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  • In the post-exilic period, on the other hand, Ezra and Nehemiah imposed ... religious policy of strict separation under Ezra and Nehemiah. The rise of ...
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  • # the ancient Ben Ezra Synagogue sacred texts. ====Mishnayot==== ... ====Ben Ezra synagogue texts==== Work in the 1990s showed that in 1896 ...
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  • works these changes are ascribed to Ezra; to Ezra and Nehemiah; to Ezra and the Soferim; or to Ezra, Nehemiah, Zechariah, Haggai, and Baruch ...
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  • Like fellow modernist poet and expatriate Ezra Pound, Eliot drew liberally ... and associated with the likes of Picasso, Ezra Pound, James Joyce, Marcel ...
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  • ; Battle of Ezra Church (July 28) to intercept and destroy the Union force at Ezra Church. Howard had anticipated ...
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  • as disagreeing with the insistence of Ezra and Nehemiah, perhaps issued ... One Jewish tradition (Tosafot Yevamot 86b) identifies Ezra the Scribe ...
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  • his friend and senior, the poet Moses ibn Ezra, who accorded him enthusiastic ... Judah ibn Ghayyat of Granada; Moses ibn Ezra and his brothers Judah, Joseph ...
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  • edict is fully reproduced in the Book of Ezra. As a result of Cyrus' ... *The biblical books of Isaiah, Daniel, Ezra, and Nehemiah. ...
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  • Later Jewish biblical exegetes, notably Abraham ibn Ezra (c.1093-1167 ... 2 Chronicles 25:4; 2 Chronicles 34:14; Ezra 3:2; Ezra 7:6; Nehemiah 8:1; ...
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  • William Morris' translation of Beowulf and Ezra Pound's translation of The Seafarer. The influence of Old English poetry was particular important ...
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  • *In the twelfth century, Rabbi Abraham ibn Ezra observed that some ... noticed the same textual anomalies that Ibn Ezra did and commented that this ...
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  • *Pound, Ezra and Ernest Fenollosa. The No Theatre of Japan: With Complete ... *Pound, Ezra. Classic Noh Theatre of Japan (New Directions Paperbook ...
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  • In the Bible the Assyrian called Osnapper (Ezra 4:10) is believed by biblical scholars to be Ashurbanapal. ==Early life== [[Image:Map of Assyria ...
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  • After the exile, in the time of Ezra and Nehemiah, Jews who had intermarried with Amorites and other Canaanite women were required to divorce ...
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  • American and were influenced by, among others, Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams. The basic tenets of Objectivist poetics, as defined by Louis Zukofsky ...
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  • and late in life he was ranked along with Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot, as ... poetry yet again with the help of Ezra Pound, pointing towards an ...
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  • of visiting the institutionalized poet, Ezra Pound. The poem begins as follows: :This is the house of Bedlam. :This is the man :that lies in the ...
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  • prophet, presumably Joshua. Abraham ibn Ezra and Joseph Bonfils observed ... reached its final form in the days of Ezra the scribe. The Talmud ...
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  • several texts (Samuel, Kings, Chronicles, Ezra–Nehemiah, and the Twelve ... Chronicles, and Ezra–Nehemiah, was probably finished during the ...
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  • See Abraham ibn Ezra's biblical commentary. ==Vows and laws of the nazirite== Halakha (Jewish Law) has a rich tradition on the laws about ...
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  • he lived, the ambitious, Modern poetry of Ezra Pound, Eliot, and Yeats would ... is in some degree comparable with that of Ezra Pound to an earlier generation ...
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  • texts, namely the Book of Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah (80). Further, it is possible that this name was chosen more for its symbolic resonances ...
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  • Stein, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ezra Pound were in residence. Wharton was friend and confidante to many gifted intellectuals of her ...
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  • that had dominated the field since the emergence of Ezra Pound's Imagist movement decades earlier. In this sense, Thomas was well-adapted to his ...
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  • of modernist poets such as T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, and William Carlos ... functioned as a group centering around Ezra Pound, Stevens was a markedly ...
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  • * Warner, Ezra J., Generals in Blue: Lives of the Union Commanders. Louisiana State University Press, 1964. ISBN 0807108227. ==External links== ...
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  • and Finnegans Wake. It was also here where Ezra Pound brought him to the attention ... in the Imagist Anthology, edited by Ezra Pound, who was a champion ...
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  • and especially in the Books of Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. The first chapters ... "Levite priests." The Book of Ezra reports that the Levites were ...
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  • can find instruction in any study."–Ezra Cornell, 1865[http://news ... [[Image:Ezra Cornell.jpg||thumb|200px|right|Ezra Cornell, co-founder ...
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  • and The Biblical Period from Abraham to Ezra. He also edited the Anchor Bible volumes on Jeremiah, Matthew, and Revelation. ==Legacy == ...
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  • of the succeeding generation, among them the early Ezra Pound. Moreover, Rossetti was one of the most talented artists, both in the literary and visual ...
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  • * Bickerman, E. J. From Ezra to the Last of the Maccabees; Foundations of Post-Biblical Judaism. New York: Schocken Books, 1962. ISBN 9780805200362. ...
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  • in various daily activities. Voltaire and Ezra Pound both commented that this chapter shows how much Confucius was a mere human. ==The Mencius== ...
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  • Yehuda Halevi, Solomon ibn Gabirol and Abraham ibn Ezra. ... by American experimental modernists such as Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, H.D. and ...
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  • * Warner, Ezra J. Generals in Gray: Lives of the Confederate Commanders. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1959. ISBN 0807108235 ...
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  • *On Ezra and Nehemiah, many notes were later ascribed to Rashi *On the Book of Job *On the "Five Megillot"—the Song of Songs, Lamentations ...
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  • views, for example held by Abbahu, Rashi, and Ibn Ezra, Enoch was held to frequently lapse in his piety, and thus removed before his time, by a divine ...
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  • school, and such major figures as T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound would cite him as an influence. ==Biography== Valéry was born in Sète, a town on ...
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  • Carlos Williams, Percy Shelley, John Keats, Ezra Pound, Christopher Smart, ... influenced by modernism (specifically Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, Hart Crane ...
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  • evidence of a Sadducee sect from the times of Ezra, it emerged as major force only after the Hashmenite rebellion. The reason for this was not, he claims ...
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  • of old and unused Hebrew documents stored in a Ben Ezra Synagogue in Cairo. His work on this extraordinary collection of over 100,000 pages of rare ...
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  • Milton and John Keats through James Joyce and Ezra Pound. He devised a verse form for The Faerie Queene that has come to be known as the "Spenserian ...
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  • greatly influenced by Kavafis, T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound. He returned to Athens in 1925, and was admitted to the Royal Greek Ministry of Foreign ...
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  • a decree affirming their legal right to do so (see Ezra 4:24 to 6:15). In Egypt his name appears on the temples which he built in Memphis, Edfu and the ...
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  • by the head of cataloging at Harvard, Dr. Ezra Abbot. In 1868 Cutter accepted a position at the Boston Athenæum library. One of their main goals ...
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  • were to bring it again into prominence. When Ezra and Nehemiah ruled that Jews must divorce their non-Israelite wives, many Jews, both priests and ...
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  • of the American modernists like T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound, have favored Larkin's advocacy of writing poems that, while deeply nuanced, are ...
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  • the biblical literature till the time of Ezra the national interest is predominant. Here it is quite lacking—the name Israel does not even occur. ...
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  • reality. Only the philosophers Maimonides and Ibn Ezra denied their existence. As early as geonic times (sixth through eleventh centuries C.E ...
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  • a Pasadena-based eugenics group founded by Ezra Seymour Gosney in 1928, which had as part of its agenda the promotion and enforcement of compulsory ...
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