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A re'em, also reëm ( Hebrew: רְאֵם, romanized : rəʾēm ), is an animal mentioned nine times in the Hebrew Bible. [note 1] It has been translated as "unicorn" in the Latin Vulgate, King James Version, and in some Christian Bible translations as "oryx" (which was accepted as the referent in Modern Hebrew ), [citation needed] "wild ox", "wild bull", "buffalo" or "rhinoceros". [1] Natan ...
Biblical womanhood is a movement within evangelical Christianity, particularly in the United States. It adopts a complementarian or patriarchal view of gender roles, and emphasizes passages such as Titus 2 in describing what Christian women should be like. According to author Rachel Held Evans, it is driven by the conviction that "the virtuous ...
Joanna ( Koinē Greek: Ἰωάννα, romanized:Iōanna, also Greek: Ἰωάνα ), the wife of Chuza ( γυνὴ Χουζᾶ ), [2] is a woman mentioned in the gospels who was healed by Jesus and later supported him and his disciples in their travels. She is one of the women recorded in the Gospel of Luke as accompanying Jesus and the twelve apostles and as a witness to Jesus' resurrection ...
Women in the Bible are wives, mothers and daughters, servants, slaves and prostitutes. As both victors and victims, some women in the Bible change the course of important events while others are powerless to affect even their destinies. The majority of women in the Bible are anonymous and unnamed. Individual portraits of various women in the Bible show women in various roles. The New Testament ...
The Woman's Bible is a two-part non-fiction book, written by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and a committee of 26 women, published in 1895 and 1898 to challenge the traditional position of religious orthodoxy that woman should be subservient to man. [1] By producing the book, Stanton wished to promote a radical liberating theology, one that stressed self-development. [2] The book attracted a great ...
The following is a list of women found in the Hebrew and Christian Bibles. The list appears in alphabetical order.
The Bible contains many references to slavery, which was a common practice in antiquity. Biblical texts outline sources and the legal status of slaves, economic roles of slavery, types of slavery, and debt slavery, which thoroughly explain the institution of slavery in Israel in antiquity. [1]
The Invisible Pink Unicorn ( IPU) is the goddess of a parody religion used to satirize theistic beliefs, taking the form of a unicorn that is paradoxically both invisible and pink. [1] The IPU is a rhetorical illustration used by atheists and other religious skeptics as a contemporary version of Russell's teapot, sometimes mentioned in ...