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e. The Infancy Gospel of Thomas is an apocryphal gospel about the childhood of Jesus. The scholarly consensus dates it to the mid-to-late second century, with the oldest extant manuscript dating to the fourth or fifth century. [1] The document is generally considered to be Gnostic in origin because of references in letters (by Hippolytus of ...
List of biblical commentaries. This is an outline of commentaries and commentators. Discussed are the salient points of Jewish, patristic, medieval, and modern commentaries on the Bible. The article includes discussion of the Targums, Mishna, and Talmuds, which are not regarded as Bible commentaries in the modern sense of the word, but which ...
The nativity of Jesus, nativity of Christ, birth of Jesus or birth of Christ is documented in the biblical gospels of Luke and Matthew.The two accounts agree that Jesus was born in Bethlehem, Judaea, that his mother, Mary, was engaged to a man named Joseph, who was descended from King David and was not his biological father, and that his birth was caused by divine intervention.
The pre-existence of Christ asserts the existence of Christ prior to his incarnation as Jesus.One of the relevant Bible passages is John 1:1–18 where, in the Trinitarian interpretation, Christ is identified with a pre-existent divine hypostasis (substantive reality) called the Logos (Koine Greek for "word").
Ben Sira or Joshua ben Sirach ( Hebrew: שמעון בן יהושע בן אליעזר בן סירא, romanized : šimʿon ben yəhošuʿ ben ʾəliʿezer ben Sirā) ( fl. 2nd century BCE) was a Hellenistic Jewish scribe, sage, and allegorist from Seleucid -controlled Jerusalem of the Second Temple period. He is the author of the Book of Sirach ...
Shapiro believes it is “insane” that the full retirement age has not been raised, considering that people live longer nowadays and Social Security itself is facing a looming funding shortfall.
Adam C. English, professor of religion at Campbell University, has argued for the veracity of 25 December as Jesus's date of birth. The Bible in Luke 1:26 records the annunciation to Mary to be at the time when Elizabeth, mother of John the Baptist, was in her sixth month of pregnancy.
June 24, 2024 at 8:35 AM. NEW YORK (AP) — It’s not just a book. Back in the 1450s, when the Bible became the first major work printed in Europe with moveable metal type, Johannes Gutenberg was ...