what the number 72 meant except that I knew it had value. It was not until I had access to the internet that I could easily find out what it meant through research by computer. Like the Bible Code wasn't possible until the invention of the computer, without access to a ...
While the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament includes a number of fantastical stories, none is as formative for the Jewish people as that described in Exodus 19–24, where YHWH, under cover of cloud and heralded by thunder, lightning, and a startling, deafening fanfare, marked out the Israelites as ...
Another example occurs in chapter 11 where Mark separates the curs- ing of the fig tree (vv 12 -14) and its subsequent withering (vv 20-21) with Jesus' clearing of the temple (vv 15-19). This technique occurs some nine times in the Gospel: Mark begins story A, introduces story B,...
of thedoctrineof Mary can be traced through titles that have been ascribed to her in the history of theChristiancommunions—guarantee of theIncarnation, virgin mother, secondEve, mother of God, ever virgin, immaculate, and assumed intoheaven. She has a number of feast days in various ...
The subject matter of the discipline is treated in a number of other articles. For a survey of systematic interpretations of the divine or sacred, see agnosticism; atheism; deism; dualism; monotheism; nature worship; pantheism; polytheism; theism; and totemism. For a survey of major theological...
(1923), and wroteIn the Service of the King(1927) andGive Me My Own God(1936). She frequently made newspaper headlines, most notably in 1926, when she disappeared for several weeks (she claimed to have been kidnapped). She was also accused of a number of financial improprieties, but ...
The lifetime risk for breast and ovarian cancer rises dramatically for BRCA mutation germline carriers compared to the general population (Figure 1). The overall risk varies by family history, type and location of the mutation, age at diagnosis, parity (number of term pregnancies), environmental ...