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| An aramaic term of endearment meaning "daddy'. Jesus used this word to teach that God is a loving Father. |
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| god's messengers; beings that posses free will and intelligence but who are pure spirits, without bodies. |
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| the portable shrine built to hold the tablets on which moses wrote the 10 commandments |
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| the seventy one member supreme legislative and udicial body of the jewish people. Many of its members were Sadducees. |
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| Descendants of the Maccabees who ruled in Judea after the ousting of the last of the Syrians in 141 Bc until the establishment of Roman Authority in 63 bc. |
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| Ancient scrolls containing the oldest known manuscripts of the books of the Old Testament in Hebrew. |
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| An ancient Essene monastery on the northwestern shore of tthe Dead Sea. near it were found the ancienrt Dead sea Scrolls. |
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