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Depiction of the book of life. In Judaism, Christianity and Islam ( Angels) the Book of Life (Biblical Hebrew: ספר החיים, transliterated Sefer HaḤayyim; Ancient Greek: βιβλίον τῆς ζωῆς, romanized: Biblíon tēs Zōēs Arabic: سفر الحياة, romanized: Sifr al-Ḥayā) is an alleged book in which God records, or will record, the names of every person who is ...
Pointed arches form the rib vaults of Worcester Cathedral (1084–1504) A pointed arch, ogival arch, or Gothic arch is an arch with a pointed crown meet at an angle at the top of the arch. [1] Also known as a two-centred arch, its form is derived from the intersection of two circles. [2]
The pointed arch rib was built without mortar between the voussoirs. [2] On its eastern, downstream side a nearly intact Christian inscription in Greek runs along most of its length, citing almost verbatim Psalm 121, verse 8 of the Bible. [6] The text reads:
Chapter and verse divisions did not appear in the original texts of Jewish or Christian bibles; such divisions form part of the paratext of the Bible.Since the early 13th century, most copies and editions of the Bible have presented all but the shortest of the scriptural books with divisions into chapters, generally a page or so in length.
If one impost is much higher than another, the arch (frequently pointed) is known as ramping arch, raking arch, [90] or rampant arch (from French: arc rampant). [91] Originally used to support inclined structures, like stairs, in the 13th-14th centuries they appeared as parts of flying buttresses used to counteract the thrust of Gothic ribbed ...
In the Bible outside of Genesis, the term "tree of life" appears in Proverbs (3:18; 11:30; 13:12; 15:4) and Revelation (2:7; 22:2,14,19). It also appears in 2 Esdras and 4 Maccabees , which are included among the Jewish apocrypha. According to the Greek Apocalypse of Moses, the tree of life is also called the Tree of Mercy.
A very narrow, steeply pointed ogive arch is sometimes called a "lancet arch". The most common form is an equilateral arch , where the radius is the same as the width. In the later Flamboyant Gothic style, an " ogee arch ", an arch with a pointed head, like S-shaped curves, became prevalent.
In discussing the role of his discipline in interpreting the biblical record, Dever has pointed to multiple histories within the Bible, including the history of theology (the relationship between God and believers), political history (usually the account of "Great Men"), narrative history (the chronology of events), intellectual history ...