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Exodus, the liberation of the people of Israel from slavery in Egypt in the 13th century BCE, under the leadership of Moses; also, the Old Testament book of the same name.
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After "the LORD came down upon mount Sinai", Moses went up briefly and returned with stone tablets and prepared the people, and then in Exodus 20 "God spoke" to all the people the words of the covenant, that is, the "ten commandments" as it is written.
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A series of religious wars initiated, supported, and sometimes dictated by the Latin Church in the medieval period.
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The majority of Biblical scholars believe that the written books were a product of the Babylonian captivity
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Muhammad's message was that God had chosen him to preach what was revealed to him and that life will be lived in the submission to the will of Allah.
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The Virgin Mary, pregnant with the son of God, would hence have given birth to Jesus nine months later on the winter solstice.
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Jesus is stripped and nailed to the Cross. Above his head is placed a sign that says 'King of the Jews'.
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Christians were first, and horribly, targeted for persecution as a group by the emperor Nero in 64 AD. A colossal fire broke out at Rome, and destroyed much of the city.
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Jerusalem fell; the Temple was burned, and the Jewish state collapsed, although the fortress of Masada was not conquered by the Roman general Flavius Silva until April 73
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In 313 AD, the Emperor Constantine issued the Edict of Milan, which accepted Christianity: 10 years later, it had become the official religion of the Roman Empire.
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The fall of the Western Roman Empire was the process of decline in the Western Roman Empire in which the Empire failed to enforce its rule, and its vast territory was divided into several successor polities.
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His father died before he was born and he was raised first by his grandfather and then his uncle.
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Muslims believe that the Quran was verbally revealed from God to Muhammad through the angel Gabriel gradually over a period of approximately 23 years
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When Bilal's master, Umayyah ibn Khalaf found out he had converted to Islam, he began violently to torture Bilal.
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Shia and Sunni Islam are the two major denominations of Islam. They chose sides following the death of the Islamic prophet Muhammad in AD 632.
