Texts and commentaries

Radak’s Commentary on the Tanakh

David Kimhi (Radak)

Radak connects the fall of Assyria under Hezekiah with a greater future ingathering under a Davidic ruler, explaining the surviving stump and roots as royal continuity after exile.

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Raj Karega Khalsa: The Khalsa & The Rule

Harinder Singh, Sikh Research Institute

Harinder Singh’s SikhRI essay examines Raj Karega Khalsa, a motto associated with Sikh collective prayer, through a conduct text framed as a dialogue with Guru Gobind Singh.

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The Khalsa will rule →

Harinder Singh on the text’s origin · commentary →

Harinder Singh’s political reading · commentary →

Harinder Singh connects the promise to Sikh rule · commentary →

Raja (Return)

Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi

Distinguishes transfer of spiritual light, a savior's emergence from occultation and the limited revival of selected dead; reports disagree about sequence.

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Rāmānuja’s Gītā Bhāṣya

Ramanuja; English translation by Swami Adidevananda

Explains that divine incarnation has no fixed time restriction and connects it with protecting devotees and restoring dharma.

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Rāmānuja on birth by divine will · commentary →

Knowing the divine birth and escaping rebirth · commentary →

Why the incarnations have no fixed period · commentary →

Ramban’s Commentary on the Torah

Moses ben Nahman (Nachmanides)

The star represents the Messiah gathering Israel’s dispersed people, linked with Daniel’s cloud-coming figure.

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Rashbam’s Commentary on the Torah

Samuel ben Meir (Rashbam)

Reads Shiloh in connection with Rehoboam and the division of the kingdom after Solomon, rather than assuming the phrase identifies a future messiah.

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Rashi on the Babylonian Talmud

Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)

Rashi’s eleventh-century running commentary on the Babylonian Talmud, printed beside the text in the Vilna edition.

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Rashi: the date is the end appointed for redemption · commentary →

Rashi’s Commentary on the Tanakh

Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)

The commentary reads the Davidic shoot as the future Messiah who will redeem the Assyrian exiles, rather than limiting the consolation to Hezekiah.

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Rashi: the ends have passed; Saadia’s 1,335 years · commentary →

Rashi: Saadia’s end has passed; 1,290 years from the daily sacrifice · commentary →

Rashi on Michael, deliverance and resurrection · commentary →

Rashi: children and parents turn each other toward God · commentary →

Rashi: the exiles’ hope in the coming Messiah · commentary →

Rashi on receiving the Spirit and the signs in Joel · commentary →

Rastafari

Susannah Crockford

Documents distinct repatriation expectations associated with Howell, Edwards, Henry, and Fagan, alongside spiritual reinterpretations and varied Rastafari practice.

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Reality at Dawn

Ram Chandra of Shahjahanpur (Babuji)

Forecasts upheaval, a spiritually based world emerging from India, regional catastrophes, and end of material civilization; distinguishes distant total dissolution from nearer transformation.

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Reasons for Believing the Advent Will Be on the 10th of the 7th Month

Samuel S. Snow

Explicitly predicts Christ’s return on the tenth day of the seventh month in 1844. Defends knowable timing against Mark 13:32, combines several chronological schemes, and applies the high priest’s emergence to the future earthly advent.

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Snow’s argument from the autumn festivals · commentary →

Snow’s argument from the autumn festivals · commentary →

Recognitions

Pseudo-Clement; surviving Latin transmission through Rufinus

Sets humble first advent against future judging advent and describes pre-Christian righteous people awaiting resurrection. Apostolic dialogue is a literary attribution.

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References in the Bahai Writings to Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust

Universal House of Justice, Research Department

Documents institutional reception of Jewish restoration prophecy, material and spiritual readings, and interpretation of calamity through the Greater Plan. The 1946 extract restricts political extrapolation; the attachment's 1897 tablet date is attributed to information received by the National Assembly.

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Reflection on the Feast of the Ascension

Metropolitan Tikhon; OCA website

Interprets Ascension as anticipation of the second coming after the gathering of the gentiles.

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Reform Judaism and Zionism: A Centenary Platform (Miami Platform)

Central Conference of American Rabbis

Calls national restoration realization of Abrahamic promise but explicitly describes universal redemption as a distant yearning; treats national renewal as necessary condition and hopes peaceful state will hasten redemption.

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Reform Judaism: A Centenary Perspective

Central Conference of American Rabbis

Says Holocaust shattered easy optimism about inevitable progress; joins peoplehood and State of Israel responsibilities to messianic hope while concluding with Isaiah11 peace imagery and human action.

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Refutation of All Heresies

Attributed to Hippolytus in this edition

Concludes with an appeal concerning fiery judgment, resurrection to incorruptibility, and inheritance with Christ.

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Regarding the Little Mongol State

Nichiren; Soka Gakkai English translation and editorial background

Forbids disciples from commenting on the Mongol attack, documenting management of public reaction around his invasion predictions.

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Relation of the Latest Civil Wars of the Kingdom of Congo and the Antonian Schism

Bernardo da Gallo; English translation by Vincent Barletta

A missionary participant reports conditional destruction warnings tied to restoring the capital, and distinguishes an older visionary from the younger Kimpa Vita.

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Religious Belief System of Daesoonjinrihoe

Soyeon Joo (conference index spells Sayeon)

Connects inherited divine authority, human renewal and participation in the coming earthly paradise.

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Religious Daoism

Fabrizio Pregadio

Explains Daoist Great Peace expectations, descending divine teachers and messianic claims around the founding of the Tang.

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Remarks concerning the timing of the Lesser Peace

Bahai World Centre, Office of Correspondence

Responds to reported Grossmann notes assigning Lesser Peace to 2021. Says notes' accuracy is unclear and former House members' opinions are personal; reaffirms exact peace dates unknown.

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Remarks on the Writings and Prophecies of Joanna Southcott

G. Denham

Challenges sealing as a claimed exclusive path to millennial participation and critiques its relation to election and conduct. Assertions about seal sales, blank papers and adherents’ morals require independent evidence.

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Denham objects to a second Messiah · commentary →

Reply on Armageddon and Megiddo / Mount Carmel

Universal House of Justice, conveying Research Department finding

Reports that the Research Department had found no Bahai-writing references identifying Revelation's Armageddon with Megiddo, Mount Carmel or Bahaullah's revelation, limiting authoritative attribution of such connections.

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