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In Mesopotamian cosmology, four rivers flowing out of the garden of creation, which is the center of the world, define the four corners of the world. [1] From the point of view of the Akkadians, the northern geographical horizon was marked by Subartu, the west by Mar.tu, the east by Elam and the south by Sumer; later rulers of all of Mesopotamia, such as Cyrus, claimed among their titles LUGAL ...
Revelation 7 is the seventh chapter of the Book of Revelation or the Apocalypse of John in the New Testament of the Christian Bible.The book is traditionally attributed to John the Apostle, [1] [2] but the precise identity of the author remains a point of academic debate. [3]
Two different models of the process of creation existed in ancient Israel. [15] In the "logos" (speech) model, God speaks and shapes unresisting dormant matter into effective existence and order (Psalm 33: "By the word of YHWH the heavens were made, and by the breath of his mouth all their hosts; he gathers up the waters like a mound, stores the Deep in vaults"); in the second, or "agon ...
In many communities, during Ahava rabbah, at the words "Bring us in peace from the four corners of the earth [to our land]", the four corners of the tzitzit are gathered in one's hand. They are held throughout the Shema and kissed four times during the third paragraph of the Shema and once during Emet Veyatziv (the paragraph following the Shema ...
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Hammurabi (standing), a Babylonian king that claimed to be the king who made the four corners of the Earth obedient. This depiction is the top part of the Code of Hammurabi, today housed in the Louvre, Paris. Kings of the Four Corners in the Akkadian Empire: Naram-Sin (r. 2254–2218 BC) [5] Kings of the Four Corners of the Gutian dynasty of Sumer:
All four living ex-presidents paid tribute to Jimmy Carter, the longest-living former commander-in-chief in U.S. history who died on Sunday. ‘A truly good man’: Trump, Obama, Bush and Clinton ...