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1astrology — astrologer, astrologist, n. astrological /a streuh loj i keuhl/, astrologic, astrologous /euh strol euh geuhs/, adj. astrologically, adv. /euh strol euh jee/, n. 1. the study that assumes and attempts to interpret the influence of the heavenly… …
2KARAITES — (Heb. בַּעֲלֵי מִקְרָא ,בְּנֵי מִקְרָא ,קָרָאִים, Qaraʾim, Benei Miqra, Ba alei Miqra; Ar. Qarāʾiyyūn), Jewish sect which came into being toward the middle of the ninth century. (See Map: karaite Settlement). Its doctrine is characterized… …
3Jesus myth theory — The Resurrection of Christ by Noel Coypel (1700). Jesus myth theorists see this as one of a number of stories about dying and rising gods. Description The …
4Daniel al-Kumisi — was one of the most prominent early scholars of Karaite Judaism. He flourished at the end of the ninth or at the beginning of the tenth century. He was a native of Damagan, the capital of the Tabarian province of Kumis, in the former state of… …
5Sijilmasa — (or Sijilmassa) was a mediaeval trade centre in the western Maghreb. Overview Sijilmasa was an oasis town southeast of Fez on the northern edge of the Sahara, astride the Ziz River. It was established by Kharijite Sufris in 757. Up until the 11th …
6Saint-Venant's principle — In Saint Venant s principle named after the French elasticity theorist Jean Claude Barré de Saint Venant can be stated as [ A.E.H. Love, A treatise on the mathematical theory of elasticity Cambridge University Press, 1927. (Dover reprint ISBN… …
7Shammai — A rabbinical teacher [[➝ teaching]] in the time of Jesus. He gave a rigorous interpretation of the Law, contrasting with the more relaxed and liberal views of Hillel. Those of the Shammai school were often in conflict with the Roman authorities,… …
8Lamantia, Philip — (1927–2005) A misfit and a rebel for most of his life, and certainly from the time he became a teenager, Philip Lamantia achieved fame as a poet a full decade before his Beat contemporaries. “To rebel! That is the immediate objective of poets! …
9SYNAGOGUE — This article is arranged according to the following outline. origins and history until the first century first century c.e. middle ages modern period …
10THEOCRACY — THEOCRACY, literally the rule of God, but generally applied to mean a state ruled by religious law. In the first century C.E. Josephus created the term theocracy to describe the people of Israel s polity. Some peoples have entrusted the supreme… …
