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51The Bible and homosexuality — is a contentious subject that influences how homosexuality and homosexual sex are regarded in societies where Christianity has made a strong impact. The Bible is generally considered by believers to be inspired by God or to record God s… …
52Ishmael ben Elisha — (90 135 CE, commonly known as Rabbi Ishmael, Hebrew: רבי ישמעאל) was a Tanna of the first and second centuries (third tannaitic generation). A Tanna ( plural , Tannaim) is a Jewish rabbinic sage whose views are recorded in the Mishnah.… …
53ELIJAH BEN SOLOMON ZALMAN — (the Vilna Gaon or Elijah Gaon ; acronym Ha GRA = Ha Gaon Rabbi Eliyahu; 1720–1797), one of the greatest spiritual and intellectual leaders of Jewry in modern times. A man of iron will, Elijah combined the personal life of an intellectual hermit… …
54mother wit — n 1. native intelligence, brains, Sl smarts, Inf. gray matter, Fr. matiere grise. intellect; power, ability, capacity, capability, aptitude, potential, talent, genius; cleverness, resourcefulness, inventiveness, ingenuity, skillfulness, skill,… …
55EXODUS, BOOK OF — (Heb. title) וְאֵלֶּה) שְׁמוֹת) (And these are) the names of – the first words of the book; Gk. exodos ton wion Israel ex aigyptou), departure (of the children of Israel from Egypt) ; (cf. Sefer Yeẓi at Miẓrayim ( book of the departure from Egypt …
56Maternal mortality in fiction — Padmé Amidala dies after delivering twins Maternal death in fiction is a common theme encountered in literature, movies, and other media. The death of a mother during pregnancy, childbirth or puerperium is a tragic event. The chances of a… …
57The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show — The Phil Harris Alice Faye Show, a comedy radio program which ran on NBC from 1948 to 1954, evolved from an earlier music and comedy variety program, The Fitch Bandwagon . Singer bandleader Phil Harris and his wife, actress singer Alice Faye,… …
58James Longenbach — is an American critic and poet. His early critical work focused on modernist poetry (he has written books on Ezra Pound, W.B. Yeats, and Wallace Stevens), but he writes extensively about contemporary poetry, too, and has authored three books of… …
59Abraham Abulafia — Abraham ben Samuel Abulafia ( he. אברהם בן שמואל אבולעפיה), the founder of the school of Prophetic Kabbalah , was born in Zaragoza, Spain, in 1240, and died sometime after 1291, in Comino, Maltese archipelago. Early life and travelsVery early in… …
60Richard Bassett — Infobox Officeholder honorific prefix = name = Richard Bassett honorific suffix = imagesize = small office = Governor of Delaware term start = January 15 1799 term end = February 20 1801 predecessor = Daniel Rogers successor = James Sykes, Jr.… …
