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One of the four gospels (from Greek Ευαγγελια "Good News"); Muslims use it in the original sense as the message of Jesus, either only orally transmitted or recorded in a hypothetical scripture, like the Torah and the Quran, containing God's revelations to Jesus. According to them, the gospels partially contain the revealed words or are ...
Byzantine mosaic showing Jesus Christ, Hagia Sophia, Istanbul. Arabic فسيفساء بيزنطية تظهر السيد المسيح، آيا صوفيا، إسطنبول.
Later translations in other languages also follow suit. Some modern Evangelical translations also use Isa, such as David Owen's Life of Christ (Arabic 1987). [17] Unrelatedly to the name of Jesus, Isa is used as a given name in many European languages, generally as a nickname or shortening of Isabel, Isabella, and related names.
There are a variety of titles used to refer to the penultimate prophet of Islam, Isa ibn Maryam (), in the Quran.Islamic scholars emphasize the need for Muslims to follow the name of Isa (Jesus), whether spoken or written, with the honorific phrase alayhi al-salām (Arabic: عليه السلام), which means peace be upon him.
It was a common practice in the ancient Near East to confer kingship to new rulers by anointing them, rather than by crowning them. [6] It is in this context that the Hebrew term Māshīaḥ (Messiah, meaning "anointed") was originally used, referring to an eschatological figure who was expected to rise from the royal line of David and who would rule like a divine king, being God's 'anointed ...
Ad-Dajjal (Arabic: ٱلدَّجَّالُ, romanized: ad-Dajjāl, lit. 'Deceitful'), [ 1 ] otherwise referred to simply as the Dajjal , is an evil figure in Islamic eschatology who will pretend to be the promised Messiah and later claim to be God , appearing before the Day of Judgment according to the Islamic eschatological narrative.
Even today, the question of sexualized religious images in art is alive and well. In early 2024, a “sexualized” painting of Jesus by Spanish artist Salustiano García Cruz was decried as ...
The Arabic Infancy Gospel is a New Testament apocryphal writing concerning the infancy of Jesus. It may have been compiled as early as the sixth century, and was partly based on the Infancy Gospel of Thomas , the Gospel of James , and the Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew , though much of it is also based on oral tradition.