TABOR, MOUNT

1,929 ft (588 m) high, N Israel, in Galilee. Ruins of an ancient stronghold crown its summit. Mt. Tabor is surrounded by growing Israeli towns and settlements.

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books on: Tabor Mount  - 505 results

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Conservation Medicine: Ecological Health in Practice
Book by A. Alonso Aguirre, Richard S. Ostfeld, Gary M. Tabor, Carol House, Mary C. Pearl; Oxford University Press, 2002
Subjects: Ecology, Environmental Health
...Associate Professor of Population and International Health, Harvard School of Public Health Chief of Infectious Diseases, Mount Auburn Hospital Cambridge, Massachusetts mary_wilson@harvard.edu Nathan D. Wolfe Department of Environmental Health...
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Atlas of the Bible
Book by L. H. Grollenberg, Joyce M. H. Reid, H. H. Rowley; Nelson, 1956
Subjects: Bible--Antiquities, Bible--Geography--Maps, Jews--History--To 70 A.D
...mod. J. Dahi , S of Mt Tabor; Map 14; Pl. 188...Gath; Map 17. Moria Mount , see MORIA Land of...Gilboa, see GILBOA. Mount Halak, see HALAK Mount . Mount Hermon, see HERMON...see SINAI Mount . Mount Tabor, Mount Thabor, see TABOR...
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Genesis 49 in Its Literary and Historical Context
Book by Raymond De Hoop; Brill, 1999
Subjects: Bible--O.T--Genesis Xlix--Criticism, Interpretation, Etc
...right sacrifices is a reference to mount Tabor, which is located at their common...assumption that there was a cult on Tabor rests only indirectly on Hosea 5...priests have been a net spread upon Tabor . However, in the context of the...
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Geographical Companion to the Bible
Book by Denis A. Baly; McGraw-Hill, 1963
Subjects: Bible--Geography
Taberah. A stopping place during the Exodus. Unknown. Tabor. I Chr. 6:77. Either Mount Tabor or Daberah. Tabor, Mount. An isolated hill on the northern side of the Plain of Esdraelon. Jebel et -T lr...
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Tree of Souls: The Mythology of Judaism
Book by Howard Schwartz; Oxford University Press, 2004
Subjects: Legends, Jewish, Mythology, Jewish
...built, and will set it on the tops of four mountains: Mount Sinai, Mount Tabor, Mount Carmel, and Mount Hermon. Then the Temple...Temple built on five mountains: Lebanon, Moriah, Tabor, Carmel, and Hermon. Here it is the Temple on top...
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journal articles on: Tabor Mount  - 50 results

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Raphael's Transfiguration as Visio-devotional Program
Journal article by Christian K. Kleinbub; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 90, 2008
Subjects: Art, Religion, Theology
...John with him to the top of Mount Tabor, manifests himself in...apostles who did not climb Tabor with Christ failed to heal...when Christ descends from Tabor with the three to rejoin the...thus the nine apostles below Tabors summit fail to see Christ above...rises perpendicularly from Tabors inclined summit. Seen in this...the three apostles on top of Tabor, making the former appear...
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Oscar Romero's Theology of Transfiguration
Journal article by Margaret R. Pfeil; Theological Studies, Vol. 72, 2011
Subjects: Archbishops--Records and correspondence, Christian theology--Analysis, Romero, Oscar--Records and correspondence, Salvadoran history--Religious aspects, Sermons--Analysis
...led Peter, James, and John down Mount Tabor and into the paschal mystery, Romero...As Jesus led the way from Mt. Tabor to Jerusalem and then to Calvary...kind of bajada, Jesus descent from Mount Tabor for the journey to Jerusalem...
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Exegesis of Biblical Theophanies in Byzantine Hymnography: Rewritten Bible?
Journal article by Bogdan G. Bucur; Theological Studies, Vol. 68, 2007
Subjects: Biblical hermeneutics--Analysis, Byzantine literature--Analysis, Hymns--Analysis
...Constantinople, and the monastic community of Mount Athos--over a period ranging from...once spoke through symbols to Moses on Mount Sinai, saying, "I am He who is" Exod 3:14 was transfigured today upon Mount Tabor before the disciples ... (39...
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National Icons and Personal Identities in Three Israeli Autobiographies
Journal article by Michael Keren; Biography, Vol. 27, 2004
Subjects: Allon, Yigal--Criticism and interpretation, Autobiographies--Criticism and interpretation, Dayan, Moshe--Criticism and interpretation, My Father's House (Book)--Criticism and interpretation, Rabin, Yitzhak--Criticism and interpretation, Story of My Life (Book)--Criticism and interpretation, The Rabin Memoirs (Book)--Criticism and interpretation
...joined in an everlasting bond, Kefar Tabor. That was his dream of dreams...length the enchanting scenery of Kefar Tabor--its luxuriant vegetation, wild...birds. He tells of his climbs on Mount Tabor, his explorations of the land by...
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A Spiritual Meditation on the Assembly Theme: God, in Your Grace, Transform the World
Journal article by I Patriarch Bartholomew; The Ecumenical Review, Vol. 58, 2006
Subjects: Meditation--Analysis, Meditation--Methods
...grace of God, we bring to mind the illuminating scene on Mount Tabor, as recorded in the Synoptic Gospels. There, our Lord...Silence is a mystery of the world to come." (3) On Mount Tabor, the disciples are blessed with a "sudden" insight...
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magazine articles on: Tabor Mount  - 60 results

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This Cloud Had a Silver Lining: The Washington Opera Has Revived the Improbable Story of Horace and 'Baby' Tabor
Magazine article by T.L. Ponick; Insight on the News, Vol. 13, February 10, 1997
Subjects: Tabor, Baby Doe--Biography, Tabor, Horace--Biography, The Ballad of Baby Doe (Opera)--Production and direction, Washington Opera--Production and direction
...of the richest in Colorado. Tabor built an opera house, cast...West, Horace and Baby Doe Tabor and their times were brought...Metropolitan Opera veteran, as the Tabors, with mezzo Phyllis Pancella...Placido Domingo, who intends to mount an American opera every season...hamlet of Holland, where Horace Tabor was born in 1830. A journeyman...
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Christus Victor
Magazine article by Mark Richard Barna; World and I, Vol. 15, July 2000
Subjects: Christianity--History, Jesus Christ--Behavior
...knowing" the Uncreated Light that Christ experienced on Mount Tabor. Though the essence of God is unknowable, God can be...whole being showed with Light while he prayed on Mount Tabor. Normally, the intellect serves the body; you need only...
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Hallowed Ground: A First Experience of the Holy Land
Magazine article by Cullen Murphy; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 276, December 1995
Subjects: Excavations (Archaeology)--Israel, Israel--Description and travel
...was in the Jezreel Valley, beneath Mount Gilboa, that King Saul fell upon...the Philistines. A few miles from Mount Gilboa is the Spring of Harod, where...Midianites. Visible to the north is Mount Tabor, below whose slopes the prophet...
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Ago Pipe Organ Encounters 2010
Magazine article; The American Organist, Vol. 44, December 2010
...eleven churches graciously offered the use of their pipe organs for lessons and classes: St. Andrews Lutheran, Mount Tabor Lutheran, Good Shepherd Lutheran, St. Pauls Lutheran, Good Shepherd Episcopal, St. Martins Episcopal, Centennial...
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Word Fugitives
Magazine article by Barbara Wallraff; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 293, May 2004
...Atlanta, suggested qualmaraderie Zach Wechsler, of Los Angeles, proposed fietanoguestaphobia. Drew Slatton, of Mount Tabor, New Jersey, wrote, "This annoying little fear, which manifests itself as a hole in the pit of ones stomach, is...
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newspaper articles on: Tabor Mount  - 146 results

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Waldemar Tabor of Mount Prospect
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), May 25, 2008
Subjects: Tool and die industry
Waldemar Tabor of Mount Prospect. The visitation for Waldemar Tabor, 80, will be from 4 to 9 p.m. Tuesday, at Friedrichs...May 23, 2008, at Rainbow Hospice in Park Ridge. Mr. Tabor was a retired tool and die maker for Admiral Tool Die...
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Lightning Strikes Leave Viewers in Dark on Neighbours; Television Blackout Caused by Summer Storm Taking out Mount Tabor Transmitter
Newspaper article; Daily News (Warwick, Australia), March 5, 2011
Subjects: Communications equipment, Storm damage, Telecommunications equipment, Television viewers
...Caused by Summer Storm Taking out Mount Tabor Transmitter. Byline: JENNA CAIRNEY...on after lightning hit the Mount Tabor transmitter on Wednesday, leaving...Services are on their way to the Mount Tabor tower. Cpounds sterlingWe had been...
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Tennis Pro Tries Hand at Property; New 74-Lot Mount Tabor Development Underway As:
Newspaper article; Daily News (Warwick, Australia), December 20, 2008
...Tries Hand at Property; New 74-Lot Mount Tabor Development Underway As:. Byline...approved by council. It adjoins Mt Tabor and is close to St George Springs...with such subdivisions as the Mt Tabor development, Freestone Heights...
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Mikes Switched on for a Double; Stoute, Tabor Set for Classic Encore
Newspaper article by Garry Owen; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), June 7, 1997
...Switched on for a Double; Stoute, Tabor Set for Classic Encore. by...Big-hitting owner Michael Tabor plays his cards close to his...around elsewhere and Pat Edderys mount Silver Patriarch proved he stayed...comfortably holds Frankie Dettoris mount Bold Demand on his three lengths...
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Bookies Fear Tabor
Newspaper article by Garry Owen; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), August 28, 1997
Bookies Fear Tabor. by Garry Owen Monster gambler Michael Tabors Plaisir dAmour is plotting another horror story for quivering...10 winners on the trot at Worcester. The jockeys only mount of the day, General Glow, was well beaten behind Palamon...
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encyclopedia articles on: Tabor Mount  - 1 result

 
 
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Tabor, Mount
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
TABOR, MOUNT 1,929 ft (588 m) high, N Israel, in Galilee. Ruins of an ancient stronghold crown its summit. Mt. Tabor is surrounded by growing Israeli towns and settlements...


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