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Genesis Health Ventures Inc
Genesis Health Ventures, Inc. 148 West State StreetKennett Square, Pennsylvania 19438U.S.A.(610) 444-6350Fax: (610) 444-3365 Public CompanyIncorporated: 1985Employees: 25,000Sales: $671.47 million (1996)Stock Exchanges: New YorkSICs: 8051 Skilled Nursing Care Facilities; 8052 Intermediate... Read more |
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Genesis
Genesis , 1st book of the Bible, first of the five books of the Law (the Pentateuch or Torah) ascribed by tradition to Moses. Beginning with two accounts of the creation and of humankind, the narrative relates the initial disobedience of the man and the woman and their consequent expulsion from... Read more |
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Imagination
IMAGINATION. The idea of imagination is sometimes thought of as a product of the Enlightenment. However, although it only came to full flower in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries, its roots are much more ancient. Biblical Beginnings Given the stern admonition of the second... Read more |
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Institutionalism
Institutionalism THE TEXAS SCHOOL OUT WITH THE OLD, IN WITH THE NEW THE IMPACT OF INSTITUTIONALISM BIBLIOGRAPHY The institutional approach to the economy had its genesis in the work of Thorstein Veblen, whose The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899) introduced the term conspicuous consumption... Read more |
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Leonard Bacon
Leonard Bacon 1802-81, American Congregational minister, b. Detroit, Mich. He served for 41 years as pastor of the First Church of New Haven, one of the leading Congregational churches in the country. Bacon was a noted antislavery leader, although not an abolitionist. His Slavery Discussed in... Read more |
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Adam
Adam , [Heb.,=man], in the Bible, the first man. In the Book of Genesis, God creates humankind in his image as a species of male and female, giving them dominion over other life. Elsewhere in Genesis, however, Adam is the personal name of the first man for whom the created order is then fashioned.... Read more |
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Hagar
Hagar or Agar , according to the Book of Genesis, servant of Abraham's wife Sarah and mother of his eldest son, Ishmael. She and her son were sent out into the wilderness because of Sarah's jealousy. An angel aided her there. Islamic tradition associates various sites in and near Mecca with... Read more |
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Jared
Jared ♂ Biblical name (probably meaning ‘descent’ in Hebrew), borne by a descendant of Adam (Genesis 5:15). According to the Book of Genesis, he became the father of Enoch at the age of 162, and lived for a further eight hundred years. This name was occasionally used by the... Read more |
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Zillah
Zillah ♀ Biblical name (from a Hebrew word meaning ‘shade’), borne by one of the two wives of Lamech (Genesis 4:19). The name was taken up in the first place by the Puritans, and again by fundamentalist Christian groups in the 19th century, partly because Zillah is only the... Read more |
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Joseph
Joseph one of the heroes of the patriarchal narratives of the Book of Genesis. He is presented as the favored son of Jacob and Rachel, sold as a boy into slavery by his brothers, who were jealous of Joseph's dreams and of his coat of many colors given him by Jacob. In Egypt, Joseph gained a... Read more |
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geological time
...is old is not a new idea. In the ancient...Bible and varying interpretations of its constituent...his commentary on Genesis that God's ‘vision...creation described in Genesis were not in his view...no vestige of a beginning and no ... |
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...Dictionary of Biblical Interpretation (SCM Press, 1990...L. Moberly , Genesis 12–50 (Sheffield...J. Rogerson , Beginning Old Testament Study...J. Rogerson , Genesis 1–11 (Sheffield...Scrolls (SCM, 1999)New Testament C. K...Introduction to ... |
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The art of interpretation: Deconstruction and new beginning in the...
The art of interpretation: Deconstruction and new beginning in the psychoanalytic...The fields of interpretation in psychoanalysis...a symptom, the interpretation has to consider...the conflictual genesis of psychic ... |
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The transformation of reason in Genesis 2-3: two options for theological...
...within Christian interpretations of Genesis 2-3 as a means...understanding of how Genesis 2-3 portrays...strategies that see in Genesis 2-3 the fall...second strand of interpretation that rejects the...opens up felicitous ... |
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Winnick Gallery To Feature Contemporary Interpretations of Genesis at Center...
In the Beginning: Artists Respond to Genesis will open November 18...create a dialogue between new installations by contemporary...Artists Respond to Genesis will include works ranging...Added Gary Winnick: "Genesis, which proclaims the... |
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The Beginning of Wisdom: Reading Genesis.(Book Review)
The Beginning of Wisdom: Reading Genesis, by Leon R. Kass. New York: Free Press...profundity of the book of Genesis, it may be found...Wisdom: Reading Genesis, provides much...essentially "modernist" interpretation, yet which ... |
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`Genesis' study superb from beginning to end.(Books)
...valuable of this new generation of interpreters...than the Book of Genesis. Its first chapter...opening sentences, Genesis appears to have...first sentence of Genesis, one of the most...straightforwardly as: "In the beginning, God created ... |
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Bak to the Beginning: Holocaust Artist looks at Genesis.
...Matthew Bak to the Beginning: Holocaust Artist Looks at Genesis By Matthew S...Different Light: Genesis in the Art of Samuel...post-Holocaust interpretation of the book of Genesis .... Bak has...era Rome in a new and ... |
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`The More Commentary The Better': `Genesis' series spawns wealth of
...spawns wealth of new. books, interpretations and translations...book.This is Genesis season not only...biblical readings is beginning, but in bookstores...many new books on Genesis. Two are connected...more voices on ... |
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Genesis
...limited to a Catholic interpretation of Genesis. Reno draws from...single verse in Genesis, but he addresses...significance within Genesis, relate to the...phrase "in the beginning" and an additional...thus, God's new work ... |
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Genesis From Eve's Point of View-
...draws heavily on Genesis 3, provided the...men who appeal to Genesis 2-3 to justify...Old Words, New Meaning Until quite...the traditional interpretation of Genesis 2-3 went virtually...reject both the interpretations and ... |
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WE BELIEVEPOLL: AMERICANS DON'T DOUBT GENESIS BUT WANT EVOLUTION TAUGHT.(News)
...understand the Book of Genesis is ludicrous," Howard...evolution, a literal interpretation of Genesis or something in between...of fax box follows: GENESIS YES"In the beginning God created the heavens...Natural History in ... |
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