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Assamias ASSAMIAS (AV [Note: Authorized Version.] Assanias).One of twelve priests entrusted with the holy vessels on the return to Jerusalem, 1Es 8:54. Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible Assamias a-sa-mas (Codex Vaticanus, , Assamas; Codex Alexandrinus, , Asamas; the King James Version Assanias; compare Hashabiah (Ezr 8:24)): Assamias (chief priest) returned with Ezra to Jerusalem. … Continue reading “Assamias”

Assamese Version Assam is a British province, now forming part of the eastern frontier of India. The original language of the Assamese ination was the Ahom, a branch of the Siamese family of languages. When the people adopted the religion of Bengal in the middle of the 17th century, they also gradually habitated themselves to … Continue reading “Assamese Version”

Assam, British India, Prefecture Apostolic of Comprises the provinces of Assam, Bhutan, and Manipur; established, 1889; entrusted to the Salesians of Don Bosco (Turin, Italy ). Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary

Assam A Prefecture Apostolic in the ecclesiastical province of Calcutta, India, established in 1889. It is served by the “Society of the Divine Saviour,” whose mother-house is at Rome. The priests have a residence at Shillong. Assam includes the civil province of Assam, with Bhuthan and Manipur. The native population is 7,000,000. The Catholics number … Continue reading “Assam”

Assalimoth ( v. r. ), son of Josaphias of the ” sons” of Bania, who returned with 160 retainers from their exile (1Es 8:36); evidently the SHELOMITH SEE SHELOMITH (q.v.) of the genuine text (Ezr 8:10). Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature Assalimoth a-sali-moth. See SALIMOTH (Apocrypha). Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

Assaf an idol of the Koreishite Arabians. Every tribe and every family, as well as that of Koreish, had a particular idol, which they worshipped. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Assabias ( v. r. ), one of the ” captains over thousands” who presented victims for the Passover under Josiah (1Es 1:9); evidently the HASHABIAH SEE HASHABIAH (q.v.) of 2Ch 35:9. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

ass worship Onolatry (ass-worship) was attributed by Roman writers to the Jews and later to the Christians. The famous caricature of the Palatine represents a Christian worshiping a crucified figure with the head of an ass. There are other representations of the early centuries. In the Catacombs there is a fresco in which the ass … Continue reading “Ass-Worship”

Ass, The, in Caricature of Christians The calumny of onolatry, or ass-worship, attributed by Tacitus and other writers to the Jews, was afterwards, by the hatred of the latter, transferred to the Christians (Tac., I, v, 3, 4; Tert., Apol., xvi; “Ad nationes”, I, 14). A short time before he wrote the latter of these … Continue reading “Ass, The, in Caricature of Christians”

Ass Of Balaam Here we shall only inquire whether it were a reality or an allegory; an imagination, or a vision of Balaam. Augustine, with the greater number of commentators, supposes it was a certain fact, and takes it literally (Qucest. in Genesis 48, 50). He discovers nothing in the whole relation more surprising than … Continue reading “Ass Of Balaam”