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Mules and Men is a 1935 autoethnographical collection of African-American folklore collected and written by anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston. [1] The book explores stories she collected in two trips: one in Eatonville and Polk County, Florida , and one in New Orleans .
The word rendered 'mules' in the Authorized Version is the Hebrew יֵמַים, yemim, perhaps the Emim, or giants, as in the reading of the Samuel הָאֵימַים, and so also Onkelos and Pseudo-Jonathan; Gesenius prefers 'hot-springs', following the Vulgate rendering. [1] Zibeon was also one of the dukes or phylarchs of the Horites. [5] [1]
A day's journey in pre-modern literature, including the Bible [1] [2] and ancient geographers and ethnographers such as Herodotus, is a measurement of distance.. In the Bible, it is not as precisely defined as other Biblical measurements of distance; the distance has been estimated from 32 to 40 kilometers (20 to 25 miles).
Mulek (/ ˈ m j uː l ɛ k /), [1] according to the Book of Mormon, was the only surviving son of Zedekiah, the last King of Judah, after the Babylonian conquest of Jerusalem.The Book of Mormon states that after escaping from Judah, Mulek traveled to the Americas and established a civilization there.
According to 2 Samuel, the Battle of the Wood of Ephraim was a military conflict between the rebel forces of the formerly exiled Israelite prince Absalom against the royal forces of his father King David during a short-lived revolt.
The Horites initially appear in the Torah as being members of a Canaanite coalition, who lived near the Sodom and Gomorrah.The coalition rebelled against Kedorlamer of Elam, who ruled them for twelve years.
In 1899, Burns said, he and a Baptist minister from Kansas, H.L. McMurray, spent several weeks riding through the hills asking men from the opposing Baker and Howard families to come to a meeting.
Mule — In spite of the enactment of the Law (Leviticus 19:19), the Israelites early in the course of their history possessed mules; these animals, in a hilly region such as the Holy Land, were for many purposes preferable to horses and stronger than asses; they were employed both for domestic and warlike use.