A holocaust is a religious animal sacrifice that is completely consumed by fire, also known as a burnt offering. The word derives from the ancient Greek...

European Jews. The word holocaust derives from the ancient Greek holokaustos, a burnt offering; see Holocaust (sacrifice). Holocaust may also refer to: Genocide...

'Holocaust' and 'Shoah' are not useful since neither has any analytical value. 'Holocaust' (derived from the Greek holókauton, or burned sacrifice) has...

Names of the Holocaust vary based on context. "The Holocaust" is the name commonly applied in English since the mid-1940s to the systematic extermination...

edible parts of the sacrifice in a feast, and burnt the rest as an offering. Others burnt the whole animal offering, called a holocaust. Usually, the best...

Holocaust denial is an antisemitic conspiracy theory that asserts that the Nazi genocide of Jews, known as the Holocaust, is a fabrication or exaggeration...

Bergman's films. The Sacrifice centers on a middle-aged intellectual who attempts to bargain with God to stop an impending nuclear holocaust. The film combines...

Commemorating the Holocaust". Shiur Times: 36–37. Jackie Feldman, "Between Yad Vashem and Mt. Herzl: Changing Inscriptions of Sacrifice on Jerusalem’s 'Mountain...

destructive fire. Ateshgah of Baku Bonfire of the vanities Eternal flame Holocaust (sacrifice) List of fire gods Manipura (fire chakra) Nature worship Nymphaion...

just as Helios drove the chariot of the sun across the sky; and the holocaust sacrifice offered by Elijah and burned by fire from heaven corresponds to the...

coreligionists is deemed serious enough to be called a holocaust (meaning a "wholesale sacrifice or destruction".) Some Jewish communal leaders, such as...

wedding ceremonies, like among the Hindus, is a Vedic fire sacrifice ritual. Dhuni Holocaust (sacrifice) Kupala Night Lag BaOmer Walpurgis Night Yajna Richard...

halakha for sacrifices. Offering of sacrifices was briefly reinstated during the Jewish–Roman wars of the second century CE. When sacrifices were offered...

dark, fertile victims in nighttime rituals. Animal sacrifice usually took the form of a holocaust or burnt offering, and there was no shared banquet,...

to 9 October 1958, covering the period of the Second World War and the Holocaust, during which millions of Jews were murdered by Adolf Hitler's Germany...

to release the album due to the song "Angel of Death" which detailed Holocaust concentration camps and the human experiments conducted by Nazi physician...

"innocence, hope or the red blood of the Jewish people being sacrificed in the horror of the Holocaust". The girl was portrayed by Oliwia Dąbrowska, three years...

Amphidromia Ceremonies of ancient Greece Greek divination Animal sacrifice Buphonia Holocaust (sacrifice) Hecatomb Ancient Greek funeral and burial practices Ancient...

sacrificed "as a holocaust" (Greek: εἰς ὁλοκάρπωσιν). Josephus uses the term both for Abraham and Isaac, but also in relation to the human sacrifice by...

the other guy. They wouldn’t sacrifice anything. See, that was the difference.: 380  Jewish women during the Holocaust were especially vulnerable to...

for the way in which it framed Styron's personal views regarding the Holocaust. Stingo, a novelist who is recalling the summer when he began his first...

of the Holocaust and Nazi Persecution". United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. "Polish Resistance and Conclusions". United States Holocaust Memorial...

Muslim countries. Holocaust denial intertwines with pre-existing antisemitic tropes, typical of which is the claim that the Holocaust was "fabricated"...

consume the sacrifice themselves, but instead burned the entirety of the animal for the god. This type of sacrifice is called a holocaust, defined by...

Vatican and the Holocaust in Italy (2000) and Michael Phayer's The Catholic Church and the Holocaust, 1930–1965 (2000) and Pius XII, The Holocaust, and the Cold...

animal cruelty and the Holocaust. The analogies began soon after the end of World War II, when literary figures, many of them Holocaust survivors, Jewish or...

Nazi Germany-organized Holocaust in Poland. Throughout the German occupation of Poland, Jews were rescued from the Holocaust by Polish people, at risk...

slaughter, killing in sacrifice, deities "eating" the children, and holocaust. Xella also refers to Carthaginian and Phoenician child sacrifice found referenced...

incisively exploring its themes of kindness, cruelty, forgiveness, and sacrifice. The film doesn’t say anything especially new, but it head-on confronts...

This list of nuclear holocaust fiction lists the many works of apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction that attempt to describe a world during or after...