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21 hours ago · Canaan (/ ˈ k eɪ n ən /; Phoenician: 𐤊𐤍𐤏𐤍 – KNʿN; Hebrew: כְּנַעַן – Kənáʿan, in pausa כְּנָעַן – Kənāʿan; Biblical Greek: Χανααν – Khanaan; Arabic: كَنْعَانُ – Kan‘ān) was a Semitic-speaking civilization and region of the Southern Levant in the Ancient Near East during the late 2nd millennium BC.
21 hours ago · Jaffa ( Hebrew: יָפוֹ, romanized : Yāfō, pronounced [jaˈfo] ⓘ; Arabic: يَافَا, romanized : Yāfā, pronounced [ˈjaːfaː] ), also called Japho or Joppa in English, is an ancient Levantine port city founded by the Canaanites that is now part of southern Tel Aviv, Israel.
May 15, 2024 · How did I come to Pietro Alighieri’s Commentary to his father’s Commedia?That in itself is a story. I was writing my Berkeley dissertation on pilgrimage in Dante, Langland, and Chaucer and teasing out the fourfold allegoresis, which Dante relates to the Exodus paradigm of going from bondage to freedom, to the singing of the Psalm 113, In exitu Israel de Aegypto, Footnote 4 and which James ...
May 15, 2024 · The fourth sense is called anagogical, that is to say, beyond the senses; and this occurs when a scripture is expounded in a spiritual sense which, although it is true also in the literal sense, signifies by means of the things signified a part of the supernal things of eternal glory, as may be seen in the song of the Prophet which says that when the people of Israel went out of Egypt, Judea ...
May 15, 2024 · This chapter will present Dante’s literary biography, as had Dorothy Sayers with the Inferno, into these three parts (Plates LXVIII, LXIX, LXX). Footnote 4 Its Leopard section will discuss and present his youthful writings, which may include the Mare amoroso, Footnote 5 his lyric poetry of sung canzoni, beginning, he tells us, with “A ciascun’alma presa, e gentil core” at eighteen, and ...
May 15, 2024 · Book review of The Disenchanted Club Synopsis: Flora didn’t feel like she fit into the modern world, so she went to a meeting with other people who also felt disenchanted—and her life was never the same again.
21 hours ago · Moses Annenberg, newspaper publisher (born in Prussia) Frank Annunzio, politician (Democrat), 13-term U.S. Representative; Cap Anson, Hall of Fame infielder for Chicago White Stockings (born in Iowa) Bessie Anthony, golfer, U.S. Women's Amateur champion; Luis Aparicio, Hall of Fame infielder for Chicago White Sox (born in Venezuela)
