Like El and al-Llah which simply means god, al-Lat 'goddess' could be identified with many female deities, and indeed Allat is identified with Aphrodite-Venus (Negev 112). It is said that when Allat became the goddess of the Nabateans, she bacame al-Uzza the 'mighty one' as she ...
1. He overextended himself economically by keeping many wives whom he had to support in luxury2. His wives introduced their gods and priests in to the land which led many Israelites to false worship3. Because Israel had a large army and Solomon initiated many building projects, he taxed them...
for this is covered with such representations."Plato, Hipparchus 228b (trans. Lamb) : "Sokrates : Hipparkhos [an Athenian tyrant late C6th B.C.] . . . among the many goodly proofs of wisdom that he showed, first . . . compelled the rhapsodies at the Panathenaia to recite them in ...
An Ox of One's Own will be of interest to Assyriologists, particularly those interested in Early Mesopotamia, and scholars working on women in religion. An Ox of One's Own centers on the archive of a woman who died about 2050 B.C., one of King Shulgi's many wives. Her birth name...
With regard to the ubiquitous labels “serious” and “casual” that many of my participants, too, overwhelmingly used, research suggests that people use these categories in the context of sexual relationships (see for instance, Wentland and Reissing 2011). In sociology, the use of relationship ...
But they are not inconsistent with Advaita, since all of them proclaim the self of all. Besides these doctrinal similarities, one who reads the two works closely will notice that many of the key terms and phrases are the same in both and that both make use of the rope-snake, shell-...
As we watch events unfold in the Middle East, more information is coming to light about events leading up to the Revolution in Egypt. While there are many factors to consider, including the obvious that Mubarak was not too concerned with the economic welfare of his country or the Egyptian pe...
He also agrees with Confederate apologist Jon Harris that while Confederate generals and slaveholders have gone to heaven, abolitionists burn in Hell, as does Martin Luther King. They “were not the good guys.” Speaking as a Christian, it’s entirely possible many slaveholders are in Heaven....
Other groups, such as the Nez Perce of the Northwest, sacrificed wives, slaves, and a favorite horse of a dead warrior. Among many tribes, mourners, especially widows, cut their hair. Some Native Americans discarded personal ornaments or blacked their faces to honor the dead. Others gashed ...
(C)Many Americans worship sports just like they worship a religion.(D)If you have a large vocabulary of sports, you have less trouble talking with some Americans.你选择的答案:A[正确]A(3) All of the sports are imported, except ___. [本题2分](A)tennis, golf...