Judaism encompasses the religion, philosophy, culture and way of life of the Jewish people. Judaism is an ancient monotheistic religion, with the Torah as its foundational text (part of the larger text known as the Tanakh or Hebrew Bible), and supplemental oral tradition represented by later tex...
I’d love to know your score, and what question(s) surprised you: Comments are open. ––– The quiz question I got wrong? I didn’t know what Kabbalah is: “an esoteric method, discipline and school of thought in Jewish mysticism,” as Wikipedia says. I forgive myself for that one...
Notice also the colours that the Harlot woman (Church) is wearing, scarlet, purple and gold. These are the same colours that God gave to the Jewish priests to wear, except as we just noted, He also gave them BLUE, which was to remind them of His law. (Revelation 17:3-8) The ...
Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own;New Living TranslationDon’t you realize that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who lives in you and was given to you by God? You do...
Confucianism is not a faith-based religion that has gods or deities. Because of this, there are not a lot of symbols of Confucianism that define the practice. There is no “heaven” or ancestor worship. However, a few symbols have come to represent Confucianism in its relation to Taoism. ...
Deities. The main Gods of Hellenism are the Dodekatheon, thetwelve Olympian Gods. There are also numerous other Gods, many of them the sons and daughters of the Olympian Gods. Zeus: The chief and king of the Gods, renowned for wielding the mighty power of the thunderbolt. ...
LORD, you are the hope of Israel; all who forsake you will be put to shame. Those who turn away from you will be written in the dust because they have forsaken the LORD, the spring of living water.New Living TranslationO LORD, the hope of Israel, all who turn away from you will ...
who had studied a Jewish cipher called the Atbash cipher, which was used in translating some of the Dead Sea Scrolls, claimed that when one applied the cipher to the word Baphomet, it transposed into the Greek word “Sophia”, which means ” knowledge” and is also synonymous with “goddess...
In addition to being a popular teacher, Jesus gathered disciples, according to the ancient Jewish record. The Talmud records this, and describes the death of some of Jesus’ disciples: “Our rabbis have taught that Jesus had five disciples: Matthai, Nakai, Nezer, Buni and Todah. They broug...
“Bea arrived on the New York scene with a perpetual tan, and she was brimming with passion and drama. Although her parents were Jewish intellectuals who had fled Europe during the 30s, she seemed like a child of Rio. She was destined to do big things. Everything about her spoke to ...