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While most English translations of the Bible render the Greek word zelotes in Acts 22:3 and Galatians 1:13-14 and Philippians 3:5-6 of the New Testament as the adjective "zealous", an article by Mark R. Fairchild [14] takes it to mean a Zealot and suggests that Paul the Apostle may have been a Zealot, which might have been the driving force ...
The only source for the history of the Sicarii is Josephus. Victims of the Sicarii are said by Josephus to have included the High Priest Jonathan, and 700 Jewish women and children at Ein Gedi. [3] [4] A relationship between the Zealots and the Sicarii is often stated, but is unclear from the original sources. [5]
Removing “zealous representation” is the wrong solution to the incivility of some lawyers. If some lawyers are uncivil to their counterpart, they should not be able to justify their uncivil ...
Religious fanaticism or religious extremism is a pejorative designation used to indicate uncritical zeal or obsessive enthusiasm that is related to one's own, or one's group's, devotion to a religion – a form of human fanaticism that could otherwise be expressed in one's other involvements and participation, including employment, role, and partisan affinities.
The term Zealot, in Hebrew kanai, means one who is zealous on behalf of God. [4] [5] The most extremist groups of Zealots were called Sicarii. [3] Sicarii used violent stealth tactics against Romans. Under their cloaks they concealed sicae, small daggers, from which they received their name.
No longer in charge, Sen. Mitch McConnell has been speaking his mind, the long-serving GOP leader rejecting President Donald Trump’s more high-profile Cabinet nominees — alone at times, among ...
(The Center Square) — A New York Republican county executive is being sued over a move to deputize citizens for law-enforcement efforts, with Democrats arguing that it amounts to an "illegal ...
"No taxation without representation" was their slogan, referring to the lack of representation in the British Parliament. The British countered that there was "virtual representation" in the sense that all members of Parliament represented the interests of all the citizens of the British Empire.