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  2. Code Noir - Wikipedia

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    The Code noir (French pronunciation: [kɔd nwaʁ], Black code) was a decree passed by King Louis XIV of France in 1685 defining the conditions of slavery in the French colonial empire and served as the code for slavery conduct in the French colonies up until 1789 the year marking the beginning of the French Revolution.

  3. Textual variants in the Book of Genesis - Wikipedia

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    This list provides examples of known textual variants, and contains the following parameters: Hebrew texts written right to left, the Hebrew text romanised left to right, an approximate English translation, and which Hebrew manuscripts or critical editions of the Hebrew Bible this textual variant can be found in. Greek (Septuagint) and Latin (Vulgate) texts are written left to right, and not ...

  4. Book of Genesis - Wikipedia

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    'In [the] beginning'; Latin: Liber Genesis) is the first book of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament. [1] Its Hebrew name is the same as its first word, Bereshit ('In the beginning'). Genesis purports to be an account of the creation of the world, the early history of humanity, and the origins of the Jewish people. [2]

  5. De Genesi ad litteram - Wikipedia

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    Likely completed in AD 415, this work was Augustine's second attempt to literally interpret the Genesis narrative. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] De Genesi ad litteram is divided into 12 books and discusses the seven days of creation (books 1–5), the second creation narrative and the Garden of Eden story (books 6–11), and the " Third Heaven " mentioned in 2 ...

  6. Vienna Genesis - Wikipedia

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    The illustration on folio 12v from the Vienna Genesis shows the story of Jacob Wrestling the Angel. Rebecca and Eliezer at the Well. The Vienna Genesis (Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, cod. theol. gr. 31), designated by siglum L (Ralphs), is an illuminated manuscript, probably produced in Syria in the first half of the 6th century.

  7. File:Louis XV - Code noir, 1743.jpg - Wikipedia

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    Français : Code Noir ou Recueil d'Edits, Déclarations et Arrêts concernant Les Esclaves Nègres de l'Amérique, Avec Un recueil de Réglements, concernant la police des Isles Françoises de l'Amérique et les Engagés, A paris, Chez les Libraires Associez, édité en 1743.

  8. The Genesis Code - Wikipedia

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    The Genesis Code takes on two current social and cultural issues: Evolution vs. creation and end-of-life decisions. [2] Although this becomes a romance story, it gives a look to the age-old question of how science and a book of the Bible, Genesis, may both be correct and told in a format that a normal layperson will understand.

  9. Michael Drosnin - Wikipedia

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    Drosnin began researching the Bible Code in 1992 after meeting the mathematician Eliyahu Rips in Israel. [7] [8] His work was deeply inspired by the publication of the academic article entitled "Equidistant Letter Sequences in the Book of Genesis" by Doron Witztum, Eliyahu Rips, and Yoav Rosenberg in the journal Statistical Science, published by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, in ...