Word: zephaniah
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After Drake's desertion, command was awarded to Chief Magistrate John Zephaniah Holwell, a man with a will to win. The garrison, now reduced to 170 fighting men, battled so fiercely that Indian losses soon stood at 7,000 dead. Once again, the Nawab stood ready to lift the siege, but once again his enemies rescued him. Fifty-six Dutch mercenaries sold out to the Indian leader and handed over the fort...
Scholars agree that many of the differences in translations are absurdly anachronistic in the Ecumenical Century. For Catholics, the list of Old Testament prophets includes Osee and Sophonias; Protestants call them Hosea and Zephaniah. In Protestant Bibles, one of the books attributed to St. John is called Revelation; Catholics call it the Apocalypse. Other differences are more substantial: the Protestant Old Testament, for example, has 39 books; the Catholic, 45. Nonetheless, the Rev. J. Coert Rylaarsdam, an Episcopalian and chairman of Biblical studies at the University of Chicago Divinity School, believes that "nothing now is in the way of English...
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