Search results for "Book of Life" - New World Encyclopedia
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- early doxographer who compiled biographies of ancient Greek philosphers in ... == Life == Almost nothing is known about the life of Diogenes Laertius ...7 KB (941 words) - 15:25, 29 January 2024
- day Spain, best known for his twelve books of Epigrams, published in Rome ... Knowledge of Martial's life is derived almost entirely from his ...9 KB (1,468 words) - 16:29, 6 November 2022
- Bach and is often considered to be one of the most important composers ... work as court composer to the Prince-elector of Saxony. ...6 KB (981 words) - 08:32, 21 January 2024
- singing. As a vital composer during the time of a creative rebirth in human ... Very little is known about Thomas Robinson's life, but it is ...6 KB (863 words) - 22:51, 30 April 2023
- The Book of Ruth (Hebrew: מגילת רות, Megilat Rut, "the ... Ruth is one of the shortest books in both Jewish and Christian scripture ...10 KB (1,594 words) - 00:40, 19 November 2023
- imperfect competition. He is regarded as one of the most influential American ... With his work Chamberlin indebted us with important knowledge of economic ...8 KB (1,083 words) - 18:22, 12 February 2024
- figures who lived during the generation of Adam. The first Enoch was the ... (Genesis 5:5-6), and great great grandfather of Enoch (Genesis 5:9-18). ...11 KB (1,772 words) - 11:37, 5 February 2022
- The Book of Wisdom (also known as the Wisdom of Solomon or simply ... According to Saint Melito in the second century C.E., the Book of ...11 KB (1,829 words) - 18:44, 20 November 2023
- The Book of Proverbs is one of the books of the "Writings" ... The Book of Proverbs belongs to the group of Ḥokmah, or "Wisdom ...13 KB (2,047 words) - 00:28, 19 November 2023
- The Tibetan Book of the Dead is the western name for a collection ... The Tibetan Book of the Dead is the most famous and widespread work ...13 KB (1,966 words) - 23:24, 30 April 2023
- which was an ancient garbage dump outside of the city of Jerusalem where ... this day, a man or a woman's own book of life will be opened, and they ...9 KB (1,392 words) - 12:41, 6 November 2021
- The Second Epistle of John, also called 2 John, is a book of the New ... The author of 2 John is traditionally believed to be Apostle John ...8 KB (1,363 words) - 17:41, 25 January 2023
- was a Flemish composer and music theorist of the Renaissance era. Tinctoris ... He is known to have studied in Orleans, and to have been master of ...4 KB (573 words) - 07:20, 5 April 2024
- a Renaissance Roman Catholic monk and author of The Imitation of Christ, one ... Thomas was born at Kempen in the duchy of Cleves in Germany around ...10 KB (1,599 words) - 22:58, 30 April 2023
- He was born in Lebanon and spent much of his productive life in the ... According to his relative of the same name, the Gibran family's ...9 KB (1,418 words) - 03:34, 6 October 2022
- contribution to peace was his analysis of the issues surrounding disarmament ... ==Early life and athletic career== Born Philip Baker, he was born to ...14 KB (1,946 words) - 03:20, 24 November 2022
- Compleat Angler, a classic guide to the joys of fishing with over 300 new printings ... scholars. Until 1643, he lived in the parish of St. Dunstan, where John Donne ...8 KB (1,221 words) - 23:10, 10 March 2018
- is the most complete surviving account of ancient Greek and Roman skepticism ... == Life and Works == Almost nothing is known of Sextus Empiricus’s ...11 KB (1,515 words) - 10:12, 26 January 2023
- C.E. Israelite prophet who lived in the time of King David. His actions are ... God first delivered the Messianic promise of an eternal kingdom based on ...11 KB (1,891 words) - 01:30, 11 November 2022
- The Book of Jeremiah, is part of the Hebrew Bible, and is also included ... Together with the books of Isaiah and Ezekiel, the Book of Jeremiah ...14 KB (2,273 words) - 19:59, 27 June 2023
- The Book of Esther is a book of the Hebrew Bible and of the Christian ... The Book of Esther is set in the third year of Ahasuerus, a king of ...13 KB (2,127 words) - 07:27, 17 November 2023
- and a court lady who is known as the author of The Pillow Book (枕草子 ... Japanese scholars regard The Pillow Book as a model of linguistic ...16 KB (2,769 words) - 02:46, 21 April 2023
- Tarkington's works often centered on life in the mid-west among everyday ... middle-class family in Indianapolis, the son of John S. Tarkington and Elizabeth ...8 KB (1,173 words) - 19:34, 20 November 2023
- Edmund Spenser (c. 1552 – January 13, 1599) was an English poet ... than towards an uncertain future, than that of many of his contemporaries ...12 KB (1,990 words) - 18:15, 12 February 2024
- that was published in 1936. The novel is one of the most popular books of all ... childhood, it seems, was spent in the laps of Civil War veterans and of her ...11 KB (1,758 words) - 04:02, 6 November 2022
- work on urban sociology at the University of Chicago. He pioneered efforts ... == Life == Ernest Watson Burgess was born in Tilbury, Ontario, Canada ...8 KB (1,123 words) - 12:16, 21 January 2023
- November 28, 1859) was an American author of the early nineteenth century ... His famous home of Sunnyside just south of the Tappan Zee Bridge in ...11 KB (1,727 words) - 23:12, 3 May 2023
- The Book of Micah (Hebrew: ספר מיכה) is one of the books of ... The Book of Micah is also notable for its more hopeful passages, portraying ...12 KB (1,872 words) - 00:26, 19 November 2023
- Domesday Book (also known as Domesday, or Book of Winchester), was ... When the book took the name "Domesday" (Middle English spelling ...15 KB (2,383 words) - 16:43, 29 January 2024
- Apollonius of Perga (Pergaeus) (ca. 262 B.C.E. – ca. 190 B.C.E. ... by which they are now known. The hypothesis of eccentric orbits, or deferent ...10 KB (1,574 words) - 15:46, 11 August 2023
- " "God Heals" ) is the name of an archangel in Judaism, Christianity ... Of the seven archangels in the angelology of post-Exilic Judaism, ...11 KB (1,746 words) - 05:15, 17 July 2022
- and Sinologist, and is still considered one of the world's great Asian ... Japanese and achieved a remarkable degree of fluency and erudition. He never ...12 KB (1,793 words) - 17:37, 16 August 2023
- Methuselah or Metushélach (מְתוּשָׁלַח - "Man of ... In the apocryphal Book of Enoch, Methuselah becomes a channel through ...11 KB (1,665 words) - 10:35, 10 March 2023
- March 14, 1471) was the author or compiler of Le Morte d'Arthur, the ... assumes that he was Sir Thomas Malory of Newbold Revel in Warwickshire ...10 KB (1,589 words) - 21:21, 30 April 2023
- and epistemology. His highly influential book, Anarchy, State, and Utopia ... Nozick was born in Brooklyn, the son of a Jewish entrepreneur from ...12 KB (1,858 words) - 21:29, 16 April 2023
- the golden flower: the classic Chinese book of life. [San Francisco, Calif ... Secret of the golden flower, a Chinese book of life. New York: Harcourt, Brace ...12 KB (1,770 words) - 17:27, 30 April 2023
- ) was a Russian literary critic of Westernizer persuasion and critic ... Belinsky was the first prominent literary critic of after the development ...9 KB (1,361 words) - 01:08, 18 November 2022
- analogy, an argument for the existence of God in his book Natural Theology ... Born in Peterborough, Paley was educated at Giggleswick School, of ...9 KB (1,398 words) - 10:38, 11 May 2023
- journalist who is now considered to be one of the most important writers ... In addition to his fiction, Crane was also the author of some of the ...9 KB (1,437 words) - 20:00, 9 February 2023
- Apocalyptic literature is a genre of prophetical writing that developed ... The apocalyptic literature of Judaism and Christianity embraces a ...16 KB (2,523 words) - 06:03, 11 August 2023
- The Book of Mormon is one of the sacred texts of the Latter Day Saint ... Along with the Bible, the Book of Mormon is esteemed as part of the ...29 KB (4,400 words) - 00:27, 19 November 2023
- philosopher. In 1903, he published the book Geschlecht und Charakter ... however, it continues to be held up as a great work of lasting genius ...11 KB (1,680 words) - 10:52, 11 March 2023
- teacher, interpreter, scout, and defender of the rights of Native Americans ... Sarah Winnemucca lived in two worlds; the world of Native Americans ...10 KB (1,568 words) - 03:26, 23 December 2022
- The Records of Three Kingdoms (三國志, 三国志, Sānguó Zhì ... Records of Three Kingdoms became the basis for a later historical ...11 KB (1,692 words) - 01:45, 8 December 2022
- to fiction, but as he became more critical of the Soviet regime, his work ... ==Early life and career== Born Iosif Solomonovich Grossman in Berdichev ...10 KB (1,566 words) - 16:18, 14 November 2022
- in Islam as Jahannam. The powerful imagery of Gehenna originates from a ancient ... (גיא בן הינום) meaning the Valley of Hinnom's son. The valley ...8 KB (1,334 words) - 06:33, 18 April 2024
- was a leading American essayist and author of children's literature ... ironic onlooker, exploring the complexities of modern society, the unique ...13 KB (2,032 words) - 05:37, 4 August 2023
- The Muratorian fragment, also known as the Muratorian canon, is a ... The author notably omits the Epistle to the Hebrews, the Epistle of ...13 KB (2,046 words) - 18:59, 10 November 2022
- The Book of Judith is a deuterocanonical book, included in the Roman ... and beautiful widow. During the final stages of an Assyrian siege which has ...14 KB (2,138 words) - 00:21, 19 November 2023
- Haggai (Hebrew: חַגַּי, Ḥaggay or "Hag-i") was one ... Like many other texts in the prophetic corpus, the Book of Haggai ...12 KB (1,877 words) - 10:18, 2 March 2024
