Encyclopedia of Religion

Whatever negative effects tobacco intoxication has on the vocal cords, visual acuity, color perception, and so on—and Wilbert li ...

By the following year he had published a semi- autobiographical trilogy on his childhood and youth and a group of short stories ...

possible, evil will die of itself. Nonresistance to evil became Tolstoy’s main tenet. But Tolstoy’s Christianity did not bring h ...

groups, all bearing the typological name Tolteca, that mi- grated to central Mexico. In addition, the term Toltec was generally ...

There is evidence, however, that the feathered serpent did not occupy the paramount place in the Toltec-Maya pantheon. Not infre ...

places. Eventually, on reaching the Veracruz coast, he either burned himself and became the morning star, or, according to other ...

Davies, Nigel. Aztec Empire: The Toltec Resurgence. Norman, Okla., 1987. Graulich, Michel. Myths of Ancient Mexico. Translated b ...

shell disks and embossed copper sheets found in mounds throughout central North America, and the gold and pre- cious stones foun ...

brick and masonry chambers, with niches in the walls to con- tain urns. Such was the expense of building them that sub- scribers ...

skirts of cities, where they were often overtaken by further expansion. Consequently, graveyards became an issue of urban planni ...

to fully understand the importance of the tomol and the brotherhood in classical times, it is necessary to analyze the region’s ...

BIBLIOGRAPHY Arnold, Jeanne. “Complex Hunter-Gatherer-Fishers of Prehistor- ic California: Chiefs, Specialists, and Maritime Ada ...

approaches this symbol from a variety of linguistic, historical, and phenomenological points of view. The discussion is di- vide ...

THE CONTENTS OF THE CANONICAL TORAH. The canonical version of the Torah is a complex narrative work of extremely sophisticated c ...

bers. He reviews the covenantal laws delivered on Sinai and elaborates in many cases upon their performance. He repeat- edly und ...

The Priestly or P-source stems, as its name indicates, from priestly writers associated with the Temple in Jerusa- lem. Like J a ...

the author of the Torah (e.g., On the Sacrifices of Abel and Cain, 12, 94). He wrote his book in a state of philosophical closen ...

ic scholars produced a series of influential halakhic collec- tions. These experimented with a variety of organizational formats ...

and will of God, but it could not be conceived as something co-eternal with God. This type of ontological thinking about Torah, ...

experiences enjoyed by Israel’s prophets and still retrievable for the modern reader through the proper interpretation of the te ...