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John of Damascus or John Damascene, born Yūḥana ibn Manṣūr ibn Sarjūn, [a] was an Assyrian Christian monk, priest, hymnographer, and apologist.He was born and raised in Damascus c. AD 675 or AD 676; the precise date and place of his death is not known, though tradition places it at his monastery, Mar Saba, near Jerusalem, on 4 December AD 749. [5]
John of Damascus or John Damascene, born Yūḥana ibn Manṣūr ibn Sarjūn, was an Arab Christian monk, priest, hymnographer, and apologist.He was born and raised in Damascus c. AD 675 or AD 676; the precise date and place of his death is not known, though tradition places it at his monastery, Mar Saba, near Jerusalem, on 4 December AD 749.
4Q510–511, also given the title Songs of the Sage or Songs of the Maskil (שירי משכיל "instructor"), [1] is a fragmentary Hebrew-language manuscript of a Jewish magical text of incantation and exorcism in the Dead Sea Scrolls, [2] specifically for protection against a list of demons. [3]
The subject of the text is eschatological [5] and makes a connection with the healing ministry of the Messiah. [6] 4Q521 may be related to other apocalyptic end-time texts, 4QSecond Ezekiel [7] 4QApocryphon of Daniel, [8] and has been studied in relation to the Gospel of Luke's Messianic Magnificat and Benedictus; especially striking is the comparison with Luke 7:22 about raising the dead.
John of Damascus (Иоанн Дамаскин) is a poem by Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, first published in the January, No.1, 1859 issue of Russkaya Beseda magazine. Fragments of the poem have been put to music by several composers, among them Pyotr Tchaikovsky , Sergei Taneyev and Vasily Kalinnikov .
4Q246, also known as the Son of God Text or the Aramaic Apocalypse, is one of the Dead Sea Scrolls found at Qumran which is notable for an early messianic mention of a son of God. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The text is an Aramaic language fragment first acquired in 1958 from cave 4 at Qumran, and the major debate on this fragment has been on the identity of ...
The doctrine of providence in Eastern Orthodoxy is set out by St. John of Tobolsk: [8] St. John Damascene describes it thus: "Providence is Divine will which maintains everything and wisely rules over everything" .... It was not by chance that the iniquitous Israeli King Ahab was struck by an arrow that flew in between the seams of his armor.
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