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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • Thumbnail for Ezra 7
    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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    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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    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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    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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  • Thumbnail for Religious images in Christian theology
    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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  • Thumbnail for Tablets of Stone
    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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