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Zephaniah (Bible book) Zephaniah (Bible book)
Zephaniah , prophetic book of the Bible. The prophet, who lived in the reign (c.640-609 BC) of King Josiah of Judah, traces his genealogy to King Hezekiah . Zephaniah denounces Judah for idolatry, luxury, and for presuming on God's protection. The Day of the Lord, the prophet announces, will bring... Read more
Habakkuk Habakkuk
Habakkuk , prophetic book of the Bible. It is a collection of oracles, perhaps three in number, delivered against the backdrop of the Babylonian threat to Judah in c.600 BC The first—a dialogue between the prophet and God—asks how God can remain silent when the wicked prosper. God's... Read more
Ferdinand de Saussure Ferdinand de Saussure
Ferdinand de Saussure , 1857-1913, Swiss linguist. One of the founders of modern linguistics , he established the structural study of language, emphasizing the arbitrary relationship of the linguistic sign to that which it signifies. Saussure distinguished synchronic linguistics (studying language... Read more
Nahum Nahum
Nahum , 7th of the books of the Minor Prophets of the Bible. It contains oracles of doom against Nineveh, capital of the Assyrian Empire, delivered by one Nahum of Elkosh, who is otherwise unknown. The book can be divided into two sections: an acrostic announcing the coming of divine vengeance on... Read more
Ezekiel 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
Amos Amos
Amos , prophetic book of the Bible. The majority of its oracles are chronologically earlier than those of the Bible's other prophetic books. His activity is dated c.760 BC The prophet was a shepherd of Tekoa in the southern kingdom of Judah, but he preached in the northern kingdom of Israel under... Read more
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Roman Jakobson Roman Jakobson
Roman Jakobson , 1896-1982, Russian-American linguist and literary critic, b. Moscow. He coined the term structural linguistics and stressed that the aim of historical linguistics is the study not of isolated changes within a language but of systematic change. In Czechoslovakia in the late 1920s and... Read more
Hosea Hosea
Hosea , prophetic book of the Bible. It relates something of the career of the prophet Hosea who preached against the sins of the northern kingdom of Israel in the third quarter of the 8th cent. BC The collection opens with an account of Hosea's marriage to the prostitute Gomer and his apparent... Read more

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