Introduction Karaism, a messianic Jewish movement founded in the Middle Ages, sought to redefine Jewish religious practice by re-centering it on the “Written Law” (i.e., the Hebrew Bible) in its entirety, and rejecting the “Oral Law” as codified in the Mishnah and Talmud. The Karaites also reversed the structure of the traditional Jewish canon, placing biblical study and the sub-disciplines rel...

It has been suggested by some recent exegetes that Matthew 22:14 may well have been a typical remark made by our Lord to bring to a conclusion any of the parables dealing with the messianic kingdom; that its position at the end of the Parable of the Wedding Feast may have been owing to the Evangelist himself. Be that as it may, we still have the difficulty of ex­ plaining the verse in some cont...

The Shiite school has been the promoter of movements that have stood up to oppression, and this political thought has shaped Shiite political and social movements and movements throughout history. Historically, the turning point of the Shiite revolution and the formation of Shiite protest movements and events is the Ashura event, and the land of Karbala as the holy land of the Shiites and the p...

The early Sasanian period witnessed a variety of religious beliefs in competition. clash between Kirdīr and Mani represents just an episode the triumph Mazdean church over Manichaeism, as well other formations listed Kirdīr’s inscriptions. Persian Zoroastrianism constituted stronghold power hegemony at heart Empire. Yet, peripheral Eastern Iran Central Asia featured aspects regional Mazdeism, s...