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life, or otherwise reinterpreting them . The only thing no one could do was ignore them. A group claiming to constitute a holy community and comparing itself to the Temple would have to interpret in terms of its life the Temple's chief characteristics, including purity-rules. cult, and priesthood
Syria and beyond became a standard feature of life in the area dominated and controlled by the Euphrates waters. The full extent of the homogeneity, broadened, deepened and enhanced by ever more extensive trading, has not been fully apprehended or appreciated until very recent times. That Sumerian
many other theological students his father had to bear the expenses of his university studies in Upsala with the help of loans from banks or elsewhere. Heavy debts, with which a man might have to struggle nearly all his life, were the inevitable result. The situation of Nyberg's father was aggravated
unknown factors that motivated local groups to ally themselves with these power centers. A hint of such a process is the increase in the local use of Egyptian amulets, substituting locally produced amulets. The main outcome here of note is that this practice was shared by both Egyptians and locals for
points of view and based on various theories in use. 4 In the history of research into emotions, 5 classical historians and philosophers (see below) have treated human emotional life as the expression of mind and body. In 1890, based on a study of facial expressions, Darwin proposed that human
/15/2008 7:47:30 PM the syntax of verbs 591 the "i- prefi x. Habitual action of verbs of this class is on many occasions also expressed by the "i-qa†6l form. The choice of the speaker to use the qa†6l form or the "i-qa†6l is not completely random but is motivated to a large extent by differences in
full-fledged royal command mirrors the god’s command and shares its hallmarks: it is self-consistent, self-attesting; it does not need to be “be motivated according to a principle or rule external to him, but may stem from personal desire”.32 It is ‘perfect’ as far as such a translation is relevant
motivates it, the Taqrīb clearly has a methodological, platform-based character. It is here that Ibn Ḥazm dis- cusses and submits the correct principles of logical reasoning and presen- tation of evidence that are later to be deployed in his confrontation both with religious groups within Islam and with
like any Near Eastern monarch. His scrolls, however, preserve a record of man's wrong-doing and affect his fate. The Jewish tradition of a Book of Life which contains the information of who will live and who will die in the corning year is a later folkloristic reflection of this symbol of the
appeal to the prophet distinguishes this final captain from the two previous ones who immediately were met with destruction upon their arrival to the mountain. Yet with a request for favor that echoes his master’s appeal in v. 2, the third military official asks, “Shall my life be favorable in Your eyes