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2 Baruch is a Jewish apocryphal text thought to have been written in the late 1st century CE or early 2nd century CE, after the destruction of the Temple in CE 70. It is attributed to the biblical figure Baruch ben Neriah (c. 6th century BC) and so is associated with the Old Testament, but not regarded as scripture by Jews or by most Christian groups.
2 Maccabees, [note 1] also known as the Second Book of Maccabees, Second Maccabees, and abbreviated as 2 Macc., is a deuterocanonical book which recounts the persecution of Jews under King Antiochus IV Epiphanes and the Maccabean Revolt against him.
Dates ranging from the 1st century BCE to the 10th century CE have been proposed, with the late 1st century CE often preferred. The date of the text can be deduced solely on the basis of the internal evidence, since the book has survived only in the medieval manuscripts (even if a reference to 2 Enoch could be found in Origen's On the First Principles i, 3:3). 2 Enoch's composition must be ...
Dwarakanath Shantaram Kotnis (10 October 1910 in India – 9 December 1942), also known by his Chinese name Ke Dihua (Chinese: 柯棣华; pinyin: Kē Dìhuá), was an Indian physician. He and four peers were dispatched to China for medical assistance during the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1938.
Dihua Jiang (simplified Chinese: 江迪华; traditional Chinese: 江迪華; pinyin: Jiāng Díhuá, born 1958) [1] is a Chinese-born American mathematician. He is a professor of mathematics at the University of Minnesota working in number theory , automorphic forms , and the Langlands program .
At first, Du Chang-Feng, a good friend of Ou-Yang Xu & a presented scholar, could not understand why Zhao Pan-Er didn't accept Ou-Yang Xu's proposal and tried to persuade her to be Ou-Yang Xu's concubine. Later, when Du Chang-Feng was bullied by his students as usual, because of his poor eyesight, Sun San-Niang stood up for him.
Wu Jianren claimed that he dashed off his 1906 novel in ten days. It became one of the most famous novels of the period. Patrick Hanan explains that Sea of Regret was Wu’s response to Stones in the Sea, a novel published a few months earlier, under the pseudonym Fu Lin. Stones in the Sea is narrated by the hero of a tragic love affair to dramatize the conflict between the traditional Chinese ...
The East Turkestan Republic (ETR) was a satellite state of the Soviet Union in northern Xinjiang (East Turkestan) that existed from 1944 to 1946. It is often described as the Second East Turkestan Republic to differentiate it from the First East Turkestan Republic (1933–1934), but "second" was never a part of its official name.