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 Massacre of the Innocents: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Infanticide is the practice of intentionally causing the death of an infant....
The Massacre of the Innocents is not mentioned in any other canonical gospel[For more info, click on this link], EHandler: no quick summary.
Artistsa of the Renaissance took inspiration for their "Massacres" from Roman reliefs of the battle of the Lapiths and Centaur[Click link for more facts about this topic]s to the extent that they showed the figures heroically nude.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/ma/massacre_of_the_innocents.htm   (1774 words)

  
 Massacre of the Innocents   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Massacre of the Innocents is the name given to the alleged slaughter, according to the Gospel of Matthew (2:16), of all boys "from two years old and under" of Bethlehem when Jesus was born.
This was ordered by Herod the Great because he had been informed that, according to old prophesies and the appearance of a star, one of them would be known as "King of the Jews", but he did not know which boy.
The Massacre is not mentioned in any other canonical gospel, nor by any secular historian.
publicliterature.org /en/wikipedia/m/ma/massacre_of_the_innocents.html   (259 words)

  
 Massacre of The Innocents Section @ GreatArtworks.com (Great Artworks)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Another difficulty with the quote is that Bethlehem is in Judah, and thus tradition held it to be descended from Leah not Rachel.
Guido Reni's early (1611) Massacre of the Innocents, in an unusual vertical format, is at Bologna [3].
Another, his hectic Massacre of the Innocents is one of the most valuable paintings in the world, after being purchased by Kenneth Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet for £49.5 million GBP (then equal to some $76.7 million USD) at a 2002 Sotheby's auction [5] (see List of most expensive paintings).
www.greatartworks.com /encyclopedia/Massacre_of_the_Innocents   (1226 words)

  
 Massacre of the Innocents - Art History Online Reference and Guide
The Massacre of the Innocents is the name given to the infanticide in Bethlehem, according to the Gospel of Matthew 2:16–18:
Guido Reni's early (1611) Massacre of the Innocents, in an unusual vertical format, is at Bologna [2].
Another, his hectic Massacre of the Innocents is one of the most valuable paintings in the world, after being purchased by Kenneth Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet for £49.5 million GBP (then equal to some $76.7 million USD) at a 2002 Sotheby's auction [4] (see List of most expensive paintings).
www.arthistoryclub.com /art_history/Massacre_of_the_Innocents   (616 words)

  
 Innocents, Massacre of the - International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
The ecclesiastical treatment of the incident is remarkable because of the exaggeration which was indulged in as to the extent of the massacre and the number of victims.
At an early date the Greek church canonized 14,000, and afterward, by a curious misinterpretation of Revelation 14:1,3, the number was increased to 144,000.
The murder of the Innocents was another crime of the same sort.
www.searchgodsword.com /enc/isb/view.cgi?number=T4611   (1689 words)

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