Mysteries of the Messiah

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02.02.04 Bible

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02.02.04 Bible. The name was derived from the Greek word biblia meaning book. The earliest biblia consisted of papyrus sheets fastened together and rolled around a wooden rod, or t...

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02.02.05 Codex

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02.02.05 Codex. A codex is another name for an early book when pages made of paper or vellum were cut into sheets and sewn together. Eventually hard covers were added. Modern books...

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02.02.06 Dead Sea Scrolls

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02.02.06 Dead Sea Scrolls. This is a collection of scrolls and scroll fragments that were written between the second century B.C. and A.D. 70, by the Essenes who lived in the villa...

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02.02.07 Deuterocanonical Books

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02.02.07 Deuterocanonical Books. Those writings are books accepted by the Roman Catholic Church in addition to the thirty-nine Old Testament books.  The Deuterocanonical books inc...

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02.02.08 Didache

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02.02.08 Didache. The Didache, meaning The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles[1]is a small book that describes the church rule of order.  It was written about the time John wrote the...

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02.02.09 Gemarah

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02.02.09 Gemarah.[1] The Gemerah, a/k/a Gemara, is the section of the Babylonian Talmud that explains the Mishnah (Oral Law or Tradition of the Elders, i.e. Mt 15:1-2) and exists i...

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02.02.10 Gnosticism

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02.02.10 Gnosticism. This term refers to a philosophy from the Greek thinker, Plato (428-348 B.C.), who suggested the contrast between the invisible world of ideas and the visible ...

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02.02.11 Gospels

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02.02.11 Gospels. The word gospel is from the Greek term euaggelion (2098),[1] meaning good news or joyful news,[2] but it is good news for those who accept it and bad news for tho...

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02.02.12 Hebrew Bible

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02.02.12 Hebrew Bible. This is more commonly known as the Old Testament to Christians and as the Tanakh to Jewish people. The books are the same as in the Christian Old Testament, ...

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02.02.13 Jewish Writings

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02.02.13 Jewish Writings.[1] The term usually refers to a collection of religious books that include the Babylonian and Jerusalem Talmuds, the Mishnah, the Midrash, and the Tosefta...

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