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Elisha
Elisha , in the Bible, prophet who functions as a model of the Mosaic prophetic office after Elijah , whose work he continued; he is believed to have lived in the 9th cent. BC Elisha initiated the political programs outlined to Elijah on Mt. Horeb. The stories about Elisha are collected in Second... Read more |
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short story
short story brief prose fiction. The term covers a wide variety of narratives—from stories in which the main focus is on the course of events to studies of character, from the "short short" story to extended and complex narratives such as Thomas Mann's Death in Venice. Most often the... Read more |
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Laban
Laban , in the Bible, father of Leah and Rachel and uncle of Jacob. The Nuzi tablets contain the stories of Laban and Jacob.... Read more |
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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 |
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Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts
SOCIETY FOR THE PROPAGATION OF THE GOSPEL IN FOREIGN PARTS SOCIETY FOR THE PROPAGATION OF THE GOSPEL IN FOREIGN PARTS. Founded in 1701, the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, sometimes called the Venerable Society, conducted the foreign mission work of the Anglican Church... Read more |
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great
great often used to indicate status as well as size.the great and the good people in a given sphere regarded as particularly worthy and admirable; the term is first recorded in the mid 19th century, but is now often used ironically.Great Bear in astronomy, the constellation Ursa Major, named from... Read more |
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Mao Tun
Mao Tun or Mao Dun , pseud. of She Yen-ping , 1896-1981, Chinese novelist and Minister of Culture (1949-65). His fiction offers a sympathetic portrayal of working-class life and praise of revolution. Midnight (1933, tr. 1957), his most widely read work, is a naturalistic novel exploring in... Read more |
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Publishing industry
PUBLISHING INDUSTRY PUBLISHING INDUSTRY. Book publishing in the United States grew from a single printing press imported from England in 1638 to an industry boasting more than 2,600 publishing houses and generating nearly $25 billion a year in revenue in 2000. The country's most famous publishing... Read more |
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Dagon
Dagon , god of fertility, widely worshiped in the Middle East, particularly in Canaan. In the Bible he is mentioned as one of the chief deities of the Philistines.... Read more |
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Wide as the Waters: The Story of the English Bible and the Revolution It...
Wide as the Waters: The Story of the English...Bible and the Revolution It Inspired...their task, English had begun...archaic English to which...very first English ... |
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Wide as the waters. The story of the English bible and the revolution it...
...Bobrick, Wide as the Waters. The Story of the English Bible and the Revolution It Inspired...century English priest who...Bible into English, and by 1380...Gutenberg Latin ... |
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Revolutionary Book: Did the vernacular Bible create individual liberty?(Wide...
Wide as the Waters: The story of the English Bible and the Revolution It Inspired, by Benson Bobrick...to the rhythmic power of the English language, but it also circumscribes...of every fluent speaker of ... |
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Bobrick, Benson. Wide as the waters; the story of the English Bible and the...
...King James Bible, and the political revolutions in English history that...extremely complex story, and Bobrick...Bible into the English language...abroad,/ Wide as the waters be." ... |
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A volcano, not a book; The King James Bible shaped both our language and...
...BEGINNING: The Story of the King...37.95 WIDE AS THE WATERS: The Story of the English Bible and the Revolution it Inspired...Bible into English should be...formation of ... |
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Bible's influence found throughout language
...Beginning: The Story of the King James Bible and How It...sociopolitical aspect in Wide as the Waters: The Story of the English Bible and the Revolution It Inspired...the classic ... |
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Soldiers' Tales; Two Vermont authors relive the Civil War era; Testament; A...
...and author of Testament: A Soldier's Story of the Civil War. Brendan Kane is the...the way he did in previous books such as Wide as the Waters: The Story of the English Bible and the Revolution It Inspired ... |
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FOUR HISTORIES FOR THE FORTHCOMING FOURTH CENTENARY OF THE KING JAMES...
...Beginning: The Story of the King...paperback.) Wide as the Waters: The Story of the English Bible and the Revolution It Inspired...publications on the English Bible by ... |
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Summer reading.(Christian books)(Brief Article)(Bibliography)
...hammock: Walking the Bible: A Journey By...Perennial). Wide as the Waters: The Story of the English Bible and the Revolution it Inspired, by...evolution of the English ... |
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THE NEW PROFITS OF CHRISTIANITY
...Ehrman notes that the Bible is not the word of...in his wonderful "Wide as the Waters: The Story of the English Bible and the Revolution It Inspired." "Waters" has much of the ... |