To derive Utopian communism from the Jerusalem Christian community of the apostolic age or from its medieval successors-in-spirit, the monastic communities, is with an appropriate shift of adjectives, misleading in the same way as to derive it from Plato's Republic: in the Republic we have to do with an elite of physical and intellectual athletes, in the apostolic and monastic communities with an elite of spiritual and religious athletes.

The progressive closing of Afro-Asian ears to the Christian message is epitomized in a conversation I had three years ago while flying from Jerusalem to Cairo.

: Appointment with Death is set in Jerusalem and its surrounding area.

The second resurrection is of the unrighteous, when Jesus brings the New Jerusalem down from heaven to relocate to Earth.

Another monument near Jerusalem ( not the modern " Absalom Tomb "-" Yad Avshalom " which is of later origin ) was erected by Absalom in his lifetime to perpetuate his name ():

* 1192 – Assassination of Conrad of Montferrat ( Conrad I ), King of Jerusalem, in Tyre, two days after his title to the throne is confirmed by election.

Sycamore figs grow at a low elevation, lower than the Tekoa of Judah, which is at a relatively high elevation of 850 metres ( overlooking both Jerusalem and Bethlehem ).

" He is considered the last of the " early " kings of Jerusalem, after whom there was no king able to save Jerusalem from its eventual collapse.

Nonetheless he is an interesting primary source for the events of the years 1190 – 1192 in the Kingdom of Jerusalem.

10 – 19 ), to Jerusalem where he is crucified, raised and ascended into heaven ( chs.

This geographic structure is foreshadowed in Acts 1: 8, where Jesus says " You shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem ( chs.

The standard for these progress reports is in 2: 46 – 47, where Luke describes the impact of the gospel on the new church in Jerusalem.

This structure can be also seen as a series of concentric circles, where the gospel begins in the center, Jerusalem, and is expanding ever outward to Judea & Samaria, Syria, Asia Minor, Europe, and eventually to Rome.

This is immediately followed by a narrative which is set in Jerusalem.

Members of the Jerusalem church have been preaching that circumcision is required for salvation.

Presently the most famous Aedicule is situated inside the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.

The Pilgrim's reference is a basis for the Church of Zion, Jerusalem thesis of Bagatti ( 1976 ) and Testa, though the archeological evidence may suggest only a later Crusader church.

The Latin name Aelia is the source of the Arabic term Iliyā ' ( إلياء ), an early Islamic name for Jerusalem.

Today it is best known as the anthem " Jerusalem ", with music written by Sir Hubert Parry in 1916.

The legend is linked to an idea in the Book of Revelation ( 3: 12 and 21: 2 ) describing a Second Coming, wherein Jesus establishes a new Jerusalem.

Due to recorded predictions of the destruction of the temple, the Gospel of Mark is believed by many critical scholars to have been composed around or shortly after the fall of Jerusalem due to prophecies assumed to be ex post facto regarding the destruction of the temple, and both traditional and critical scholarly consensus maintains that it was the first written of the four canonical gospels.

His son, Rabbi Menachem Even-Israel, is the Director of Educational Programs at the Steinsaltz Center in the Nachlaot neighborhood of Jerusalem.

Catholic Christians, following the Canon of Trent, describe these books as deuterocanonical, meaning of " the second canon ," while Greek Orthodox Christians, following the Synod of Jerusalem ( 1672 ), use the traditional name of anagignoskomena, meaning " that which is to be read.

Bethlehem stands at an elevation of about above sea level, higher than nearby Jerusalem.

In 1187, the Ayyubid Sultan, Saladin, defeated the Crusaders in the Battle of Hattin ( above Tiberias ), taking Jerusalem and most of Palestine.

It was above aqueducts and pools, at a flattened, desert site, halfway up the hill to the Herodium, 12 kilometers south of Jerusalem — as described in Josephus's writings.

* Koren Sacks Siddur ( Hebrew-English ), Koren Publishers Jerusalem: based on latest Singer's prayer book, above ( described as the first siddur to " pose a fresh challenge to the ArtScroll dominance.

During her father's reign Melisende was styled as daughter of the king and heir of the kingdom of Jerusalem, and took precedence above other nobles and Christian clergy in ceremonial occasions.

Above these heavens is the Ogdoad, also called he mesotes, and Jerusalem above, the abode of Achamoth, who herself also is called Ogdoad ( Iren.

The Iron Cross () is a cross symbol typically in black with a white or silver outline that originated after 1219 when the Kingdom of Jerusalem granted the Teutonic Order the right to combine the Teutonic Black Cross placed above a silver Cross of Jerusalem.

" The mystic number is termed Jerusalem above, the Land flowing with Milk and Honey, the Holy Spirit and the Land of the Lord.

You start out in Jerusalem, which is about twelve hundred miles, or rather, twelve hundred feet above sea level about 2100 feet or 640 metres.

Yad Vashem is found in the western region of Mount Herzl on the Mount of Remembrance in Jerusalem, 804 meters above sea level and adjacent to the Jerusalem Forest.

Icon of Christ the Bridegroom, sitting above the star at Golgotha in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem.

Visiting Jerusalem, situated 2, 700 feet above sea level, was also an " ascent.

The Commanders organised within the " Russian Grand Priory ", a corporate organisation which existed under various names ; “ Association of Hereditary Commanders ” ( 1928 ), “ Russian Philanthropic Association of the descendants of the hereditary commanders of Sovereign the Order of Malta ” ( 1929 – 1932 ), " Union des Commandeurs Hereditaires et Chevaliers du Grand Prieure Russe de l ' Ordre de St Jean de Jerusalem " ( 1957 – 1958 ) and the longer “ Union ” title given above ( 1958 – 1975 ).

In this regard, the Biblical texts regarding Jeconiah are especially important, because the time of his reign in Jerusalem was fixed by Donald Wiseman's 1956 publication, and this is consistent with his thirty-seventh year of captivity overlapping the accession year of Amel-Marduk, as mentioned above.

Gibeah is believed to be located along the Central Benjamin Plateau, north of Jerusalem along the Watershed Ridge at above sea level.

The traditional explanation for this difference was the idea that the redactors of the Jerusalem Talmud had to finish their work abruptly ( see above ).

The Temple in Jerusalem, the successor to the above, was also called a tabernacle in early Jerusalem.

" Mount Lookout "), جبل المشهد, جبل الصوانة ) is a mountain ( elevation: 2710 feet or 826 meters above sea level ) in northeast Jerusalem.

As evidenced above, the historical progression of New Jerusalem language is specifically tied to conflict.

Since Christianity originated as a sect of Judaism, the history of Jewish places of worship and the currents of thought in ancient Judaism described above served in part as the basis for the development of the Christian conception of the New Jerusalem.

John of Patmos ' vision of the New Jerusalem in the Book of Revelation draws on the Olivet discourse and all the historical precursors mentioned above.