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| First patriarch of Judaism and his wife |
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| will appear before the second coming of Christ claiming to be Christ |
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| ancient city of Mesopotamia |
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| Hebrew prophet who prayed when it was forbidden. Survived a night with lions for his faith |
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| written by Dante Alighieri. Describes Dante's descent through hell, purgatory and heaven |
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| young boy who slayed Goliath with a slingshot |
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| an early paradise for Adam and Eve |
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| Jewish woman married to a Persian king |
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| tricked his enemies into thinking his small army was big using trumpets |
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| A huge Philistine warrior who was defeated by David |
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| a generous person who is ready to provide aid to people in distress without hesitation |
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| first four books of the New Testament |
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| Maid of Sarah and her child who became a wandering outcast |
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| the King of Hebrews who ordered John the Baptist beheaded and all Jewish males under the age of two killed |
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| vessel used by Jesus at the Last Supper. |
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| The son of Abraham who was nearly sacrificed |
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| Son of Isaac and brother to Esau, had twelve sons who became the twelve tribes of Israel |
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| Jesus Christ/carpenter/lamb |
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| a figure of martyrdom, sacrifice, and loving forgiveness |
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| wife of Ahab, notorious for evil and vicious acts |
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| Lived a terrible life with the devil constantly ruining things but he never lost his faith in God |
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| announced Jesus' coming. Baptized Jesus and was one of his followers |
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| one of twelve original disciples of Jesus. Sold out Jesus for thirty pieces of silver |
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| a Hebrew whom God commanded to go to Nineveh to tell the people to stop sinning. swallowed by a whale for fleeing form God's command and then went to Nineveh |
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| firstborn son of Rachel and Jacob, sold to Egypt as a slave by his brothers and became the pharaoh's right-hand man. |
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| a man Jesus raised from the dead |
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| one of Jesus' most famous miracle's, multiplied bread and fish to feed many people |
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| Lucifer/Devil/Beelzebub/flies |
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| originally God's right-hand angel, attempted to overthrow God and failed and was sentenced to live in hell |
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| the father and virgin mother of Jesus |
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| a prostitute who was accepted by Jesus and became a devout follower |
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| Moses led the Jews from slavery in Egypt and Aaron spoke for Moses because of Moses' stutter |
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| built an ark on which all animals on earth went to escape from a flood which lasted 40 days and 40 nights |
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| an epic poem by the 17th century poet John Milton. The poem follows the rise of man and the expulsion from Eden |
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| preached on the road about Christ while running from the Romans |
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| the first "pope" of the Christian church |
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| the traditional enemies of the Hebrews |
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| a wastrel who returns home and is welcomed with open arms |
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| wives of Jacob. Jacob fell in love with Rachel but was tricked into marrying Leah but was eventually granted Rachel as a second wife |
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| Naomi was a Hebrew whose son married Ruth, a foreigner. After the son died Ruth chose to stay with Naomi rather than returning to her people |
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| Samson had great strength because he never cut his hair but was betrayed by Delilah his wife who cut his hair |
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| the desert where the Jews roamed for many years, before getting to the Promised Land |
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| two cities destroyed by God for their sins |
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| king of Hebrews known for his wisdom |
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| the Wise Men who followed the star to Bethlehem to see baby Jesus the night he was born |
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| the one tree Adam and Eve were forbidden to eat from |
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| Greek hero who was the son of Zeus and was invincible except for his heel |
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| a mortal youth who was loved by Aphrodite for his great beauty and later killed by a wild boar |
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| goddess of love and beauty |
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| god of the sun; patron of healing |
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| a mortal who was a great weaver and turned into a spider by Athena |
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| sister of Apollo, goddess of the hunt and patron of virgins |
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| goddess of wisdom and battle strategy |
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| a race of beings half man and half horse, known for fighting and lustiness |
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| a three-headed dog who watches the entrance to Hades (the underworld) |
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| the void that existed before everything else |
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| the wily, youngest and most terrible of Uranus' children, Lord of Titans and Titan of time |
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| a race of one-eyed giants |
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| An inventor who built the labyrinth and his son who fell to his death when they flew away on artificial wings |
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| a princess whom Zeus abducted and raped, when he was in the shape of a bull |
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| god of the underworld. Also god of wealth |
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| god of fire; a blacksmith; only god who is deformed-rejected son of Zeus and Hera |
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| a son of Zeus and a mortal famous for his strength and endurance |
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| the messenger of the gods |
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| was given his wish that everything he touched would turn into gold but killed his daughter and nearly starved to death |
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| monster half man and half bull, wild and violent, demands sacrifices yearly of Greek youths and maidens |
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| Echo could only repeat what others said and Narcissus became enamored with himself and turned into a flower by a lake after staring at his reflection for so long |
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| the goddess of retributive justice or vengeance |
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| King of Ithaca and took ten years to return home after the Trojan War. |
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| abandoned at birth by his parents who were trying to avoid a prophecy that he would kill his father and marry his mother, which came true and he blinded himself and went into exile |
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| god of the forests, flocks and shepherds. One of a group of satyrs |
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| the first mortal woman and released all of the ills that would befall man from a box, only hope remained |
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| son of the last king of Troy who was forced to give a golden apple to whom he thought was the fairest between Aphrodite, Athena and Hera |
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| Demeter is the goddess of agriculture and Persephone is her daughter who marries Hades. Nothing can grow for six months of the year because Demeter wants her daughter back |
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| a bird that is immortal, but dies in a self-built pyre every 500 or 600 years and is then reborn from the ashes. |
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| a Titan who created man from clay, Later, he stole fire from the gods and gave it to man against the will of zeus |
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| a great mortal beauty who Venus grew jealous of and Cupid loved, she later became the goddess of emotion |
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| a wealthy man who cheated the living and the gods. He was sentenced by Zeus to forever push a boulder up a hill, only to fail before it reaches the top |
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| the river that divides the land of the living from Hades, the land of the dead |
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| a group of nymphs who lived on islands and lured men to their destruction with their sweet singing |
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| ruled the world before the gods after dethroning their father Uranus |
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| the west wind, which is known for being warm and soft |
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| king of gods- allotted the dominion of the sky |
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