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  2. Golem - Wikipedia

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    The 2004 book The Golem's Eye by Jonathan Stroud features a magically rendered golem as the main threat. David Brin's 2002 science fiction book, Kiln People, is based on the premise that people can make short-lived clay-based copies of themselves. The golems have the same motives and memories as the humans that made them.

  3. Metatron - Wikipedia

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    Numerous etymologies have been proposed to account for the name Metatron, but there is no consensus, and its precise origin is unknown. [15] [16]: 92–97 Some scholars, such as Philip Alexander, believe that if the name Metatron originated in Hekhalot literature and Merkabah texts such as 3 Enoch, then it may have been a magical word like Adiriron and Dapdapiron.

  4. Religion in Futurama - Wikipedia

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    Robotology is a play on the name Scientology, [2] and series creator Matt Groening has said that he received a call from the Church of Scientology concerned about the use of a similar name. [3] The symbol of Robotology is based on the electronic symbol for a resistor used in electrical circuit diagrams. [4]

  5. Names for Jewish and Christian holy books - Wikipedia

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    The Bible as used by Christianity consists of two parts: The Old Testament, largely the same as the Tanakh or Hebrew Bible. The New Testament. The four canonical Gospels. (Matthew, Mark, Luke, John) The Acts of the Apostles recounts the early history of the Christian movement. The Epistles are letters to the various early Christian communities.

  6. R. Daneel Olivaw - Wikipedia

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    The "R" initial in his name stands for "Robot," a naming convention in Asimov's future society during Earth's early period of space colonization. Daneel is introduced in The Caves of Steel, a serialized story published in Galaxy Science Fiction from October to December 1953. The full story was published by Doubleday as a hardcover book in 1954. [1]

  7. Bible - Wikipedia

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    The religious texts were compiled by different religious communities into various official collections. The earliest contained the first five books of the Bible, called the Torah in Hebrew and the Pentateuch (meaning five books) in Greek. The second-oldest part was a collection of narrative histories and prophecies (the Nevi'im).

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  9. Robots in literature - Wikipedia

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    Čapek's Robots are artificially manufactured from organic materials to labor for humans, and as the play progresses they revolt and overthrow their human creators. However, the play ends on an optimistic note: Robots' artificial biology causes a male and female Robot to fall in love, preserving the spirit of humanity as a result. R. U.