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RICKETS SHEDS LIGHT ON HOW RACIAL DISPARITIES HAPPEN
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[PUBLISHED CORRECTION - DATE: Tuesday, November 8, 2005:
Correction: Because of a reporting error, the Pediatric Perspective
column about the bone disease rickets in yesterday's Health/Science
section mischaracterized how the body processes calcium. The hormone
that activates the withdrawal of calcium from the bones comes from
the parathyroid glands. Calcium is absorbed from food in the small
intestine.]
Last spring, Mareana Powell noticed something wrong with her 17-
month-old son Jacob's walk. A few days later, a family friend took
the boy to a playground, where he fell it seemed minor, ...
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Persia and the Bible.
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society
; ...concisely the evidence for the Medes in Assyrian literature...the Book of Daniel and Darius the Mede, as well as the use of...designate both Persians and Medes in the Bible, are then...He also deals well with Darius, his accession and his...
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Daniel
Magazine article from: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly
; ...Nebuchadnezzar in Daniel 2 as the Medes, Persians, and Greeks...some have interpreted "Darius the Mede" to be Cyrus's general...Look at the Gestalt of 'Darius the Mede,' " CBQ 50...himself shows that "Darius the Mede" is actually a part of the ...
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Aramaic Daniel and Greek Daniel: A Literary Comparison
Magazine article from: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly
; ...little scholarly consensus" about Darius the Mede, ignoring the fact that there is a strong scholarly consensus that Darius the Mede is not a historical figure...Another Look at the Gestalt of `Darius the Mede,'" CBQ 50 [1988] 198...
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Handwriting on the wall for affirmative action
News Wire article from: University Wire
; ...B.C., while the army of Darius, the last king of the Medes, laid siege to Babylon, Belshazzar...evening ended, he was dead, and Darius the Mede was the new ruler of Babylon...handwriting on the wall. No, the Medes aren't waiting just outside...
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In the lions' den: The Babylonian background of a biblical motif
Magazine article from: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly
; ...den) was a generally practiced punitive measure among the Medes and Persians. As most commentators observe, there is no extrabiblical...pit) is mentioned deals with Daniel's vicissitudes under Darius the Mede, the successor of Belshazzar (Dan 5:30-6:1 [5:30...
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Habakkuk in the Lions' den.
Magazine article from: Queen's Quarterly
; ...his God whenever they become too arrogant. Finally, Darius the Mede raises Daniel above all his other advisors, fuelling...forbidding anyone to make petition to any deity or man except Darius for thirty days. When Daniel is discovered performing...
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Die Ungeduld des Papiers: Studien zum alttestamentlichen Verstandnis des Schreibens anhand des Verbums katab im Kontext administrativer Vorgange
Magazine article from: Journal of Biblical Literature
; ...become defining documents fulfilling both loyalties simultaneously. The concluding section on Dan 6:26-28 examines Darius the Mede's proclamation to all the world that Daniel's God is God. The writing is, as with Esther, a statement about...
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Daniel 9: Its structure and meaning
Magazine article from: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly
; ...Jerusalem proclaimed by Jeremiah (Jer 25:11-12; 29:10). The setting of the narrative was the first year of "Darius the Mede," the putative ruler of the Median Empire that followed the Babylonian Empire in the chronology of the Book of Daniel...
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The Persian Empire
Magazine article from: Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society
; ...the land ruled by the Medes (p. 15). Alien brilliantly...political strategy of Darius I (522-486 BC) and...to give insights into Darius's rise to the throne...s conflict with the Medes, one of the few incidents...faith and practice. Darius worshiped Ahuramazda...
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Legacy of the struggle: two Persian dignitaries, their images carved onto the side of the grand palace staircase at Persepolis, exchange a sign of friendship in the traditional manner.(FROM PAST TO PRESENT)
Magazine article from: Calliope
; ...often confused them with the Medes their neighbors. In fact...the umbrella-like sunshade Darius and Xerxes had used. Its design...organization of the satrapies that Darius had established. He also did...Astyages, king of Medes. 522 Darius I rules Persia, 522-485...
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