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Harry S. Ashmore
Harry Scott Ashmore The American journalist Harry Scott Ashmore (born 1916) was the 1958 Pulitzer Prize winner for his reports and commentary on the Little Rock, Arkansas, school integration crisis. Harry Ashmore was born July 28, 1916, in Greenville, South Carolina, in the northwest part of... Read more |
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Commentary
Commentary (1945–), monthly journal, superseding Contemporary Jewish Record (1938–45), “to promote Jewish cultural interests and creative achievement in America.” It is nonparochial and nonsectarian in its social and political articles, criticism, poetry, and fiction.... Read more |
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Rashi
Rashi , 1040-1105, Jewish exegete, grammarian, and legal authority, b. Troyes, France. The name he is known by is an acronym of Rabbi Solomon bar Isaac. He studied in Worms and Mainz, returning to Troyes c.1065. He taught and wrote commentaries to most of the Bible and Talmud. These, distinguished... Read more |
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Basilides
Basilides , fl. 120-145, Gnostic teacher of Alexandria. He wrote Exegitica (his personal gospel with 24 books of commentary) and poems. He claimed to possess a secret tradition handed down from St. Peter and St. Matthias. The Basilidean sect of Gnosticism attracted many followers.... Read more |
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Edward Capell
Edward Capell , 1731-81, English Shakespearean scholar. His 10-volume edition of Shakespeare (1768) was the first to incorporate exact collations of all available old texts. He followed this with a commentary, Notes and Various Readings to Shakespeare (3 vol., 1783).... Read more |
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Paul Vincent Carroll
Paul Vincent Carroll 1900-1968, Irish playwright. His plays, vigorous commentaries on the conflicts of village life in Ireland, include Shadow and Substance (1937), The White Steed (1939), The Wise Have Not Spoken (1946), and The Wayward Saint (1955). Bibliography: See his Irish Stories... Read more |
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Leopold Dukes
Leopold Dukes 1810-91, Hungarian Hebrew scholar. He made a collection of rabbinical proverbs and wrote on the history of Jewish literature, notably of Hebrew poetry in the Middle Ages. He also translated into German Rashi's commentary on the Pentateuch.... Read more |
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Marsilius of Inghen
MARSILIUS OF INGHEN(1340–1396) Marsilius of Inghen was a scholastic theologian, writer on logical textbooks, and prolific commentator on Aristotle. He played an important role in the foundation of the University of Heidelberg. His significance rests not only on his commentaries on... Read more |
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Macrobius
Macrobius , fl. c.430, Latin writer and philosopher. His Saturnalia, a dialogue in seven books chiefly concerned with a literary evaluation of Vergil, incorporates valuable quotations from other writers. He also wrote a commentary on Cicero's Dream of Scipio, which was popular in the Middle Ages... Read more |
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Sweet Honey in the Rock (Music group)
Sweet Honey In The Rock A cappella group Sweet as Honey Strong as a Rock Just the Beginning Selected discography Selected Writings Sources Sweet Honey In The Rock, the all-female Grammy Award-winning a cappella quintet, has uplifted and energized audiences from Australia to Zimbabwe with its... Read more |
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