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Ezekiel
Ezekiel , prophetic book of the Bible. The book is a collection of oracles emanating from the career of the priest Ezekiel, who preached to Jews of the Babylonian captivity from 593 BC to 563 BC (according to the chronology given in the book itself in chapters 1 and 2). The book pivots on the fall... Read more |
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Aholah and Aholibah
Aholah and Aholibah in the Bible (Ezekiel ch. 23), two sisters who personify prostitution, and will be destroyed for their sins; in the prophecy of Ezekiel, Aholah is said to stand for Samaria and Aholibah for Jerusalem.... Read more |
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Aven
Aven , in the Bible, abusive name applied to towns: to Bethel (see Beth-aven ); to Heliopolis in Egypt in the Book of Ezekiel; and to some other place, traditionally Baalbek, in the Book of Amos.... Read more |
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Jaazaniah
Jaazaniah , in the Bible. 1 Head of a number of idolatrous priests whom Ezekiel saw in a vision. 2 Captain active in the politics of Palestine at the time of the fall of Jerusalem. Alternate forms are Jezaniah and Azariah.... Read more |
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Gog
Gog in the Bible. In the Book of Ezekiel, Gog is a leader, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal who will attack Israel and be defeated in the last days. Magog is his country. The same theme surfaces in the Book of Revelation, where the assailants are Gog and Magog. They represent the nations of... Read more |
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Juan Bautista Villalpando
VILLALPANDO, JUAN BAUTISTA(b. Córdoba, Spain 1552; d. Rome, Italy, 1608), architecture, mathematics, mechanics.Little is known about Villalpando’s life. After entering the Jesuit order in 1575, he studied under Father Jerome Prado, who was writing a commentary on the book of Ezekiel. Evidently... Read more |
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Eskia Mphahlele
Es’kia (Ezekiel) Mphahlele 1919– Writer Teachers Disparaged Abilities Went Into Exile Feared Growing Old in United States Selected works Sources The great fictional chronicler of South African life in the apartheid era is Es’kia Mphahlele, whose career has spanned... Read more |
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Mount of Olives
Mount of Olives or Olivet , ridge, E of Jerusalem, mentioned in the Old Testament as the scene of David's flight from the city, Ezekiel's theophany, and Zechariah's prophecy, and in the New Testament as a frequent resort of Jesus and the scene of his Ascension. The principal hill of the mount is... Read more |
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Apostasy
29. Apostasy (See also Sacrilege.) Aholah and Aholibah symbolize Samaria’s and Jerusalem’s abandonment to idols. [O.T.: Ezekiel 23:4] Albigenses heretical sect; advocated Manichaean dualism. [Fr. Hist.: NCE, 53] Arians 4th-century heretical sect; denied Christ’s... Read more |
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Ezekiel, Nissim
Ezekiel, Nissim (1924–2004), one of India's best-known poets, born in...lecturer, seminarist, playwright, advocate of the controlled use of LSD, Ezekiel helped to create a significant literary climate for a whole generation of... |
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Ezekiel
Ezekiel Old Testament prophet who was among the Jews deported during the Babylonian...He is traditionally considered the author of the Old Testament Book of Ezekiel. He was the third and last of the ‘greater’ Old Testament prophets... |
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Fenn, Ezekiel
Fenn, Ezekiel (1620–?), boy actor with Queen Henrietta's Men under Christopher Beeston at the Cockpit, where in 1635 he played the... |
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2004 Summer Olympic Games gold medallists
...Joanna HayesUSA110m hurdles Xiang LiuChina----400m hurdles Felix SanchezDominica Fani HalkiaGreece3,000m steeple Ezekiel KemboiKenya----20km walk Ivano BrugnettiItaly Athanasia TsoumelekaGreece50km walk Robert KorzeniowskiPoland----4... |
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Millennialism and Apocalypticism
...apocalyptic (from the Greek “to reveal” or “uncover”) visions of impending disaster and divine rescue (Daniel, Ezekiel, Revelation). In the New Testament, such texts include the Second Coming of Christ (Matthew 24 and Mark 13, for example... |
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Old Testament
...to I and II Kings); the Wisdom Books (Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes); the Major Prophets (Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel); the 12 Minor Prophets (Hosea to Malachi); and the miscellaneous collection known as the Writings (including Psalms... |
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Woods, William Burnham
...infringement of civil rights and rejected the applicability of the Bill of Rights to the states. William B. Woods was the son of Ezekiel S. Woods, a farmer and merchant, and Sarah Burnham. He graduated from Yale College and clerked with S. D. King, an Ohio... |
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Law and the Prophets
...tradition. The groupings include: (a) Joshua, Judges, I and II Samuel, and I and II Kings; (b) Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel; and (c) Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi... |
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Boy Actors
...Chapman, and others. For several years the boys drew audiences away from the adult companies, and some of them—including Ezekiel Fenn and Nathan Field—became well known as adult actors. The last group to survive, they were disbanded in about 1615... |
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Falconer
Falconer, novel by John Cheever, published in 1977.Ezekiel Farragut, descended from a wealthy, aristocratic New England family that fell on hard times and has been reduced to operating... |
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Ezekiel
Ezekiel The third of the three major OTprophets...contemporary of Jeremiah, and influenced by him, Ezekiel was a priest (Ezek. 1: 3) and a prophet...of the Exile. According to 1: 1–3 Ezekiel was among the first group of Jews to be... |
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Ezekiel, Book of
Ezekiel, Book of. One of the three ‘Major...form and worship of the restored Temple. Ezekiel was a Jerusalem priest, probably taken...whole Book was regarded as the work of Ezekiel. A majority of scholars now regard the... |
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Ezekiel, book of
Ezekiel, book of In its present form, the book was probably edited soon after the...the new Temple and its staff of priests of the line of Zadok (to which Ezekiel himself belonged); thus it was the foundation for later Judaism. These... |
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Landau, Ezekiel
Landau, Ezekiel (1713–93). Also known as Noda bi-Yehuda from the title of his book of responsa, Jewish Talmudic scholar. He was born... |
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Old Testament
...and 2 Kings.The (Latter) Prophets are Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and the twelve Minor Prophets ( Hosea to Malachi).The...Isaiah, Jeremiah, Baruch, Lamentations, Letter of Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Susanna, Daniel (including the Prayer of Azariah and the... |
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prophet
...in Christian use) the books of Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, and the twelve minor prophets. ∎ (in Jewish...comprising the books of Joshua, Judges, Samuel, Kings, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Isaiah, and the twelve minor prophets. DERIVATIVES: proph·et·hood... |
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Aholah and Aholibah
Aholah and Aholibah in the Bible (Ezekiel ch. 23), two sisters who personify prostitution, and will be destroyed for their sins; in the prophecy of Ezekiel, Aholah is said to stand for Samaria and Aholibah for Jerusalem. |
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Gog and Magog
Gog and Magog. Apocalyptic character and territory in the vision of Ezekiel. According to Ezekiel 36–8, God would wage war against ‘Gog of the land of Magog’ at the end of time. In the New Testament... |
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Throne of God
...God. God is described as sitting on a throne by the prophets Micaiah (1 Kings 22. 19), Isaiah (Isaiah 6), Ezekiel (Ezekiel 1) and Daniel (Daniel 7. 9). The imagery is also to be found in Talmudic and midrashic sources. Some mystical... |
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accessorial
...medial • mondial •cordial, exordial, primordial •custodial, plasmodial •preludial • collegial • vestigial •monarchial • Ezekiel • bronchial •parochial • pallial • Belial •familial, filial •proemial • binomial • Nathaniel •bicentennial, biennial... |
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Bible
...Ecclesiastes Song of Solomon/Song of Songs Wisdom of Solomon Ecclesiasticus/Sirach Isaiah Jeremiah Lamentations Baruch Ezekiel Daniel Hosea Joel Amos Obadiah Jonah Micah Nahum Habakkuk Zephaniah Haggai Zechariah Malachi 1 Esdras 2 Esdras New Testament... |
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Ezekiel: priest--prophet.(Essay)
INTRODUCTION The Book of Ezekiel distinguishes itself from other prophetic books in several significant ways. Ezekiel's prophetic tenure is entirely in...visions of God and the angelic host. Ezekiel's name hardly appears in the book... |
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Ezekiel: A Commentary.(Book review)
EZEKIEL: A COMMENTARY. By Paul M. Joyce. LHBOTS...short commentary, Paul Joyce--noted Ezekiel scholar and chair of the Society of Biblical...Theological Perspectives on the Book of Ezekiel"--has given readers an eminently readable... |
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Ezekiel Aims to Overcome Odds at NFL Draft
...Dateline: BOSTONNortheastern linebacker Liam Ezekiel poses at Mike's Gym in Cambridge, Mass...the second round in 1979. Some project Ezekiel to go as high as the fourth round in this...draft. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)Liam Ezekiel's hard-nosed approach and outstanding... |
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Ezekiel's Oracles against the Nations in Light of a Royal Ideology of Warfare
...the nations (OANs) in the book of Ezekiel.1 Very few studies, however...attempted to make overarching sense of Ezekiel's use of mythological motifs...book. This essay will argue that Ezekiel's use of mythological motifs of... |
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The Apocryphal Ezekiel.(Book review)
THE APOCRYPHAL EZEKIEL. Edited by Michael E. Stone, Benjamin G...present study has two foci, the first on an Ezekiel Apocryphon and the second on wider traditions about the prophet Ezekiel. Part 1 collects the evidence for an Ezekiel... |
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The Apocryphal Ezekiel
The Apocryphal Ezekiel. Edited by MICHAEL E. STONE, BENJAMIN...churches. In the case of the Apocryphon of Ezekiel, we have only allusions and fragments...The Five Fragments of the Apocryphon of Ezekiel: A Critical Study (Sheffield: Sheffield... |
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The Apocryphal Ezekiel. (Brief Reviews of Books).
The Apocryphal Ezekiel. Edited by MICHAEL E. STONE, BENJAMIN...churches. In the case of the Apocryphon of Ezekiel, we have only allusions and fragments...Five Fragments of tile Apocryphon of Ezekiel: A Critical Study (Sheffield: Sheffield... |
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The Book of Ezekiel: Theological and Anthropological Perspectives.(Book Review)
The Book of Ezekiel: Theological and Anthropological Perspectives...Theological Perspectives on the Book of Ezekiel in 1997 and 1998. The division of the...of nearly every aspect of the study of Ezekiel, especially its dating and theology... |
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The Book of Ezekiel: Theological and Anthropological Perspectives
The Book of Ezekiel: Theological and Anthropological Perspectives...Theological Perspectives on the Book of Ezekiel in 1997 and 1998. The division of the...of nearly every aspect of the study of Ezekiel, especially its dating and theology... |
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The Book of Ezekiel: Theological and Anthropological Perspectives.(Book review)
THE BOOK OF EZEKIEL: THEOLOGICAL AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES...Theological Perspectives on the Book of Ezekiel. In the first two years of its existence...addressed the absence of God in the book of Ezekiel (1997, now part 1) and anthropology... |
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