The Third Temple (Hebrew: בית המקדש השלישי, Beit haMikdash haShlishi, literally: “The Holy Third House”) would be the third Temple in Jerusalem, after the rebuilt of the first (Solomon’s Temple)…
The Shema (Hebrew: שְׁמַע “Hear”) is the title of a prayer that serves as a centerpiece of the morning and evening Jewish prayer services. The first verse encapsulates the monotheistic…
Shema Yisrael (Shema Israel or Sh’ma Yisrael; Hebrew: שְׁמַע יִשְׂרָאֵל; “Hear, O Israel”) is a Jewish prayer (known simply as the Shema) considered the essence of Judaism. The first verse,…
Misanthropy is the general hatred, distrust or contempt of the human species or human nature. A misanthrope or misanthropist is someone who holds such views or feelings. The word’s origin…
Abrahamic Religions: Similarity & Comparision Intro Abrahamic Religions currently there are about 3.4 billion believers in the world, and this according to 2020 statistics, corresponds to about 56% of the…
Introduction Akiva ben Joseph (Hebrew: עקיבא בן יוסף; c. 40 – c. 137 CE), widely known as Rabbi Akiva (Hebrew: רבי עקיבא), was a tanna (the rabbinic sages whose views…
Religious texts, also known as Scripture, Scriptures, Holy Writ, or Holy Books, are the Texts which various Religious traditions consider to be sacred, or central to their religious tradition. Many…
Judaism (from Latin: Iudaismus, derived from Greek Ἰουδαϊσμός, originally from Hebrew יהודה, Yehudah, “Judah”; in Hebrew: יהדות, Yahadut, the distinctive characteristics of the Judean ethnos) encompasses the religion, philosophy, culture…
Within Jerusalem’s holiest site, known as the Temple Mount to Jews and the Noble Sanctuary to Muslims, lies a historical question about what may be the world’s most contested piece…
Apocrypha are works, usually written works, that are of unknown authorship, or of doubtful authenticity, or spurious, or not considered to be within a particular canon. The word is properly…
The Bible (from Koine Greek τὰ βιβλία, tà Biblía, “the Books”) is a collection of texts sacred in Judaism and Christianity. There is no single canonical “Bible”: many Bibles have…
Intro Table of Contents The Abrahamic religions are monotheistic religions of West Asian origin that emphasize and trace their common origin to Abraham (in Hebrew “Avraham” אַבְרָהָם, “Father of many”;…
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