Christianity
The Servant of Jehovah (Isaiah 40-44)
Author: Professor Vasily Nikanorovich Myshtsyn He sprang up before him like a tender plant, like a root out of dry ground. There was no beauty or majesty in Him. We…
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Archeology
Treasures of the Old Testament Temple. A Biblical-Historical Note /1/
Author: Professor Dmitry Ivanovich Vvedensky The waves of world history, like the waves of the sea, are fickle. They sometimes affirm the foundations of kingdoms and peoples, sometimes shake them,…
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On the Book of the Wisdom of Jesus, Son of Sirach, and Its Author
Author: Archpriest Alexander Petrovich Rozhdestvensky Approximately fifteen years have passed since the first leaves of the long-lost Hebrew text of the Book of Jesus, Son of Sirach, were discovered. During…
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The first five canonized saints who lived in the 21st century are Romanians
The first five canonized Orthodox saints who died in the 21st century are Romanians, reports the website Basilica.ro in an article dedicated to the canonizations carried out by the Romanian…
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State and Society According to the Laws of Moses (part 2)
By Professor Alexander Pavlovich Lopukhin Contents: Chapter III; Chapter IV Chapter III Equality of rights within the state is necessarily linked to equality of obligations toward it. Here, too, the…
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The Wisdom of Solomon’s Teaching on Divine Wisdom or Spirit Compared to the Apostolic (part 1)
By Professor Nikolai Nikanorovich Glubokovsky Assumptions regarding the philosophical origin and nature of this pseudo-Solomonic doctrine – The instability of these hypotheses on their most important points – On the…
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How and why was the First Epistle to the Corinthians written
By Prof. A. Lopukhin Founding of the Church in Corinth Corinth, the main city of the Achaean region in southern Greece, was inhabited by numerous colonists, mainly Roman freed slaves,…
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The Book of Job and the Babylonian Song of the Suffering Righteous One1 (part 1)
By Archpriest Alexander Petrovsky The study of Assyrian Babylonian writing, which began with the decipherment of cuneiform, has led to the discovery of a number of documents whose content shares…
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State and Society According to the Laws of Moses
By Professor Alexander Pavlovich Lopukhin Contents: Chapter I; Chapter II The state, in the sense of a certain form of communal life, as far as history and experience show, is…
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Concerns over Hagia Sophia: Trucks, cranes brought into historic Istanbul temple
Clergymen and restorers in Turkey have expressed concern over the way restoration work is being carried out at the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul after footage showing trucks and cranes parked…