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Cooper's The Prairie.(James Fenimore Cooper's novel)
; ...other man's hand. Ishmael's brother-in-law Abiram White, likewise, has a symbolic name that fits his character. Abiram's name is taken from the Bible. Its meaning...character of the same name. In Numbers 16, an Abiram belongs to the group that challenges the...
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Wreckers of our own
; ...very beginning of our national history there were the 10 alarmist scouts (Numbers 13-14) and the mutinous Korah, Dathan and Abiram (Numbers 16). There were the hellenizers of Hasmonean times, including some of the Hasmonean kings and priests, who, sometimes...
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Sons - and daughters - of the Land
; ...congregation nor of the party of Dathan and Abiram; Korah wanted to remain in the desert, and Dathan and Abiram wanted to return to Egypt. The father of...those who sided with Korah and Dathan and Abiram - that the Eternal One keeps His promises...
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Catholicism & Capital Punishment.
; ...Genesis 9:6). In many cases God is portrayed as deservedly punishing culprits with death, as happened to Korah, Dathan, and Abiram (Numbers 16). In other cases individuals such as Daniel and Mordecai are God's agents in bringing a just death upon guilty persons...
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Changing of the guard
; ...controlled much power, and so - in the final analysis - managed to quell the rebellions of all of his detractors: Korah, Dathan and Abiram, and Zimri ben Sallu. But influence and power are very different kinds of authority. Rabbi Sacks sees this distinction as emanating...
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Politics of the day
; ...his own purposes. Korah gathers malcontents about him: Dathan, Abiram and On, all from the tribe of Reuben - the firstborn - who wonder...and states that all the community are holy (ibid). Dathan and Abiram phrase the accusation in more secular terms, would you also...
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Leadership for the wilderness
; ...the misguided evaluations of the 10 spies, the demagoguery of Korah and the destructive cynicism of the likes of Dathan and Abiram. THAT WE in Israel today are facing a leadership crisis is a truth so universally accepted, that it has become a cliche. We...
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Korah's circular progress
; ...establishes Korah's true character: "Vayikah Korah... and Korah the son of Izhar, the son of Kehat, the son of Levi, with Datan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab ...took." [Num. 38:1]. The Torah doesn't spell out exactly what it was that he "took," since no object for...
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Out of sight, out of light
; ...the eye makes one far from the heart." After all, the enemies of the land of Israel and the Torah of Israel were Dathan and Abiram, scions of the disgruntled and "disinherited" tribe of Reuben; letting the tribe settle so far from mainstream Israel was certainly...
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Old Testament Theology. Volume 1, Israel's Gospel.(Book review)
; ...addresses these questions briefly within the context of the narratives of creation, the battle of Jericho, and the death of Dathan and Abiram. This is a rich and valuable volume. BARBARA GREEN Dominican School of Theology and Philosophy, Berkeley
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