Encyclopedic Dictionary of Bible and Theology

Abu-Hanifah (Or Aboanifa) surnamed Alnuman, perhaps the most famous of all the doctors of orthodox Mussulmans, was the son of Thabet, and was born at Cusa, A.D. 700. He was especially distinguished in matters of the law, and held the first place among the four chiefs of particular sects, who may be followed implicitly in … Continue reading “Abu-Hanifah (Or Aboanifa)”

Abu-Bekr (“father of the virgin”), a caliph, the first successor of Mohammed, was born about A.D. 570. His original name was Abd-el-Caaba, which was changed for his well-known title when his daughter Ayesha became the favorite wife of the prophet. He began to reign in A.D. 632, and died in 634. SEE MOHAMMEDANISM. Fuente: Cyclopedia … Continue reading “Abu-Bekr”

Abu (Horus) was the name of a mystical deity in ch. 64 of the Egyptian Ritual of the Dead. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Abtu was the name of one of the mythological fishes of the Egyptian mysteries. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

abthane (M. L., abthania, abbacy), Term referring to territories of churches and monasteries founded by Celtic monks, chiefly between the mountain chain of the Mounth and the Firth of Forth. Many of them passed into the hands of laymen, who paid tribute to the Church for them. Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary

abthain (M. L., abthania, abbacy), Term referring to territories of churches and monasteries founded by Celtic monks, chiefly between the mountain chain of the Mounth and the Firth of Forth. Many of them passed into the hands of laymen, who paid tribute to the Church for them. Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary Abthain (Or ABTHANE). An … Continue reading “Abthain”

Abtalon, Ben Salomon an Italian rabbi, native of Modena, lived about the middle of the 16th century. He was a member of the academy of Spanish rabbis, at Ferrara. He wrote, Responses to the Epistles of Rabbi Simon (Venice, 1608). See Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s.v. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Absus a river of Palestine, according to Vibius Sequester (see Reland, Palest. p. 297), prob. the gentle stream (mollis) referred to by Lucan (5, 485), and by Caesar (Bell. Civ. 3, 13), as having been crossed by Pompey near Apollonia; hence, no doubt, the brooklet that enters the Mediterranean at this place. Fuente: Cyclopedia of … Continue reading “Absus”

Abstractum (pl. abstracta) (Lat ab + trahere, to draw) An abstractum, in contrast to a concretum or existent is a quality or a relation envisaged by an abstract concept (e.g. redness, equality, truth etc.). The abstractum may be conceived either as an ideal object or as a real, subsistent universal. — L.W. Fuente: The Dictionary … Continue reading “Abstractum (pl. abstracta)”

Abstractionism (Lat. ab, from + trahere, to draw) The illegitimate use of abstraction, and especially the tendency to mistake abstractions for concrete realities. Cf. W. James, The Meaning of Truth, ch XIII. Equivalent to A. N. Whitehead’s “Fallacy of misplaced concreteness.” — L.W. Fuente: The Dictionary of Philosophy