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Torah, Jewish studies, Gilgamesh Epic Jeffrey Howard Tigay (born December 25, 1941) is a modern biblical scholar who is best known for the study of Deuteronomy and in his contributions to the Deuteronomy volume of the JPS Torah Commentary (1996).
Harvard fans holding up placards - The Harvard Satyrical Press's photo Another photo from the Harvard Satyrical Press, zooming into the crowd. At the annual Harvard–Yale football game on November 20, 2004, Yale students, costumed as a Harvard "pep squad", distributed placards to Harvard fans for a card stunt.
The Calliopean Society, also known as the Fraternity of Phi Epsilon Mu, is a literary and debating society at Yale College founded in 1819, disbanded in 1853, and revived in 1950. [1] Its name refers to Calliope, chief of the muses and muse of epic poetry, daughter of Zeus and Mnemosyne (memory).
In 1910, Clay became the William M. Laffan Professor of Assyriology and Babylonian Literature at Yale University. [2] In 1909, J. Pierpont Morgan funded the founding of the Yale Babylonian Collection at Yale University. Clay served as its first curator, a position which he held until his death in 1925.
Mary Evelyn Tucker is the co-founder and co-director of the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology with her husband, John Allen Grim. [1] Tucker teaches in the joint Master's program in religion and ecology at Yale University between the School of the Environment, and the Divinity School. [2]
The John Addison Porter Prize, established in 1872, is a prize at Yale University awarded annually to the best work of scholarship in any field "where it is possible, through original effort, to gather and relate facts or principles, or both, and to present the results in such a literary form as to make the product of general human interest."
Elihu's house. Elihu Club is housed in a three-story white clapboard house built between 1762 and 1776 at 175 Elm Street. [14] [15] This house is the oldest of all of Yale's secret society buildings, and purportedly one of the oldest original structures in the United States still in regular use.
Epic commonly refers to: Epic poetry , a long narrative poem celebrating heroic deeds and events significant to a culture or nation Epic film , a genre of film defined by the spectacular presentation of human drama on a grandiose scale