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91Nazarene (title) — For other uses, see Nazarene (disambiguation). Mary s Well, said to be the site of the Annunciation, Nazareth, 1917 Nazarene is a title applied to Jesus (c. 4 BC c. AD 30), who grew up in Nazareth …
92MORE, Sir Thomas — (1477/78 1535) Known throughout the world for his authorship of Utopia, Thomas More wrote humanist, polemical, and devotional works in Latin and English. Lawyer, politician, humanist, statesman, and lord chancellor, he was executed on grounds of… …
Renaissance and Reformation 1500-1620: A Biographical Dictionary
93Introduction — There are shamans who may be able to heal, and others who may be successful at controlling game animals. Some shamans alter consciousness or use trance, others shape shift and journey to other worlds. Some mediate between their communities and …
94polemic — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. polemical, controversial, disputatious, eristic[al], dialectical; quarrelsome, contentious. n. polemics, debate, discussion, contention, dialectics. See discord. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn.… …
95ALBO, JOSEPH — (15th century), Jewish philosopher in Christian Spain. Albo participated in the famous Jewish Christian disputation at tortosa and San Mateo (1413–14) as a representative of the Jewish community of Daroca and wrote a theological philosophical… …
96BIBLE — THE CANON, TEXT, AND EDITIONS canon general titles the canon the significance of the canon the process of canonization contents and titles of the books the tripartite canon …
97DUALISM — DUALISM, the religious or philosophical doctrine which holds that reality consists, or is the outcome, of two ultimate principles which cannot be reduced to one more ultimate first cause. Dualistic systems have appeared in philosophical… …
98IBN DAUD, ABRAHAM BEN DAVID HALEVI — (known as Rabad I; c. 1110–1180), Spanish historian, philosopher, physician, and astronomer. Ibn Daud, the grandson of isaac b. baruch albalia , was born in Córdoba, and spent his formative years in the home of his maternal uncle, who was his… …
99POETRY — This article is arranged according to the following outline (for modern poetry, see hebrew literature , Modern; see also prosody ): biblical poetry introduction the search for identifiable indicators of biblical poetry the presence of poetry in… …
100TAKU, MOSES BEN ḤISDAI — (13th century), tosafist, commentator on piyyutim, and author of the polemical treatise, Ketav Tammim. Taku probably wrote in the fourth and fifth decades of the 13th century. The surname Taku has not been explained satisfactorily; it may be… …
