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Hephziba – Wife of King Hezekiah and mother of Manasseh, who undid Hezekiah's good works. II Kings [66] Herodia – Granddaughter of Herod the great, married her uncle Philip, divorced him to marry Philip's half brother Herod Antipas, mother of Salome. "Matthew" [67] Hodesh – one of the wives of Shaharaim I Chronicles [68]
The patriarchs of the Bible, when narrowly defined, are Abraham, his son Isaac, and Isaac's son Jacob, also named Israel, the ancestor of the Israelites.These three figures are referred to collectively as the patriarchs, and the period in which they lived is known as the patriarchal age.
[5]: 10, 40 Most other codes of law date from the second millennium BCE including the famous Babylonian Laws of Hammurabi which dates to about 1750 BCE. [5]: 53 Ancient laws favored men, protecting the procreative rights of men as a common value in all the laws pertaining to women and sex. [21]: 14
[3] Nala's violation of dharma, however, allows the poet to portray Damayanti as the embodiment of the blameless wife who remains faithful to her husband even when he treats her unjustly. [4] A very similar constellation can be found in the second great Indian epic, the Ramayana : here Sita , the wife of the hero Rama , is the epitome of the ...
Gomer (Hebrew: גומר, romanized: Gōmer) was the wife of the prophet Hosea (8th century BC), mentioned in the Hebrew Bible's Book of Hosea . English translations of Hosea 1:2 refer to her alternatively as a "promiscuous woman" , a "harlot" , and a "whore" but Hosea is told to marry her according to Divine appointment. She is also described ...
Hasanaginica, "The Mourning Song of the Noble Wife of the Hasan Aga" is a ballad about the Muslim family Arapović in Dalmatia. [2] The incidents take place along the Eyalet of Bosnia 's frontier in Vrdol (today Zagvozd ), near the Biokovo mountains of Dalmatia, where the lord ( Turkish : ağa ) Hasan Arapović had large estates.
John Rist identifies this as "the most pathetic passage." [58] By 429, Augustine quotes 1 Corinthians 1:18 adding "such" to 1 Tim. 2:4, redefines all to mean as "all those elected," and implies an irresistible calling. Hwang noted, Then the radical shift occurred, brought about by the open and heated conflict with the Pelagians.
Sebile, alternatively written as Sedile, Sebille, Sibilla, Sibyl, Sybilla, and other similar names, is a mythical medieval queen or princess who is frequently portrayed as a fairy or an enchantress in the Arthurian legend and Italian folklore.