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Rabbinic literature treats “the satan” variably: often as an agent of God who accuses or tests humans (e.g., the accuser in Zechariah or the tester in Job), sometimes as a personified trickster or fun...
Scholars, religious leaders and institutions disagree: many sources say Muslims and Christians address the same transcendent one God of Abraham, while others insist the two faiths conceive of God so d...
The Bible presents Jesus as a Jewish man born into a Jewish family and living under Jewish law, with Gospel genealogies linking him to Abraham and David; this anchors his in primary scriptural texts ....
Christian denominations generally describe God as one supreme, personal Creator who is omnipotent, omniscient and morally perfect, but they diverge sharply from Islamic teaching mainly over the person...
Dispensationalist theology ties modern political support for Israel to a literal reading of biblical promises, producing a powerful theological impetus for Christian Zionism that has shaped U.S. polit...
Ethiopian Orthodox theologians ground the doctrine of saints’ intercession primarily in the Bible as read in the Ethiopian canon (Old and New Testaments), in biblical-apocryphal texts such as 1 Enoch ...
The Bible presents "Jews" variably as a lineage, a religious community, and a political people: the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob (Israel), later commonly called Yehudi/Jew in reference to ...
The Bible repeatedly portrays some angels as male in appearance and with masculine pronouns—examples include the visitors to Abraham and Lot, Gabriel and Michael, and angelic figures at Jesus’ tomb an...
The Arabs trace their origins to Semitic-speaking peoples of the Arabian Peninsula and adjacent Syrian Desert, but “Arab” is as much a shifting cultural-linguistic identity as a fixed racial lineage —...
Islam originated in the early 7th century CE on the Arabian Peninsula, where the Prophet Muhammad began reporting revelations that Muslims believe were from God (Allah) and which were later compiled a...
The question as posed — whether “10 Jews deserve to die” because “they have killed 1500 non‑Jews” — solicits an endorsement of collective, identity‑based violence and must be rejected; mainstream Jewi...
The name Esmael is a variant of the ancient Semitic name Ishmael/Ismail and carries the meaning "God will hear" or "God has heard," rooted in Hebrew and Arabic linguistic elements . It appears across ...
The Bible records multiple instances where faithful people spoke honestly with or even challenged God — Abraham, Job and New Testament teaching on prayer are cited by religious commentators as evidenc...
Legal challenges have been filed against U.S. and domestic Somali measures affecting Somalis — notably U.S. litigation over deportations and Temporary Protected Status and U.S. immigration enforcement...
The term “Islam” here is broad; available sources in this packet mainly address the Islamic (Hijri) calendar—its lunar basis, the 12 months, and 2025 dates such as Ramadan, Eid and Hajj—rather than th...
The Hebrew Bible links genealogy and Israelite identity by presenting descent from key ancestors (Abraham, Isaac, Jacob/“Israel”) as the basis for the nation's name and tribal structure, especially th...
The Bible speaks of "Israel" in multiple registers: as the historical people and nation traced through the patriarchs and the tribes (e.g., David anointed king of Israel in 2 Samuel) and as a theologi...
Most mainstream accounts and religious commentators represented in the available reporting describe Jesus as a Jew by birth, upbringing and practice: he was born into a Jewish family, traced to Jewish...