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Anath

(ā`năth), in the Bible, father of ShamgarShamgar
, in Judges, deliverer and apparently a judge of Israel. He slew 600 Philistines with an ox goad.
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ANath Dior sylweddoli fod menywod, ac a dweud y gwir pawb arall hefyd, yn edrych am luxury ar ol yr Ail Ryfel Byd a nath e ddod lan gyda dillad benywaidd iawn.
PUM MUNUD GYDA ... ELERI LYNNE
As former executive director of the Center for Public Integrity, I was taken aback by the misstatements included in Anath Hartmann's article "Center of Attention" (The Beat, December/January).
Taken aback
Chen, * Siew Pang Chan, * Chia Siong Wong, * Jeffery Cutter, ([section]) Kee Tai Goh, ([section]) and Paul Anath Tambyah ([paragraph]) #
Influenza pandemics in Singapore, a tropical, globally connected city
Pragnya Sahoo, Satyanarayan Jena, Suprava Mohanty & Anath Bandhu Das* Cytogenetics Laboratory, Regional Plant Resource Centre, Nayapalli, Bhubaneswar-751015, Orissa, India, Fax: ++-91-674-2550274; * a_b_das@hotmail.
Molecular phylogenetic relationships among four species of the mangrove tree genus Bruguiera (Rhizophoraceae), as revealed by chromosome and RAPD markers
Mionn sul Eirinn anath cliath," "Jewel of Ireland's Eye in Dublin," delivers its punch by holding life and death in an unstable equilibrium.
"An headlesse Ladie" and "a horses loade of heades": writing the beheading
En este sentido, es posible considerar, como senala Anath Ariel de Vidas, que con la migracion se " .
Activando el mundo simbolico para enfrentar la emigracion
The authors also acknowledge the assistance given by Anath Pramanick in locating the tubewells.
Seasonal variation of arsenic concentrations in tubewells in West Bengal, India
At the end of Chapter 3, readers are told that Shamgar, the son of Anath, killed 600 Philistines with an ox goad--a sharp stick used to prod recalcitrant beasts of the field.
Rick Santorum's Amen corner: Pennsylvania Pastors Network spotlights incumbent Republican senator while building church-based political machine
The third section has entries for Canaanite deities Anath, Asherah, and Astarte; the Greek goddess Artemis; the demon Lilith; the personifications Earth as Mother, Woman Wisdom, Jerusalem/Zion as Widow and Mother, and Sister Church; a discussion of the female images for nations in Ezekiel and for God in the Hebrew Bible and the apocryphal/deuterocanonical books; and more.
Women in Scripture: A Dictionary of Named and Unnamed Women in the Hebrew Bible, the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical Books, and the New Testament
Thus, Shamgar ben Anath strikes down six hundred Philistines with an oxgoad (Judges 3:31); Sisera, with 900 iron chariots (nine might almost be plausible), oppresses the Israelites for 20 years, until he is vanquished by 10,000 Israelites; Gideon's 300 men with 300 trumpets slay 120,000 swordsmen, then rout the remaining 15,000 (56) (Judges 7-8); Yair's 30 sons ride 30 donkeys and rule 30 towns (Judges 10); Samson catches 300 foxes and escapes 3000 captors, killing 1000 with the jawbone of an ass, then leads Israel for 20 years, until Delilah cuts off seven locks of his hair (Judges 15-16).
"New mode of feminist historical analysis"--or just another collusion with "patriarchal" bias?
Jeremy Greenwood and Mehmet Yorukoglu, University of Rochester, and Anath Seshadri, University of Wisconsin, "Engines of Liberation"
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information about Asherah and Anath, consorts of Yahweh in Israel and in Elephantine, Egypt respectively; or the insight that the Wisdom of Solomon enthrones Sophia as Yahweh's consort, while Sirach relegates her to an emanation.
FEMINIST INTERPRETATION: THE BIBLE IN WOMEN'S PERSPECTIVE

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