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91Prehistoric Balkans — is the period of human presence (including early hominins) before the appearance of Indo European people, which extended through prehistory, and ended when the first written records appeared between ca. 1500 and 6th century BC [Minoan,Mycenaean… …
92History of Pope's Creek (Virginia) — Popes Creek is a small tidal tributary stream of the Potomac River in Westmoreland County, Virginia. The George Washington Birthplace National Monument lies in Popes Creek s estuary. Variant names The following variant names for the creek have… …
93ethics — /eth iks/, n.pl. 1. (used with a sing. or pl. v.) a system of moral principles: the ethics of a culture. 2. the rules of conduct recognized in respect to a particular class of human actions or a particular group, culture, etc.: medical ethics;… …
94Doner kebab — Döner kebap Doner meat being sliced from a rotating spit. Note the iron heating plate behind the spit, which is used to cook the meat Origin Place of origin Turkey Region or s …
95above — adv 1. overhead, over one s head, on a higher place, at a higher place, in a higher place; atop, at the top, on the top; aloft, high up, up in the air or sky, far above the ground; skyward or skywards, toward the sky; in or to heaven, on high, in …
96ADULTERY — (Heb. נִאוּף, ni uf; sometimes, loosely, זְנוּת, zenut; זְנוּנִים, zenunim; lit. fornication, whoredom ). Voluntary sexual intercourse between a married woman, or one engaged by payment of the brideprice, and a man other than her husband.… …
97APOTROPOS — ( Guardian ). The Concept The term apotropos (Heb. סֹופ ֹור ְט ֹופַא) for guardianship in Jewish law is derived from the Greek ἁπότροπος and means the father of minors or the guardian or custodian of another s affairs (see Maimonides to Mishnah,… …
98ARAB WORLD, 1945–2006 — The Arab world is divided into four subregions: the Maghreb (morocco , tunisia , algeria , libya , Mauritania), the Nile Valley (egypt and Sudan), the Fertile Crescent (syria , lebanon , iraq , jordan , and the palestinian authority ), and the… …
99JOB, BOOK OF — (named for its hero (Heb. אִיּוֹב), ancient South Arabian and Thamudic yʾb; Old Babylonian Ayyābum, Tell el Amarna tablet, no. 256, line 6, A ia ab; either from yʾb, to bear ill will or compounded of ay where? and ʾab (divine) father ), one of… …
100LAW AND MORALITY — In the Bible In the Pentateuch, legal and moral norms are not distinguished by any definitional criteria. The manner of presentation of both is via revelation – moral norms are not presented as wisdom but rather as prophetic revelation. Thus the… …
