The Dura-Europos church (or Dura-Europos house church) is the earliest identified Christian house church. It was located in Dura-Europos, Syria, and one...
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The Dura-Europos synagogue was an ancient Jewish former synagogue discovered in 1932 at Dura-Europos, Syria. The former synagogue contained a forecourt...
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Dura-Europos was a Hellenistic, Parthian, and Roman border city built on an escarpment 90 metres (300 feet) above the southwestern bank of the Euphrates...
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Francis Morane, Jean Kriegel 1984: Champagne by Christian Dura, Jean Kriegel 1987: Hello Paradis by Christian Dura, Jean Kriegel 1990: Viva Paradis by Philippe...
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The Fruit Is Ripe Directed by Sigi Rothemund Written by Christian Dura; Patrizia Piccardi Produced by Karl Spiehs Starring Betty Vergès Claus Richt Cinematography...
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Killing of Muhammad al-Durrah (redirect from Muhammed al-Dura)
blessures de Jamal a Dura". France 2 (in French). 1 October 2000. Archived from the original on 21 October 2008. "Jamal a Dura l'operation". France 2...
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compared to the paintings of Dura-Europos, and probably also derive from a lost tradition of both Jewish and Christian illustrated manuscripts, as well...
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Dura (Arabic: دورا) is a Palestinian city located eleven kilometers southwest of Hebron, in the southern West Bank, in the Hebron Governorate of the State...
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Hand of God (art) (category Christian iconography)
examples in the Dura Europos synagogue (see below) show a good part of the forearm as well as the hand, which is not found in surviving Christian examples,...
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Reconquista (redirect from Christian Reconquest)
October 2014. "Yo no entiendo cómo se puede llamar reconquista a una cosa que dura ocho siglos" ("I don't understand how something that lasted eight centuries...
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The scutum from Dura-Europos is the only surviving semi-cylindrical shield (scutum) from Roman times. It is now in the Yale University Art Gallery (inventory...
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Sator Square (redirect from Christian word square)
charm". Haverfield was ultimately proved right by the 1931-32 excavations at Dura-Europos in Syria that uncovered three Sator separate square inscriptions...
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Dora, Baghdad (redirect from Dura, Baghdad)
Dora (also al-Dura, or ad-Durah, Arabic: الدورة) is a neighborhood in Al Rashid administrative district, southern Baghdad, Iraq. Before the 2003 U.S. invasion...
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God in Christianity (redirect from Christian Godhead)
but to all attempts aiming to depict God. However, early Christian art, such as that of the Dura Europos church, displays the Hand of God, a theological...
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Syriac Christianity (redirect from Syriac Christian)
ruins of the Dura-Europos church, dating from the first half of the 3rd century are concrete evidence of the presence of organized Christian communities...
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Salsa dura, also known as salsa brava or salsa gorda, is a style of salsa music developed in the 1970s with an emphasis on the instrumental part of the...
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meninges is the dura mater (Latin for hard) and adheres to inner surface of the skull and vertebrae. The arachnoid is under or "deep" to the dura and is a thin...
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scale-shaped metal plates, possibly made of brass.: 78–80 At the ancient site of Dura-Europos, there were two full sets of scale armor for horses found during...
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inside the wall and also covered the Christian church and the Jewish synagogue, the parchment fragment now known as Dura Parchment 24 was found. Susan M....
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Church architecture (redirect from Christian architecture)
to function as churches. One of the earliest of adapted residences is at Dura Europos church, built shortly after 200 AD, where two rooms were made into...
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The doctrine of the Trinity, considered the core of Christian theology by Trinitarians, is the result of continuous exploration by the church of the biblical...
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Aniconism in Christianity (redirect from Opposition to Christian images)
which probably reached Christian art from Hellenistic Judaism, as it is prominent in the wall paintings of the 3rd century Dura-Europos synagogue in Syria...
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Angels in art (redirect from Early Christian Representations of Angels)
been consistently made throughout Rabbinic history, for example as in the Dura Europos synagogue, where wingless humanoid angels dressed like Persians appear...
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superiority" (Richard Dawkins). Some of the earliest depictions of Jesus at the Dura-Europos church are firmly dated to before 256. Thereafter, despite the lack...
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is the seventh chapter of the Book of Ezra in the Old Testament of the Christian Bible, or the book of Ezra–Nehemiah in the Hebrew Bible, which treats...
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Judaism. The Jewish-Christian minority also coexisted with Jews from the other groups in the same neighborhoods, as seen in Dura-Europos. They were perceived...
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Religious images in Christian theology have a role within the liturgical and devotional life of adherents of certain Christian denominations. The use of...
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Cathedral (category Christian terminology)
venire, becomes the standard term for Christian ordination. During the siege of Dura Europos in 256, a complete Christian house church, or domus ecclesiae...
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the human skull. The intentional perforation of the cranium exposes the dura mater to treat health problems related to intracranial diseases or release...
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Cenacle (the site of the Last Supper) in Jerusalem was the "first Christian church." The Dura-Europos church in Syria is the oldest surviving church building...
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