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  • 121Exact sciences (The) in Hellenistic times: texts and issues — The exact sciences in Hellenistic times: Texts and issues1 Alan C.Bowen Modern scholars often rely on the history of Greco Latin science2 as a backdrop and support for interpreting past philosophical thought. Their warrant is the practice… …

    History of philosophy

  • 122Jean de Meun — (Jehan de Meung) (ca. 1235/40–1305)    Jean de Meun, who continued GUILLAUME DE LORRIS’s fairly short first part of the ROMAN DE LA ROSE (ca. 1237), created one of the most influential, but also most provocative allegorical poems in the late… …

    Encyclopedia of medieval literature

  • 123Big Sur — by Jack Kerouac (1962)    Jack Kerouac was ill equipped to deal with the strong responses that his work, especially on tHe road, evoked from both fans and critics in the late 1950s. Critical attacks that savaged both his work and his personal… …

    Encyclopedia of Beat Literature

  • 124strike — {vb 1 Strike, hit, smite, punch, slug, slog, swat, clout, slap, cuff, box are comparable when they mean to come or bring into contact with or as if with a sharp blow. Strike, hit, and smite are the more general terms. Strike, the most general of… …

    New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • 125vicious — vicious, villainous, iniquitous, nefarious, flagitious, infamous, corrupt, degenerate are comparable when they mean highly reprehensible or offensive in character, nature, or conduct. Vicious may imply an addiction to or connection with vice or… …

    New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • 126ЕВАНГЕЛИЕ. ЧАСТЬ II — Язык Евангелий Проблема новозаветного греческого Дошедшие до нас оригинальные тексты НЗ написаны на древнегреч. языке (см. ст. Греческий язык); существующие версии на др. языках это переводы с греческого (или с др. переводов; о переводах… …

    Православная энциклопедия

  • 127DUTCH LITERATURE — Influence of the Bible The arrival, on October 27, 2004, of the Nieuwe Bijbelvertaling, a completely new translation into Dutch of the Bible and the Christian Apocrypha, initiated a fierce debate in Dutch literary circles. At the core was the… …

    Encyclopedia of Judaism

  • 128ECONOMIC HISTORY — This article is arranged according to the following outline: first temple period exile and restoration second temple period talmudic era muslim middle ages medieval christendom economic doctrines early modern period sephardim and ashkenazim… …

    Encyclopedia of Judaism