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Prophecy, Gastronomic Ghosts, and Oracular Flatulence: On the Substance of Spirit in Ancient Israel and Mesopotamia

Religions
In this contribution, I contend that the divine “spirit, wind” was conceived as moist, wet, and vaporous in nature in ancient Israel and Mesopotamia. I adduce support for this view from biological reality and from a number of biblical and cuneiform texts
Scott B. Noegel
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Kurdish as a Stateless Language in the U.S. [PDF]

Journal of the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages, 2021
This article discusses the status of Kurdish as a stateless language in the U.S. By using intersectionality as the theoretical framework, the article argues that the educational structures of power converge, at Kurds home countries and abroad, to create ...
Haidar Khezri
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Arabic Language Curriculum Development in Ma’had Umar Bin Al-Khattab Surabaya in Maintaining Middle Eastern Culture-based Educational Institutions.

Academia Open, 2021
Ma’had Umar Bin Al-Khattab Surabaya is an educational institution that concentrates on providing Arabic language education and islamic studies with an institutional style based on Middle Eastern Culture. This study aims to describe and analyze the development of the Arabic language curriculum and the achievement of Arabic curriculum development at MUBK
Luthfi Ans, Budi Haryanto
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A Note on Armenian hrmštk-el [PDF]

, 2014
The hapax *framaštaq in the Babylonian Talmud is a loan from a Middle Iranian slang word for the penis; from its base comes the common Armenian verb hrmštkel, "to shove in", which is not attested in Classical texts and might have had an obscene ...
Russell, James R.
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Massive migration from the steppe is a source for Indo-European languages in Europe

, 2015
We generated genome-wide data from 69 Europeans who lived between 8,000-3,000 years ago by enriching ancient DNA libraries for a target set of almost four hundred thousand polymorphisms. Enrichment of these positions decreases the sequencing required for
A Keller, A Seguin-Orlando, Alan Cooper, Aleksandr Khokhlov, Alissa Mittnik, Anna Szécsényi-Nagy, AW Briggs, AW Briggs, Bastien Llamas, C Der Sarkissian, C Gamba, C Renfrew, Christina Roth, Christos Economou, D Reich, David Anthony, David Reich, DH Alexander, DH Alexander, DM Behar, Dorcas Brown, DW Anthony, Eadaoin Harney, Eszter Bánffy, Fredrik Hallgren, G Brandt, G Hellenthal, Guido Brandt, H Li, Harald Meller, I Lazaridis, I Olalde, Iosif Lazaridis, J Czebreszuk, Joachim Wahl, Johannes Krause, JP Mallory, Kristin Stewardson, Kurt Werner Alt, M Kircher, M Lipson, M Meyer, M Raghavan, Manuel A. Rojo Guerra, Matthias Meyer, Michael Francken, Michael Kunst, N Patterson, N Rohland, N Rohland, N Rohland, Nadin Rohland, Nick Patterson, Nicole Nicklisch, NM Myres, Oleg Mochalov, P Bellwood, P Ralph, P Skoglund, P Skoglund, P Skoglund, PA Underhill, Pavel Kuznetsov, Q Fu, Q Fu, Q Fu, Qiaomei Fu, Rafael Garrido Pena, RE Green, Roberto Risch, S Purcell, S Sawyer, Sandra L. Pichler, Susanne Friederich, Susanne Nordenfelt, Swapan Mallick, T Lassmann, TV Gamkrelidze, Valery Khartanovich, Vayacheslav Moiseyev, W Haak, Wolfgang Haak   +81 more
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Livestock Tango: U.S. and Latin America Dance Together, but Who Will Lead?

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the competitiveness between Latin American and U.S. livestock and meat sectors. We employ a computable general equilibrium modeling framework to evaluate two scenarios: coordinated improvements in Latin American productivity, transport efficiency, and market access (Scenario I), and the minimum productivity gains required ...
Taís C. Menezes, Amanda M. Countryman, Dustin L. Pendell   +2 more
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WILL JAVANESE LANGUAGE BECOME EXTINCT? [PDF]

, 2015
Indonesia has so many ethnic groups whose languages are different from each other. There are some big ethnic groups; Javanese, Sundanese, and etc. Here, in this case, the writer only focuses on one of Indonesia’s ethnics and languages that is Javanese.
Permanasari, Pradnya
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Discontinuous spread of millet agriculture in eastern Asia and prehistoric population dynamics

Science Advances, 2019
Early millet-based farming facilitated exponential population growth and spread discontinuously across eastern Asia. Although broomcorn and foxtail millet are among the earliest staple crop domesticates, their spread and impacts on demography remain ...
C. Leipe, C. Leipe, Tengwen Long, E. Sergusheva, Mayke Wagner, P. Tarasov   +5 more
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Heterogeneity in Food Price Inflation Convergence Across the EU: Evidence From Club Dynamics and Structural Breaks

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines food price inflation rate convergence among EU27 Member States from 2005 to 2024, focusing on structural breaks, external shocks, and regional disparities. Using panel unit root tests and club convergence analysis, the findings reveal no overall convergence but identify multiple convergence clubs.
Tibor Bareith, Imre Fertő
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Weights and Measurement Units in Khotanese [PDF]

مجله مطالعات ایرانی, 2019
. Introduction There is not much information about the weights and measurement units that were used by Iranian people in ancient Iran. In the surviving texts of ancient Iranian languages, we do not find a lot of words that refer to weighing and measuring,
مجید طامه
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