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The Census of Quirinius was a census of the Roman province of Judaea taken in 6 CE, upon its formation, by the governor of Roman Syria, Publius Sulpicius Quirinius. The census triggered a revolt of Jewish extremists (called Zealots) led by Judas of Galilee. The Gospel of Luke uses the census to date the birth of Jesus, which the Gospel of ...
Cold hands, warm heart [a] Comparisons are odious [a] Count your blessings [a] Courage is the measure of a Man, Beauty is the measure of a Woman [a] Cowards may die many times before their death [a] Crime does not pay [a] Cream rises. Criss-cross, applesauce [a] Cross the stream where it is shallowest.
Sogdian Christian copy of the text written in Syriac. The Sayings of the Desert Fathers (Latin: Apophthegmata Patrum Aegyptiorum; Greek: ἀποφθέγματα τῶν πατέρων, romanized: Apophthégmata tōn Patérōn [1] [2]) is the name given to various textual collections consisting of stories and sayings attributed to the Desert Fathers from approximately the 5th century AD.
List of oracular statements from Delphi. Lycurgus Consulting the Pythia (1835/1845), as imagined by Eugène Delacroix. Pythia was the priestess presiding over the Oracle of Apollo at Delphi. There are more than 500 supposed oracular statements which have survived from various sources referring to the oracle at Delphi.
In God We Trust. " In God We Trust " (also rendered as " In God we trust ") is the official motto of the United States [1][2][3] as well as the motto of the U.S. state of Florida, along with the nation of Nicaragua (Spanish: En Dios confiamos). [4][5] It was adopted by the U.S. Congress in 1956, replacing E pluribus unum ("Out of many, one ...
The Jesus Seminar was a group of about 50 biblical criticism scholars and 100 laymen founded in 1985 by Robert Funk that originated under the auspices of the Westar Institute. [1][2] The seminar was very active through the 1980s and 1990s, and into the early 21st century. Members of the Seminar used votes with colored beads to decide their ...
Material from two other sources—the M source and the L source —are represented in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke here by green and teal respectively. The Q source (also called The Sayings Gospel, Q Gospel, Q document (s), or Q; from German: Quelle, meaning "source") is an alleged written collection of primarily Jesus ' sayings (λόγια ...
According to an analysis of new census data, 24.6% of homeowners in Miami-Dade County don’t have meaningful homeowners insurance. In Florida, the figure is 18.3%, and nationwide it’s 13.4%.