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A carpet page from the Lindisfarne Gospels. A carpet page is a full page in an illuminated manuscript containing intricate, non-figurative, patterned designs. [1] They are a characteristic feature of Insular manuscripts, and typically placed at the beginning of a Gospel Book.
An Israeli etrog, with pitam and gartel (ridge around the center). Etrog (Hebrew: אֶתְרוֹג, plural: etrogim; Ashkenazi Hebrew: esrog, plural: esrogim) is the yellow citron (Citrus medica) used by Jews during the weeklong holiday of Sukkot as one of the four species.
The mitzvah of waving the four species derives from the Torah. Leviticus 23:40 states: . And you shall take on the first day the fruit of splendid trees, branches of palm trees and boughs of leafy trees and willows of the brook, and you shall rejoice before the L ORD your God for seven days.
Four Species, with the lulav longest in the middle.. Lulav (; Hebrew: לוּלָב ) is a closed frond of the date palm tree. It is one of the Four Species used during the Jewish holiday of Sukkot.
In Judaism, bible hermeneutics notably uses midrash, a Jewish method of interpreting the Hebrew Bible and the rules which structure the Jewish laws. [1] The early allegorizing trait in the interpretation of the Hebrew Bible figures prominently in the massive oeuvre of a prominent Hellenized Jew of Alexandria, Philo Judaeus, whose allegorical reading of the Septuagint synthesized the ...
The meth-soaked rug was mailed to a Georgia man who now faces up to life in prison and a $10 million fine, according to federal prosecutors. ‘Bible gift’ at Atlanta airport was actually a meth ...
Tropological reading or "moral sense" is a Christian tradition, theory, and practice of interpreting the figurative meaning of the Bible. It is part of biblical exegesis and one of the Four senses of Scripture .
Don Lemon invites readers to question their own faith in his new book, "I Once Was Lost."