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41squalor — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. dirt, filth, decay, uncleanness, misery, poverty. See disorder. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. ugliness, disorder, uncleanness, misery, wretchedness; see also filth , poverty 1 . III (Roget s 3… …
42μύσει — μύσις closing fem nom/voc/acc dual (attic epic) μύσεϊ , μύσις closing fem dat sg (epic) μύσις closing fem dat sg (attic ionic) μύσος uncleanness neut nom/voc/acc dual (attic epic) μύσεϊ , μύσος uncleanness neut dat sg (epic ionic) μύσος… …
43EVOLUTION — Although evolutionary ideas are very old, being found in the works of Greek philosophers and echoed in the aggadah and the Midrash, the main stimulus to evolutionary thought came from the theory developed at the end of the 18th century,… …
44NAZIR — (Heb. נָזִיר; Nazirite ), fourth tractate in the order Nashim, in the Mishnah, Tosefta, and the Babylonian and Jerusalem Talmuds. It deals, as its name indicates, with the laws of the nazirite (Num. 6:1–21), and its position after the tractate… …
45NIDDAH — (Heb. נִדָּה menstruating woman ; literally, one who is excluded or expelled ). According to Jewish law, a man is forbidden to maintain sexual relations with his wife during and for some time both before and after (see below) her menses. Marital… …
46SHAMMAI — (Ha Zaken, i.e., The Elder; c. 50 B.C.E.–c. 30 C.E.), one of the zugot , the leaders of the Sanhedrin. Hillel s first colleague was menahem the Essene and Shammai was appointed to succeed him as av bet din when he retired. Nothing is known of the …
47TEMPLE SCROLL — TEMPLE SCROLL, scroll of the dead sea sect . In 1967 yigael yadin acquired for the Shrine of the Book, through the generosity of the Wolfson foundation, a scroll which almost certainly came from the Qumran caves. It is one of the most important… …
48YOSE BEN JOEZER OF ZEREDAH — (first half of the second century B.C.E.), together with his colleague, yose b. johanan of jerusalem , the first of the zugot . Both were disciples of antigonus of sokho . Zeredah, his place of origin, is in the south of Samaria. He was the nasi… …
49ZAVIM — (Heb. זָבִים; Sufferers from Flux ), ninth tractate in the order Tohorot in the Mishnah; there is no Gemara either in the Babylonian or in the Jerusalem Talmud. The scriptural basis of this tractate is Leviticus 15:1–15, which speaks of the… …
50Augustine of Hippo — This article is about the theologian and philosopher, Augustine of Hippo. For his theodicy regarding the problem of evil, see Augustinian theodicy. Augustine , Saint Augustine , and Augustinus redirect here. For other uses, see Augustine… …
