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Barbie Doll
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Drug Abuse Resistance Education
DRUG ABUSE RESISTANCE EDUCATION (DARE) Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) is the most widely adopted drug education program in the United States today. The DARE program is designed to give young people skills to resist pressures to use drugs. It originated as a collaborative effort between the... Read more |
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Tibetan Book of the Dead
T IBETANB OOK OF THED EAD Since its first English translation in 1927, the Tibetan guide to spiritual and mental liberation called the Bardo Thodolhas been known in the West as the Tibetan Book of the Dead.The book has reappeared in several ... Read more |
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Book of Durrow
Durrow, Book of (Trinity College Dublin MS 57), a decorated manuscript containing a Latin text of the Gospels, along with preliminaries. It is decorated with symbols of the Evangelists, elaborated opening words of certain passages, and ‘carpet’ pages of ornament based on jewellery... Read more |
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Nehemiah
Nehemiah originally combined with Ezra to form a single book in the Hebrew canon. In the Septuagint , Ezra and Nehemiah are combined as Second Esdras . The book narrates the return to Jerusalem of Nehemiah, the cup-bearer of Persian King Artaxerxes I, as governor of the city-state. In the first... Read more |
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gloss
gloss [Gr.,=tongue], explanatory note on a word or words of a text, usually written between the lines or in a margin of a manuscript. In copying a manuscript, a copyist sometimes incorporated a gloss in the text, so that the copy departed from the original. The gloss may be in a language different... Read more |
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Shavuot
Shavuot [Heb.,=weeks], Jewish feast celebrated on the 6th of the month of Sivan (usually some time in May) in Israel and on the sixth and seventh days in the Diaspora. Originally an agricultural festival celebrating the end of the winter grain harvest (which began at Passover), Shavuot later... Read more |
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obol
obol an ancient Greek coin worth one sixth of a drachma, traditionally the coin placed in the mouth of the dead as a fee for Charon to ferry them across the Styx. The word originally meant ‘spit’ or ‘nail’, and came to be used for a type of coin as in early times nails... Read more |
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Sixth Ezra: The Text and Origin
Sixth Ezra: The Text and Origin, by Theodore A...it is entitled 4 Ezra), is of Jewish...core is designated 4 Ezra by modern scholars...Fifth Ezra: The Text, Origin and ... |
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The Origins of the 'Second' Temple: Persian Imperial Policy and the...
The Origins of the 'Second...the 1990s that Ezra 1-6, Haggai...These biblical texts presuppose 515...Zechariah 8, and Ezra 1-6 in, respectively...331). A final, sixth chapter (332...7:6-72 and Ezra 2 present parallel... |
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Early Christian Authors on Samaritans and Samaritanism: Texts, Translations...
...views on Samaritan origin, Samaritan literature...research. The original texts, most of which are...translations. Each text is supplied with...information on the original text as well as its translation...from the selected texts: (1) The ... |
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What a difference a year makes: can biblical texts be dated...
...in dating biblical texts in historical-critical...such as Esther, Ezra, Nehemiah, Amos...their contents. Texts lacking such references...of Transjordanian origin. (1) Rainey...continuum of the tenth-sixth centuries. (2...Persian period: ... |
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The Keepers: An Introduction to the History and Culture of the...
...Emmaus containing the text of Exodus 15:3 and 11 has a Hebrew text (sixth century A.D...are six liturgical texts covering Samaritan...Pentateuch as a holy text; and the preference...claims that their origins reach back to ... |
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Developments in Genre between Post-Exilic Penitential Prayers and the Psalms...
...sources in these texts. To achieve this...and setting of a text" that aims to...its] historical origins and more of its...the fifth and sixth centuries, I...7-64:11; Ezra 9:6-15; and...treatment of the text-critical ... |
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Judah and the Judeans in the Neo-Babylonian Period
...its turn had its origins in the ongoing Transeuphratène...Aspects," 4) "The Sixth Century B.C.E...She reviews Kings, Ezra-Nehemiah, Chronicles...Period: Excavating Text and Tell") modifies...however minimal) and text do testify to "a...cult ... |
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Judah and the Judeans in the Neo-Babylonian Period.(Book review)
...its turn had its origins in the ongoing Transeuphratene...Aspects," 4) "The Sixth Century B.C.E...She reviews Kings, Ezra-Nehemiah, Chronicles...Period: Excavating Text and Tell") modifies...however minimal) and text do testify to "a...cult ... |
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Iran--a history.
Origins 3500-600 BCE Iran's rich...years extra modern-sounding text has been falsely attributed...in the Old Testament Book of Ezra. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Zoroastrianism...their oral history, both in the sixth century BCE. Zoroaster saw... |
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