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The shrine houses the Isaiah scroll, dating from the second century BCE, the most intact of the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the Aleppo Codex, dating from the 10th century CE, the oldest existing Hebrew Bible. [4] A facsimile of the original Isaiah scroll is now on display in the Shrine of the Book.
Adolfo Daniel Roitman (born June 13, 1957) is an archaeologist and expert in comparative religions of Argentinian and Israeli descent. Since 1994, he has been the curator of the Dead Sea Scrolls collection and the director of the Shrine of the Book at the Israel Museum, where he promoted the platform that displays the scrolls online for the world.
Pakistan has a number of shrines that have become places of pilgrimage.They include mausolea and shrines of political leaders (of both pre-independence and post-independence Pakistan), shrines of religious leaders and pirs (saints) and shrines of leaders of various Islamic empires and dynasties.
Shrine is a 1983 horror novel by English writer James Herbert, exploring themes of religious ecstasy, mass hysteria, demonic possession, faith healing and Catholicism. Plot [ edit ]
Shrine of Jahangasht His descendants use the surname Naqvi Bukhari , and belong to the Naurang Jahania family Some of them migrated to Jalalpur Pirwala , Depalpur , Karmanwala and Tando Jahania in Sindh creating a sizeable community, whilst others migrated to many other places within the subcontinent.
"The Book of Roger" in Latin), is an atlas commissioned by the Norman King Roger II in 1138 and completed by the Arab geographer Muhammad al-Idrisi in 1154. The atlas compiles 70 maps of the known world with associated descriptions and commentary of each specific location by Al-Idrisi. [1] [2] [3] [4]
Chakra Padithurai is a famous ghat in Kumbakonam parallel to the shrine of the temple situated across the river Cauvery. Neivethanam (sacred offering) performed every day for the deity is dependent on the smoke emanating from the burning of corpses from the ghat. It is pertinent to an ideology that God performs the chakra (cycle) of life and ...
The image of Our Lady of the Rosary has been the object of Filipino devotion that dates back to the 16th century, and the icon's shrine in Quezon City is host to an annual feast that culminates in a procession that draws tens of thousands of devotees. [12] Opposite in the left, a side altar dedicated to Saint Martín de Porres. [3] [4] [5]