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John, Gospel according to Saint
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......Saint John, fourth book of the New Testament. This account of Jesus' life...This term echoes usages of the Old Testament ( "Word of God" ), contemporary...and contemporary Hellenistic philosophy, and designates a figure that......
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Logos
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......the Spermaticos Logos. The Logos reappears in Greek philosophy in a much restricted form in the system of emanations of Neoplatonism. Certain books of the Old Testament present a principle called the Wisdom of God active......
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God
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......religions. Names for GodIn the Old Testament various names for God are used...most common name for God in the Old Testament is Elohim, a plural form, but...consider the unifying concept in his philosophy (e.g., cosmic energy, mind......
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mysticism
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......humans by emanation is epoch-making in the philosophy of contemplation. Among those who think...readily seen in the Song of Songs in the Old Testament, in the book of Revelation in the New Testament, and in the writings of William Blake......
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Saadia ben Joseph al-Fayumi
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......made an Arabic translation of the Old Testament that became the standard...basis for all subsequent Jewish philosophy. See S. L. Skoss, Saadia Gaon...Efros, Studies in Medieval Jewish Philosophy (1974)....
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Blake, William
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......pure liberty, and abhorred the reductive, rationalist philosophy that served to justify the political and economic inequities...it quite natural to see and converse with angels and Old Testament prophets, he by no means forsook concrete reality for......
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iconography
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......satisfactorily.Certain themes characteristic of a specific philosophy have been commonly represented during an era, and...journey toward eternal salvation. Figures from the Old Testament (e.g., Abraham, Judith and Holofernes), episodes......
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Ahad Ha-am
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......upbringing, he acquired a broad secular education studying philosophy and literature in five languages (Russian, German...to be the fulfillment of the ethical demands of the Old Testament prophets. He did not view the imminent creation of......
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Gnosticism
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......with the Eternal was already present in earlier Greek philosophy, although its connection with the later Gnostic movement...ruled by evil archons, among them the deity of the Old Testament, who hold captive the spirit of humanity. The heavenly......
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Hebrew literature
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......period of Hebrew literature are the Old Testament and the Apocrypha. Parts of the Pseudepigrapha...Arab and Indian literature—and philosophy. Philology, exegesis, and codification...threshold of the transition from the old isolated life to a wider one was......