texts which various religious traditions consider to be sacred, or central to their religious tradition.
Questions tagged [religious-texts]
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Has Noah's ark been discovered in Turkey?
I found this website claiming that noah's ark has been found. Is there any archaeological or historical evidence to support or deny this claim?
Related Question: Could a Great Flood have happened?
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Was marriage defined as "selling your daughter for three goats and a cow" in the Bible?
The organisation Planting Peace recently put up a billboard in controversial county clerk Kim Davis' hometown:
Dear Kim Davis, The fact that you can't sell your daughter for three goats and a cow means we've already REDEFINED MARRIAGE.
They then…
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Did a magnitude 8.2 earthquake hit Jerusalem in 33AD?
A Telegraph article makes an interesting claim, in a discussion about the Shroud of Turin:
However a new study claims than an earthquake in Jerusalem in 33AD may have not only created the image but may also have skewed the dating results. The…
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Was Jesus crucified?
Assuming Jesus was a real person, it is a generally accepted fact that he died on a cross. On the other hand, Jehovah's Witnesses are of the belief that the crucifixion of Jesus is a mistranslation and the word stauros shall be translated as "pole",…
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Do certain religious traditions believe that Eve had sex with the Serpent?
On p.169 of my edition of de Beauvoir's The Second Sex, she includes a footnote remarking
The moon is a source of fertility; it is seen as the "master of women"; it is often believed that the moon, in the form of a man or a snake, couples with…
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Did "thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife" originally refer not to sex but to housework?
In "Debt: The First 5000 Years" by David Graeber, there is a claim on page 129:
Even in the Bible, the admonition in the Ten Commandments not to "covet thy neighbor's wife" clearly referred not to lust in one's heart (adultery had already been…
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Did a Jewish rabbi precisely calculate the duration of the full moon cycle 1800 years ago?
Attempting to prove to me that Judaism is the only true religion, a friend of mine read to me from a book titled, The Coming Revolution, that the Zohar (a 2nd/3rd century CE commentary on the Torah allegedly written by Rabbi Simeon bar Yochai) uses…
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Was the character of Lilith written out of the Bible?
I came across Lilith in the graphic novel Lucifer, but it seems she is mentioned in Jewish mythology Babylonian Talmud among other texts.
The story goes
Lillith was in the original creational
myth, where she was created along side
with Adam.…
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Is eating cloven-hoofed animals, bottom-feeders or ruminants bad for you?
The Torah and Talmud claim (and I have Christian friends that also claim) that eating animals that
are bottom-feeders or ruminants—That is, eat the crud off the sea-floor, like shrimp, or digest their own waste like rabbits, pigs etc.)—OR
have a…
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Were technologically advanced artifacts found at the Durupinar "ark" site?
My social media stream lately has been awash with claims about items supposedly discovered at a site discovered by Turkish army captain Llhan Durupınar in 1959 that is believed by some to be the final resting site of Noah's Ark.
As a resident in…
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Does the new Testament claim that Mary, mother of Jesus, was a virgin?
I have read from quite a few sources stating that there was a mistranslation in the Bible, calling Mary a "virgin" instead of a "young, marry-able woman". It would be interesting to know about such a big mistake in popular literature (that is, if it…
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Did William Shakespeare help make the KJV bible?
Many believe because of the placement of specific words in Psalm 46 that William Shakespeare helped in the translation of the King James bible to English.
In 1610, the year of the final editing stages, Shakespeare would have been 46 years old (born…
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Have there been documented cases of "blood pumping from the trunks of trees"?
Several British news reports (including the BBC "Bleeding trees") describe trees issuing red blood-like liquid when cut.
Once the stuff of myth and legend, modern day eye-witnesses now catch on camera blood pumping from the trunks of trees.
This…
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Are there no camels in the Qur'an?
It seems to be an often-repeated saying that "there are no camels in the Koran".
But I just repeated this factoid in the presence of a guy from Syria who insisted it's not true and that there is a sura about camels in the holy book of Islam.
So I…
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Does Revelation 21 demonstrate pre-scientific knowledge about precious stones?
Revelation 21:19-20 (NIV) lists twelve kinds of precious stones that make up the city walls of the New Jerusalem: Jasper, Sapphire, Agate, Emerald, Onyx, Carnelian, Chrysolite, Beryl, Topaz, Chrysoprase, Jacinth, and Amethyst.
According to some…
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