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  • 41freedom — Release from a state of slavery is both a literal and a metaphorical concept in the Bible. The Israelites secured their freedom from bondage in Egypt under the leadership of Moses, but if the chosen people were to renounce their side of the… …

    Dictionary of the Bible

  • 42SLAVERY — BIBLICAL LAW The Hebrew term for slave, eved (pl. avadim), is a direct derivation from the verb ʿbd, to work ; thus, the slave is only a worker or servant. The eved differs from the hired worker (sakhir) in three respects: he receives no wages… …

    Encyclopedia of Judaism

  • 43Karma in Jainism — (Sanskrit: कर्म, kär mə, kär mən, Prakrit: कम्म, kä mmə) refers not only to the actions and deeds that are part of the cause and effect mechanism that results in a cycle of re births and re incarnation, but also to the subtle karmic particles… …

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  • 44B movie — This article is about the film type. For other uses, see B Movie (disambiguation). The King of the Bs , Roger Corman, produced and directed The Raven (1963) for American International Pictures. Vincent Price headlines a cast of veteran character… …

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  • 45biblical literature — Introduction       four bodies of written works: the Old Testament writings according to the Hebrew canon; intertestamental works, including the Old Testament Apocrypha; the New Testament writings; and the New Testament Apocrypha.       The Old… …

    Universalium

  • 46free — 1 adj 1 a: having the legal and political rights of a citizen representatives...shall be determined by adding to the whole number of free persons U.S. Constitution art. I b: enjoying civil and political liberty a free people c: enjoying political …

    Law dictionary

  • 47MOSES — (Heb. מֹשֶׁה; LXX, Mōusēs; Vulg. Moyses), leader, prophet, and lawgiver (set in modern chronology in the first half of the 13th century B.C.E.). Commissioned to take the Israelites out of Egypt, Moses led them from his 80th year to his death at… …

    Encyclopedia of Judaism

  • 48Madonna (entertainer) — Madonna …

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  • 49free — adj Free, independent, sovereign, autonomous, autarchic, autarkic are comparable when they mean not subject to the rule or control of another. The same differences in implications and connotations are found in their corresponding nouns freedom,… …

    New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • 50B movies (The exploitation boom) — The 1960s and 1970s mark the golden age of the independent B movie, made outside of Hollywood s major film studios. As censorship pressures lifted in the early 1960s, the low budget end of the American motion picture industry increasingly… …

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