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Lem Padre Mehuso is a man who has to navigate through life while being a fugitive. He is also mentally ill and has to deal with that. The book tells how he came to be in such a predicament. He meets a woman and gets married and they have a daughter. While working Lem gets in trouble with the law and gets probation. He got spooked and stopped going to see his Probation officer. Needless to say he got a warrant. Life for him after that changed. He became...
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This highly visual and full-colour workbook takes you, step by step, through the process of learning the Greek alphabet. It uses several strategies to help learners achieve mastery quickly and thoroughly. These strategies include:
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visual mnemonics
test questions to help you practice
vocabulary lists for reading practice.
These vocabulary lists appear for each group of letters, so you can practice on words that only use the letters you have...
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François Neveu's seminal work, here available in English for the first time, enables the reader to explore the Ramesside age through an understanding of Late Egyptian. This phase corresponds to the language spoken from the 17th to the 24th dynasty, which became a written language--used for private letters, administrative, legal and literary texts, as well as some official inscriptions--during the Amarna period (circa 1364 BC).
The first part of...
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This fantastic volume explores the mysterious origins of the Egyptian civilization, looking at its relationship to ancient Samaria and subsequent history. "Egyptian Civilization - Its Sumerian Origin and Real Chronology" is highly recommended for those with an interest in ancient Egypt, especially the historical development of theories and evidence relating thereto.
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Within this fascinating volume the author explores the history of the Sumerians in light of contemporary archaeological discoveries at Indus Valley. The author examines these discoveries and explains how they hint to the fact that the "Sumerians" were the long lost 'Early Aryans', and that the people who colonised and civilised India, the Mediterranean, Northwestern Europe and Britain were also Aryans-specifically the Phoenician branch. "The Indo-Sumerian...
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An Athenian Farmer-fed up with the unending war against the Spartans-feeds so much of the shit the war has brought him to a dung-beetle that he is able to saddle it up and ride it-flying to the house of Zeus-there to plead the case for Peace...
Before now, only initiates into the mysteries of Ancient Greek could truly appreciate the genius of Aristophanes, but with this book, all those wishing to read, sing, play, or study this groundbreaking masterpiece...
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Enrichi de 3 000 mots, le Grand dictionnaire des mots savants du français est une version entièrement refondue de la précédente édition. Est généralement considéré comme «savant» tout mot formé à partir d'une base ou structure, tirée directement de l'étymon latin ou grec de ce même mot (l'étymon étant la forme étymologique dont il dérive). Cette base correspond normalement au radical (ou à la racine) de l'étymon. À partir...
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Extrait: "On voyait autrefois dans un temple de l'île de Chio une statue de Minerve, dont le visage paraissait triste et austère à ceux qui entraient, doux et souriant à ceux qui sortaient. Il n'en sera pas ainsi de ce livre: le sourire est à l'entrée, grâce au maître qui a bien voulu élever un magnifique portique à notre modeste monument."
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A graduated intermediate reader of biblical Koine Greek with selections from the New Testament, the Septuagint, and noncanonical early Christian writings.
This intermediate reader is for students, clergy, and scholars who have completed at least one year of Greek instruction and want to build reading proficiency. Through twenty-nine texts from the New Testament, the Septuagint, and noncanonical early Christian writings, readers will be exposed to...
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A companion resource for use with N. Clayton Croy's Primer of Biblical Greek, featuring dozens of simple, enjoyable narratives to reinforce the content and skills introduced by Croy.
Too often, Greek readers include difficult primary texts encumbered with glosses, but this reader from Mark Jeong is instead comprised of originally written texts keyed to the vocabulary and grammar taught in Clayton Croy's Primer of Biblical Greek. Thus fluent, comprehensive...
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What did the apostles' Greek sound like?
How should New Testament Greek be pronounced in our classrooms? Often students are taught Erasmian pronunciation, which does not even reproduce Erasmus's own pronunciation faithfully, let alone that of the New Testament authors. But if we want to process the language of the New Testament the same way its original authors and readers did, we should use their pronunciation. In his new book, Benjamin Kantor breaks...
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