Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Emerald Tablet. The Emerald Tablet, the Smaragdine Table, or the Tabula Smaragdina [a] is a compact and cryptic Hermetic text. [1] It was a highly regarded foundational text for many Islamic and European alchemists. [2] Though attributed to the legendary Hellenistic figure Hermes Trismegistus, the text of the Emerald Tablet first appears in a ...
The tablet's main theme is the covenant between man and God, and man being unfaithful to it. The tablet is written in two parts; one which is in Arabic, and the other in Persian; currently only the Arabic part has been translated into English. The Persian tablet is for the most part similar in content to the Arabic tablet.
The Ten Commandments ( Biblical Hebrew: עֲשֶׂרֶת הַדְּבָרִים, romanized: ʿĂsereṯ haDəḇārīm, lit. 'The Ten Words'), or the Decalogue (from Latin decalogus, from Ancient Greek δεκάλογος, dekálogos, lit. 'ten words' ), are religious and ethical directives, structured as a covenant document, that, according ...
Book of Enoch. The Book of Enoch (also 1 Enoch; [a] Hebrew: סֵפֶר חֲנוֹךְ, Sēfer Ḥănōḵ; Ge'ez: መጽሐፈ ሄኖክ, Maṣḥafa Hēnok) is an ancient Hebrew apocalyptic religious text, ascribed by tradition to the patriarch Enoch who was the father of Methuselah and the great-grandfather of Noah. [1] [2] The Book of Enoch ...
Lawḥ-i-Karmil (Tablet of Carmel See online text here. The Tablet of Carmel (Persian: ﻟﻮﺡ ﻛﺮﻣﻞ) is a short tablet of only a few pages, but it is considered one of the charters of the Baháʼí administration. It consists essentially of a conversation between God and Mount Carmel. In it, God says to the mountain:
t. e. According to Latter Day Saint belief, the golden plates (also called the gold plates or in some 19th-century literature, the golden bible) [1] are the source from which Joseph Smith translated the Book of Mormon, a sacred text of the faith. [2] Some accounts from people who reported handling the plates describe the plates as weighing from ...
The Samaritan Pentateuch, also called the Samaritan Torah ( Samaritan Hebrew: ࠕࠦࠅࠓࠡࠄ, Tūrā ), is the sacred scripture of the Samaritans. [1] Written in the Samaritan script, it dates back to one of the ancient versions of the Torah that existed during the Second Temple period. It constitutes the entire biblical ...
t. e. Early Modern English Bible translations are those translations of the Bible which were made between about 1500 and 1800, the period of Early Modern English. This was the first major period of Bible translation into the English language including the King James Version and Douai Bibles. The Reformation and Counter-Reformation led to the ...