The preface says Huilin's wordbook " is as vast as the sea, embracing numerous streams and therefore profound, and is as bright as a mirror, reflecting tirelessly the objects in the world " ( tr.
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His # 2 choice ( after the Acts of the Apostles ) is " The Folksinger's Wordbook " by Irwin Silber, a huge collection of " hymns, blues, murder ballads, miner's laments-the whole culture ."
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These proto-dictionaries facilitated the development of Chinese " xi?oxu?" \ x [ " minor learning; pre-modern'linguistics'; philology " ( which now means " primary school " ), and laid the academic foundation for the compilation of wordbooks, vocabularies, and dictionaries ( tr.
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In the Western Han Dynasty ( 206 BCE-25 CE ), the teaching of characters was emphasized, and scholars compiled other character glossaries and wordbooks besides the " Jijiupian ", for instance, the " Fanjiangpian " �Q \ ?{ " The General Primer " by Sima Xiangru and " Yuanshangpian"
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The Hebrew word " Hesed " translated in the LXX by " Eleos " carries the meaning roughly equivalent to pity in the sense of compassion, mercy and loving-kindness . ( See The Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament, 698a . ) By the nineteenth century, two different kinds of pity had come to be distinguished, which we might call " benevolent pity " and " contemptuous pity " ( see Kimball ).
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He published at least 84 articles in eight different encyclopedias and dictionaries on a wide range of topics : " Nelson's Illustrated Bible Dictionary ", " Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament ", " Baker's Dictionary of Theology ", " Wycliffe Bible Encyclopedia ", " Anchor Bible Dictionary ", " Baker's Dictionary of Christian Ethics ", " Zondervan Pictorial Encyclopedia of the Bible ", and " Encyclopedia of the Stone-Campbell Movement ".
