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The Lebanese Greek Orthodox constitute 8% of the total population of Lebanon and the Melkite Catholic Christians are believed to constitute about 5% of the total population of Lebanon. [47] Share of Orthodox population in Lebanon by district. The Lebanese Orthodox may be understood as being part of the Antiochian Greek Christian community.
Christian Greek and Armenian refugee children in Athens in 1923, following the population exchange between Turkey and Greece. The phenomenon of large-scale migration of Christians is the main reason why Christians' share of the population has been declining in many countries.
Philistine territory along with neighboring states; such as the separate kingdoms of Judah and Israel, in the 9th century BC. The Philistines (Hebrew: פְּלִשְׁתִּים, romanized: Pəlištīm; LXX: Koinē Greek: Φυλιστιείμ, romanized: Phulistieím; Latin: Philistaei) were an ancient people who lived on the south coast of Canaan during the Iron Age in a confederation of city ...
Enos, son of Seth is mentioned both in the Bible, and in distinctive Latter Day Saint texts. [8] The Doctrine and Covenants teaches that Enos was ordained to the priesthood at age 134. [ 9 ] When Adam called his posterity into the land of Adam-ondi-Ahman to give them a final blessing, Enos was one of the righteous high priests in attendance. [ 10 ]
These are biblical figures unambiguously identified in contemporary sources according to scholarly consensus.Biblical figures that are identified in artifacts of questionable authenticity, for example the Jehoash Inscription and the bullae of Baruch ben Neriah, or who are mentioned in ancient but non-contemporary documents, such as David and Balaam, [n 1] are excluded from this list.
The world as known to the Hebrews. Javan (Hebrew: יָוָן, romanized: Yāwān) was the fourth son of Noah's son Japheth according to the "Generations of Noah" (Book of Genesis, chapter 10) in the Hebrew Bible. Josephus states the traditional belief that this individual was the ancestor of the Greeks.
The Bible was not meant, he held, to reside in some remote and ornate sanctum sanctorum but in the homes and hands and on the lips of every person, just as schoolchildren today might memorize the ...
Its Greek meaning is often applied to mean "one of a kind, one and only". [2] Monogenēs may be used as an adjective. For example, monogenēs pais means only child, only legitimate child or special child. [3] Monogenēs may also be used on its own as a noun. For example, o monogenēs means "the only one", or "the only legitimate child". [4]