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Septuagint Septuagint
Septuagint [Lat.,=70], oldest extant Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible made by Hellenistic Jews, possibly from Alexandria, c.250 BC Legend, according to the fictional letter of Aristeas, records that it was done in 72 days by 72 translators for Ptolemy Philadelphus, which accounts for the name.... Read more
Miles Coverdale Miles Coverdale
Miles Coverdale 1488-1569, b. Yorkshire. English translator of the Bible , educated at Cambridge. Coverdale was ordained (1514) and entered the house of Augustinian friars at Cambridge. After developing an appreciation of Martin Luther he became an advocate of ecclesiastical reform. Forced (1528)... Read more
translation translation
translation [Lat.,=carrying across], the rendering of a text into another language. Applied to literature, the term connotes the art of recomposing a work in another language without losing its original flavor, or of finding an analogous substitute, for example, Scott Moncrieff's Remembrance of... Read more
William Whittingham William Whittingham
Whittingham, William (c.1524–79). Translator of the Bible. Educated at Oxford, where he became a fellow of All Souls, Whittingham travelled on the continent from 1550, mixing in calvinist circles. He spent the reign of Mary in exile, succeeding John Knox in 1559 as minister at Geneva. Much... Read more
John Hamilton John Hamilton
Hamilton, John (c.1511–71). Archbishop of St Andrews. Hamilton was an illegitimate son of the 1st earl of Arran and brother of Sir James Hamilton of Finnart. He became a Benedictine monk as a boy. After study at Paris, he used his influence with his half-brother, the Regent Arran, on... Read more
Ernest Boyd Ernest Boyd
Ernest Boyd 1887-1946, American critic and author, b. Dubin, Ireland. In the British consular service, he resigned in 1920 and settled in New York City, where he became an important literary figure. He contributed editorials to periodicals, wrote criticism on European literature, and translated... Read more
Gilgamesh Gilgamesh
Gilgamesh , in Babylonian legend, king of Uruk . He is the hero of the Gilgamesh epic, a work of some 3,000 lines, written on 12 tablets c.2000 BC and discovered among the ruins at Nineveh. The epic was lost when the the library of the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal was destroyed in 612 BC The... Read more
DNA Microarray DNA Microarray
DNA Microarrays DNA microarrays are tools used to analyze and measure the activity of genes. Researchers can use microarrays and other methods to measure changes in gene expression and thereby learn how cells respond to a disease or to some other challenge. Gene Expression Humans have 30,000 to... Read more
Marie de France Marie de France
Marie de France , fl. 1155-90, poet. Born in France, she spent her adult life in England in aristocratic circles and wrote in Anglo-Norman. She is best known for some dozen lais; several are of Celtic origin, and some are Arthurian. Bibliography: See Lais, ed. by A. Ewert (1944). See translations... Read more
Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin
Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin , 1888-1938, Russian Communist leader and theoretician. A member of the Bolshevik wing of the Social Democratic party, he spent the years 1911-17 abroad and edited (1916) the revolutionary paper Novy Mir [new world] in New York City. He took part in the Bolshevik... Read more

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