Ezra Stiles Gannett, an honorable representative of the sanhedrin, addressed himself frankly to the issue in 1845, insisting that Parker should not be persecuted or calumniated and that in this republic no power to restrain him by force could exist.

The Ezra Stiles copy of the Brown University Charter of 1764

At the same time, local Congregationalists, led by the theologist Ezra Stiles, were working toward a similar end.

He enrolled at Yale just shy of his 16th birthday, studying during his senior year with the learned Ezra Stiles, Yale's president.

Yale was swept up by the great intellectual movements of the period — the Great Awakening and the Enlightenment — thanks to the religious and scientific interests of presidents Thomas Clap and Ezra Stiles.

The Reverend Ezra Stiles, president of the College from 1778 to 1795, brought with him his interest in the Hebrew language as a vehicle for studying ancient Biblical texts in their original language ( as was common in other schools ), requiring all freshmen to study Hebrew ( in contrast to Harvard, where only upperclassmen were required to study the language ) and is responsible for the Hebrew phrase אורים ותמים ( Urim and Thummim ) on the Yale seal.

In the 1950s he began to receive more commissions from American universities for campus designs and individual buildings ; these include the Noyes dormitory at Vassar, as well as an ice rink, Ingalls Rink, and Ezra Stiles & Morse Colleges at Yale University.

* Ezra Stiles College, Morse College, and Ingalls Rink ( affectionately known as " The Whale ") at Yale University

Other key texts of this period included Ezra Stiles ' The United States elevated to Glory and Honor ( 1783 ) and the Chronicles of Eri ( 1822 ).

He became a professor of comparative literature at Yale University, an author, and master of Ezra Stiles College at Yale, a post to which he was appointed by his predecessor as Yale president, Kingman Brewster, Jr .. Giamatti taught briefly at Princeton but spent most of his academic life at Yale.

Ezra Stiles ( November 29, 1727 – May 12, 1795 ) was an American academic and educator, a Congregationalist minister, theologian and author.

Yale College diploma, Ezra Stiles, Class of 1746

Isaac Stiles in North Haven, Connecticut, Ezra Stiles graduated from Yale in 1746.

The Ezra Stiles House in Newport is on the National Historic Register.

Stiles ' son Ezra Stiles, Esq., was educated first at Yale College, then at Harvard College, where he studied law, graduating in 1778.

Ezra Stiles Jr. subsequently settled in Vermont, and served to establish the boundaries between Vermont and New Hampshire.

Ezra Stiles House in Newport, Rhode Island

Volume carries notation: " Given to the Library of Yale College by Ezra Stiles 1785.

Named in his honor is Ezra Stiles College, one of Yale's residential colleges.

Adjacent to Ezra Stiles College is its near architectural twin, Morse College, named for Samuel F. B.

* Ezra Stiles College

The Literary Diary of Ezra Stiles ( Vol.

According to the Chronicles-Ezra-Nehemiah theory, it contains material set aside from the rest of the book of Ezra, which was canonized first.

Ezra-Nehemiah, grouped as a single book with the title " Ezra ", was translated into Greek around the middle of the 2nd century BC.

The combined book Ezra-Nehemiah of the earliest Christian and Jewish period was known as Ezra and was probably attributed to him ; according to a rabbinic tradition, however, Nehemiah was the real author but was forbidden to claim authorship because of his bad habit of disparaging others.

The medieval exegete Abraham ibn Ezra believed that Job was translated from another language and it is therefore unclear " like all translated books " ( Ibn Ezra Job 2: 11 ).

( Haggai 1: 14-15 ) and the Book of Ezra indicates that it was finished on February 25 516 BCE " The Temple was completed on the third day of the month Adar, in the sixth year of the reign of King Darius.

Nothing is known of the biography of the author of the book of Malachi although it has been suggested that he may have been Levitical ( which is curious, considering that Ezra was a priest.

The philosopher and astronomer Rabbi Abraham ibn Ezra ( c. 1140 ) established the symmetry of binomial coefficients, while a closed formula was obtained later by the talmudist and mathematician Levi ben Gerson ( better known as Gersonides ), in 1321.

According to First Esdras, a non-canonical Greek translation of the Book of Ezra, he was also a high priest.

Ezra, a descendant of Seraiah the high priest, was living in Babylon when in the seventh year (~ 457 BCE ) of Artaxerxes, king of Persia, the king sent him to Jerusalem to teach the laws of God to any who did not know them.

Once this task was completed Nehemiah had Ezra read the Law of Moses ( the Torah ) to the assembled Jews, and the people and priests entered into a covenant to keep the law and separate themselves from all other peoples.

The apocalyptic fourth book of Ezra ( also called the second book of Esdras ) was written c. AD 100, probably in Hebrew-Aramaic.

" Ezra restores the law that was destroyed with the burning of the Temple in Jerusalem.

According to Bamidbar Rabbah, Ezra was doubtful of the correctness of some words in the Torah and said, " Should Elijah ... approve the text, the points dots that he scribed above the letters will be disregarded ; should he disapprove, the doubtful words will be removed from the text ".

According to tradition, Ezra was the writer of the Books of Chronicles.

Mary Joan Winn Leith in The Oxford History of the Biblical World believes that Ezra was an historical figure whose life was enhanced in the scripture and given a theological buildup.

Ezra Abbot ( April 28, 1819, Jackson, Maine – March 21, 1884, Cambridge, Massachusetts ) was an American biblical scholar.

Hackman was born in San Bernardino, California, the son of Lyda ( née Gray ) and Eugene Ezra Hackman.

Scholars in the first half of the 20th century came to the conclusion that the Yahwist was produced in the monarchic period, specifically at the court of Solomon, and the Priestly work in the middle of the 5th century BC ( the author was even identified as Ezra ), but more recent thinking is that the Yahwist was written either just before or during the Babylonian exile of the 6th century, and the Priestly final edition was made late in the Exilic period or soon after.

480 – 440 BC ), also called Ezra the Scribe ( Hebrew: עזרא הסופר, Ezra ha-Sofer ) and Ezra the Priest in the Book of Ezra.

There is also another work, thought to be influenced by this one, known as the Greek Apocalypse of Ezra.

They also note that Uzair ( ع ُ ز َ ي ْ ر ٌ) is not the Arabic equivalent of Ezra, Ezra in Arabic is Ezra ( إزرا ) or ( عزرا ‎).

There are also similarities between Ezra the priest-scribe ( but not high priest ) and Nehemiah the secular governor on the one hand and Joshua and Zerubbabel on the other hand.

The most important American free love journal was Lucifer the Lightbearer ( 1883 – 1907 ) edited by Moses Harman and Lois Waisbrooker but also there existed Ezra Heywood and Angela Heywood's The Word ( 1872 – 1890, 1892 – 1893 ).

There is also a tradition that Ezra the scribe dictated from memory not only the 24 books of the Tanakh but 60 esoteric books.

According to Ezra, this rejection precipitated a further interference not only with the rebuilding of the temple but also with the reconstruction of Jerusalem.

The prints also influenced early Modernist poetry in many important ways, with Imagist poets such as Ezra Pound, Richard Aldington and Amy Lowell allowing them strongly to influence their imagery and aesthetic sentiments.

It was completed and inaugurated of the sixth year of Darius ( March 515 BCE ), as also related in the Book of Ezra ( chapter 6, verse 15 ), so the 70-year prophecy of Jeremiah was fulfilled.

# Arabic ( also Arabist or Hispano-Arabic ) Referring to the songs of the troubadours, Ezra Pound wrote in his Canto VIII that William of Aquitaine " had brought the song up out of Spain / with the singers and viels ".

Ahasuerus is also given as the name of a King of Persia in the Book of Ezra.

There is some evidence for this link, namely that Zerubbabel was the governor of Judah at the time of Zechariah, he was frequently associated with Joshua ( Ezra 3. 2, 3: 8 ), and he is also described as the Temple builder ( Zech 4. 9 ).

The Book of Ezra also gives a date for the beginning of the construction of the Temple:

According to the Book of Ezra, Zerubbabel is also under the authority of King Cyrus of Persia to build the Temple ( Ezr.

It is also probable that the author of 1 Esdras included this reference to Zerubbabel to alleviate any confusion about the difference between Zerubbabel and Sheshbazzar that was apparent in the original book of Ezra.

Some more unorthodox interpretations of the ark narrative also surfaced: the 12th-century Jewish commentator Abraham ibn Ezra interpreted the ark as being a vessel that remained underwater for 40 days, after which it floated to the surface.

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