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Leviathan - A sea serpent or cosmic monster representing forces of chaos in biblical literature
Mandaeism - an ancient, Gnostic, monotheistic, and ethnoreligious tradition originating in Lower Mesopotamia.
Masoretic Text - The authoritative Hebrew text of the Old Testament, with the oldest surviving copies dating to approximately 1000 CE.
Mendicant - Refers to traveling preachers or apostles who renounce personal property and live by daily begging and community support.
Messiah - comes from a Hebrew term meaning "anointed one". It describes a savior or leader chosen by God.
Miaphysitism - a Christian teaching that says Jesus Christ is both fully God and fully man, joined together in one single, united nature
Michael the Archangel - chief heavenly messenger and spiritual warrior in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
Monolatry - the belief that many gods exist, but a person or group chooses to worship only one single deity.
Monotheism - The belief in a single, supreme God, replacing earlier polytheistic or pagan frameworks and introducing questions about why an all-good, all-powerful God allows evil.
Monotheism - the belief that there is only one God.
Monotheist - a person who believes that there is only one supreme God.
Mosaic Law - the law said to have been revealed to Moses by God. The term primarily refers to the Torah or the first five books of the Hebrew Bible
Myophosetism - The Christological doctrine that in the person of Jesus Christ, divine nature and human nature are united in a single nature.