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While a number of biblical place names like Jerusalem, Athens, Damascus, Alexandria, Babylon and Rome have been used for centuries, some have changed over the years. Many place names in the Land of Israel, Holy Land and Palestine are Arabised forms of ancient Hebrew and Canaanite place-names used during biblical times [1] [2] [3] or later Aramaic or Greek formations.
In Iran (Persia), Christianity dates back to the early years of the religion during the time of Jesus.Through this time the Christian faith has always been followed by a minority of the population of Iran under its different state religions: Zoroastrianism in ancient Persia, followed by Persian Shi'ism in the Middle Ages.
The Lotus flower is the symbol of goddess Anahita. Anahita: goddess and appears in complete and earlier form as Aredvi Sura Anahita, associated with fertility, healing and wisdom. There is also a temple named Anahita in Iran. The symbol of goddess Anahita is the Lotus flower. Lotus Festival (Persian: Jashn-e Nilupar) is an Iranian festival that ...
The three gifts had a spiritual meaning: gold as a symbol of kingship on earth, frankincense (an incense) as a symbol of deity, and myrrh (an embalming oil) as a symbol of death. *This dates back to Origen in Contra Celsum: "gold, as to a king; myrrh, as to one who was mortal; and incense, as to a God." [61]
The term Persian, meaning "from Persia", derives from Latin Persia, itself deriving from Greek Persís (Περσ委ς), [24] a Hellenized form of Old Persian P膩rsa (饜幈饜帬饜幖饜幙), which evolves into F膩rs in modern Persian. [25] In the Bible, particularly in the books of Daniel, Esther, Ezra, and Nehemya, it is given as P膩r膩s (驻指旨专指住).
According to the Book of Jubilees (10:35-36), Madai had married a daughter of Shem, and preferred to live among Shem's descendants, rather than dwell in his allotted inheritance beyond the Black Sea (seemingly corresponding to the British Isles), [3] so he begged his brothers-in-law, Elam, Asshur and Arphaxad, until he finally received from them the land that was named after him, Media.
There is an extensive Judeo-Persian poetic religious literature, closely modeled on classical Persian poetry. The most famous poet was Mowl膩n膩 Sh膩hin-i Shir膩zi (14th century CE), who composed epic versifications of parts of the Bible, such as the Mus膩-n膩mah (an epic poem recounting the story of Moses); later poets composed lyric poetry in style of Persian mysticism.
Karl Hoffmann has suggested a translation based on the meaning of an Indo-European-root "to humiliate" and accordingly "Cyrus" means "humiliator of the enemy in verbal contest". [2] In the Persian language and especially in Iran, Cyrus's name is spelled as 讴賵乇賵卮 [ku藧藞删o蕛]. In the Bible, he is known as Koresh (Hebrew: 讻讜专砖). [4]