enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Whore of Babylon - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whore_of_Babylon

    And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. 6: And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration. 9: And here is the mind which hath wisdom.

  3. List of prostitutes and courtesans - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_prostitutes_and...

    Naamah (Hebrews) - an angel of prostitution, one of the succubus mates of the demon Samael in Zoharistic Qabalah; Rahab, Biblical prostitute who assisted the Hebrews in capturing Jericho (Joshua 2:1–7) Shamhat (Sumer/Babylon) [6] Xochiquetzal (Aztecs) - the goddess of prostitutes, pregnant women, and dancing

  4. Rahab - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rahab

    Rahab (center) in James Tissot's The Harlot of Jericho and the Two Spies.Rahab (/ ˈ r eɪ h æ b /; [1] Hebrew: רָחָב, Modern: Raẖav, Tiberian: Rāḥāḇ, "broad", "large", Arabic: رحاب, a vast space of a land) was, according to the Book of Joshua, a Gentile and a Canaanite woman who resided within Jericho in the Promised Land and assisted the Israelites by hiding two men who had ...

  5. Mary Magdalene - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Magdalene

    The notion of Mary Magdalene specifically being a former prostitute or loose woman dates to a narrative in an influential homily by Pope Gregory I ("Gregory the Great") in around 591, [144] [158] [155] in which he not only identifies Magdalene with the anonymous sinner with the perfume in Luke's gospel and with Mary of Bethany, the sister of ...

  6. Asherah - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asherah

    The Hebrew Bible frequently and graphically associates goddess worship with prostitution ("whoredom") in material written after the reforms of Josiah. Jeremiah , and Ezekiel blame the goddess religion for making Yahweh "jealous", and cite his jealousy as the reason Yahweh allowed the destruction of Jerusalem.

  7. Mary of Bethany - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_of_Bethany

    French scholar Victor Saxer dates the identification of Mary Magdalene as a prostitute, and as Mary of Bethany, to a sermon by Pope Gregory the Great on 21 September 591 A.D., where he seemed to combine the actions of three women mentioned in the New Testament and also identified an unnamed woman as Mary Magdalene.

  8. 'Mary': How to stream, what biblical experts think about ...

    www.aol.com/mary-stream-biblical-experts-think...

    "Mary" tells the story of the Virgin Mary from childhood through the birth of Jesus. Some biblical experts think the film strays from the truth.

  9. Gomer (wife of Hosea) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gomer_(wife_of_Hosea)

    It is explained to her that "In the Bible, Gomer is a wicked promiscuous woman", and that to Mr Kalman, "any woman in a mini skirt would be". The 2012 film Amazing Love is a retelling of the Book of Hosea and features Gomer prominently as one of the central characters.