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t. e. 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 ...
Euodia ( Greek Εὐοδία, meaning unclear, but possibly "sweet fragrance" [ 1][ 2] or "prosperous journey" [ 3]) and Syntyche ( Συντύχη, "fortunate," literally "with fate") are people mentioned in the New Testament. They were female members of the church in Philippi, and according to the text of Philippians 4: 2–3, they were ...
Numbers 31 is the 31st chapter of the Book of Numbers, the fourth book of the Pentateuch ( Torah ), the central part of the Hebrew Bible ( Old Testament ), a sacred text in Judaism and Christianity. Scholars such as Israel Knohl and Dennis T. Olson name this chapter the War against the Midianites. [ 1][ 2]
The Book of Sirach (/ ˈ s aɪ r æ k /) [a] [b] is a Jewish literary work, originally written in Biblical Hebrew.The longest extant wisdom book from antiquity, [1] [3] it consists of ethical teachings, written approximately between 196 and 175 BCE by Yeshua ben Eleazar ben Sira (Ben Sira), a Hellenistic Jewish scribe of the Second Temple period.
He is neither man nor woman: he is God." [15] [16] The CCC discusses the traditional imagery and language of God as Father. [16] It notes, however, that God is not limited to this role alone—maternal imagery is also used in the Bible. [16] It also notes that human fatherhood only imperfectly reflects God's archetypal fatherhood. [16]
The fall of man, the fall of Adam, or simply the Fall, is a term used in Christianity to describe the transition of the first man and woman from a state of innocent obedience to God to a state of guilty disobedience. [ 1] The doctrine of the Fall comes from a biblical interpretation of Genesis, chapters 1–3. [ 1]
e. Babylon the Great, commonly known as the Whore of Babylon, refers to both a symbolic female figure and a place of evil as mentioned in the Book of Revelation of the New Testament. Her full title is stated in Revelation 17:5 as " Mystery, Babylon the Great, the Mother of Harlots and Abominations of the Earth " ( Greek: μυστήριον ...
Esther, [ a] originally Hadassah, is the eponymous heroine of the Book of Esther in the Hebrew Bible. According to the biblical narrative, which is set in the Achaemenid Empire, the Persian king Ahasuerus falls in love with Esther and marries her. [ 1] His grand vizier Haman is offended by Esther's cousin and guardian Mordecai because of his ...