Word: jabez
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Pity poor Jabez. For some 2,500 years, he languished in one of those endless biblical genealogies, as the 35th "son of Judah" enumerated in the Book of Chronicles, just after the listings for his relatives Anub and Zobebah. Upon reaching him, the biblical author breaks stride, but only for a moment, to acknowledge that he was regarded as "more honorable than his brothers" and that he had a favorite prayer, which the Bible reprints. Then it was on to Chelub and Shuhah...
...Jesus noted, the last shall be first. After only a year on the market, a slim inspirational text called The Prayer of Jabez, written by an evangelist based in Atlanta, Bruce Wilkinson, and published by a tiny firm in Sisters, Ore., has sold a Grisham-like 3.5 million copies and advanced this week to No. 1 on the New York Times Advice, How-to & Miscellaneous best-sellers list--even though the Times does not count books sold in religious bookstores. Says Lynn Garrett, religion editor at Publishers Weekly: "It's a raging success, and I think it's going...
...what had been the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and Ida Littman, daughter of a ne'er-do-well traveling salesman from Vienna who abandoned his family. Morris' proudest possession?about his only one?was his name; he traced its origin to a Biblical family of scribes that lived at Jabez (/ Chronicles 2: 55) near Jerusalem. He changed its spelling after arriving...
...joint committee of the project includes President Pusey and Norman F. Ramsey, Edward M. Purcell, and Jabez C. Street, professors of Physics...
George W. Mackey, professor of Mathematics; David D. Perkins '51, associate professor of English; Hans J. E. Schmitt, assistant professor of Physics; Edward F. Seckler, associate professor of Architecture; Jabez C. Street, professor of Physics; Jaroslav Vanek, assistant professor of Economics; and Cedric H. Whitman '38, professor of Greek and Latin...