Nazirite
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
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Nazirite (Heb.,
nazar, ‘dedicate’). A Jewish ascetic who vows to abstain from grape products, from cutting hair, and from touching a corpse. The rules for Nazirites are described in Numbers 6. 1–21 and in the tractate ‘Nazir’ in the order
Nāshim of the
Mishnah.
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Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 9/16/2001; ; 700+ words
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Magazine article from: Contemporary Review; 2/1/1995; ; 700+ words
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Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 9/26/1998; 700+ words
; ...he said, ''regard health and illness as a matter of personal duty and responsibility.'' Like the characters in Samuel Butler's ''Erewhon'' (where illness is a crime) ''they react to incapacity with feelings of embarrassment, shame...
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Authors & events
Newspaper article from: Concord Monitor; 8/30/2009; 457 words
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Octavia Butler: a retrospective.
Magazine article from: Feminist Studies; 6/22/2007; ; 700+ words
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Newspaper article from: Westside Gazette; 4/1/2004; 700+ words
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Sci-Fi and Today's Reality: An interview with award-winning author Ted Chiang
Newspaper article from: International Examiner; 12/2/2003; ; 700+ words
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Samuel Butler
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
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Book article from: American Eras
...appropriating the utopian form American authors tapped a well-established...in 1516, when the British author Sir Thomas More (1477 or 1478...s New Atlantis (1627) and Samuel Butler’s Erewhon (1872...cultural commentary. Many authors employed utopian fiction to...
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New Zealand literature
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...literary tradition, though only a few of its authors are well-known outside its islands: Katherine...Zealand has also figured in the works of many authors from Alfred Domett and Samuel Butler in the 19th cent. to the present-day students...
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Poets' Corner
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
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Modern Chivalry
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
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