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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 1998 A genetic annealing model for the universal ancestor of all extant life is presented; the name of the model derives from its resemblance to physical annealing. The scenario pictured starts when “genetic temperatures” were very high, cellular entities (progenotes) were very simple, and information processing systems were inaccurate.
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Ancestor worship - is it Biblical?
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2008 Ancestor worship is practiced in different forms around the world today, even in societies participating in the modern global economy. Ancestral beliefs are deeply dependent on the premise that the souls of the dead may return to the living and influence
Choon Sup Bae, P. J. van der Merwe
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Eschatology in African Traditional Religion and African Christianity: Implications for Biblical and Theological Scholarship in Africa [PDF]
E-Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, 2023 African traditional religion has many concepts that present alternative and a variety of contexts for Christianity, theology and biblical scholarship in Africa which can also provide appropriate answers to the many questions of African Christians. One of
Edward Agboada
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Reincarnation Christology in African Christian Theology [PDF]
E-Journal of Religious and Theological Studies, 2023 The subject of reincarnation has been considered a reserve of primal (esoteric) religions or cultures. Therefore, it has not been thoroughly studied to decipher the philosophical and theological issues thereof. Notwithstanding, what seems to be the total
Edward Agboada , Francis Appiah Kubi
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Samuel Johnson’s view about Oduduwa in connection with the origins of the Yoruba
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2020 The most favourable explanation pertaining to the Yoruba origin is that of the Oduduwa tradition according to which he is the original ancestor of the Yoruba people.
Agai M. Jock
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Dogmatic Construction of Universal Legal Succession in the Field of Inheritance Law
Bulletin of Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs, 2020 The purpose of the article is to clarify the essence of universal legal succession in the field of inheritance law. The relevance of the research topic is due to a number of factors.
O. Ye. Kukharyev
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Asia Anteriore Antica, 2020 Death remains a fascinating and challenging issue for archaeological research. Sometimes, however, it is astonishing how rationally and unemotionally archaeologists and anthropologists approach it.
Dominik Bonatz
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Wacana: Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia, 2016 This paper examines some significant elements of the pig story (tiboi sakkoko). This tale contains crucial information about the collective identity, ancestors and historical events affecting particular Mentawai kin-groups.
Juniator Tulius
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Ancestor artefacts - ancestor materials. [PDF]
Oxford Journal of Archaeology, 2010 Ancestor artefacts (objects of an earlier period, valued for their age and associations, which are retained into a later period) are normally identified by archaeologists owing to the difference between the date of the object and its context. These valued artefacts often demonstrate evidence of veneration (collection, cleaning and care).
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Pallas, 2021 Based on a large sample of inscriptions from Asia Minor, this paper develops a quantitative approach to the display of kinship by individuals honoured with titles.
Anna Heller
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