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  2. Eikon Basilike - Wikipedia

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    The famous triple portrait of Charles I by Van Dyck. Bernini, seeing this picture, called it "the portrait of a doomed man".. Written in a simple, moving and straightforward style in the form of a diary, the book combines irenic prayers urging the forgiveness of Charles's executioners with a justification of royalism and the King's political and military programme that led to the Civil War.

  3. Holiness code - Wikipedia

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    The term Holiness Code was first coined as the Heiligkeitsgesetz (literally "Holiness Law"; the word 'code' therefore means criminal code) by German theologian August Klostermann in 1877. [3] Critical biblical scholars have regarded it as a distinct unit and have noted that the style is noticeably different from the main body of Leviticus. [ 4 ]

  4. The Law is for All - Wikipedia

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    The Law is for All: An Extended Commentary on The Book of the Law. Llewellyn Publications. ISBN 978-0-87542-114-8. Regardie, Israel, ed. (1985). The Law is for All: An Extended Commentary on The Book of the Law. Falcon Press. ISBN 0-941404-25-0. Regardie, Israel, ed. (1991). The Law is for All: An Extended Commentary on The Book of the Law ...

  5. Ethics in the Bible - Wikipedia

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    According to traditional Jewish enumeration, the Hebrew Bible is composed of 24 books which came into being over a span of almost a millennium. [1]: 17 The Bible's earliest texts reflect a Late Bronze Age civilization of the Ancient Near East, while its last text, usually thought to be the Book of Daniel, comes from a second century BCE Hellenistic period.

  6. Moloch - Wikipedia

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    Artist's view of a sacrifice to Moloch in Bible Pictures with brief descriptions by Charles Foster, 1897. Before 1935, all scholars held that Moloch was a pagan deity, [3] to whom child sacrifice was offered at the Jerusalem tophet. [4] Some modern scholars have proposed that Moloch may be the same god as Milcom, Adad-Milki, or an epithet for ...

  7. Leviticus 18 - Wikipedia

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    The Bible lists several types of relationship which it regards as incestuous unions; one list appears in the Deuteronomic Code, and two lists occur in the Holiness Code of Leviticus. These lists only mention relationships with female relatives; excluding lesbianism , which implies that the list is addressed to men.

  8. Thompson Chain-Reference Bible - Wikipedia

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    Outline studies of the Bible "including a study of the Bible as a whole by periods and by books" Analyses of the books of the Bible giving the origin of the name of the book, the author or authors, key words, a synopsis or analysis, and so on; Character studies including

  9. Bible - Wikipedia

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    The Book of Genesis in a c. 1300 Hebrew Bible The Great Isaiah Scroll (1QIsa a), one of the Dead Sea Scrolls, is the oldest complete copy of the Book of Isaiah. The Bible is not a single book; it is a collection of books whose complex development is not completely understood.