The congregation's acting Rav, Joe Pessah, was also among those who were arrested by the Egyptian government.

Similarly, Targum Pseudo-Jonathan ( date uncertain ) mentions a Jewish tradition that Nimrod left Shinar and fled to Assyria, because he refused to take part in building the Tower — for which God rewarded him with the four cities in Assyria, to substitute for the ones in Babel.

These four created the Tower of Babel ( not the city Babel nimrod created in Shinar ) 2 days journey east of Shinar under their grandson's ( nimrod ) authority.

Sayce identified Shinar as cognate with the following names: Sangara / Sangar mentioned in the context of the Asiatic conquests of Thutmose III ( 15th century BCE ); Sanhar / Sankhar of the Amarna letters ( 14th century BCE ); the Greeks's Singara ; and modern Sinjar, in Upper Mesopotamia, near the Khabur River.

() Ham ’ s son Cush had a son named Nimrod, who became the first man of might on earth, a mighty hunter, king in Babylon and the land of Shinar.

According to Armenian tradition, Dr. Hales is quoted saying, " To the sons of Shem was alloted the middle region of the earth viz., Palestine, Syria, Assyria, Samaria ( Shinar?

() As people migrated from the east, they settled in the land of Shinar.

The peoples listed in Chapter 10 of Genesis ( the Table of Nations ) are stated by 11: 8-9 to have been scattered over the face of the earth from Shinar only after the abandonment of the Tower.

Fowl had been known in Egypt since the 18th Dynasty, with the " bird that gives birth every day " having come to Egypt from the land between Syria and Shinar, Babylonia, according to the annals of Tutmose III.

Biblical Shinar, Egyptian Sngr and Hittite Šanhar ( a ) could be western variants of Shumer.

In the Tanakh or Old Testament, Amraphel was a king of Shinar ( Babylonia, broadly speaking ) in Genesis xiv. 1 and 9, who invaded the west along with Chedorlaomer, king of Elam, and others, and defeated Sodom and the other Cities of the Plain in the Battle of the Vale of Siddim.

Sumer has been supposed to be the original of the Biblical Shinar and the Sankhar of the Amarna letters.

: But as to the plan of Shinar, in the country of Babylonia, Hestiaeus mentions it, when he says thus: " Such of the priests as were saved, took the sacred vessels of Zeus Enyalius, and came to Shinar of Babylonia.

It is also believed Uruk is the biblical ( Genesis 10: 10 ) Erech, the second city founded by Nimrod in Shinar.

Erech ( Hebrew name ארך, meaning ' to extract ', ' draw out ', or ' long ') according to the Book of Genesis, was an ancient city in the land of Shinar, the second city built by king Nimrod.

The rite, resembling, on one hand, the sending off of the basket with the woman embodying wickedness to the land of Shinar in the vision of Zechariah (), and, on the other, the letting loose of the living bird into the open field in the case of the leper healed from the plague (), was, indeed, viewed by the people of Jerusalem as a means of ridding themselves of the sins of the year.

* Shinar, Joseph ( Ed.

Shinar (; Hebrew Šinʻar, Septuagint Σεννααρ Sennaar ) is a biblical geographical locale of uncertain boundaries in Mesopotamia.

The name Shinar occurs eight times in the Hebrew Bible, in which it refers to Babylonia.

In the Book of Genesis 10: 10, the beginning of Nimrod's kingdom is said to have been " Babel, and Erech < nowiki >< nowiki ></ nowiki >, and Akkad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

" Verse 11: 2 states that Shinar enclosed the plain that became the site of the Tower of Babel after the Great Flood.

After the Flood, the sons of Shem, Ham, and Japheth, had stayed first in the highlands of Armenia, and then repaired to Shinar.

In Genesis 14: 1, 9, King Amraphel rules Shinar.

Shinar is further mentioned in Joshua 7: 21 ; Isaiah 11: 11 ; Daniel 1: 2 ; and Zechariah 5: 11, as a general synonym for Babylonia.

Some of the choicest remarks made by soldiers in their letters were in disparagement of unpopular officers.

943 ), in which he remarks, " Some Jews exhibit purity of life and much diligence and love of study.

Some remarks on the purported or commonly perceived numerological significance of specific small numbers may be found at the articles on these numbers, as at 77 ( number ).

** Some 200, 000 protesters march through the streets of San Francisco, protesting Anita Bryant's antigay remarks and the murder of Robert Hillsborough.

Some of his remarks, such as those concerning the September 11th attacks, have been condemned by sitting Presidents and have been the subject of national and international media attention.

Some of those press members turned on him in the 1980s as the punk rock revolution led to widespread dismissal of the old guard of rock, Townshend attacked two of them, Julie Burchill and Tony Parsons, in the song " Jools And Jim " on his album Empty Glass after they made some derogatory remarks about Who drummer Keith Moon.

* Long, J., Gray, J., An Enquiry into the Origin of the Human Appetites and Affections, Shewing how Each arises from Association, with an account of the Entrance of Moral Evil to the world, to which are added Some remarks on the independent Scheme which deduces all Obligation on God ’ s part and Mans from certain abstract Relations, Truth, & c. Written for the Use of the young Gentlemen at the Universities, W. Wood, ( Lincoln ), 1747 reprint: pp. 281 – 476 in McReynolds, P. ( ed ), Four Early Works on Motivation, Scholar ’ s Facsimiles & Reprints, ( Gainesville ), 1969

Some of the women carry on doing what I have already described them as doing, but others shout out scornful remarks to the women in the town, or dance, or stand and pull up their clothes to expose themselves.

Some considered her remarks to be hypocritical, seeing a contradiction between her appearance in a risqué music video in only her underwear and her telling young women to ignore celebrity culture.

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* " Some remarks to the planned obsolecence ", from the vintage Tannoy Monitor Gold Website

Some years later, in his treatise Musica getutscht ( 1511 ) Virdung ridiculed Schlick's adherence to the view that the black keys should be considered musica ficta, and made rude remarks about the composer's blindness.

* Siegfried Schlieder, Some remarks about the localization of states in a quantum field theory, Comm.

Some commentators viewed these remarks as a cynical appeal to residual homophobia among blue-collar voters in key swing states.

Some idea of its bleakness is conveyed by the remarks

Some are brief remarks of only a sentence or two ; others recount a story over a few pages, often with discursive personal commentary added.

Some final remarks.

Some remarks on Tumbuka as well as the related Tonga language can be found in W. M. Turner, Tumbuka – Tonga – English Dictionary The Hetherwick Press, Blantyre ( now Malawi ) MCMLII.

I promise I won't say anything to anybody, but it is downright cheating ... this isn't England vs the West Indies ... Some of the remarks from the crowd are too awful, shouting " kill " at us.

Some bastides were not so geometrically planned: " The block geometry of the bastides was not a rigid framework into which a town was squeezed ; it resembles more closely a net, thrown upon the site and adapting to its nuances ," Randolph remarks.

Some remarks about semi-Artinian rings, Rev.

Some remarks about the regular ring associated to a commutative ring, Rev.

Some elementary remarks about n-local fields, Rend.

John Wells remarks, " Some analysts ( particularly Americans ) argue [...] that the presence of a strong full vowel is sufficient evidence that the syllable in question is stressed.