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Comfort

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Author(s): Smith, Eric C.
In its understanding of comfort, early Christianity was both in continuity with Second Temple Judaism and innovative in its claims and uses of the concept. Comfort has a long history in the Jewish tradition, particularly in the Old Testament and Septuagint, and comfort, either human or divine, is evoked frequently in wisdom literature and in prophetic literature. Early Christianity built upon that foundation with appeals to comfort in the New Testament and other writings, as an aspect of …
Date: 2024-01-19

Dead, Care for the

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Author(s): Smith, Eric C.
The period in which Christianity emerged was a time of change and exchange in practices of caring for the dead. Multiple practices flourished side by side, sometimes even within the same ethnic and national groups, and ways of caring for the dead fell in and out of fashion over time. As traditional religious practices commonly known as paganism were beset by incursions from eastern religions, traditional burial practices changed from burial to cremation and back again, and groups like Jew…
Date: 2024-01-19

Cherubs

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Author(s): Smith, Eric C.
Cherubs (or cherubim) are described as a class of heavenly or angelic beings. In Jewish and Christian cosmologies, cherubs are associated with the presence of God, either directly or indirectly, as they are depicted as having active or symbolic presences in diverse theophanic circumstances. Cherubs are among those celestial beings differentiated on the basis of function, as are their frequent counterparts seraphs (or seraphim). They are therefore set apart from and even above other angels, based on their special relationship to the presence of God.Origin of the Word and ConceptCheru…
Date: 2024-01-19