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Word: belshazzar (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Down, Moses. Not only David's victory over Goliath but other marvelous episodes from Old Testament narrative-Jonah and his voyage in the whale, Methuselah and his ripe old age, Belshazzar and his feast-were ranked by Dr. Gore and his more than 50 collaborators as no more than Hebrew Nights' Entertainments. .They were explained as "products of the Semitic habit of exaggeration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Semitic Exaggeration | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

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