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According to Josephus, Baruch was a Jewish aristocrat, a son of Neriah and brother of Seraiah ben Neriah, chamberlain of King Zedekiah of Judah. [2][3] Baruch became the scribe of the prophet Jeremiah and wrote down the first and second editions of his prophecies as they were dictated to him. [4] Baruch remained true to the teachings and ideals ...
Signature. Baruch (de) Spinoza[ b ] (24 November 1632 – 21 February 1677), also known under his Latinized pen name Benedictus de Spinoza, was a philosopher of Portuguese-Jewish origin. A forerunner of the Age of Enlightenment, Spinoza significantly influenced modern biblical criticism, 17th-century rationalism, and Dutch intellectual culture ...
t. e. Zarathushtra Spitama, [c] more commonly known as Zoroaster[d] or Zarathustra, [e] was an Iranian religious reformer who challenged the tenets of the contemporary Ancient Iranian religion, becoming the spiritual founder of Zoroastrianism. [f] Variously described as a sage or a wonderworker; in the oldest Zoroastrian scriptures, the Gathas ...
In Zoroastrianism, there are 101 names and titles used to refer to Ahura Mazda.The list is preserved in Persian, Pazend, and Gujarati. [1]The names are often taken during Baj (ceremonial prayer) as part of Yasna while continuously sprinkling with the ring made of eight metals with the hair of the pure Varasya named "Vars" [clarification needed] into the water vessel.
v. t. e. The Bundahishn (Middle Persian: Bun-dahišn (īh), "Primal Creation") is an encyclopedic collection of beliefs about Zoroastrian cosmology written in the Book Pahlavi script. [1] The original name of the work is not known. It is one of the most important extant witnesses to Zoroastrian literature in the Middle Persian language.
Book of Baruch. The Book of Baruch is a deuterocanonical book of the Bible, used in many Christian traditions, such as Catholic and Orthodox churches. In Judaism and Protestant Christianity, it is considered not to be part of the canon, with the Protestant Bibles categorizing it as part of the Biblical apocrypha. [1]
Meir of Rothenburg (c. 1215 – 2 May 1293) [1] was a German Rabbi and poet, as well as a major contributing author of the tosafot on Rashi's commentary on the Talmud.He is also known as Meir ben Baruch (Hebrew: מאיר ב"ר ברוך), and by the Hebrew language acronym Maharam of Rothenburg ("Our Teacher, Rabbi Meir", Hebrew: מהר"ם מרוטנבורג).
Twelve Prophets of Aleijadinho. From left to right: Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Baruch, Isaiah, Daniel, Jeremiah, Hosea, Ezekiel, Joel, Habakkuk, and Nahum. The Twelve Prophets are a set of soapstone sculptures completed between 1800 and 1805 [1] by the artist Antônio Francisco Lisboa, commonly known as Aleijadinho.