The Dura-Europos synagogue was an ancient synagogue uncovered at Dura-Europos, Syria, in 1932. The synagogue contains a forecourt and house of assembly...
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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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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)
October 2000. (in French) "Les blessures de Jamal a Dura", France 2, 1 October 2000. (in French) "Jamal a Dura l'operation", France 2, 1 October 2000. Schapira...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Angels in art (redirect from Early Christian Representations of Angels)
and has been consistently made throughout Rabbinic history, such as in the Dura Europos synagogue, where wingless humanoid angels dressed like Persians appear...
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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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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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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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Empire and China. Legio II Italica is levied by Emperor Marcus Aurelius. Dura-Europos is taken by the Romans. The Romans establish a garrison at Doura...
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Tablets of Stone (section Christian replicas)
they are so depicted in the 3rd-century paintings at the Dura-Europos Synagogue and in Christian art throughout the 1st millennium CE, drawing on Jewish...
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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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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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