1.Often,Scriptures.Also calledHoly Scripture(orScriptures).the sacred writings of the Old or New Testaments or both together. 2.(often l.c.) any writing or book, esp. when of a sacred or religious nature. 3.(sometimes l.c.) a particular passage from the Bible. ...
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RETELLING Scripture: The Jews & the Scriptural Citations in John 1:19-12:15 (Book)SHERIDAN, RuthJEWISH literatureNONFICTIONThe article reviews the book "Retelling Scripture: "The Jews"and the Scriptural Citations in John 1:19-12:15," by Ruth Sheridan.Religious Studies ReviewK...
people, the more it felt the need of taking refuge in its past. The Scripture, or, to use the Jewish term, the Torah, was the only remnant of its former national independence, and the Torah was the magic means of making a sordid ...
The black box of tefillin (which contains Scripture) and the tzitzit with the tekhelet (blue thread) of the tallit. The Blue Thread Among the tzitzit, the Torah commands the inclusion of ablue threadcalled thetekhelet. This is dyed with a special dye that comes from the blood of ashellfish...
Together, these sources convey a basic and collective Islamic narrative (or metanarrative) of its own beginnings, a sacred or “salvation history” (Heilsgeschichte) that serves as a core doctrine and foundation upon which is constructed the authority and significance of Islamic scripture, law and...
The question was raised in the polemics between Muslims themselves on the one hand, and between Muslims and the followers of other “People of the Scriptures” on the other hand, where the latter reproached the scripture of the former for its lack of narrative logic, inconsistency of ...
Each of these links contains numerous cross-references from Scripture and other resources on the subject. On the right-hand side are hints at how each Thesis can be used as the foundation for other academic subjects which might be covered in a home school curriculum. This is somewhat sketchy ...
10.14, &c. Its use in most passages of scripture is as improper now, as the coast of Worcester, in Massachusetts, or the coast of Lancaster, in Pennsylvania.Creeping animal for creeping thing. The word thing signifies an event, as in the phrase, “after these things.” In popular usage...
This same verse of scripture is quoted in what is historically known as the 2nd Epistle of Clement, where it is written: "Let us, then, not only call Him Lord, for that will not save us. For He saith, 'Not every one that saith to me, Lord, Lord, shall be saved, but he that ...