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As "support and reassurance" it was "sent by God into the hearts" of Muslims and Muhammad, according to John Esposito. [44] A modern translator of the Quran , N. J. Dawood , states that "tranquility" is the English word for the Arabic meaning of sakīnah , yet it could be "an echo of the Hebrew shekeenah (the Holy Presence)."
Jack Miles agrees that the events at Mount Sinai bear a resemblance to a volcanic eruption; he also suggests that the subsequent descent of the cloud into the Tabernacle is intended to emphasise the personal relationship between God and the Israelites, through "the extraordinary image of a volcano brought into a tent." [28]
The Descent from Mount Sinai is a fresco by the Italian Renaissance painter Cosimo Rosselli and his assistants, executed in 1481–1482 and located in the Sistine Chapel, Rome. It depicts the prophet Moses in the process of receiving and introducing the Ten Commandments .
This is in contrast to the Torah, which represents Moses as the greatest of all prophets, to whom the Lord made Himself known face to face (Deut. xxxiv. 10; comp. Num. xii. 7), and who, when descending Mount Sinai, had a beam of light coming off his face which so filled the people with awe that they could not look at him (Ex. xxxiv. 29); but ...
It is ranked first among all Honor Roll hospitals in the 2023-24 U.S. News & World Report survey of best children's hospitals. [10] Cincinnati Children's receives the second-most NIH funds of any pediatric institution in the United States [11] and the pediatric residency training program at Cincinnati Children's is among the largest in the ...
The Heavenly Ladder was also adapted as an icon for the Arabic-speaking Christian community, likely at Saint Catherine's monastery on Mount Sinai. [5] John Climacus leads his people through text on the left side of the page to show the Greek tradition, as contradistinct from the Arabic tradition, which would be read right-to-left instead; too ...
Christ Hospital was the only Cincinnati hospital to make the list, and it tied for fifth place with Cleveland Clinic's Akron General. Cleveland Clinic (No. 1 in the state). Ohio State University ...
According to the biblical narrative, the first set of tablets, inscribed by the finger of God, (Exodus 31:18) were smashed by Moses when he was enraged by the sight of the Children of Israel worshiping a golden calf (Exodus 32:19) and the second were later chiseled out by Moses and rewritten by God (Exodus 34:1).