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In Judaism, bible hermeneutics notably uses midrash, a Jewish method of interpreting the Hebrew Bible and the rules which structure the Jewish laws. [1] The early allegorizing trait in the interpretation of the Hebrew Bible figures prominently in the massive oeuvre of a prominent Hellenized Jew of Alexandria, Philo Judaeus, whose allegorical reading of the Septuagint synthesized the ...
Fowl — This word which, in its most general sense, applies to anything that flies in the air (Genesis 1:20, 21), including the "bat" and "flying creeping things" (Leviticus 11:19-23 A.V.), and which frequently occurs in the Bible with this meaning, is also sometimes used in a narrower sense, as, for instance, III K., iv, 23, where it stands ...
The white-crowned sparrow is a very rare vagrant to western Europe. [5] It has been sighted in England, Scotland, [5] [6] Ireland, [7] and Norway. [8] In 2008 a white-crowned sparrow was spotted in Cley next the Sea in Norfolk, England. [9] To commemorate the event an image of the bird was included in a window at St Margaret's Church.
The chipping sparrow lays a clutch of two to seven pale blue to white eggs with black, brown, or purple markings. They are about 17 by 12 millimetres (0.67 by 0.47 in), and incubated by the female for 10 to 15 days. [7] The chipping sparrow is often brood parasitized by brown-headed cowbirds, usually resulting in the nest being abandoned. [6]
Black-crowned sparrow-lark; ... Chipping sparrow; Chiribiquete emerald; ... Lesser whistling duck; Lesser white-fronted goose; Lesser whitethroat;
Huginn and Muninn sit on Odin's shoulders in this illustration from an 18th-century Icelandic manuscript.. In Abrahamic and European mythology, medieval literature and occultism, the language of the birds is postulated as a mystical, perfect divine language, Adamic language, Enochian, angelic language or a mythical or magical language used by birds to communicate with the initiated.
White-crowned sparrow: Zonotrichia leucophrys (Forster, JR, 1772) 70 Golden-crowned sparrow: Zonotrichia atricapilla (Gmelin, JF, 1789) 71 Harris's sparrow: Zonotrichia querula (Nuttall, 1840) 72 White-throated sparrow: Zonotrichia albicollis (Gmelin, JF, 1789) 73 Sagebrush sparrow: Artemisiospiza nevadensis (Ridgway, 1874) 74 Bell's sparrow
Zonotrichia is a genus of five extant American sparrows of the family Passerellidae. [1] Four of the species are North American , but the rufous-collared sparrow breeds in highlands from the extreme southeast of Mexico to Tierra del Fuego , and on Hispaniola .