I would like to point out that Wicca is not symbolized by a pentagram. A pentacle represents Wicca. The difference being that a pentacle is not inverted like the pentagram that represents Satanism
according to Wicca-pedia, a pentacle is a pentagram circumscribed by a circle. Not being Wiccan (or any religion for that matter), myself, I just go by what I read. I just wanted to include more religions than just the big 3.
Rushing immediately to Google with unbridled glee to check out the brilliantly-named "Wiccapedia", I was a little disappointed to find it was a book, rather than an actual online wiki. Still, it's a very clever name!
Well, it's transliterated from Arabic so there are a number of spellings. I haven't seen 'minuret' personally but I see no reason not to include it as a type-in :)
Interesting theory. The word reminds me of menorah (with a little bit of bayonet and baret (we sound the t, all three words rhyme in my language). Purely for the words and sounds, no ideology behind them.)
Mount Zion and the Temple Mount are two very different things. Mount Zion is one of the hills that the ancient city of Jerusalem was built on or near. Zion came to be synonymous with the city and most of the time when people refer to "Zion" they are talking about the city of Jerusalem. However, it is also used to refer to the Biblical Land of Israel, as well, and in modern usage it came to represent Israel as the nationalist movement to found a Jewish homeland was Zionism- Zion in this since definitely meant a Jewish homeland, a parallel to the Biblical Land of Israel.
No idea where super got the idea about it being David's citadel, or even what he means by that. The archaeological ruin called the city of David is between the old walled city of Jerusalem and the Kidron Valley. Not on Mt Zion. The Jerusalem citadel is located on higher ground, part of the walls of the old city, and was built by King Herod and others long after David was dead. The "Tower of David" on top of said citadel was so named, ironically, by ignorant Christian crusaders who, upon arriving in Jerusalem for the first time, assumed that David must have built it. In fact it's a Muslim minaret constructed centuries later. In any case it is also not on Mt Zion and not synonymous with Zion.
The "Temple Mount" is an artificial platform of stonework that was expanded by Herod to make room for the giant 2nd temple he had constructed there. The "First Temple" was built on a hill which came to be known as the Temple Mount. Tradition holds that this hill is where Abraham went to murder his son on the suggestion of the voices in his head. It is not Mt Zion. That's a different hill. The First Temple was destroyed by Babylonians. The Hebrews who worshipped there were enslaved in Babylon. The Persian Empire conquered Babylon and set the Jews free. Zerubbabel led his people back to Jerusalem where they built the "Second Temple" on the same site- but everyone was bummed out because the First Temple was so much cooler. Then Herod the Great, half Jew half Arab Roman stooge, wanting to impress everyone and especially his Jewish subjects that mostly hated him, decided to renovate and make the temple the most impressive structure in the empire.
His plans for this construction project were so grand that they would not fit on the hill where the temple currently sat... so his solution was to expand the hill. They brought in massive stones and extended the hill into a large rectangular platform. The Second Temple, after Herod's expansion, became one of the largest and most magnificent buildings in the Roman Empire. Then it was destroyed by Titus. But it was never called Zion. The platform Herod built remains in the Jewish quarter of the Old City, even though the temple is long gone, and is still called the Temple Mount. Jews traditionally would not set foot on it as it was too holy. Christians turned it into a place where they heaped garbage and dung, as an insult to Jews. After the Muslim conquest, it was cleared off and they constructed the Dome of the Rock and Al Aqsa Mosque on top of it.
I don't have to and I don't. But what difference does it make if I do? Do you have to complain about it? You both sound like semi-literate children and that's not me being snarky. I felt like the point was pretty direct.
In this instance, to correct and adequately clarify what music and leng both said, yes, the four comments I left were both necessary and sufficient in length. I wouldn't call it an essay, though. And certainly not a work comparable to the Pentateuch. It's a few thousand characters...
Yup, definitely started here in Jamaica. But maube believers will argue otherwise since they believe Haile Selassie is the Messiah and he was born in Ethiopia. But factually, it started here in Jamaica
Darn it – if only there was a way to double-check things like this on the Internet! That way people could be sure of their "facts" before "correcting" quiz makers on their "mistakes". Seriously, the tech industry really should invent something; it's high time the web starts being useful for more than just cat videos! I'd give such a tool a really fun but important-sounding title – you know, like the name of a really big number or something. I'm thinking maybe "Quattuordecillion", or is that too hard to spell?
Christians are followers of or believers in the Christ (Jesus). He did not start Christianity, he just did away with many of the 500 laws that the Jews had been previously commanded to obey and instituted the concept of love, kindness and meekness (rather than war) conquering evil. Those who were his disciples (Peter, Paul, John, Matthias...) are the ones who sought to convert Jews and Pagans alike to Christianity.
The first five books are not known as Torah, the Torah is short for "Torah Navaim ketvaim" which means the law, prophets and writings" and is usually used as reference to the entire OT.
The first five books, although it can be called the Torah are usually called the Pentateuch
Torah is not a collective name for the five books of Judaism. Tanach is. Torah is actually one of the books comprising Tanach, the first of them - the T in Tanach (an hebrew abbreviation itself) stands for Torah
Summarizing the first 2 paragraphs of wikipedia: Torah has a range of meanings. It can most specifically mean the first five books of the Hebrew Bible. This is known in the Jewish tradition as the Written Torah.
It can also mean the continued narrative from all the 24 books, from the Book of Genesis to the end of the Tanakh (Chronicles). If meant for liturgic purposes, it takes the form of a Torah scroll, which contains strictly the five books of Moses.
Mount Zion and the Temple Mount are two very different things. Mount Zion is one of the hills that the ancient city of Jerusalem was built on or near. Zion came to be synonymous with the city and most of the time when people refer to "Zion" they are talking about the city of Jerusalem. However, it is also used to refer to the Biblical Land of Israel, as well, and in modern usage it came to represent Israel as the nationalist movement to found a Jewish homeland was Zionism- Zion in this since definitely meant a Jewish homeland, a parallel to the Biblical Land of Israel.
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In this instance, to correct and adequately clarify what music and leng both said, yes, the four comments I left were both necessary and sufficient in length. I wouldn't call it an essay, though. And certainly not a work comparable to the Pentateuch. It's a few thousand characters...
The first five books, although it can be called the Torah are usually called the Pentateuch
It can also mean the continued narrative from all the 24 books, from the Book of Genesis to the end of the Tanakh (Chronicles). If meant for liturgic purposes, it takes the form of a Torah scroll, which contains strictly the five books of Moses.