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The Use and Abuse of History
Moses I. FinleyFew writers have taught us more about the ancient world than M. I finley.
The ancient economy
Moses I. FinleyThis is Finley at the height of his remarkable powers and in his finest role as historical iconoclast and intellectual provocateur.
Classical Slavery
PreviewIn Aspects of Antiquity (1968; Pelican reprint 1972) Moses Finley included the essay Aulos Kapreilios Timotheos, Slave Trader'. It is the least polemical of Finley's essays on slavery: it is almost a soliloquy in front of a puzzling ghost from the ...
Politics in the Ancient World
M. I. FinleySir Moses Finley explores politics in the city states of Greece and republican Rome and their impact on our understanding of the ancient world.
Early Greece: The Bronze and Archaic Ages
Moses I. FinleyDescribes the evolution of the city-states Athens and Sparta between 1600 and 500 B.C. and examines the ways the early Greeks learned to handle social conflict
Classical Slavery
Moses I. FinleySee K.R. Bradley, 'Wet-nursing at Rome: a Study in Social Relations', in The Family, Rawson (n.63), pp.201-29. 67. See Bradley (1985). 68. The name of the nutritor appears as Aurelius Cen[... ]hus. 69. I assume that Phota was of servile origin ...
Democracy Ancient and Modern
Moses I. FinleyThe two new essays, "Athenian Dialogues" and "Censorship in Classical Antiquity" combine with "Leaders and Followers," "Democracy, Consensus, and the National Interest," "Socrates and After" to make this book an unusual inquiry.
The (Almost) Perfect Guide to Imperfect Boys
Barbara DeeAccording to the book she and her best friend Maya have written, Finley believes that all of the boys at her middle school are immature, until Zachary Mattison returns from a year away, and Finley sees him in a new light.
Catalog of Copyright Entries: Third series
ReadSEE Moses, Anna Mary (Robertson). GRANDMA Moses home, 1913. OU19890. SEE Moses, Anna Mary (Robertson). GRANDMA M0S3S PROPERTIES, INC. All alone. GU19502. SEE Moses, Anna Mary (Robertson). Aunt Polly's home 2.
Native America and the Question of Genocide
Alex AlvarezA. Dirk Moses (New York: Berghahn Books, 2008); A. Dirk Moses, “An Antipodean Genocide: The Origins of the Genocidal Moment in the Colonisation of Australia,” Journal of Genocide Research 2, no. 1 (2000): 89–106; A. Dirk Moses, ed., ...
Beginning at Moses: A Guide to Finding Christ in the Old ...
Michael BarrettJesus Christ is God's final, perfect, incomparable Word. Beginning at Moses seeks to follow the example of Christ Himself Who, "beginning at Moses and all the prophets," expounded from all the Scripture the things concerning Himself.
Abstracts of the Testamentary Proceedings of the Prerogative ...
Jr. Skinner21:38 Mr. Finley (TA) to examine accounts of Mary Glover administratrix of John Glover (TA) . MM William Coursey & Robert Finley administrators of Richard Sweatnam (TA) were granted continuance. Mr. Peter Dent (SO) to examine accounts ...
Descendants of Joseph Finley Kyle and Matilda Scotten of ...
Reverdy Lewin OrrellJoseph Finley Kyle (ca. 1795-1842) married Matilda Scotten (1802-1850) in 1819.
Moses: A Life
Jonathan KirschA figure of mystery, passion, and contradiction, Moses emerges from this book very much a hero for our time. From the Hardcover edition.
Stranger and a Sojourner:passage Peter Caulder, Free Black ...
Preview... Civil War, and Aftermath in Arkansas," Arkansas Historical Quarterly 54 ( Autumn 1995): 304-58; and Randy Finley, "This Dreadful Whirlpool' of Civil War: Edward W. Gantt and the Quest for Distinction," in Randy Finley and Thomas A.
Who Killed John Clayton?: Political Violence and the ...
Kenneth C. BarnesSee also Randy Finley, "The Freedmen's Bureau in Arkansas" (Ph.D. diss., University of Arkansas, 1992), 370; Randy Finley, From Slavery to Uncertain Freedom: The Freedmen's Bureau in Arkansas, 1865-1869 (Fayetteville: University of ...
The Moses Basket
Jenny KoralekA simple retelling of how Moses, who grew to lead the Hebrews out of captivity in Egypt, was saved when his mother and sister set him adrift in a water-tight basket where Pharoah's daughter would find him.
Robert Parris Moses: A Life in Civil Rights and Leadership ...
Laura Visser-Maessen... in person, November 16, 2009, Washington, D.C. Sheila Michaels, email, May 6, 2012 Mike Miller, in person, April 15, 2010, Raleigh, N.C. Robert Parris Moses, in person, April 15, 2010, Raleigh, N.C. Robert Parris Moses, email, October 25, ...
Islamic Studies
More editionsThe Qur'anic View of Moses: A Messenger of God from the Children of Israel to Pharaoh* IRFAN AHMAD KHAN The Qur'an makes more than one hundred references to Moses [Musa]1 and discusses, in different contexts, the various aspects ...
Designs on the Heart: The Homemade Art of Grandma Moses
Karal Ann MarlingExplores the meaning of the subject matter and fame of the paintings of Grandma Moses, revealing an extensive longing for the memories and comforts of the American past portrayed in her work.
Exiles in Sepharad: The Jewish Millennium in Spain
Jeffrey GorskyTheir cultural contributions include important poets; the great Jewish philosopher Moses Maimonides; and Moses de Leon, author of the Zohar, the core text of the Kabbalah. But these Jews also endured considerable hardship.
Counties of White and Pulaski, Indiana: Historical and ...
More editionsFor Sheriff, David Klinger, 32 ; Hampton W. Hornbeck, 17. For Coroner, Moses Holmes, 31 ; Joseph Conklin, 11. Clerks of Election, M. A. Hadden and Moses L. Washburn ; Judges of Election, James A. Joyce, Elisha Hall and John Shuey.
Moses Hedrick: his ancestors and descendants, 1750-1973
Ralph W. HedrickJUHN F. HEDRICK John Hedrick was born on the old Hedrick farm near Ft. Spring, December 13, 181*3 . He was a son of Moses and Elizabeth McVey Hedrick. When he was 18 years old he was mustered into the army of the Southern ...
Jewish-Muslim encounters: history, philosophy, and culture
More editionsTHE QUR'ANIC VIEW OF MOSES AS A MESSENGER OF GOD FROM THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL TO PHARAOH Irfan Ahmad Khan THE QUR'AN MAKES more than one hundred references1 to "Moses" and in different contexts discusses ...
Green Plagues and Lamb: The Story of Moses and Pharaoh
Kathleen Long BostromRecounts in rhymes Moses's struggle to persuade Pharaoh to let the Israelites leave Egypt, in the style of Seuss's "Green Eggs and Ham."
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