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  • 41Vulgate, The —    by Saint Jerome (ca. 405)    The Vulgate (meaning “common language”) is the Latin version of the Bible produced mainly by St. JEROME. It was the text that became the standard version of the Christian Scriptures in western Europe from the fifth …

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  • 42BIBLE CODES — BIBLE CODES, a system of inquiry involving the discovery of pairs of conceptually related terms in the biblical text using Equidistant Letter Sequences (ELS). The system involves choosing or finding a sequence of letters that make up a nameor a… …

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  • 43HEBRAISTS, CHRISTIAN — (1100–1890). Factors governing gentile enterprises in Hebrew scholarship prior to the latest phase of more widespread secular attitudes may be distinguished as (1) motivation; (2) scholarly facilities; and (3) occasion; appreciation and… …

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  • 44Nathaniel Brassey Halhed — (25 May 1751 – 18 February 1830) was an English Orientalist and philologist. Halhed was born at Westminster. He was educated at Harrow, where he began his intimacy with Richard Brinsley Sheridan, which continued after he entered Christ Church,… …

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  • 45Gulliver's Travels — (1726, amended 1735), officially Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of several Ships , is a novel by Jonathan Swift that is both a satire on human nature and a… …

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  • 46YEẒIRAH, SEFER — (Heb. סֵפֶר יְצִירָה; the Book of Creation ), the earliest extant Hebrew text of systematic, speculative thought. Its brevity – no more than 1,600 words altogether even in its longer version – allied to its obscure and at the same time laconic… …

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  • 47The Canterbury Tales — is a collection of stories written by Geoffrey Chaucer in the 14th century (two of them in prose, the rest in verse). The tales, some of which are originals and others not, are contained inside a frame tale and told by a collection of pilgrims on …

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  • 48Antony and Cleopatra — is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. It was first printed in the First Folio of 1623. The plot is based on Thomas North s translation of Plutarch s Life of Markus Antonius and follows the relationship between Cleopatra and Mark Antony from the… …

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  • 49Mainland and Macau Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement — Chinese name Traditional Chinese 內地與澳門關於建立更緊密經貿關係的安排 Simplified Chinese 内地与澳门关于建立更紧密经贸关系的安排 …

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  • 50James Joyce — (ca. 1918) James Joyce [ˌdʒeɪmz ˈdʒɔɪs] (* 2. Februar 1882 in Dublin; †  13. Januar 1941 in Zürich) war ein irischer Schriftsteller. Besonders seine wegweisenden Werke …

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