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The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made is a non-fiction book authored by Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas. Published by Simon & Schuster in 1986, it describes the actions of a group of U.S. federal government officials and members of the East Coast foreign policy establishment .
The Four Wise Men (French: Gaspard, Melchior et Balthazar) is a 1980 novel by Michel Tournier, published by Éditions Gallimard.Ralph Manheim translated the work into English, and the translation was first published in the United States by Doubleday and Company in 1982, [1] and in the United Kingdom by William Collins, Sons in 1982.
The King James Version translates "magi" as wise men; the same translation is applied to the wise men led by Daniel of earlier Hebrew Scriptures (Daniel 2:48). The same word is given as sorcerer and sorcery when describing "Elymas the sorcerer" in Acts 13:6–11, and Simon Magus, considered a heretic by the early Church, in Acts 8:9–13.
One of the non-canonical Christian sources, the Syriac Infancy Gospel, provides, in its third chapter, a story of the wise men of the East which is very similar to much of the story in Matthew. This account cites Zoradascht (Zoroaster) as the source of the prophecy that motivated the wise men to seek the infant Jesus. [30]
Wise men or wise man may refer to: Biblical Magi, who follow the Star of Bethlehem in the New Testament; Sage (philosophy), a person who attained wisdom; Sanxing (deities), personified deities of good fortune, prosperity, and longevity in Chinese Buddhism and Taoism; The Wise Men, 1986 book about American foreign policy elders during the Cold War
Though the "Wise Men" group whose informal leader was the former Secretary of State Dean Acheson were widely ... (2011, PDF, 66 pages) Generals of World War II ...
Caspar (otherwise known as Casper, Gaspar, Kaspar, Jasper, Kasper, [1] and other variations) was one of the 'Three Kings', along with Melchior and Balthazar, representing the wise men or Biblical Magi mentioned in Matthew 2:1-9.
' wise men ') was the king's council in the Anglo-Saxon government of England from before the 7th century until the 11th century. It comprised important noblemen, including ealdormen, thegns, and bishops. Meetings of the witan were sometimes called the witenagemot. [note 1]