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Ahab
The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
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Ahab a king of ancient Israel who persecuted the prophets, husband of
Jezebel, who allowed her persecution and arranged killing of
Naboth; Ahab was warned by the prophet
Elijah that his sin would bring disaster on his dynasty.
Captain Ahab in Herman Melville's novel
Moby Dick (1851), the whaling captain whose leg has been bitten off by the white whale,
Moby Dick, and who is monomaniacally determined on revenge; his obsession leads, after a three-day pursuit, to the destruction of his ship, the
Pequod, and the deaths of all but one (see
Ishmael) of her crew.
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The Ahab syndrome: Why Olmert should resign now
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 12/17/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...Jerusalem Post 12-17-2008 Headline: The Ahab syndrome: Why Olmert should resign now...the sad but enlightening story of King Ahab. Perhaps he would learn the lesson of...seduced by the power of his authority. Ahab was one of the most successful and accomplished...
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Was Captain Ahab Ahead of His Time?
Transcript from: NPR All Things Considered; 3/10/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...Things Considered 03-10-2008 Was Captain Ahab Ahead of His Time? Host: ROBERT SIEGEL...Norris. It is a classic image - Captain Ahab from Herman Melville's Moby-Dick on...GREGORY PECK (Actor): (As Captain Ahab) Mr. Starbuck, are you opposing me...
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Review of Jerome T. Walsh, Ahab: The Construction of a King.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Bible and Critical Theory; 6/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; REVIEW OF JEROME T. WALSH, AHAB: THE CONSTRUCTION OF A KING (COLLEGEVILLE...study of the biblical portrait of King Ahab in I Kings 16:29-22:40. Walsh suggests...answered are: How does the text itself depict Ahab? How has the text undergone change as...
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"Culpability and transgression in the monomania of Ahab".
Magazine article from: Melville Society Extracts; 7/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; Accounts of Ahab's hunt for the white whale in Herman Melville...disorder. In fact, Ishmael probes deep into Ahab's mind to tease out the details of the...immense value to an analysis of Captain Ahab's monomania, because an increase in Ahab...
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What's Eating Ahab? The Logic of Ingestion and the Performance of Meaning in Moby-Dick.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Style; 3/22/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...Dick, Herman Melville describes Captain Ahab as "a man of greatly superior natural...Yet, for some reason, Ishmael, and not Ahab, has remained the darling of Melville...sophisticated but oblique performances of Ahab is a serious critical blunder--a move...
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Ahab's Wife, or The Star Gazer: A wider/deeper view of Melville's tragic hero and his times
Magazine article from: Journal of American & Comparative Cultures; 4/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; In the opening pages of her novel, Ahab's Wife, Sena Jeter Naslund quotes Melville...Captain Peleg says that "the old man" Ahab has a young, "sweet, resigned wife" and child; so he concludes, "Ahab has his humanities! (xvii-xviii...
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Ahab's wife tells her tale in Henson puppet theater fete
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 7/29/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...author Herman Melville mentions Captain Ahab's wife all of three times in the 700-odd pages. While the embittered Ahab slices through waves in his hunt for...area artists have collaborated to infuse Ahab's wife with a resonant voice, offering...
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Ahab and Jezebel, one of the Bible's most 'colorful' couples
Newspaper article from: Redlands Daily Facts; 2/1/2007; 700+ words
; ...Judas and Caiaphas. This week: evil King Ahab and his provocative wife, Jezebel. To mention the name Ahab today is to conjure up at best the image...ethics of some of the previous kings. King Ahab ruled the kingdom of Israel from around 874...
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THE WOMAN BEHIND CAPTAIN AHAB GETS HER DUE.(A&E)(Review - Book - Fiction\"Ahab's Wife: Or, The Star Gazer")(Review)
Newspaper article from: St Louis Post-Dispatch (MO); 10/3/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...Jeter Naslund has done just that with "Ahab's Wife." The novel opens with the compelling statement, "Captain Ahab was neither my first husband nor my last...fearless: a heroine who is the legendary Ahab's equal. Born in the Kentucky wilderness...
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The temptations of Ahab
Magazine article from: Canadian Mennonite; 5/12/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...about, let alone sympathetic to, King Ahab. He was an evil man, rotten to the core...With that warning we know that every time Ahab makes an appearance he is the villain...conclusion that I had more in common with Ahab than with either of the other two main...
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Ahab
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Ahab , d. c.853 BC, king of Israel (c.874-c.853 BC), son and successor of Omri 1. Ahab was one of the greatest kings of the northern...with Jehoshaphat 1, king of Judah, made Ahab sure of his less powerful neighbor to the...
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Ahab, Captain
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
Ahab, Captain, character in Moby‐Dick .
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Moby‐Dick; Or, The Whale
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
...conflict between man and his fate. Captain Ahab declares, “All visible objects...sails on Christmas Day. The captain, Ahab, is a monomaniac whose one purpose is...circumstances seem to conspire against Ahab: storms, lightning, loss of the compass...
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Melville, Herman
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea
...the undying love/hate relationship between Captain Ahab, of the whaler Pequod , and Moby-Dick, an immense...encounter had been responsible for the loss of one of Ahab's legs. Ahab searches for the whale halfway round the world, having...
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Stevens, Ray
Book article from: Contemporary Musicians
...into the business in 1962 with “ Ahab the Arab. ” Stevens ’...after he hit the Top Ten with “ Ahab the Arab. ” A quintessentially silly song, “ Ahab the Arab ” describes the adventures...
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