# Revelation

- Id: `revelation`
- Canonical url: `https://prokopton42.com/en/concepts/revelation/`
- Language: `en`
- Editorial status: `substantive_editorial_draft`
- Content checksum: `ff52794927021bfb96befab3071c34bcb7278ce99f8bcb1cb3a8d3a827dbbb49`

## Summary

Revelation is the communication of divine truth through speech, event, or a recognized messenger.

## Overview

In the current corpus, this annotation connects 6,687 passages across 78 works, including Abraham Lincoln Papers: Lincoln-Authored Documents, Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual Documents, Aṅguttara Nikāya: Numerical Discourses. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.

## Definition evidence passages

```json
[
    "passage:muhammad.quran:76.23",
    "passage:schopenhauer.world:supplement-17",
    "passage:troward.law_and_word:VIII"
]
```

## Aliases

```json
[
    "révélation",
    "revelation",
    "qur'an",
    "coran",
    "قرآن",
    "وحي",
    "أنزل"
]
```

## Statistics

```json
{
    "works": 78,
    "passages": 6687,
    "thinkers": 23,
    "traditions": 12
}
```

## Related traditions

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    },
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    },
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        "name": "Judaism",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/judaism/"
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    },
    {
        "id": "skepticism",
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        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/skepticism/"
    },
    {
        "id": "islam",
        "name": "Islam",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/islam/"
    },
    {
        "id": "platonism",
        "name": "Socratic and Platonic thought",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/socratic-and-platonic-thought/"
    },
    {
        "id": "new-thought",
        "name": "New Thought and mental science",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/new-thought-and-mental-science/"
    },
    {
        "id": "christianity",
        "name": "Christianity",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/christianity/"
    }
]
```

## Related works

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    },
    {
        "id": "abraham_lincoln.papers_context",
        "title": "Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual Documents",
        "author": "Correspondents and archival record",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/abraham-lincoln-archive-correspondents/incoming-mail-and-context/"
    },
    {
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        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/buddha/anguttara-nikaya/"
    },
    {
        "id": "buddha.samyutta_nikaya",
        "title": "Saṃyutta Nikāya: Connected Discourses",
        "author": "Siddhartha Gautama / Buddha",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/buddha/samyutta-nikaya/"
    },
    {
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    },
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        "id": "cicero.brutus",
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        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/cicero/brutus/"
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        "author": "Elizabeth Carter",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/elizabeth-carter/vesey-letters/"
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        "id": "elizabeth_carter.bible_notes",
        "title": "Elizabeth Carter’s Notes on the Bible",
        "author": "Elizabeth Carter",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/elizabeth-carter/bible-notes/"
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        "id": "freud.traumdeutung",
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    }
]
```