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; ...by Leontius, bishop of Neapolis in Cyprus. The story of Symeon is set in Palestine and Emesa in Syria, but K. suggests that Leontius's statements about Emesa reveal more about his own setting in seventh-century Cyprus. The social picture that emerges...
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Rhetoric and Tradition: John Chrysostom on Noah and the Flood.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Book Review)
; ...10-7:5]), A. offers extensive and detailed comparison of Chrysostom's exegesis with that of commentators such as Eusebius of Emesa, Diodore of Tarsus, Theodore of Mopsuestia, Didymus the Blind. Eusebius of Caesarea, and Origen. The book argues two main points...
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; ...catalogue of 4585 coins in the museum at Amasya, northern Turkey, reveals the products of mints from Constantinople and Miletus to Emesa and Assyria, 45% Greek, 29% Roman and 25% Byzantine. Here too, the cardinal virtues are systematic method and detailed descriptions...
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Symeon the Holy Fool: Leontius's Life and the Late Antique City
; ...tonsure, his ascetic life in the desert, his decision to go to Emesa in an effort to convert its population to Christian virtue...suggests it was Neapolis that Leontius had in mind when describing Emesa in the Life of Symeon. In the second chapter Krueger attempts...
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Herod: King of the Jews and Friend of the Romans
; ...bordered, or were incorporated into, Herod's kingdom: the province of Syria, including the semi-independent kingdoms of Commagene, Emesa, Palmyra, and Damascus; the cities of the Decapolis; and the coastal cities that at one time or another belonged to Judea. Chapter...
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L'Ancien Testament dans l'ecclesiologie des Peres. Une lecture des Consittutions apostoliques.(Book Review)
; ...exegesis. Hagit Amirav (Rhetoric and Tradition [2003]) and Shinichi Muto (Poetry and Rhetoric [2004]) both include Eusebius of Emesa within the school and argue that Chrysostom's theory of divine condescension is not original. Amirav provides a new analysis...
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Knuuttila, Simo. Emotions in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy.(Book review)
; ...book on this subject, much of its material will be unknown to all but a few specialists. The eight pages devoted to Nemesius of Emesa are a case in point. Remarkably, Knuuttila appears to speak with equal authority about all of it. The first of the book's four...
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Fatigue and fracture performance of cold drawn wires for prestressed concrete.
; ...experiments and evolution of mechanical properties with cold drawing A high strength eutectoid steel supplied from commercial stock by EMESA TREFILERIA (La Coruna, Spain) was used in this work. The chemical composition is given in Table 1. Different degrees of cold...
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Filologia storica della Bibbia ebraica: Volume 1, Da Origene al Medioevo; Volume 2, Dall'età moderna ai giorni nostri
; ...Eastern and Western traditions. Much of the chapter is devoted to the Antiochean school-represented by figures such as Eusebius of Emesa, Diodorus of Tarsus, and Theodore of Mopsuestia-and its new direction, in which a more historical approach was preferred to...
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Whale watching up close and personal.(Baja California lagoons)
; ...Marine; Pete Wilkans, engine technician; Steve Frink, commercial photographer and diver, and Helmudi de Basabe, an executive with EMESA, the Baja Norte distributor for Mercury outboards. Considering the number of people, photo equipment, props, and product that...
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