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562 Anathoth

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JEUIMI ENCVCLUl'KUlA

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Auatolio

any liciiioiis sins tlicy cast ami he who is thus scpa-

society,

from them

niiinner: for as

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the

a iniseralile

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lie

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taken, and hy the customs lie hath eiiiraireil in. he is not at liberty to iiartake of that food that he meets with elsewhere, but is forced to eat grass, and to imnish his body with hunger till he jierish; for which reason thcv receive many of them again.

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A town in the territory of BenPalestine, included among the original Levitieal cities (.losli. .i. IS compare I Chron. vi. 00). It has been identified by Hobiiison with the modern village 'Anata. about two and one-half miles northeast of .Jerusalem. It was the liome of Abiathar (I Kings, ii. 20) and of .leremiali. the proi)het (.ler. J. 1). It was also i>robably one of the towns occupied by the exiles who nlurned from captivity. Its importance was due largely to its su|)eiior commanding elevated location. Se(! An.vtii. I. 51. P. ill



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See

M.

ANATOLIO (ANATOLI, ANTOLI, BEN ANATOLIO). JACOB BEN ABBA MARI BEN SIMSON (SIMEON; -...m.tiiMe, eoinipied.

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as

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by thv AmerJLan Colony, Jvnuwlein.)

tlicy are at their last gasp, out of compassion to them, as thinking the miseries they have endured till they came to the very brink of death to be sufficient punishment for tin; sins they had been guilty of." Compare with this I Cor. v. 5: "To deliver such a one unto Satan for the destruction of the Hesh. that the spirit may be sjived in the day of the Lord .Jesus, "and I Cor. .vi. 22: " Anathema. Ma ran atha." The older generations anathematized with the Ineflable Name, and therefore the curse was elTcctive: but later generations have forgotten the name, and the Anathema is of no effect (according to "Sefcr I.Iasidim,"S; f.>!)l). K.

ANATHOTH:

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VlKW OK MollKRN A.NATHOTH.

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when

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ANATOLI BEN DAVID

arc oauirht in

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562

southern French extraction, though the theory of Sleinselineider. following Zun/. that Marseilles was his native place, has been contested. Anatolio's literary activity was early stimulated by his learned as.soeiates and relations at Narbonne and Beziers. In fact, he distinguished himself so noInvited to tably that the emperor Frederick II., the most genial and enlightened monNaples by Freder- arch of the time, invited him to come to ick II. Naples, and, under the emperor's auspices, to devote himself to his studies, particularly to the rendition of scientific Arabic literature into the more acci'ssilile Hebrew language. Thus it was at Xai)les that Anatolio passed his most fertile period of literary iiroduction, and from that city were issued the nunieroiis translations bearing his name, Anatolio was the son-in-law ])ossibly also the brother-in-law of Samuel ilm Tibbon. the wellknown translator of .Miiiinonide.s. Moses b. Samuel ibn Tibbm fre(|uently refers to Anatolio as his unSamuel married cle, which makes it likely that Anatolio's sister, while Anatolio afterward married Owing to this intimate the dauirliterof the former.

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