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2. Parable of the Ten Virgins - Wikipedia

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   The Parable of the Ten Virgins, also known as the Parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins or the Parable of the ten bridesmaids, is one of the parables of Jesus. According to Matthew 25:1–13, ten virgins await a bridegroom; five have brought enough oil for their lamps for the wait, while the oil of the other five runs out.

3. Miracle of the cruse of oil - Wikipedia

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   The Torah discusses the lighting of the Temple menorah in a number of verses. Leviticus 24:2 specifies that pure olive oil must be used to light the menorah. While Exodus 25:37 and Numbers 8:2–3 speak of seven lights being lit, Exodus 27:20–21 and Leviticus 24:2 specifies that a single "light" must be lit "continually", and must burn "from evening to morning".

4. Oil lamp - Wikipedia

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   A textile wick drops down into the oil, and is lit at the end, burning the oil as it is drawn up the wick. Oil lamps are a form of lighting, and were used as an alternative to candles before the use of electric lights. Starting in 1780, the Argand lamp quickly replaced other oil lamps still in their basic ancient form.

5. Early Christian lamps - Wikipedia

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   Early Christian lamps. (Redirected from Early Christian Lamps) Evangelist Luke writing under an oil lamp (Byzantine illumination, 10th century). In Early Christianity lamps, fire and light are conceived as symbols, if not as visible manifestations, of the divine nature and the divine presence. In the Christian world view Christ is the true ...

6. Bayt Nattif - Wikipedia

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   The "Beit Nattif lamp" [65] is a type of ceramic oil lamp that was first discovered as a result of the excavation of two cisterns in 1934. [ 66 ] [ 17 ] Based on the discovery of unused oil lamps and stone-made casting moulds, it is believed that during the late Roman and Byzantine periods the village manufactured pottery, possibly selling its ...

7. Museum of Biblical Art (New York City) - Wikipedia

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   The Museum of Biblical Art (MOBIA) was a museum in Manhattan, New York City, that closed in 2015. MOBIA was a non-collecting institution dedicated to exploration of the Bible 's legacy in Jewish and Christian art. Started in 1997 as an art gallery at the American Bible Society building in New York City, the museum became an independent entity ...