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  1. A play about love in London has entranced New Yorkers

    When actor Charity Bedu-Addo first read the script for “Shifters” — an intimate, Black romance conceptualized by playwright…
    #EuropeSays #Britain #Europe #EU #London #Bedu-Addo #BenedictLombe #BlackBritish #CharityBedu-Addo #CNN #DanielEzra #Dre #EmmaleeReed #Ezra #Lombe #LynetteLinton #TheNotebook
    europesays.com/britain/118911/

  2. I was delighted to come across the suggestion that Sheshbazzar in #Ezra and 5 is Jeconiah's son Shenazzar in 1 #Chronicles 3:18. Collins' Introduction mentions it in passing, but says they are two different names. But are they? Or is one just a scribal error?

    The difference is two letters: ששבצר vs. שנאצר.

    LXX 1 Esdras has a mixed form Σαναβάσσαρος (=שנבצר) in 2:11, 14; 6:17, 19.

    1/?
    #HebrewBible #TextualCriticism

  3. Random observation:
    The name of the Persian king Artahshasta (Artaxerxes) is spelled
    ארתחששתא
    in Ezra 4 and 6 (five times) but spelled
    ארתחשסתא
    in Ezra 7-8 (five times). If sin and samekh were pronounced the same at that point, I would expect interchanging, not perfect division.
    #HebrewBible #Ezra

  4. Using full-body MRIs, Ezra can now detect 11 cancers in men and 13 in women - When Ezra first launched about six months ago, the company was using magnetic resonance imaging mach... more: feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcr #nationalinstituteofhealth #serialentrepreneur #machinelearning #credoventures #sanfrancisco #unitedstates #estherdyson #co-founder #losangeles #soundcloud #insurance #physician #medicine #disease #newyork #cancer #ezra #fda #gal #mri #tc