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manes
manes , in Roman religion, spirits of the dead. Originally, they were called di manes, a collective divinity of the dead. Manes could also refer to the realm of the dead and, later, to the individual souls of the dead. Eventually, the Romans placated the manes with offerings at the graves of the d...
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Anubis
Anubis , Egyptian god of the dead. He presided over the embalming of the dead and is represented as a dog-headed or jackal-headed man.
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Dead Sea Scrolls
Dead Sea Scrolls ancient leather and papyrus scrolls first discovered in 1947 in caves on the NW shore of the Dead Sea. Most of the documents were written or copied between the 1st cent. BC and the first half of the 1st cent. AD
Scrolls of the Qumran Caves
Three types of documents have be...
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Jordan
Jordan river, c.200 mi (320 km) long, formed in the Hula basin, N Israel, by the confluence of three headwater streams and meandering S through the Sea of Galilee to the Dead Sea ; the region of Palestine's longest and most important river and the world's lowest river below sea level. It flows t...
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Qumran
Qumran , ancient village on the northwest shore of the Dead Sea, in what is now the Israeli-occupied West Bank. It is famous for its caves, in some of which the Dead Sea Scrolls were found. Archaeological work at Qumran has yielded a profile of its history. In Israelite times it was the site of a ...
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Amorites
Amorites , a people of Canaan. There is evidence of them in Babylonia, where in the 19th cent. BC they established under their patronage the first dynasty at Babylon. The most powerful king of this dynasty, Hammurabi, put an end (18th cent. BC) to Amorite domination and issued a famous code of law, ...
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Saint Joseph
Saint Joseph husband of the Virgin Mary, a carpenter, a descendant of the house of David. He was apparently dead at the time of the Passion, for his last appearance in the Gospels is at the finding of the 12-year-old Jesus in the temple (Luke 2.42-50). As the foster father of Jesus and the chaste s...
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Henry Shrapnel
Henry Shrapnel , 1761-1842, British general, inventor of the shrapnel shell. The shell, consisting of a steel case filled with bullets and an explosive charge, is fired in midair by a time fuse and scatters shot and shell fragments with great and deadly force over a wide area. Adopted by the British...
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Arnon
Arnon , river of Jordan, entering the east side of the Dead Sea, called today Wadi Mojib.
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Eutychus
Eutychus , in the New Testament, young man whom Paul raised from the dead.
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