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However, it may predate 10,000 BCE as samples were dated to 11,870 (± 120) YBP in a 1983 publication. [11] The living shrine at which it was found is currently used as a place for worshipping Devi by both Hindus and Indian Muslims. The triangular shape of the stone is that of the Kali Yantra which is also still in use across India.
Religious tradition founded Historical founder(s) Life of historical founder Of Divine origin (Hinduism) Hinduism: Krishna: c. 12th century BCE Abraham (covenant with God) Moses (religious law) Judaism: Yahwists [n 1] c. 13th [1] [2] [3] to 8th century BC [n 2] Laozi: Taoism: Zhuang Zhou: 369 BC – 286 BC
[4] [5] Sacred texts like the Bible, the Quran, and others did not have a word or even a concept of religion in the original languages and neither did the people or the cultures in which these sacred texts were written. [6] [7] The word religion as used in the 21st century does not have an obvious pre-colonial translation into non-European ...
1922 Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America founded; 1922 The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments, a New Translation by James Moffatt published; 1923 Aimee Semple McPherson builds Angelus Temple; 1924 First religious radio station in the U.S., KFUO (AM), founded; 1925 Scopes Trial; 1925 United Church of Canada formed
This table summarises the chronology of the main tables and serves as a guide to the historical periods mentioned. Much of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament may have been assembled in the 5th century BCE. [7] The New Testament books were composed largely in the second half of the 1st century CE. [8] The deuterocanonical books fall largely in between.
1789: Georgetown University is founded as Georgetown College. It is the oldest Catholic university in the United States and the first of 28 colleges and universities founded by the Jesuits in the US. 1791: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composes Ave verum corpus and his unfinished Requiem. 1793: French Revolution institutes anti-clerical measures.
Monastic communities were associated with the urban holy places in Palestine (which became a center of pilgrimage), Cappadocia, Italy, Gaul, and Roman North Africa. [121] In 358, Basil the Great founded a monastic community in Caesarea that developed a transformative health care system which became the model of public hospitals thereafter. [122]
The Masoretic Text is the basis of modern Jewish and Christian bibles. While difficulties with biblical texts make it impossible to reach sure conclusions, perhaps the most widely held hypothesis is that it embodies an overall scheme of 4,000 years (a "great year") taking the re-dedication of the Temple by the Maccabees in 164 BCE as its end-point. [4]