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Judaism&Christianity
Term | Definition |
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Diaspora | the scattering of the Jews to countries outside of Palestine after the Babylonian captivity. |
missionary | a person sent by a church into an area to carry on evangelism or other activities, as educational or hospital work. |
time line | a linear representation of important events in the order in which they occurred. |
torah | Teachings: the Pentateuch, being the first of the three Jewish divisions of the Old Testament. |
Yaweh | a name of God, transliterated by scholars from the Tetragrammaton and commonly rendered Jehovah. |
synagogue | a Jewish house of worship, often having facilities for religious instruction. |
rabbi | the chief religious official of a synagogue, trained usually in a theological seminary and duly ordained, who delivers the sermon at a religious service and performs ritualistic, pastoral, educational, and other functions in and related to his or her capa |
Holy Trinity | before 1050; Middle English |