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The Bible names some half-dozen star groups, but authorities differ widely as to their identity. In a striking passage, the Prophet Amos glorifies the Creator as "Him that made Kimah and Kesil", [3] rendered in the Vulgate as Arcturus and Orion. Now Kimah certainly does not mean Arcturus.
The word itself is a hapax legomenon (i.e., a word appearing only once in a text) of the Hebrew Bible. In Yiddish , the term mazalot came to be used in the sense of "astrology" in general, surviving in the expression " mazel tov ," meaning "good fortune."
The book of Genesis records the descendants of Adam and Eve.The enumerated genealogy in chapters 4, 5, and 11, reports the lineal male descent to Abraham, including the age at which each patriarch fathered his named son and the number of years he lived thereafter.
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Cancer was the backdrop to the Sun's most northerly position in the sky (the summer solstice) in ancient times, when the Earth's Sun-facing side was maximally tilted towards the south, in the Gregorian calendar kept within a few days of June 21. Equivalently, this is the date when the Sun is directly overhead as far north as 23.437° N.
The Bible is not a single book; it is a collection of books whose complex development is not completely understood. The oldest books began as songs and stories orally transmitted from generation to generation. Scholars of the twenty-first century are only in the beginning stages of exploring "the interface between writing, performance ...
Jessica DeCristofaro was diagnosed with stage 4B Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a rare form of cancer, at 28 years old. Here, she shares her story and what doctors missed. ‘Doctors Dismissed My Chronic ...
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