Encyclopedia - Abraham: Encyclopedia - Abraham
Abraham (אַבְרָהָם "Father/Leader of many", (circa 1700 BCE) Standard Hebrew Avraham, Tiberian Hebrew ʾAḇrāhām; Arabic اب...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abraham Ben Abraham: Encyclopedia - Abraham Ben Abraham
The history of Abraham ben Abraham, also known as Count Valentine (Valentin, Walentyn) Potocki (Pototzki or Pototski) is a controversial ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abraham: Encyclopedia Ii - Abraham - Abraham In Islam
Abraham (called Ibrahim) is very important in Islam, both in his own right as prophet and as the father of the prophet Ismail (Ishmael), ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abraham: Encyclopedia Ii - Abraham - Abraham In Judaism
The account of his life is found in the Book of Genesis, beginning in Chapter 11, at the close of a genealogy of the sons of Shem (which ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abraham Ortelius: Encyclopedia - Abraham Ortelius
Abraham Ortelius (Abraham Orthellius, Abraham Ortels, Abraham Wortels) (April 14, 1527 - 1598) was a cartographer and geographer, credite...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Apocalypse Of Abraham: Encyclopedia - Apocalypse Of Abraham
The Apocalypse of Abraham is an apocalypse of Jewish origin that was probably composed between 80-100 AD. It has survived only in Old Sla...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abrahamic Religion: Encyclopedia - Abrahamic Religion
All the Abrahamic religions are derived to some extent from Judaism as practiced in ancient kingdoms of Israel and Judah prior to the Bab...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Book Of Abraham: Encyclopedia - Book Of Abraham
The Book of Abraham is a text originally published by Joseph Smith, Jr., purporting to be a translation of the writings of Abraham. Some ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abrahamic Mythology: Encyclopedia - Abrahamic Mythology
Abrahamic mythology is a term used in comparative mythology to refer to those aspects of religious belief and tradition common to the Abr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abraham's Bosom: Encyclopedia - Abraham's Bosom
Abraham's bosom (Luke 16:22,23) refers to the custom of reclining on couches at the dining table, which was prevalent among the Jews, an ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abraham Trembley: Encyclopedia - Abraham Trembley
Abraham Trembley (September 3, 1710 – May 12, 1784) was a Swiss naturalist. He came from Geneva and was tutor in a noble household in t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abraham In The Catholic Liturgy: Encyclopedia - Abraham In The Catholic Liturgy
The figure of Abraham plays a prominent part of the Catholic Liturgy. Three Old Testament figures are given particular prominence in the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abraham Pais: Encyclopedia - Abraham Pais
Abraham Pais (May 19, 1918 - August 4, 2000) was a Dutch-born physicist. In 1946, Pais served as a personal assistant to Niels Bohr at th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abraham Zacuto: Encyclopedia - Abraham Zacuto
Abraham Zacuto (אברהם זכות) (portuguese: Abraão ben Samuel Zacuto) was a Jewish astronomer, mathematician and historian who ser...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abraham Kuyper: Encyclopedia - Abraham Kuyper
Abraham Kuyper (1837-1920) was born in the town of Maassluis and was a Dutch Calvinist theologian, scholar, and statesman. He was a profe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abraham Foxman: Encyclopedia - Abraham Foxman
Abraham H. Foxman (b. 1940) is the current National Director and chairman of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith and strong suppor...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abraham Sinkov: Encyclopedia - Abraham Sinkov
Dr. Abraham Sinkov (1907-1998) was a US cryptanalyst. Sinkov, the son of immigrants from Russia, was born in Philadelphia, but grew up in...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abraham Lincoln: Encyclopedia - Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865), sometimes called Abe Lincoln and nicknamed Honest Abe, the Rail Splitter, and the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abraham Robinson: Encyclopedia - Abraham Robinson
Abraham Robinson (October 6, 1918 - April 11, 1974) was a mathematician who is most widely known for development of nonstandard analysis,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abraham Kovoor: Encyclopedia - Abraham Kovoor
Abraham Thomas Kovoor (April 10, 1898 - September 18, 1978) was a Sri Lankan professor and Rationalist who gained prominence after retir...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abraham Firkovitch: Encyclopedia - Abraham Firkovitch
Abraham (Avraham) Firkovitch (1786-1874) was a Lithuanian Karaite of Crimean Karaite (Karaim) descent, born in Lutsk, Volhynia. Firkovitc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abraham Maslow: Encyclopedia - Abraham Maslow
Abraham Maslow (April 1, 1908 – June 8, 1970) was an American psychologist. He is mostly noted today for his proposal of a hierarchy of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abraham Joshua Heschel: Encyclopedia - Abraham Joshua Heschel
Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel (January 11, 1907, Warsaw, Poland - December 23, 1972) was considered by many to be one of the most signific...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abraham Lincoln On Slavery: Encyclopedia - Abraham Lincoln On Slavery
Abraham Lincoln's position on freeing the slaves is often surprising and controversial today, despite the frequency and clarity with whic...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abraham Ben David: Encyclopedia - Abraham Ben David
Abraham ben David was a Jewish, French commentator on the Talmud. He was born in Provence, France, about 1125 CE; died at Posquières, 27...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abraham Darby I: Encyclopedia - Abraham Darby I
Abraham Darby (c.1678 – March 8, 1717) was the first of that name of three generations of an English Quaker family that was key to the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Albert Abraham Michelson: Encyclopedia - Albert Abraham Michelson
Albert Abraham Michelson, (pronunciation anglicized as "Michael-son", December 19, 1852 - May 9, 1931), was a Prussian-born American phys...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Obadiah Ben Abraham: Encyclopedia - Obadiah Ben Abraham
Obadiah ben Abraham of Bertinoro was a Jewish rabbi and a commentator on the Mishnah, commonly known as "The Bartenura" by Orthodox Judai...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abraham Ibn Ezra: Encyclopedia - Abraham Ibn Ezra
Rabbi Abraham Ben Meir Ibn Ezra (also known as Ibn Ezra, or Abenezra) (1092 or 1093-1167), was one of the most distinguished Jewish men o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abraham Isaac Kook: Encyclopedia - Abraham Isaac Kook
Abraham Isaac Kook (1864 - 1935) a well-known proponent of Religious Zionism, was the first Ashkenazi chief rabbi of the British Mandate ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abraham De Moivre: Encyclopedia - Abraham De Moivre
Abraham de Moivre (May 26, 1667 in Vitry-le-François, Champagne, France – November 27, 1754 in London, England) was a French mathemati...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery: Encyclopedia - Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery
The Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery covers 982 acres in Elwood, Illinois. It is located approximately 50 miles southwest of Chicago, Il...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Abraham: Theosophy Dictionary On Abraham
Abraham (Hebrew) (from 'ab father, ancestor + the verbal root raham to heap together, bring together)   Traditionally the founder...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abraham Ben Abraham: Encyclopedia Ii - Abraham Ben Abraham - Background
(This article incorporates text from the public domain 1901-1906 Jewish Encyclopedia.) Kraszewski relates that young Potocki and his frie...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abrahamic Mythology: Encyclopedia Ii - Abrahamic Mythology - Abrahamic Views
The traditional perspective of adherents of the Abrahamic faiths is that there is indeed a common source and history for the world's reli...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abraham Ben Abraham: Encyclopedia Ii - Abraham Ben Abraham - Jewish Tradition
There are several versions of this story, especially among the Jews of Lithuania, Poland and Russia, who know and still refer to Potocki ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abraham Ben Abraham: Encyclopedia Ii - Abraham Ben Abraham - Historical Evidence
Numerous encyclopaedias of Jewish history, religion and culture include an entry on Potocki, a Polish magnate and member of the Potocki f...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abrahamic Religion: Encyclopedia Ii - Abrahamic Religion - Afterlife
Most Abrahamic religions agree that a human being comprises the body, which dies, and the soul, which need not do so. The soul, capable o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abrahamic Religion: Encyclopedia Ii - Abrahamic Religion - The Coming
Main article: Millennialism In the major Abrahamic religions, there exists the expectation of an individual who will herald the end of th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Apocalypse Of Abraham: Encyclopedia Ii - Apocalypse Of Abraham - Azazel
In the Apocalypse of Abraham, Azazel is portrayed as an unclean bird which came down upon the sacrifice which Abraham, the Biblical patri...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abrahamic Religion: Encyclopedia Ii - Abrahamic Religion - Overview
All the Abrahamic religions are derived to some extent from Judaism as practiced in ancient kingdoms of Israel and Judah prior to the Bab...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abrahamic Religion: Encyclopedia Ii - Abrahamic Religion - Worship
Worship, ceremonies, and religion-related customs differ substantially between the various Abrahamic religions. Among the few similaritie...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abrahamic Religion: Encyclopedia Ii - Abrahamic Religion - Origins
The origins of Judaism and the ancestral Abrahamic religion are still obscure. The only source generally agreed by all to be canonical th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abrahamic Religion: Encyclopedia Ii - Abrahamic Religion - Inclusivity
Judaism teaches that one does not necessarily have to be Jewish to be righteous. Gentiles (non-Jews) can become righteous by following th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abrahamic Religion: Encyclopedia Ii - Abrahamic Religion - Evangelism
Christianity encourages proselytism — convincing others to convert to the religion; many Christian organizations send missionaries to n...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Book Of Abraham: Encyclopedia Ii - Book Of Abraham - Origin
The work is based on a set of Egyptian papyri that Joseph Smith obtained in July of 1835, which he describes as "A Translation of some An...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abrahamic Religion: Encyclopedia Ii - Abrahamic Religion - Patriarchs
There are six notable figures in the Bible prior to Abraham: Adam and Eve, their two sons Cain and Abel, Enoch, and his great-grandson, N...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abraham Lincoln: Encyclopedia Ii - Abraham Lincoln - Reconstruction
The reconstruction of the Union weighed heavy on the President's mind throughout the war effort. He was determined to take a course that ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abraham Lincoln: Encyclopedia Ii - Abraham Lincoln - Homefront
Lincoln was more successful in giving the war meaning to Northern civilians through his oratorical skills. Despite his meager education a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abraham Lincoln: Encyclopedia Ii - Abraham Lincoln - Assassination
Lincoln had met frequently with Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant as the war drew to a close. The two men planned matters of reconstruction, and ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abraham Zacuto: Encyclopedia Ii - Abraham Zacuto - Life
Zacuto was born in Salamanca, Spain circa 1450. He studied astronomy at the University of Salamanca and taught there as well. He later wa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abraham Flexner: Encyclopedia Ii - Abraham Flexner - Biography
He was born in Louisville, Kentucky, and graduated at Johns Hopkins University. Initially, he worked as a secondary school teacher and sc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abraham Simpson: Encyclopedia Ii - Abraham Simpson - Family
Abraham Simpson is estranged husband to Mona Simpson, father to Homer Jay Simpson and Herbert Powell, father-in-law to Marjorie Bouvier S...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abraham Goldfaden: Encyclopedia Ii - Abraham Goldfaden - Works
Abraham Goldfaden - Plays. Sources disagree about the dates (and even the names) of some of Goldfaden's plays. As usual in transcribing...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abraham Goldfaden: Encyclopedia Ii - Abraham Goldfaden - Lvov
Lvov was not exactly a dramatist's dream. Leon Dreykurs described audiences bringing meals into the theater, rustling paper, treating the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abraham Goldfaden: Encyclopedia Ii - Abraham Goldfaden - Bucharest
As in Iaşi, Goldfaden arrived in Bucharest with his reputation already established. He and his players performed first in the early spri...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abraham Goldfaden: Encyclopedia Ii - Abraham Goldfaden - Russia
Goldfaden's father wrote him to solicit the troupe to come to Odessa in Ukraine, which was then part of Imperial Russia. The timing was o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abraham Simpson: Encyclopedia Ii - Abraham Simpson - Adulthood
There is evidence that Abe was not a kind or caring father to Homer (as he told Homer on his first day of school: "Homer, you're dumb as ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abraham Lincoln: Encyclopedia Ii - Abraham Lincoln - Marriage
On November 4, 1842, at the age of 33, Lincoln married Mary Todd. The couple had four sons. Robert Todd Lincoln: b. August 1, 1843, in S...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abrahamic Religion: Encyclopedia Ii - Abrahamic Religion - The Supreme Deity
Judaism and Islam visualize God in strictly monotheistic terms as one being; Christianity believes likewise but for many Christians, God ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abraham Zapruder: Encyclopedia Ii - Abraham Zapruder - Background
Abraham Zapruder was born into a Russian-Jewish family in the city of Kovel in Ukraine (then under the Russian Empire). He received only ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Battle Of The Plains Of Abraham: Encyclopedia Ii - Battle Of The Plains Of Abraham - Plains Of Abraham
Montcalm had 13,390 troops and militia available in Quebec City and Beauport a few kilometres away, as well as 200 cavalry, 200 artillery...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abraham Maslow: Encyclopedia Ii - Abraham Maslow - Biography
Born in Brooklyn, New York, Maslow was the first of seven children of Jewish immigrants from Russia. His parents were uneducated, but the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abraham Maslow: Encyclopedia Ii - Abraham Maslow - Biography
Born in Brooklyn, New York, Maslow was the first of seven children of Jewish immigrants from Russia. His parents were uneducated, but the...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Book Of Abraham: New Age Spirituality Dictionary On Book Of Abraham
Book of Abraham, The In 1835, Joseph Smith acquired a collection of papyrus fragments from a traveling Egyptian show. He claimed to b...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abraham Lincoln: Encyclopedia Ii - Abraham Lincoln - Election Of 1860
Lincoln was chosen as the Republican presidential candidate for the 1860 election for several reasons: because his views on slavery were ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abraham Lincoln: Encyclopedia Ii - Abraham Lincoln - Illinois Politics
In 1846 Lincoln was elected to one term in the House of Representatives as a member of the United States Whig Party. A staunch Whig, Linc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abraham Lincoln: Encyclopedia Ii - Abraham Lincoln - Prairie Lawyer
By the mid-1850s, Lincoln had competing transportation interests — both the river barges and the railroads. In 1849, he received a pate...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Book Of Abraham: Encyclopedia Ii - Book Of Abraham - Analysis And Criticism
Upon their rediscovery in 1967, the church asked Mormon scholar, Hugh Nibley to study them. He immediately identified the portions of the...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Abraham Lincoln: American History Dictionary - Abraham Lincoln
Definition and meaning of Abraham Lincoln:   Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln was a one-term congressman from Illinois during the Mex...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abraham Lincoln: Encyclopedia Ii - Abraham Lincoln - Emancipation Proclamation
Congess in July 1862 moved to free the slaves by passing the Second Confiscation Act. It provided: That if any person shall hereafter inc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abraham Baldwin: Encyclopedia Ii - Abraham Baldwin - Early Life
Abraham was born at Guilford, Connecticut. He was the second son of a blacksmith who fathered 12 children by two wives. Besides Abraham, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abraham Simpson: Encyclopedia Ii - Abraham Simpson - Early Life
Abraham J. Simpson, perenially known as 'Grampa' Simpson, was born in the Old Country and moved to United States while he was young. Base...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abraham Goldfaden: Encyclopedia Ii - Abraham Goldfaden - The Prophet Adrift
While Yiddish theater continued successfully in various places, Goldfaden was not on the best terms at this time with Mogulescu. They had...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abraham Goldfaden: Encyclopedia Ii - Abraham Goldfaden - New York
In America, he again tried his hand at journalism, but a brief stint as editor of the New Yorker Yiddishe Ilustrirte Zaitung resulted onl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Book Of Abraham: Encyclopedia Ii - Book Of Abraham - The Papyrus Scrolls
The papyri were thought to have been completely destroyed in a fire in Chicago in 1871. However, eleven fragments of the scroll Joseph Sm...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abraham Goldfaden: Encyclopedia Ii - Abraham Goldfaden - The Search For A Theater
As the season for outdoor performances was coming to a close, Goldfaden tried and failed to rent an appropriate theater in Iaşi. A theat...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abraham Goldfaden: Encyclopedia Ii - Abraham Goldfaden - Back To Bucharest
Buoyed by his success in Lvov, he returned to Bucharest in 1892, as director of the Jigniţa theater. His new company again included Laz�...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abrahamic Mythology: Encyclopedia Ii - Abrahamic Mythology - Secular Views
Although not all agree on the reliability of Old Testament accounts of Abraham, most scholars who use the term "Abrahamic Mythology" beli...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abraham Goldfaden: Encyclopedia Ii - Abraham Goldfaden - Iaşi
Arriving in Iaşi in 1876, Goldfaden was fortunate to be better known as a good poet — many of whose poems had been set to music and ha...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abraham Goldfaden: Encyclopedia Ii - Abraham Goldfaden - A Turn To The Serious
While light comedy and satire might have established Yiddish theater as a commercially successful medium, it would never have established...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abraham Lincoln: Encyclopedia Ii - Abraham Lincoln - Early Life
Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809, in a one-room log cabin on a 348 acre (1.4 km²) Sinking Spring Farm in the Southeast part...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abraham Lincoln: Encyclopedia Ii - Abraham Lincoln - Legacy And Memorials
Lincoln's death made the President a martyr to many. Today he is perhaps America's second most famous and beloved President after George ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - John Abraham Actor: Encyclopedia Ii - John Abraham Actor - Biography
John was born in Mumbai on December 17, 1973. His father is a Malayalee Christian architect, born in Aluva, Kerala, while his mother is P...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abraham Lincoln: Encyclopedia Ii - Abraham Lincoln - Early Career
Lincoln began his political career in 1832 at the age of 23 with a campaign for the Illinois General Assembly as a member of the Whig Par...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abraham Joshua Heschel: Encyclopedia Ii - Abraham Joshua Heschel - Works
Abraham Joshua Heschel - The Prophets. This work started out as his Ph.D. thesis in German, which he later expanded and translated into...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abraham Joshua Heschel: Encyclopedia Ii - Abraham Joshua Heschel - Quotes
"Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge." "A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abraham Baldwin: Encyclopedia Ii - Abraham Baldwin - Continental Congress
After Baldwin turned down a prestigious teaching position as professor of divinity at Yale, Georgia governor Lyman Hall persuaded him to ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Battle Of The Plains Of Abraham: Encyclopedia Ii - Battle Of The Plains Of Abraham - Aftermath
Both sides suffered almost the same number of casualties: 658 British and 644 French. After defeating Montcalm outside the city, the Brit...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abraham Baldwin: Encyclopedia Ii - Abraham Baldwin - Later Life
By 1790 Baldwin had taken up residence in Augusta. Beginning in the preceding decade, he had begun efforts to advance the educational sys...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abraham Isaac Kook: Encyclopedia Ii - Abraham Isaac Kook - Legacy
Abraham Isaac Kook - Relationship with Religious Zionism. Ironically, while Rav Kook has been exalted as one of the most important thin...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abraham Isaac Kook: Encyclopedia Ii - Abraham Isaac Kook - Biography
Abraham Isaac Kook was born in Griva, Latvia (a suburb of Daugavpils, then Imperial Russia) in 1865. His father was a student of the Volo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nikolaj Abraham Abildgaard: Encyclopedia Ii - Nikolaj Abraham Abildgaard - Life
Nikolaj Abraham Abildgaard - Training as an artist. He received training under a painting master before coming to study at the new Roya...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abraham Kovoor's Challenge: Encyclopedia Ii - Abraham Kovoor's Challenge - The Challenge
Godmen, saints, yogis, and siddhas who claim that they acquired miraculous powers through spiritual exercises and divine boons win this a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abraham Lincoln On Slavery: Encyclopedia Ii - Abraham Lincoln On Slavery - Overview
Many of Lincoln's anti-slavery sentiments were shown in the seven Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858 between Linclon and Stephen Douglas, hi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abraham Van Helsing: Encyclopedia Ii - Abraham Van Helsing - In Dracula
In the novel, Van Helsing is called in by his former student, Dr. Seward, to assist with the mysterious illness of Lucy Westenra. It is V...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abraham Lincoln On Slavery: Encyclopedia Ii - Abraham Lincoln On Slavery - On Emancipation
At the beginning of the war, Lincoln prohibited his generals from freeing slaves even in captured territories. On August 30, 1861, Major ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abraham: Encyclopedia Ii - Abraham - Abraham In Christianity
Abraham stands out prominently as the recipient of the promises (Gen. 12:2-7, 13:14-17, 15, 17, 18:17-19, 22:17-18, 24:7). In the New Tes...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abraham: Encyclopedia Ii - Abraham - Abraham And His Descendants Biblical Perspective
For a full account of the historicity of Abrahamic stories in the book of Genesis, see Historicity of the Patriarchs. Biblical narratives...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abraham: Encyclopedia Ii - Abraham - Modern Historical Criticism
Writers have regarded the life of Abraham in various ways. He has been viewed as a chieftain of the Amorites, as the head of a great Semi...   » Read the article