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61apportion — 1 allocate, *allot, assign Analogous words: *distribute, divide, dispense, deal, dole: *share, participate, partake Contrasted words: *gather, collect, assemble: consolidate, concentrate, *compact 2 …
62COMMUNITY — antiquity middle ages character and structures functions and duties individual centers the muslim caliphate in the east …
63DEAD SEA SECT — (also called Qumran Sect or Qumran Community). The name refers strictly to a Jewish community which lived in the Second Temple period and which adopted a strict and separatist way of life. It is so called because the main source of knowledge… …
64EDIRNE — (Adrianople), town in Turkey located in eastern Thrace near the Turkish Greek Bulgarian frontier. According to the 2000 census, the city s population was recorded as 119,316. The city was named after the Roman emperor, Hadrian (125 C.E.).… …
65JOSHUA — (Heb. יְהוֹשֻׁעַ; YHWH is salvation ), son of Nun of the tribe of Ephraim and leader of the Israelites in the conquest and apportionment of the land of Canaan; his name was originally Hosea (Num. 13:8, 16; Deut. 32:44). Joshua, who appears in the …
66MICHAEL AND GABRIEL — MICHAEL AND GABRIEL, two angels named in Daniel 10:13, 21; 12:1 and Daniel 8:16; 9:21 respectively. The Attributions of Proper Names to Angels Michael and Gabriel are usually cited as the earliest instance of the practice of attributing proper… …
67OTTOMAN EMPIRE — OTTOMAN EMPIRE, Balkan and Middle Eastern empire started by a Turkish tribe, led by ʿUthmān (1288–1326), at the beginning of the 14th century. This entry is arranged according to the following outline: sources …
68TITHE — General The rendering of tithes of property for sacral purposes was common all over the ancient Near East, though well documented and first hand evidence concerning tithes comes mainly from Mesopotamia (ešrû/eširtu; cf. Dandamaev, in bibl.).… …
