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Olduvai Gorge: a visit with humankind's ancient ancestors
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By Georgia Tasker
OLDUVAI GORGE, Tanzania -- It is a rock, weighing maybe a kilogram, and it has been chipped to be more or less round. It fits comfortably in my hand like a slightly oversize baseball.
I can grasp it the way Homo habilis held it more than a million years ago, perhaps using it to beat an antelope carcass until some bits of meat came off or until a knee broke and could be ripped from a thigh and dragged to the safety of trees to be eaten.
"Stone Age tool" ceases to be an abstract concept.
This and other stone tools are stored in a small rock building where American Robert ...
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Zechariah
Magazine article from: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly
; EDGAR W. CONRAD, Zechariah (Readings; Sheffield: Sheffield...in favor of exploring the Book of Zechariah as a literary whole. His hermeneutic...however, C. admits that the Book of Zechariah confounds the contemporary reader...
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Bringing Out the Treasure: Inner Biblical Allusion in Zechariah 9-14
Magazine article from: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly
; ...Treasure: Inner Biblical Allusion in Zechariah 9-14 (JSOTSup 370; Sheffield: Sheffield...dissertation on inner-biblical exegesis in Zechariah 9-14. The editors have added nine...the last thirty years in the study of Zechariah 9-14, the classification and evaluation...
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From fasts to feasts: The literary function of Zechariah 7-8
Magazine article from: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly
; ...over the past two centuries have treated Zechariah 9-14 as a corpus distinct from Zechariah 1-8.1 This direction of research was...literary distinctions between the two parts of Zechariah. Scholars noticed that while chaps. 1...
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Turban and Crown Lost and Regained: Ezekiel 21:29-32 and Zechariah's Zemah
Magazine article from: Journal of Biblical Literature
; ...and prophecies recorded in the book of Zechariah have long puzzled scholars.1 Among...connected to the appearance of ... in Zechariah 3 and 6:9-15. Who is this enigmatic...interpretative key to these two passages from Zechariah. I. PAST INTERPRETATION As is the case...
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Up the Steep and Stony Road: The Book of Zechariah in Social Location Trajectory Analysis
Magazine article from: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly
; ...the Steep and Stony Road: The Book of Zechariah in Social Location Trajectory Analysis...issue of the authorship of the Book of Zechariah. He argues that all fourteen chapters come from the same author (the historical Zechariah, or a single prophetic tradent group...
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Up the Steep and Stony Road: The Book of Zechariah in Social Location Trajectory Analysis.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society
; ...the Steep and Stony Road: The Book of Zechariah in Social Location Trajectory Analysis...fourteen-chaptered form of the book of Zechariah" (p. 1). Very early on it becomes...chapters may be attributed either to Zechariah or to a single tradent group of which...
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The Evasive Text: Zechariah 1-8 and the Frustrated Reader
Magazine article from: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly
; ...MARK CAMERON LOVE, The Evasive Text: Zechariah 1-8 and the Frustrated Reader (JSOTSup...approach, the literary characteristics of Zechariah 1-8, and his methodological presuppositions...examine the function of incoherence in Zechariah" (p. 15), which makes the text evasive...
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The Coming King and the Rejected Shepherd: Matthew's Reading of Zechariah's Messianic Hope
Magazine article from: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly
; ...Rejected Shepherd: Matthew's Reading of Zechariah 's Messianic Hope (New Testament Monographs...examination of the explicit citations from Zechariah in Matthew's Gospel using a "comparative...both textual and conceptual allusions to Zechariah." On the basis of these he proposes...
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Context and meaning of Zechariah 9:9
Magazine article from: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly
; ...THE LAST PART OF ONE PROPHETIC BOOK, Zechariah 9-14, has often been referred to as...but the main explanation has been that Zechariah 9-14 is a collection of disparate sayings...persons "who emerged in the shadow of Zechariah, the prophet of the restoration...
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Zechariah 9-14 and Malachi: A Commentary
Magazine article from: Interpretation
; Zechariah 9-14 and Malachi: A Commentary, by...commentary in this series (Haggai and Zechariah 1-8 appeared in 1984). The organization...commentary is as follows: introduction; Zechariah 9-11, the first "oracle"; Zechariah...
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