Urantia Book (sometimes called The Urantia Papers or The Fifth Epochal Revelation) is a spiritual, philosophical, and religious book that originated in Chicago, Illinois, United States sometime between 1924 and 1955.
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Theosophy
Theosophy is a religious and philosophical system established in the United States in the late 19th century.
Third Temple
The "Third Temple" (בֵּית הַמִּקְדָּשׁ הַשְּׁלִישִׁי) refers to a hypothetical rebuilt Temple in Jerusalem.
Thirty pieces of silver
Thirty pieces of silver was the price for which Judas Iscariot betrayed Jesus, according to an account in the Gospel of Matthew 26:15 in the New Testament.
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Thomas the Apostle
Thomas the Apostle (Θωμᾶς, romanized: Thōmâs; Aramaic ܬܐܘܡܐ, romanized:, meaning "the twin"), also known as Didymus (Greek: Δίδυμος, romanized: Dídymos, meaning "twin"), was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus according to the New Testament.
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Threefold office
The threefold office (munus triplex) of Jesus Christ is a Christian doctrine based upon the teachings of the Old Testament of which Christians hold different views.
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Tiberius
Tiberius Julius Caesar Augustus (16 November 42 BC – 16 March AD 37) was Roman emperor from AD 14 until 37.
Tiberius Julius Abdes Pantera
Tiberius Julius Abdes Pantera (c. 22 BC – AD 40) was a Roman-Phoenician soldier born in Sidon, whose tombstone was found in Bingerbrück, Germany, in 1859.
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Toledot Yeshu
(ספר תולדות ישו, The Book of the Generations/History/Life of Jesus), often abbreviated as ''Toledot Yeshu'', is a medieval text which presents an alternative, anti-sectarian view, as well as a disputed biography of Jesus of Nazareth.
Tomb
A tomb (τύμβος tumbos) or sepulcher (sepulcrum.) is a repository for the remains of the dead.
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Torah
The Torah (תּוֹרָה, "Instruction", "Teaching" or "Law") is the compilation of the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, namely the books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy.
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Transfiguration of Jesus
The Transfiguration of Jesus is an event described in the New Testament, where Jesus is transfigured and becomes radiant in glory upon a mountain.
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Transfiguration of Jesus in Christian art
The Transfiguration of Jesus has been an important subject in Christian art, above all in the Eastern church, some of whose most striking icons show the scene.
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Trinity
The Christian doctrine of the Trinity (from 'threefold') is the central doctrine concerning the nature of God in most Christian churches, which defines one God existing in three,, consubstantial divine persons: God the Father, God the Son (Jesus Christ) and God the Holy Spirit, three distinct persons (hypostases) sharing one essence/substance/nature (homoousion).
Triumphal entry into Jerusalem
The triumphal entry into Jerusalem is a narrative in the four canonical Gospels describing the arrival of Jesus in Jerusalem a few days before his crucifixion.
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True Cross
The True Cross is said to be the real cross that Jesus of Nazareth was crucified on, according to Christian tradition.
True Vine
The True Vine (hē ampelos hē alēthinē) is an allegory or parable given by Jesus in the New Testament.
Turning the other cheek
Turning the other cheek is a phrase in Christian doctrine from the Sermon on the Mount that refers to responding to insult without retort.
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Twelve Tribes of Israel
The Twelve Tribes of Israel (שִׁבְטֵי־יִשְׂרָאֵל|translit.
See Jesus and Twelve Tribes of Israel
Twelver Shi'ism
Twelver Shīʿism (ٱثْنَا عَشَرِيَّة), also known as Imāmiyya (إِمَامِيَّة), is the largest branch of Shīʿa, comprising about 90% of all Shīas.
Unitarianism
Unitarianism is a nontrinitarian branch of Christianity.
Upanishads
The Upanishads (उपनिषद्) are late Vedic and post-Vedic Sanskrit texts that "document the transition from the archaic ritualism of the Veda into new religious ideas and institutions" and the emergence of the central religious concepts of Hinduism.
Valerius Gratus
Valerius Gratus was the 4th Roman Prefect of Judaea province under Tiberius from 15 to 26 AD.
Vedas
The Vedas are ancient Sanskrit texts of Hinduism. Above: A page from the ''Atharvaveda''. The Vedas are a large body of religious texts originating in ancient India.
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Veil of Veronica
The Veil of Veronica, or Sudarium (Latin for sweat-cloth), also known as the Vernicle and often called simply the Veronica, is a Christian relic consisting of a piece of cloth said to bear an image of the Holy Face of Jesus produced by other than human means (an acheiropoieton, "made without hand").
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Via Dolorosa
The Via Dolorosa (Latin for 'Sorrowful Way', often translated 'Way of Suffering'; طريق الآلام; ויה דולורוזה) is a processional route in the Old City of Jerusalem in Israel.
Virgin birth of Jesus
The virgin birth of Jesus is the Christian and Islamic doctrine that Jesus was conceived by his mother, Mary, through the power of the Holy Spirit and without sexual intercourse.
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Wedding at Cana
The wedding at Cana (also called the marriage at Cana, wedding feast at Cana or marriage feast at Cana) is the name of the story in the Gospel of John at which the first miracle attributed to Jesus takes place.
Western Christianity
Western Christianity is one of two subdivisions of Christianity (Eastern Christianity being the other).
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Woes of the Pharisees
The Woes of the Pharisees are a series of criticisms by Jesus against scribes and Pharisees recorded in Luke 11:37–54 and Matthew 23:1–39.
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Women at the crucifixion
The presence of a group of female disciples of Jesus at the crucifixion of Jesus is found in all four Gospels of the New Testament.
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Yeshu
Yeshu (Hebrew: Yēšū) is the name of an individual or individuals mentioned in rabbinic literature, thought by some to refer to Jesus when used in the Talmud.
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Yeshua
Yeshua (labels) was a common alternative form of the name Yehoshua (labels) in later books of the Hebrew Bible and among Jews of the Second Temple period.
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Zealots
The Zealots were a political movement in 1st-century Second Temple Judaism which sought to incite the people of Judea Province to rebel against the Roman Empire and expel it from the Holy Land by force of arms, most notably during the First Jewish–Roman War (66–70).
Zondervan
Zondervan is an international Christian media and publishing company located in Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States.
Zoroaster
Zarathushtra Spitama more commonly known as Zoroaster or Zarathustra, was an Iranian religious reformer who challenged the tenets of the contemporary Ancient Iranian religion, becoming the spiritual founder of Zoroastrianism. Jesus and Zoroaster are founders of religions.
14th Dalai Lama
The 14th Dalai Lama (spiritual name: Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso, also known as Tenzin Gyatso;; born 6 July 1935) is, as the incumbent Dalai Lama, the highest spiritual leader and head of Tibetan Buddhism. Jesus and 14th Dalai Lama are Nonviolence advocates.
See also
0s BC births
- Apollonius of Tyana
- Asconius Pedianus
- Decimus Valerius Asiaticus
- Domitia Lepida
- Jesus
- John the Baptist
- Marcus Vinicius (consul 30)
- Paullus Fabius Persicus
- Seneca the Younger
- Sextilia
1st-century BCE Jews
- Acme (enslaved woman)
- Alexander (grandson of Herod the Great)
- Alexander of Judaea
- Alexander the Alabarch
- Alexander, son of Herod
- Alexandra the Maccabee
- Anna the Prophetess
- Antipater (son of Herod the Great)
- Antipater the Idumaean
- Aristobulus IV
- Aristobulus Minor
- Athronges
- Caecilius of Calacte
- Herod Antipas
- Herod Archelaus
- Herod II
- Herod the Great
- Jesus
- Joachim
- Mariamne I
- Mariamne III
- Mary, mother of Jesus
- Matthias Ephlias
- Phasael
- Philip the Tetrarch
- Philo
- Philo (poet)
- Saint Anne
- Salome Alexandra
- Salome I
- Shammai
- Simeon (Gospel of Luke)
- Simeon ben Gamliel
- Simon of Peraea
- Sobe (sister of Saint Anne)
- Sosates
- Zechariah (New Testament figure)
1st-century apocalypticists
1st-century executions
- Agrippina the Younger
- Arulenus Rusticus
- Aulus Caecina Alienus
- Cassius Chaerea
- Claudia Octavia
- Decrius Calpurnianus
- Epaphroditus (freedman of Nero)
- Fabius Valens
- Gaius Silius (lover of Messalina)
- Gengshi Emperor
- Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Gaetulicus (consul 26)
- Jesus
- Liu Yan (Xin dynasty)
- Livilla
- Locusta
- Lucius Vitellius (consul 48)
- Marcus Aemilius Lepidus (executed by Caligula)
- Mariccus
- Messalina
- Mnester
- Ptolemy of Mauretania
- Publius Afranius Potitus
- Publius Egnatius Celer
- Publius Petronius Turpilianus
- Rhadamistus
- Sejanus
- Seneca the Younger
- Servius Cornelius Scipio Salvidienus Orfitus (consul 51)
- Simon bar Giora
- Theudas
- Titus Flavius Clemens (consul)
- Vitellius
1st-century rabbis
- Abba Jose ben Hanan
- Abba Saul ben Batnit
- Akabia ben Mahalalel
- Dosa ben Harkinas
- Eleazar ben Arach
- Eleazar ben Azariah
- Eleazar of Modi'im
- Eliezer ben Hurcanus
- Eliezer ben Jacob I
- Elisha ben Abuyah
- Gamaliel
- Gamaliel II
- Halafta
- Hanina Segan ha-Kohanim
- Hanina ben Dosa
- Hillel the Elder
- Jesus
- Johanan ben Nuri
- Jonathan ben Uzziel
- Jose the Galilean
- Joshua ben Gamla
- Nachum Ish Gamzu
- Nahum the Mede
- Nehunya ben HaKanah
- Onkelos
- Rabbi Akiva
- Rabbi Tarfon
- Shammai
- Shmuel ha-Katan
- Simeon ben Gamliel
- Simeon ben Hillel
- Simeon the Yemenite
- Yohanan ben Zakkai
- Zechariah ben Abkilus
30s deaths
- Ananias of Adiabene
- Herod Antipas
- Impenitent thief
- Jesus
- John the Baptist
- Judas Iscariot
- Junia Claudilla
- Marcus Porcius Cato (consul 36)
- Penitent thief
- Tiberius Gemellus
- Velleius Paterculus
Ascetics
- Al-Ma'arri
- Antisthenes
- Bahubali
- Banus
- Bhikshatana
- Catharism
- Diogenes
- Eden ahbez
- Hermits
- Jesus
- Karni Mata
- Leatherman (vagabond)
- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
- Mahatma Gandhi
- Mahavira
- Matsyendranatha
- Mendicant orders
- Monks
- Mozi
- Natha Sampradaya
- Nuns
- Peace Pilgrim
- Saint David
- Shiva
- Sri Chand
- The Buddha
- Turlupins
- William Pester
- Yamabushi
- Yogis
Deified men
- Aeneas
- Aletes (deity)
- Ali
- Amenhotep, son of Hapu
- Dalai Lama
- Didanu
- Diego Maradona
- Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold
- Evander of Pallantium
- Father Divine
- Francisco Macías Nguema
- Gautama Buddha
- Goel Ratzon
- Heqaib
- Imhotep
- Jehovah Wanyonyi
- Jesus
- Jim Jones
- José Rizal
- Jupiter Indiges
- Lou de Palingboer
- Lutunasobasoba
- Naga Thein Hlaing
- Prince Philip movement
- Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
- Sai On
- Senior Agila
- Shango
- Sheikh Adi ibn Musafir
- Sultan Sahak
- Taher Saifuddin
- The Buddha
- Tony Quinn (businessman)
- Vrishni heroes
Exorcists
- Antipas of Pergamum
- Catholic exorcists
- Debtera
- Exorcist
- François Buisseret
- Hilarion
- Jesus
- List of exorcists
- Saint Eumenes
- Saint Vitus
- Shatiqatu
- Solomon
- TB Joshua
God in Christianity
- Accommodation (religion)
- Agnoetae
- Attributes of God in Christian theology
- Book of Nature
- Correspondence (theology)
- Deus absconditus (Christian theology)
- Gender of God in Christianity
- Glory (religion)
- God and eternity
- God in Christianity
- God in Mormonism
- God the Father in Western art
- God the Son
- Godhead in Christianity
- Heaven and Hell (Swedenborg book)
- Heavenly Parents
- Holy Spirit
- Holy Spirit (Christian denominational variations)
- Holy Spirit in Christianity
- Jesus
- Jesus in Christianity
- Names of God in Christianity
- Open theism
- Patriology
- Post-monotheism
- Theodicy
- Theomorphism
- Trinitarianism
Jewish messiah claimants
- Abraham Abulafia
- Abu Isa
- Asher Lämmlein
- Athronges
- David Alroy
- David Reubeni
- Egyptian (prophet)
- Eve Frank
- Ezra Miller
- Jacob Frank
- Jacob Querido
- Jesus
- Judah Leib Prossnitz
- Judah ben Shalom
- Krishna Venta
- List of Jewish messiah claimants
- List of people claimed to be Jesus
- Lukuas
- Menahem ben Hezekiah
- Menahem ben Judah
- Mordecai Mokiach
- Moses Botarel
- Moses of Crete
- Nehemiah ben Hushiel
- Patricius (usurper)
- Sabbatai Zevi
- Shukr Kuhayl I
- Simon bar Kokhba
- Simon of Peraea
- Solomon Molcho
- Theudas
Judean people
- Abba Sakkara
- Berenice (daughter of Herod Agrippa)
- Dosetai
- Egyptian (prophet)
- Eleazar ben Hanania
- Elizabeth (biblical figure)
- Emerentia
- Heli (biblical figure)
- Herod Agrippa
- Herod Agrippa II
- James the Less
- Jesus
- John the Apostle
- John the Baptist
- Josephus
- Judah Kyriakos
- Judas of Galilee
- Mariamne III
- Mattathias ben Theophilus
- Miriai
- Phannias ben Samuel
- Saint Anne
- Zebedee
Justice gods
- Anbay
- Baldr
- Baron Criminel
- Chitragupta
- Datin
- Enlil
- Forseti
- God the Father
- Haukim
- Hendursaga
- Honos
- Ištaran
- Idlurugu
- Inshushinak
- Issitoq
- Jesus
- Jupiter (god)
- Lugal-irra and Meslamta-ea
- Mandanu
- Marduk
- Mithra
- Mitra
- Mīšaru
- Nomos (mythology)
- Oshosi
- Pabilsaĝ
- Perun
- Pugu (deity)
- Shamash
- Shani
- Shiva
- Sin (mythology)
- Sydyk
- Týr
- Takhar
- Tezcatlipoca
- Thongalen
- Thoth
- Varuna
- Yahweh
- Yama
- Yama (Buddhism)
- Yama in world religions
- Zeus
Killed deities
- Abzu
- Adonis
- Baldr
- Dumuzid
- Freyr
- Geshtu-E
- Höðr
- Haoreima
- Heimdall
- Izanami
- Jesus
- Kagu-tsuchi
- Kingu
- Krishna
- Lainaotabi
- Life-death-rebirth deities
- Loki
- Mímir
- Odin
- Osiris
- Týr
- Thor
- Tiamat
- Vritra
- Zagreus
Life-death-rebirth gods
- Adonis
- Antinous
- Ara the Handsome
- Attis
- Baldr
- Castor and Pollux
- Dionysus
- Dionysus-Osiris
- Dumuzid
- German (mythology)
- Green Man
- Hyacinth (mythology)
- Jesus
- Kanglā shā
- Khepri
- Khors
- Krishna
- Melqart
- Odin
- Osiris
- Shiva
- Thongalen
- Xipe Totec
- Yarilo
- Zagreus
- Zalmoxis
Names of God
- Achamán
- Al-Aḥad
- Al-Muṣawwir
- Al-Ḥayy
- Allah
- Bathala
- Chinese names for the God of Abrahamic religions
- Deus
- Devla
- Gitche Manitou
- God (word)
- God in Tenrikyo
- God the Father
- Haneunim
- Holy Spirit
- Ipmil
- Jesus
- Lord
- Names and titles of God in the New Testament
- Names of God
- Names of God in Christianity
- Names of God in Hinduism
- Names of God in Islam
- Names of God in Judaism
- Names of God in Sikhism
- Names of God in Zoroastrianism
- Ngai
- Nyasaye
- Nāma
- Shangdi
- Shen (Chinese religion)
- Tian
- Tianzhu (Chinese name of God)
- UThixo
- Unknown God
- Yahweh
People considered avatars by their followers
- Adi Da
- Anandamayi Ma
- Balumama
- Chaitanya Mahaprabhu
- Chakradhar Swami
- Gautama Buddha
- Hith Harivansh Mahaprabhu
- Jesus
- Kalki Bhagawan
- Kapila
- Lakulisha
- List of avatar claimants
- Mahavatar Babaji
- Matsyendranatha
- Meher Baba
- Mother Meera
- Nigamananda Paramahansa
- Prabhu Jagadbandhu
- Ramakrishna
- Ramana Maharshi
- Sai Baba of Shirdi
- Sathya Sai Baba
- Shiv Dayal Singh
- Swami Swarupdas
- Swaminarayan
People executed by crucifixion
- 26 Martyrs of Japan
- Abdallah ibn Abd al-Malik
- Ahmad ibn Ziyadat Allah ibn Qurhub
- Ambaghai
- Andrew the Apostle
- Antigonus II Mattathias
- Ariarathes I of Cappadocia
- Artayctes
- Autaritus
- Bartholomew the Apostle
- Bessus
- Bomilcar (4th century BC)
- Boz (king)
- Eulalia of Barcelona
- George of Izla
- Hannibal (Mercenary War)
- Hannibal Gisco
- Hatano Hideharu
- Heshikiya Chōbin
- Impenitent thief
- Inaros II
- Ishoʿsabran
- Jehohanan
- Jesus
- Joachim (Levitsky)
- John (Mauro-Roman king)
- Julia of Corsica
- Krateros (strategos of the Cibyrrhaeots)
- Ma'bad al-Juhani
- Mani (prophet)
- Mar-Zutra II
- Penitent thief
- Philip of Jesus
- Philip the Apostle
- Polycrates
- Razhden the Protomartyr
- Saint Peter
- Saints Vitalis and Agricola
- Simeon of Jerusalem
- Spendius
- Ten thousand martyrs
- The Crucified Soldier
- Theodore, Philippa and companions
- Thibron (mercenary commander, died 322 BC)
- Torii Suneemon
- Tritantaechmes
- Wilgefortis
- Yusuf al-Barm
People from Bethlehem
- Abu Qatada al-Filistini
- Amin Mahmoud (politician)
- Annemarie Jacir
- Antonio Saca
- Chris Bandak
- Daoud Kuttab
- David
- Elhanan, son of Jaare-oregim
- Elimelech (biblical figure)
- Emily Jacir
- George Kiraz
- Ghattas Hazim
- Hanan Al Hroub
- Hanna Nasser
- Hato Hasbún
- Hind Khoury
- Hussein Issa
- Ibrahim Hazboun
- Ignatius Ghattas
- Jabra Ibrahim Jabra
- Jenny Jones (presenter)
- Jesse (biblical figure)
- Jesus
- Juan José Daboub
- Juan Yarur Lolas
- Karimeh Abbud
- Larissa Sansour
- Levite's concubine
- Mahlon and Chilion
- Marie-Alphonsine Danil Ghattas
- Mitri Raheb
- Muna Handal-Dayeh
- Nabil Abu Rudeineh
- Naomi (biblical figure)
- Orpah
- Osama Alaysa
- Pope Evaristus
- Ramzi Aburedwan
- Riyad al-Maliki
- Ruth (biblical figure)
- Saint Anne
- Saint Joseph
- Schafik Hándal
- Sophronius (theologian)
- Stéphanos II Ghattas
- Suleiman Jacir
- Vera Baboun
- Yacoub Shaheen
Prophets in the Druze faith
- Abraham
- Adam
- Akhenaten
- Elijah
- Jesus
- Jethro (biblical figure)
- Job (biblical figure)
- John the Apostle
- John the Baptist
- Khidr
- Luke the Evangelist
- Marina the Monk
- Matthew the Apostle
- Moses
- Muhammad
- Noah
- Saint George
- Salman the Persian
- Shuaib
Prophets of the New Testament
- Agabus
- Anna the Prophetess
- Barnabas
- Elizabeth (biblical figure)
- Jesus
- John of Patmos
- John the Baptist
- Lucius of Cyrene
- Manahen
- Mary, mother of Jesus
- Philip the Evangelist
- Silas
- Simeon (Gospel of Luke)
- Simeon Niger
- Two witnesses
- Zechariah (New Testament figure)
Rabbis of the Land of Israel
- Isaac ben Samuel of Acre
- Jesus
- List of Sephardi chief rabbis of the Land of Israel
- Mar-Zutra III
- Mishnah rabbis
- Moses ben Mordecai Bassola
- Nachmanides
- Nathan ben Abraham I
- Yedidyah Raphael Chai Abulafiya
Savior gods
- Antinous
- Ashvins
- Heracles
- Horus
- Indra
- Jesus
- Kanglā shā
- Krishna
- Lugh
- Nakrah
- Ninurta
- Parashurama
- Rama
- Shed (deity)
- Shiva
- Sosipolis (god)
- Soter (daimon)
- Thongalen
- Vishnu
- Yahweh
- Yatha
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