10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SHEEPSHEARING»
Discover the use of
sheepshearing in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
sheepshearing and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
The time of agricultural production appears in The Winter's Tale as an extended
celebration of the sheepshearing festival. It is clear that this sheepshearing is a
good deal more than a piece of colorful folklore. The wealthy shepherd who ...
Stephen Orgel, Sean Keilen, 1999
The time of agricultural production appears in The Winter's Tale as an extended
celebration of the sheepshearing festival. It is clear that this sheepshearing is a
great deal more than a piece of colorful folklore. The wealthy shepherd who ...
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Perspectives on Hebrew Scriptures II
BEYOND THE BARLEY HARVEST: FEASTING AND SHEEPSHEARING IN GEN.
38, 1 SAM. 25 AND 2 SAM. 13 7.1 SHEEPSHEARING Like the barley harvest, the
time of sheepshearing is an agricultural event marked by hard work and ...
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American Work-Sports: A History of Competitions for ...
“The raising of fine wool for cloth implied domestic self-sufficiency and the
beginnings of a competitive trade base for agriculturalists.”36 As a work-sport,
American sheapshearing contests have a 200-year history. Sheepshearing is a
simple, ...
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Folk-lore of Shakespeare
The pudding spoken of by Prince Henry often accompanied the ox, as we find in
a ballad written in 1658: Sheepshearing Time commences assoonasthe warm
weather is sofar settledthat the sheep may,without danger, lay aside their winter ...
Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer, 2013
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Strong Women of Biblical Times
During the time that David and his six hundredmenwerein the wilderness hiding
from Saul, the season came for sheepshearing. ThemajorityofNabal's men
werehelping to shear his sheep,while afew shepherds remainedinthefield
withtheherd.
Kathryn Charles Ph.D., 2011
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More Than Meets the Ear: Discovering the Hidden Contexts of ...
the sheepshearing festival and that this contributed to his failure to recognize
Tamar.62 In that sense, his failure to recognize Tamar could be compared to the
inebriated Jacob, who fails to recognize his substituted bride in Gen 29:22-25.
Victor Harold Matthews, 2008
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Farmer Boy: Little House #3
SheepShearing. Now the meadows andpastureswerevelvetywith thick grass, and
the weather was warm. It was time to shear sheep. On a sunny morning Pierre
and Louis went with Almanzo into the pasture and they drove the sheep down to
...
Laura Ingalls Wilder, 2014
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Irony and Meaning in the Hebrew Bible
Jeffrey C. Geoghegan notes, in his article, “Israelite Sheepshearing and David's
Rise to Power” (Biblica 87 [2006]: 55–63), that “both sheepshearing incidents in
Samuel involve the demise of drunken participants” (Nabal in 1 Samuel 25 and ...
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Library of Congress Subject Headings
S4 7; UF Shearers, Sheep (Persons) Sheepshearers (Persons) BT Livestock
workers Sheep-shearing (lllay Subd Geog) [SF3 79; UF Shearing, Sheep
Sheepshearing — Strikes and lockouts USE Strikes and lockouts—
Sheepshearing Sheep ...
Library of Congress, 2002
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SHEEPSHEARING»
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sheepshearing is used in the context of the following news items.
Sheepshearing record set in Kent
Forget smashing records at the Olympics - a new UK sheep shearing record has been set in Kent. Joel Barton defleeced 537 Romney ewe lambs in nine hours, ... «Kent Online, Aug 12»
