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  2. Early Christian inscriptions - Wikipedia

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    The monotheism of the worshippers of the Word — or Cultores Verbi, as the early Christians liked to style themselves — and their belief in Christ are well expressed even in the early inscriptions. Very ancient inscriptions emphasize the most profound of Catholic dogmas, the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist.

  3. List of inscriptions in biblical archaeology - Wikipedia

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    The Inscription of King Mesha: 320–321: The Moabite Stone: Siloam inscription: 2.28: The Siloam Tunnel Inscription: 321: The Siloam Inscription: Yehimilk inscription: 2.29: The Inscription of King Yahimilk: 653–654: Yehimilk of Byblos: Kilamuwa Stela: 2.30: The Kulamuwa Inscription: 654–655: Kilamuwa of Y'dy-Sam'al: Yehawmilk Stele: 2.32 ...

  4. Serabit el-Khadim proto-Sinaitic inscriptions - Wikipedia

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    The present article was begun with the limited purpose of making known the new inscriptions discovered by the Harvard-Catholic University Joint Expedition to Serabit in the spring of 1930. In the course of this study, I perceived that some signs doubtful in the inscriptions already published were made clear by the new slabs, and I decided to go ...

  5. Christianity in the ante-Nicene period - Wikipedia

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    For the early Christians, the Holy Kiss "was associated with the peace and unity given by the Holy Spirit to the congregation." [46] To guard against any abuse of this form of salutation, women and men were required to sit separately, and the kiss of peace was given only by women to women and by men to men, with closed mouths. [46]

  6. Titulus (inscription) - Wikipedia

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    See also Titulus (Roman Catholic) for Roman churches called tituli, or titulus (disambiguation) for more meanings. Titulus (Latin "inscription" or "label", the plural tituli is also used in English) is a term used for the labels or captions naming figures or subjects in art, which were commonly added in classical and medieval art, and remain ...

  7. Inscription of Abercius - Wikipedia

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    The middle part of the inscription describes Abercius' journeys to Rome, Syria and Mesopotamia. The metaphors included in this sentences are not yet fully understood. Whether the "queen golden-robed and golden-sandalled" is a member of the Roman imperial family, refers to the city of Rome itself as the "queen of the world" or is to be ...

  8. Kalos inscription - Wikipedia

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    The word kalos (καλός), meaning 'handsome' or 'beautiful', was often accompanied by the name of a certain man, or sometimes simply by the word pais (παῖς), meaning the 'boy' or 'youth', without naming a particular person. The female version was kalē (καλή). The kalos inscriptions typically had an erotic connotation. [2]

  9. Christogram - Wikipedia

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    In antiquity, the cross, i.e. the instrument of Christ's crucifixion (crux, stauros), was taken to be T-shaped, while the X-shape ("chiasmus") had different connotations.. There has been scholarly speculation on the development of the Christian cross, the letter Chi used to abbreviate the name of Christ, and the various pre-Christian symbolism associated with the chiasmus interpreted in terms ...