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[Greneland / Wiches Lande]: Geographicus Rare Antique Maps

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This is a superb, scarce map of Svalbard, printed in 1744. The mapping of the western portions of the archipelago - formerly known as Spitzbergen - is here very accurate, despite being erroneously labelled Greneland. In its earliest version, printed by Samuel Purchas, it was attributed to Thomas Edge, an English whaler and seal-hunter who made a number of voyages to the region, and after whom several features on the map are named. For more than a century, this was the most detailed map of the Arctic archipelago.
The Map The map is untitled, and the most prominent place name on the map is that for Greneland, which was the English term for the islands the Dutch then called Spitzbergen, here referring to Svalbard island itself. To the west of it is Prince Charles Island, now known as ....

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Covid Lev Paraoh: Did the Egyptian King Suffer from Coronavirus? | Everyday Jewish Living

No, I am not suggesting that the phrase “כבד לב פרעה” alludes to the disease Covid, a disease that only surfaced in 2019, despite my intentional, and admittedly deceptive, mistransliteration. However, suggesting that phrases and episodes in the Torah refer to specific medical conditions is a centuries-old pastime pursued by rabbis, scholars and physicians, Jew and non-Jew
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3; Yaakov’s injury and limp due to hip dislocation?
4; Goliath’s poor peripheral vision and ultimate demise due to a pituitary tumor?
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This idea of utilizing medical knowledge for biblical interpretation has also been applied to the condition from which Paraoh suffered, though we have been conditioned otherwise. Since childhood we have been taught to explain the biblical phrases about Paraoh’s condition exclusively in a metaphorical fashion. The simple meaning (peshat) of the text however could reflect otherwise, as scholars have noted, and may indicate the presence ....

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