The historicity of Jesus (i.e., his existence as an actual historical figure), is accepted by three major world religions, Christianity, Islam, and the Bahá'í Faith based on their respective scriptures, the Bible, the Qur'an and the Kitáb-i-Íqán. However, while Christianity and the Bahá'í Faith consider Jesus to be the Christ (Messiah) and Son of God, and Islam views him as a prophet, secular historians and followers of most other world religions (including Judaism) tend to regard him as an ordinary human, and a few dispute whe ...

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• Historicity of Jesus - Contemporary sources
• Historicity of Jesus - Christian writings
• Historicity of Jesus - Non-Christian writings
• Historicity of Jesus - Jesus as historical figure
• Historicity of Jesus - Jesus as myth
• Historicity of Jesus - Jesus and syncretism
• Historicity of Jesus - Other views
• Historicity of Jesus - Notes

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This list of names for the Biblical nameless compiles names given in Jewish or Christian mythology for characters who are unnamed in the Bible itself. List of names for the Biblical nameless - Hebrew Bible. List of names for the Biblical nameless - Wives of the antediluvian patriarchs. Source: the apocryphal book of Jubilees Appears in the Bible at: Genesis 4-5 The book of Jubilees provides names for a host of unnamed Biblical characters ...

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• List of names for the Biblical nameless - Hebrew Bible
• List of names for the Biblical nameless - Wives of the antediluvian patriarchs
• List of names for the Biblical nameless - Noah's wife
• List of names for the Biblical nameless - Nimrod's wife
• List of names for the Biblical nameless - Potiphar's wife
• List of names for the Biblical nameless - Pharaoh's magicians
• List of names for the Biblical nameless - Job's wife
• List of names for the Biblical nameless - Jephthah's daughter
• List of names for the Biblical nameless - The Witch of Endor
• List of names for the Biblical nameless - Architect of the Temple of Solomon
• List of names for the Biblical nameless - The Queen of Sheba
• List of names for the Biblical nameless - New Testament
• List of names for the Biblical nameless - The Magi
• List of names for the Biblical nameless - The Nativity shepherds
• List of names for the Biblical nameless - Herodias' daughter
• List of names for the Biblical nameless - Syrophoenician woman
• List of names for the Biblical nameless - Hæmorrhaging woman
• List of names for the Biblical nameless - Samaritan Woman at the Well
• List of names for the Biblical nameless - Damned rich man
• List of names for the Biblical nameless - Woman taken in adultery
• List of names for the Biblical nameless - Pontius Pilate's wife
• List of names for the Biblical nameless - Thieves crucified with Jesus
• List of names for the Biblical nameless - Soldier who pierced Jesus with a spear
• List of names for the Biblical nameless - Man who offered Jesus vinegar
• List of names for the Biblical nameless - Guards at Jesus' tomb
• List of names for the Biblical nameless - Cleopas's companion on the road to Emmaus
• List of names for the Biblical nameless - For further reference

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Caratacus (also spelled Caractacus) was a historical British chieftain of the Catuvellauni tribe, who led the British resistance to the Roman conquest. He may correspond with the legendary Welsh character Caradog (also written Caradoc, Caradawg) and the legendary British king Arvirargus. Caratacus - History. Caratacus is named by Dio Cassius as a son of the Catuvellaunian king Cunobelinus (the inspiration for William Shakespeare's Cymbeline).^Including:

• Caratacus - History
• Caratacus - Caratacus's name
• Caratacus - British legend
• Caratacus - Caratacus and Christianity
• Caratacus - Notes

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• Paul of Tarsus - Life
• Paul of Tarsus - Early life
• Paul of Tarsus - Conversion and early teachings
• Paul of Tarsus - Consultations with the Apostles
• Paul of Tarsus - Founding of churches
• Paul of Tarsus - Arrest Rome and later life
• Paul of Tarsus - Paul's trip to Rome imprisonment and death
• Paul of Tarsus - Theological teachings
• Paul of Tarsus - Social views
• Paul of Tarsus - Writings
• Paul of Tarsus - The Legendary tradition
• Paul of Tarsus - Alternative views
• Paul of Tarsus - Christianity as mystery religion
• Paul of Tarsus - Paul as usurper of the Apostles
• Paul of Tarsus - Gnostic
• Paul of Tarsus - Paul as inclusionist
• Paul of Tarsus - New Perspective on Paul
• Paul of Tarsus - Agent of Rome?
• Paul of Tarsus - Notes

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History of Christianity Jesus of Nazareth The Apostles Ecumenical councils Great Schism The Crusades Reformation The Trinity God the Father Christ the Son The Holy Spirit The Bible Old Testament New Testament Apocrypha The Gospels Ten Commandments Sermon on the Mount Christian theology Salvation · Grace Christian worship Christian Church Catholicism Orthodox Christianity Protestantism Christian denomination ...

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• Biblical inspiration - Etymology
• Biblical inspiration - Views of the doctrine
• Biblical inspiration - Basis for the doctrine
• Biblical inspiration - The Conservative view
• Biblical inspiration - The Modernist view
• Biblical inspiration - The Neo-orthodox doctrine

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The Roman province of Asia was the administrative unit added to the late Republic, a Senatorial province governed by a proconsul who was an ex-consul, an honor granted only to Asia and the other rich province of Africa. The arrangement was unchanged in the reorganization of the Roman Empire of 211 CE. "Asia" in the books of the Maccabees refers to Asia Minor, which Antiochus III (the Great) had to give up when the Romans crushed his army at the historic battle of Magnesia, in 190 BC. After the Treaty of Apamea, in 188 BC, the entire territory would be surrendered to Rome and pl ...

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• Asia Province - External link

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The Pauline epistles are those books in the New Testament that are traditionally attributed to Paul of Tarsus. The authorship of the Pauline epistles is a subject of much debate. The New Testament contains thirteen letters explicitly ascribed to Paul and one anonymous letter, Hebrews, traditionally attributed to Paul. Nearly every modern scholar agrees that Paul was the author of seven letters, often referred to as the "undisputed epistles" (Romans, 1 & 2 Corinthians, Galatians, Philippians, 1 Thessalonians, and Philemon). ...

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• Authorship of the Pauline epistles - Criteria used by scholars
• Authorship of the Pauline epistles - The undisputed epistles
• Authorship of the Pauline epistles - Colossians
• Authorship of the Pauline epistles - Ephesians
• Authorship of the Pauline epistles - Traditional arguments for Pauline Authorship
• Authorship of the Pauline epistles - Recent arguments against Pauline Authorship
• Authorship of the Pauline epistles - Modern rebuttals to arguments against authenticity
• Authorship of the Pauline epistles - The Second Epistle to the Thessalonians
• Authorship of the Pauline epistles - The Pastoral Epistles
• Authorship of the Pauline epistles - Hebrews
• Authorship of the Pauline epistles - History of the Pauline canon

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In the Christian New Testament, Titus, (a common Roman name, meaning honourable) was a companion of Paul of Tarsus, mentioned in several of Paul's Epistles. Titus was with Paul and Barnabas at Antioch and accompanied them to the Council of Jerusalem (Galatians 2:1-3; Acts 15:2), although his name nowhere occurs in the Acts of the Apostles. He appears to have been a Gentile— for Paul sternly refused to have him circumcised, perhaps because Paul possibly believed his gospel freed believers from the requirements of the Mosaic Law— and to h ...

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The end times are, in one version of Judeo-Christian eschatology and in Islam, a time of tribulation that will precede the Second Coming of the Messiah. Specifically, what is usually referred to as the 'end times' revolves around a cluster of beliefs in Christian or Rastafarian millennialism. These beliefs typically include the ideas that the biblical apocalypse is imminent and that various signs in current events are omens of Armageddon. These beliefs have been widely held in one form, by the Adventist movement (Millerites), by Jehov ...

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• End times - Christianity
• End times - Roots of contemporary end-times belief
• End times - The dispensationalist prophecies
• End times - Views by groups
• End times - Catholics
• End times - Jehovah's Witnesses
• End times - Latter-day Saints
• End times - Preterism
• End times - Rastafarians
• End times - Fictional treatments
• End times - Literature
• End times - Motion pictures

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Sola scriptura (Latin By Scripture alone) is one of five important slogans of the Protestant Reformation in the 16th century. It meant that Scripture is the only infallible rule for deciding issues of faith and practices that involve doctrines. The intention of the Reformation was to "correct" the Catholic Church by appeal to the uniqueness of the Bible's authority, and to reject Christian tradition as a source of original authority alongside the Bible or in addition to the Bible. This is in contrast to Prima scriptura, ...

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• Sola scriptura - The singular authority of Scripture
• Sola scriptura - Scripture and Tradition
• Sola scriptura - Tradition vs. Scripture
• Sola scriptura - Legacy
• Sola scriptura - Biblical references

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Caratacus is named by Dio Cassius as a son of the Catuvellaunian king Cunobelinus (the inspiration for William Shakespeare's Cymbeline).[1] Based on coin distribution Caratacus appears to have been the protegé of his uncle Epaticcus, who expanded Catuvellaunian power westwards into the territory of the Atrebates. After Epaticcus died ca. 35 AD, the Atrebates, under Verica, regained some of their territory, but it appears Caratacus completed the conq ...

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Caratacus, Caratacus - History, Caratacus - Caratacus's name, Caratacus - British legend, Caratacus - Caratacus and Christianity, Caratacus - Notes

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The word inspiration comes by way of the Latin and the King James translations of the Greek word θεοπνευστος (theopneustos, literally, "God-breathed") found in 2 Timothy 3.16-17: All scripture is given by inspiration of God [theopneustos], and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: that the man of God may be perfect ...

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Biblical inspiration, Biblical inspiration - Etymology, Biblical inspiration - Views of the doctrine, Biblical inspiration - Basis for the doctrine, Biblical inspiration - The Conservative view, Biblical inspiration - The Modernist view, Biblical inspiration - The Neo-orthodox doctrine

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Though it is possible that the various uses of the name 'Mark' in the New Testament refer to different people, it is far more likely that they are one and the same person. So the John Mark in Acts (12:12, 25; 15:37) mentioned simply as John in 13:5 and 13:13 and as Mark in 15:39 is the same person as the Mark mentioned by Paul in (Colossians 4:10; 2 Timothy, 4:11; Philemon, 24) and by the author of 1 Peter 5:13. Mark of the Pauline Epistles is specified as a cousin of Barnabas (Colossians 4:10); this would explain Barnabas' special attachmen ...

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Mark the Evangelist, Mark the Evangelist - Biblical and Traditional Information, Mark the Evangelist - Fate of his remains, Mark the Evangelist - See Also

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Claudia Rufina - Relationship with St. Paul. It is possible that she and her husband may be identified with the Claudia and Pudens mentioned in 2 Timothy 4:21[1] in the New Testament. This identification was made as early as the 17th century, by James Ussher, Archbishop of Armagh, in his British Ecclesiastical Antiquities, and his contemporary Cardinal Alford, a historian, who independently associated the two i ...

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Claudia Rufina, Claudia Rufina - Disputed theories, Claudia Rufina - Relationship with St. Paul, Claudia Rufina - British relatives, Claudia Rufina - Notes

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End times - Catholics. Catholics refer to the 25th chapter of Matthew's Gospel in which Christ says that "no one knows the hour or the day," except the Father. While Catholics believe the prediction of dates or times is futile, many believe that Jesus foretold of signs which would indicate that the "end of days" was near. Some of these signs include natural disasters, civil problems, and other catastrophes. Of the precise time, howev ...

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End times, End times - Christianity, End times - Roots of contemporary end-times belief, End times - The dispensationalist prophecies, End times - Views by groups, End times - Catholics, End times - Jehovah's Witnesses, End times - Latter-day Saints, End times - Preterism, End times - Rastafarians, End times - Fictional treatments, End times - Literature, End times - Motion pictures

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List of names for the Biblical nameless - The Magi. Names: Balthasar, Melchior, and Caspar (or Gaspar) Source: European folklore Names: Hor, Basanater, and Karsudan Source: The Book of Adam, an apocryphal Ethiopian text Names: Larvandad, Hormisdas, and Gushnasaph Source: Syrian Christ ...

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List of names for the Biblical nameless, List of names for the Biblical nameless - Hebrew Bible, List of names for the Biblical nameless - Wives of the antediluvian patriarchs, List of names for the Biblical nameless - Noah's wife, List of names for the Biblical nameless - Nimrod's wife, List of names for the Biblical nameless - Potiphar's wife, List of names for the Biblical nameless - Pharaoh's magicians, List of names for the Biblical nameless - Job's wife, List of names for the Biblical nameless - Jephthah's daughter, List of names for the Biblical nameless - The Witch of Endor, List of names for the Biblical nameless - Architect of the Temple of Solomon, List of names for the Biblical nameless - The Queen of Sheba, List of names for the Biblical nameless - New Testament, List of names for the Biblical nameless - The Magi, List of names for the Biblical nameless - The Nativity shepherds, List of names for the Biblical nameless - Herodias' daughter, List of names for the Biblical nameless - Syrophoenician woman, List of names for the Biblical nameless - Hæmorrhaging woman, List of names for the Biblical nameless - Samaritan Woman at the Well, List of names for the Biblical nameless - Damned rich man, List of names for the Biblical nameless - Woman taken in adultery, List of names for the Biblical nameless - Pontius Pilate's wife, List of names for the Biblical nameless - Thieves crucified with Jesus, List of names for the Biblical nameless - Soldier who pierced Jesus with a spear, List of names for the Biblical nameless - Man who offered Jesus vinegar, List of names for the Biblical nameless - Guards at Jesus' tomb, List of names for the Biblical nameless - Cleopas's companion on the road to Emmaus, List of names for the Biblical nameless - For further reference

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Paul of Tarsus - Early life. Paul described himself as an Israelite of the tribe of Benjamin, circumcised on the eighth day, a Pharisee (Rom. 11:1; Phil. 3:5), and of the "Jews' religion ... more exceedingly zealous of the traditions" (Gal. 1:14 KJV). However, he was born as Saul in Tarsus of Cilicia and received a Jewish education. He apparently originated the use of Paul as a first name. In Latin, Paulus was a family surname, never a first name. The Latin word paulus, related to the Koine G ...

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Paul of Tarsus, Paul of Tarsus - Life, Paul of Tarsus - Early life, Paul of Tarsus - Conversion and early teachings, Paul of Tarsus - Consultations with the Apostles, Paul of Tarsus - Founding of churches, Paul of Tarsus - Arrest Rome and later life, Paul of Tarsus - Paul's trip to Rome imprisonment and death, Paul of Tarsus - Theological teachings, Paul of Tarsus - Social views, Paul of Tarsus - Writings, Paul of Tarsus - The Legendary tradition, Paul of Tarsus - Alternative views, Paul of Tarsus - Christianity as mystery religion, Paul of Tarsus - Paul as usurper of the Apostles, Paul of Tarsus - Gnostic, Paul of Tarsus - Paul as inclusionist, Paul of Tarsus - New Perspective on Paul, Paul of Tarsus - Agent of Rome?, Paul of Tarsus - Notes

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Epistle to Titus - Traditional view. According to Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897), "Paul's Authorship was undisputed in antiquity, as far as known, but is frequently doubted today. It was probably written about the same time as the First Epistle to Timothy, with which it has many affinities." William Paley wrote in Horae Paulinae (1785), "Both letters were addressed to persons left by the writer to preside in their respective churches during his absence. Both letters are principally occupied ...

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Epistle to Titus, Epistle to Titus - Authorship and date, Epistle to Titus - Traditional view, Epistle to Titus - Critical view

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Caratacus is named by Dio Cassius as a son of the Catuvellaunian king Cunobelinus[1] (the inspiration for William Shakespeare's Cymbeline).Based on coin distribution Caratacus appears to have been the protegé of his uncle Epaticcus, who expanded Catuvellaunian power westwards into the territory of the Atrebates. After Epaticcus died ca. 35, the Atrebates, under Verica, regained some of their territory, but it appears Caratacus completed the conquest ...

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Caratacus, Caratacus - History, Caratacus - Caratacus's name, Caratacus - British legend, Caratacus - Ancient and Modern myths? surrounding Caratacus, Caratacus - Caratacus and Christianity, Caratacus - Theory of Caratacus' relationship to Saint Linus, Caratacus - Notes

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There are no contemporary sources. The earliest known sources are: Historicity of Jesus - Christian writings. Jesus features prominently throughout the New Testament and other early Christian writings, but since historical-critical evaluation of the New Testament shows a progression within the writings perhaps indicating that later parts of the Bible were greatly based on earlier parts, it is the oldest remaining Christian texts that are the most val ...

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Historicity of Jesus, Historicity of Jesus - Earliest known sources, Historicity of Jesus - Christian writings, Historicity of Jesus - Non-Christian writings, Historicity of Jesus - Jesus as historical figure, Historicity of Jesus - The idea that Jesus never existed, Historicity of Jesus - Jesus and syncretism, Historicity of Jesus - Other views, Historicity of Jesus - Notes

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