Tekoa
Tekoa or Tekoah , ancient town, S ancient Palestine, S of Bethlehem. It is on the edge of a desolate country; to the east the land drops off precipitously to the Dead Sea. It is mentioned several times in the Bible. The wilderness of Tekoa was the home of Amos.
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Magazine article from: Commonweal; 6/4/1993; ; 289 words
; It is the precise merit of Moffett's bulky history to think of ancient Palestine as a western border of a vibrant Christianity which was in place not only in the area of Syriac speaking peoples, but in ancient...
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Bernhard Lang, The Hebrew God: Portrait of an Ancient Deity.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Biblical Theology Bulletin; 12/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...warriors, and peasants. Lang uses these three types to describe the portrayals of Yahweh, as well as the various gods of ancient Palestine absorbed by Yahweh. He organizes his discussion into five parts: (1) Lord of Wisdom (First Function--sovereignty or dominion...
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Sacred Geography: A Tale of Murder and Archaeology in the Holy Land.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Christian Century; 9/25/2002; ; 554 words
; ...attempt greater objectivity, this recognition has resulted in numerous competing revisionist histories of biblical Israel and ancient Palestine, each loudly claiming its priority. The archaeologist Albert E. Glock became involved in Israeli-Palestinian politics in...
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Magazine article from: Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ); 6/22/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...paid to reconstructing Jewish history to legitimate Zionist designs on Palestine. Said relates, ... how the history of ancient Palestine was gradually replaced by a largely fabricated image of ancient Israel, a political entity that in reality played only...
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Nazareth's rebellious son: deviance and downward mobility in the Galilean Jesus movement.(Company overview)
Magazine article from: Biblical Theology Bulletin; 9/22/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...regularly would fail to see how such passages can provide the modern reader with important insights about village life in ancient Palestine. Conditioned by middle-class values and the assertion that religion and politics must always be separated, the same contemporary...
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Magazine article from: Biblical Theology Bulletin; 12/22/2002; 700+ words
; ...International Biblical Commentary. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 2001. Pp. x + 397. Paper, $11.95. Gosta W. Ahlstrom, ANCIENT PALESTINE: A HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION. Minneapolis, MN, Fortress, 2002. Pp. 96. Paper, $9.95 Goulder, Michael D. PAUL AND THE COMPETING...
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Celebrating innocence: the pattern of possibility revealed by the Immaculate Conception.(REFLECTION)
Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter; 12/9/2005; ; 687 words
; ...with lonely human beings longing desperately for reasons to hope and trust, what may it mean to say that a young girl in ancient Palestine came suddenly--or perhaps gradually, it is hard (and ultimately not necessary) to say--came suddenly to the realization...
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Abe's other son: Jews and Arabs, both descendants of Abraham and recipients of God's covenants. (Vox populi - Justice for all).(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Presbyterian Record; 11/1/2001; ; 653 words
; ...three covenants: Judaism, Christianity, Islam, The Qur'an calls them People of the Book. The two modern inhabitants of ancient Palestine at each other's throats is a picture of irony, sibling rivalry at its worst. If only we Christians, thrust in between the...
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Exchange and property rights in the light of Biblical values.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Journal of Private Enterprise; 3/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...significant research since Polanyi has tended to undermine this claim and laid weight on the rise of market institutions in ancient Palestine which brought challenges to these various forms of nonmarket conventions (Silver, 1995; Temin, 2001; Freyne, 2004). This...
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The Milky Way.(Video recording review)
Magazine article from: Cineaste; 3/22/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...transubstantiation. The unities are not respected, to put it mildly: the pilgrimage takes detours into medieval Europe and ancient Palestine, and the tramps count the Marquis de Sade, the Virgin Mary, Satan, and Jesus himself among their fellow travelers. What...
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Ashur
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
, in the Bible, founder of Tekoa.
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Amos
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
Amos a Hebrew minor prophet ( c. 760 bc), a shepherd of Tekoa, near Jerusalem; also, a book of the Bible containing his prophecies.
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Simeon Bar Yoḥai
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
...was betrayed to the Romans and was forced to live in hiding for twelve years. After he emerged, he established a yeshivah in Tekoa. He is traditionally credited with the authorship of the Zohar . Kabbalists remember his death on the festival of Lag Ba-Omer...
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Mildred Bailey
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...York City's most popular jazz clubs. Began Performing at an Early Age Bailey was born Mildred Rinker on February 27, 1907, in Tekoa, a small town in eastern Washington state, close to the border with Idaho. While she was still quite young, Bailey moved with...
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