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  • The Muratorian fragment, also known as the Muratorian canon, is a ... The author notably omits the Epistle to the Hebrews, the Epistle of ...
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  • he wrote De Rerum Natura (“On the Nature of Things”), a masterpiece of ... the Renaissance the work emerged as a source of inspiration for numerous scholars ...
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  • Haggai (Hebrew: חַגַּי, Ḥaggay or "Hag-i") was one ... Like many other texts in the prophetic corpus, the Book of Haggai ...
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  • actor and playwright. At the age of 12 he attracted the attention ... the Noh theater, as well as Fūshi kaden, a book of instruction for Noh actors ...
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  • Manna was miraculously produced food of the Israelites in the desert ... substances that may have been the source of the legend of manna from heaven ...
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  • dogmatism in general, and the concept of an institutional church. He ... with individuals through the portion of the divine remaining in each ...
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  • In the Hebrew Bible, the Book of Jonah is the fifth in a series of ... figure who probably lived during the reign of Jeroboam II (786-746 B.C.E ...
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  • a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, the second of the philosophers of Ionia ... inquired into the unchanging principle of being that can uniformly explain ...
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  • and Gulag survivor. Shalamov was a victim of Stalin's Great Purges ... ==Early life and first arrest== Varlam Shalamov was born in Vologda ...
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  • whose works, highly influential at the dawn of the Enlightenment, caused great ... Tindal was born in 1653 to the Rev. John Tindal, Rector of Beer Ferrers ...
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  • The First Epistle of Peter is a book of the New Testament traditionally ... The Epistle conforms with the teachings of Paul, and blends moral ...
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  • † 443 B.C.E. in Argos), was one of the canonical nine poets of ... a poet that, although only a tiny fraction of his works have survived, what ...
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  • and influential African-American novelist of the first half of the twentieth ... also a political activist. He spent a number of years in his early career championing ...
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  • feminist, activist, and writer. Her 1963 book, The Feminine Mystique, is ... ==Early life and Education== Friedan was born Bettye Naomi Goldstein ...
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  • #039;akhî—"my messenger") is a book of the Hebrew Bible traditionally ... Nothing is known of Malachi's personal life, or indeed if he ...
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  • War II. After experiencing the excesses of Stalinism, he became a critic ... His novel, The Thaw, gave expression to many of the problems of Soviet ...
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  • February 2, 1594) was an Italian composer of Renaissance music. He was the ... Palestrina was born in Palestrina, a town near Rome, then part of ...
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  • an English philosopher, and a leading member of the group of twentieth century ... Finchley, North London, by his parents, both of whom were teachers. He was ...
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  • Krafft-Ebbing is famous for his book Psychopathia Sexualis (1886) ... , and studied medicine at the University of Heidelberg. ...
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  • [[File:Cesare Beccaria in Dei delitti crop.jpg|thumb|Marquis of Beccaria]] His work was significant in the development of Utilitarianism. Beccaria advocated ...
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