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  • 11Book of Wisdom — or Wisdom of Solomon or simply Wisdom is one of the deuterocanonical books of the Bible. It is one of the seven Sapiential or wisdom books of the Septuagint Old Testament, which includes Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon (Song… …

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  • 12preface — ► NOUN 1) an introduction to a book, stating its subject, scope, or aims. 2) the preliminary part of a speech. ► VERB 1) provide with a preface. 2) (preface with/by) begin (a speech or event) with or by doing something. DERIVATIVES …

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  • 13Book of Nehemiah —     Book of Nehemiah     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Book of Nehemiah     Also called the second Book of Esdras (Ezra), is reckoned both in the Talmud and in the early Christian Church, at least until the time of Origen, as forming one single book… …

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  • 14Preface (collection opening, Volume II) — Preface is the opening to the first volume of Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka by Nikolai Gogol, written in 1832.Rudy Panko returns for his last book of tales, though, again speaking to the reader as though actually talking to them in person, he… …

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  • 15Preface — A preface is an introduction to a book written by the author of the book. An introductory essay written by a different person is a foreword and precedes an author s preface. The preface often closes with acknowledgements of those who assisted in… …

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  • 16Book of Revelation — For other uses, see Book of Revelation (disambiguation). Books of the New Testament …

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  • 17Book of Common Prayer — For the novel, see A Book of Common Prayer. Part of a series on the Anglican Communion …

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  • 18Preface paradox — The Preface Paradox, or the paradox of the preface, [Makinson, D. C., Paradox of the Preface , Analysis 25 (1965) 205 207. [http://david.c.makinson.googlepages.com/MakinsonPrefaceParadox1.pdf] ] was introduced by David Makinson in 1965. Similar… …

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  • 19Book of Joshua (Samaritan) — The Samaritan Book of Joshua is a Samaritan chronicle, written in Arabic. It is so called because the greater part of it is devoted to the history of Joshua. It was published from an Arabic manuscript written in the Samaritan alphabet, with a… …

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  • 20Book of the Law of the Lord — Infobox Book name = The Book of the Law of the Lord title orig = translator = James Strang image caption = author = Unknown illustrator = cover artist = country = United States language = series = genre = Latter Day Saint publisher = release date …

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