...the last canonical book of the New Testament in the Bible. It is the only biblical book that is wholly composed of apocalyptic literature. The book is frequen
...s, Patriarch of Constantinople. In the end it was included in the accepted canon, although it remains the only book of the New Testament that is not read wi
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...riental Orthodox, Anglican, and Protestant - has confessed on the basis of biblical revelation the reality (or ontological existence) of a fallen angel known a
...attered throughout both the Old and New Testament. Outside of the biblical canon, demonology is found in the pseudepigraphal writings, such as the First Boo
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...och'' and ''Jubilees'', but this is also the view presented in a few extra-biblical, yet ancient works, particularly the Conflict of Adam and Eve with Satan.
...chronicled more fully in the ''Book of Enoch'' (part of Ethiopian biblical canon).
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...However, since it is based upon scripture, its significance in the Western canon has first been reinterpreted and later dwindled with the dominance of secul
Milton's ''Paradise Lost'' was, apart from straight quotations of biblical texts, the basis on which the libretto for Joseph Haydn's oratorio ''Die Sc
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...but as successful resurrections, like those described in the tales of the biblical character Lazarus and the Phoenix. By the end of the poem, the speaker has
In the canon of comic author Osamu Tezuka the phoenix is often featured as both a litera
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...eed for secrecy, led alchemists to borrow the terms and symbols of [[Bible|biblical]] and pagan [[mythology]], [[astrology]], [[kabbalah]], and other mystic an
*Geofrey Chaucer, ''Canon's Yeoman's Tale'' (ca. 1380). The main character, an alchemist on the way t
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