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Etching by Pietro del Po, The Canaanite (or Syrophoenician) woman asks Christ to cure, c. 1650.. The woman described in the miracle, the Syrophoenician woman (Mark 7:26; [8] Συροφοινίκισσα, Syrophoinikissa) is also called a "Canaanite" (Matthew 15:22; [9] Χαναναία, Chananaia) and is an unidentified New Testament woman from the region of Tyre and Sidon.
In Eastern Christian tradition, the woman's name at the time of her meeting Jesus is unknown, though she was later baptized "Photine". She is celebrated as a saint of renown. As further recounted in John 4:28–30 and John 4:39–42 , she was quick to spread the news of her meeting with Jesus, and through this many came to believe in him.
The name Phoenicia is an ancient Greek exonym that did not correspond precisely to a cohesive culture or society as it would have been understood natively. [8] [9] Therefore, the division between Canaanites and Phoenicians around 1200 BC is regarded as a modern and artificial construct. [7] [10]
The name Phoenician is by convention given to inscriptions beginning around 1050 BC, because Phoenician, Hebrew, and other Canaanite dialects were largely indistinguishable before that time. [27] [47] The so-called Ahiram epitaph, engraved on the sarcophagus of King Ahiram from about 1000 BC, shows a fully developed Phoenician script. [48] [49 ...
The interest in Phoenician history during this period was not confined to Christian communities but was evident across various ethnic and religious group in the region of Syria. This fascination was part of a larger trend to establish a secular identity based on culture, history and geography, with Phoenician history providing a unifying and ...
The connections of Baal Hammon and Tanit to the Phoenician pantheon are debated: Tanit may have a Libyan origin, [12] but some scholars connect her to the Phoenician goddesses Anat, Astarte or Asherah; Baal Hammon is sometimes connected to Melqart or El. [4] The gods Eshmun and Melqart also had their own temples in Carthage. [4]
Earlier this year a picture re-emerged that showed what Jesus might have looked like as a kid. Detectives took the Turin Shroud, believed to show Jesus' image, and created a photo-fit image from ...
Christianity in the ante-Nicene period continued the practice of female Christian headcovering (from the age of puberty onward), with early Christian apologist Tertullian referencing 1 Corinthians 11:2–10 and stating "So, too, did the Corinthians themselves understand [Paul]. In fact, at this day the Corinthians do veil their virgins.