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Homegoing is the debut historical fiction novel by Ghanaian-American author Yaa Gyasi, published in 2016.Each chapter in the novel follows a different descendant of an Asante woman named Maame, starting with her two daughters, who are half-sisters, separated by circumstance: Effia marries James Collins, the British governor in charge of Cape Coast Castle, while her half-sister Esi is held ...
Page from the Leningrad Codex (1008 CE), showing part of Numbers 10. The Book of Numbers (from Greek Ἀριθμοί, Arithmoi, lit. ' numbers ' Biblical Hebrew: בְּמִדְבַּר, Bəmīḏbar, lit. ' In [the] desert '; Latin: Liber Numeri) is the fourth book of the Hebrew Bible and the fourth of five books of the Jewish Torah. [1]
Yaa Gyasi was born in Mampong, Ghana [5] to Sophia, a nurse, and Kwaku Gyasi, a professor of French at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. [6] [7] Her family moved to the United States in 1991 so her father could complete his Ph.D. at Ohio State University.
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This list provides examples of known textual variants, and contains the following parameters: Hebrew texts written right to left, the Hebrew text romanised left to right, an approximate English translation, and which Hebrew manuscripts or critical editions of the Hebrew Bible this textual variant can be found in. Greek (Septuagint) and Latin (Vulgate) texts are written left to right, and not ...
The Book of Numbers is the fourth book in the Hebrew Torah and the Christian Bible. Book of Numbers may also refer to: Book of Numbers, 1973 film; Book of Numbers, 2015 novel by Joshua Cohen; A Book of Numbers, 1982 book by John Grant; The Book of Numbers (math book), 1996 math book by John Horton Conway and Richard K. Guy
Numbers 31 is the 31st chapter of the Book of Numbers, the fourth book of the Pentateuch , the central part of the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament), a sacred text in Judaism and Christianity. Scholars such as Israel Knohl and Dennis T. Olson name this chapter the War against the Midianites .
A book with chapters (not to be confused with the chapter book) may have multiple chapters that respectively comprise discrete topics or themes. In each case, chapters can be numbered, titled, or both. An example of a chapter that has become well known is "Down the Rabbit-Hole", which is the first chapter from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.