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R.D. Laing: A Divided Self.
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October 19, 1996
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THE WINGS OF MADNESS: THE LIFE AND WORK OF R.D. LAING. By Daniel Burston. Harvard University Press; 288 pages; $35 and [Pounds] 23.50. R.D. LAING: A DIVIDED SELF. By John Clay. Hodder and Stoughton; 308 pages; [Pounds] 20 "DID you use to be R.D. Laing?" was the plaintive title of a television film made in 1988 about modern Britain's most controversial psychiatrist. A stranger had asked Laing the question in the street. Once famous and influential as a radical therapist, he had sunk into obscurity, his humane ideas about treating psychoses clouded in a fog of leftism, ...
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Olmert's Solomonic quest
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post
; ...King David's self-appointed successor, Adonijah, who rode a chariot accompanied by 50 armed...alive. Eventually, Solomon was crowned and Adonijah was executed. Olmert is clearly no Adonijah. He kept public appearances at a minimum...
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Sex, Honor, and Power in the Deuteronomistic History
Magazine article from: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly
; ...father's concubines. In 1 Kings 2, Adonijah's request for Abishag is an attempt...her simply a "conduit" manipulated by Adonijah. He ignores Bathsheba's own prestigious...motivations behind her agreement to bring Adonijah's request to her son. In spite of...
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 "The Birmingham Post (England)")
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Theme for Today.(Features)
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England)
; ...nearly missed becoming king. His brother Adonijah, on hearing that their father, King...have been ruthless with the likes of Adonijah. Yet Solomon showed great mercy to the usurper. Even so, Adonijah later tried to double-cross him...
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 "The Racing Post (London, England)")
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Absalom breeder Williamson dies.(Sports)
Newspaper article from: The Racing Post (London, England)
; ...sprinter Absalom, useful hurdler Cima and high-class miler Adonijah, has died. He was 92. Williamson, who was a member of the...won 11 races, including the 1978 Vernons Sprint Cup, and Adonijah was a Group-race winner on the Flat. Cima was runner-up...
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Mikra'ot Gedolot 'Haketer': Psalms, Parts I and II: A revised and augmented scientific edition of 'Mikra'ot Gedolot,' based on the Aleppo Codex and Early Medieval MSS
Magazine article from: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly
; ...taken from Jer 26:10. Edited by Jacob ben Hayyim ibn Adonijah (ca. 1470-1538), the four Bomberg volumes contained the...is attributable to the triumphalist argument. (Jacob ben Adonijah himself converted some time after editing the Bomberg Bible...
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REUNION NEWS
Newspaper article from: Charleston Gazette
; ...products and soft drinks will be provided. Vince Abston, 925-3783. Adonijah School/Community: 1 p.m., Sunday, June 29, Laurel Fork Baptist Church, Adonijah. Bring a covered dish or dessert. No alcohol or drugs allowed. Burnwell...
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1 Kings
Magazine article from: Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society
; ...For example, the word plays involving melek and the name Adonijah (1:13-14, 18-21, pp. 11, 13) have a definite effect...Nathan cleverly presents the issue of succession as putting Adonijah at odds with David, diplomatically deemphasizing Solomon...
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Queen mother syndrome.(Opinion & Editorial)
Newspaper article from: Manila Bulletin
; ...mother. In the Book of 1 Kings, of the Old Testament, we find Adonijah, the handsome son of King David and Haggith declaring himself...king to intercede for her son Solomon to be king instead of Adonijah. The reply of King David was: "Solomon your son shall be...
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Reunion News
Newspaper article from: Charleston Gazette
; ...products and soft drinks will be provided. Vince Abston, 925-3783. Adonijah School/Community: 1 p.m., Sunday, June 29, Laurel Fork Baptist Church, Adonijah. Bring a covered dish or dessert. No alcohol or drugs allowed. Bufflick...
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The Psalmist King; Warrior, lover, father, poet: the many faces of Israel's greatest and all-too-human monarch.
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...of his eldest son, Amnon, who rapes his half-sister; of Adonijah, who tries to seize the throne; and of the king's youngest, Solomon, who is chosen by David over Adonijah. But the emotional highlight of David's story, as told here...
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