10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PARASANG»
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parasang in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Contemporary Halakhic Problems
on a voyage of at least one parasang in length.3 Shulhan Arukh, Orah Hayyim
219:7, rules that the same distance constitutes the minimum length of a voyage
necessitating birkat ha-gomel. A number of authorities, including Petah ha-Devir,
III, ...
A H&sar1 on the ground is a Parasang of one thousand steps of the two feet. 2. A
Parasang4 is a measure as much as a far-seeing man may look out, see a beast
of burden, and make known that *'/ is black or white. 3. And the measure of a ...
CHAPTER. 26. Measuring distances 1. A Hasar1 on the ground is a Parasang of
one thousand steps of the two feet. (2) A Parasang2 is a measure as much as a
far-seeing man may look out, see a beast of burden, and make known that it is ...
a hddra is the fourth part (6ahar-ewag) of a parasang ace. to Gr.Bd. 1134~5.
Referring to the circumference of Yima's Var which is 4 8aratu in Vd. 225, the
author of the Gr.Bd. states that its eight hdOras equal two parasangs (68 9 and 94
6~7 ...
Jacques Duchesne-Guillemin, 1978
I. A Hasar1 on the ground is a Parasang of one thousand steps of the two feet. 2.
A Parasang2 is a measure as much as a far-seeing man may look out, see a
beast of hurden, and make known that it is black or white. 3. And the measure of
a ...
Edward William West, 2012
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Travels in Greece, Palestine, Egypt, and Barbary, During the ...
Who would not hence conclude that the [lunch is no other than the parasang,
whether Persian, Babylonian, or whatever you may choose to call it ? Does not
the parseh comprehend the amount of 30 stadia, since the Jewish mile, the fourth
...
François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand, 1814
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Travels in Greece, Palestine, Egypt, and Barbary During the ...
This computation is con. formable in every respect with the precise definition of
the parasang given by Herodotus, Hesychius, and Suidas. On multiplying 75
fathoms three feet four inches, at which the stadium of ten to the mile is fixed, by
30, ...
François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand, 1812
8
Travels to Jerusalem and the Holy Land: Through Egypt
to compose the parasang, would make both amounts exactly equal. If even we
were to adopt in preference, the result of the comparison made by St. Epiphanius
of the Jewish mile, or Sabbath-day's journey, with six ordinary stadia, that is to
say ...
François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand, 1835
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Xenophon: Ethical Principles and Historical Enquiry
By comparing modern distances with Xenophon's gures on veriable sections,
French 1998: 20 calculates that his parasang must be equivalent to 4.561
kilometres. The parasang is a measure not perfectly understood and even in the
ancient ...
Fiona Hobden, Christopher Tuplin, 2012
10
Calmet's Great Dictionary of the Holy Bible: Scripture ...
Let us add that the names parseh and parasang have sufficient affinity to
countenance the idea of the identity of the measure ; and that, as the terms pros
and parseh have, in the ancient Oriental language, the Chaldee as well as Syriac
, ...
Augustin Calmet, Charles Taylor, Edward Wells, 1814
3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PARASANG»
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parasang is used in the context of the following news items.
We No Longer Live in the World of Talmudic Rabbis. What's a …
The distance from Sodom to Zoar, according to Rabbi Chanina, is five mil (a mil is a quarter of a parasang); ergo, five mil is the distance a man can walk between ... «Tablet Magazine, Sep 13»
Professor AKS Lambton
As an amateur jockey he rode Parasang (a parasang is a Persian unit of length) to victory in the Grand Steeple-Chase de Paris in 1888. «Telegraph.co.uk, Aug 08»
Father of History
... uses a number of different measurements: some vaguely familiar (cubit, fathom), most not (palm, pethron, stade, schoinos, and parasang). «New York Sun, Oct 07»
