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• Christian Use of the Alphabet —     Christian Use of the Alphabet     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Christian Use of the Alphabet     The Hebrew, Greek and Latin alphabets have been variously made use of in Christian liturgy. During Holy Week the Hebrew alphabet is sung, each of… …   Catholic encyclopedia

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• ALPHABET, HEBREW — The origin of alphabetic script has always been a subject of human curiosity. According to Greek mythology, script was brought to Greece from Phoenicia. This tradition was accepted by the Greek and Roman writers, some of whom developed it even… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

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• alphabet — /al feuh bet , bit/, n. 1. the letters of a language in their customary order. 2. any system of characters or signs with which a language is written: the Greek alphabet. 3. any such system for representing the sounds of a language: the phonetic… …   Universalium

• History of the Latin alphabet — The Latin alphabet originated in the 7th century BC, undergoing a history of 2,500 years before emerging as one of the dominant writing systems in use today.OriginsIt is generally held that the Latins adopted the western variant of the Greek… …   Wikipedia

• Alphabet maltais — L’alphabet maltais est l’alphabet utilisé pour écrire le maltais. C’est le seul exemple d alphabet permettant d écrire une langue sémitique qui soit fondé sur l’alphabet latin moderne. Pour cela, il comprend, outre les lettres de l alphabet latin …   Wikipédia en Français

• Christian meditation — A woman praying on Candlemas Day, by Marianne Stokes, 1901. Christian meditation is a form of prayer in which a structured attempt is made to get in touch with and deliberately reflect upon the revelations of God.[1] The word meditation comes… …   Wikipedia

• Christian persecution of paganism after Theodosius I until the fall of the Roman Empire — Ivory diptych of a priestess of Ceres, still in fully classical style, ca 400: the idol was defaced and thrown in a well at Montier en Der (later an abbey) where it was found. (Musée de Cluny) Christian persecution of paganism after Theodosius I… …   Wikipedia