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    Antoine Augustin Calmet, O.S.B. (French: [ɑ̃twan oɡystɛ̃ kalmɛ]; 26 February 1672 – 25 October 1757), a French Benedictine monk, was born at Ménil-la-Horgne...
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    monk named Antoine Augustin Calmet, an exegete and an 18th-century Lorraine scholar of the Benedictine Order; also known as Dom Calmet. The work was published...
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    from Assyria around 655 BC. Numerous theologians, including Antoine Augustin Calmet, suspect that the ultimate goal of the western campaign was for the...
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    folklore, many assert that revenant is a generic term for the undead. Augustin Calmet conducted extensive research on the topic in his work titled Traité...
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  • known for claiming demonic possession at the age of 22. According to Augustin Calmet, Martha was the daughter of a weaver in Romorantin who claimed to have...
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    ritual Poles in mythology Lived religion Elite religion Major theorists Augustin Calmet Akbar S. Ahmed Talal Asad Joseph Campbell Mary Douglas Émile Durkheim...
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    summoned hears the voice but fails to see anything. According to Antoine Augustin Calmet, writing in the 18th century: The Jews of our days believe that after...
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    on magic, vampires, and the apparitions of spirits written by Dom Augustin Calmet entitled Traité sur les apparitions des esprits et sur les vampires...
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    Maimonides Adi Shankara Thomas Aquinas William of Ockham Early modern Augustin Calmet René Descartes Blaise Pascal Desiderius Erasmus Baruch Spinoza Nicolas...
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    Lechery" in the 16th-century romance Friar Rush. The French Benedictine Augustin Calmet equated his name with a fine dress. The 1409 Lollard manuscript titled...
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    ritual Poles in mythology Lived religion Elite religion Major theorists Augustin Calmet Akbar S. Ahmed Talal Asad Joseph Campbell Mary Douglas Émile Durkheim...
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  • Maimonides Adi Shankara Thomas Aquinas William of Ockham Early modern Augustin Calmet René Descartes Blaise Pascal Desiderius Erasmus Baruch Spinoza Nicolas...
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    instead awarded to Canon Jean Mignon, a nephew of Monsieur Trincant. Augustin Calmet, among others, has compared this case to the pretended possession of...
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    ritual Poles in mythology Lived religion Elite religion Major theorists Augustin Calmet Akbar S. Ahmed Talal Asad Joseph Campbell Mary Douglas Émile Durkheim...
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    ritual Poles in mythology Lived religion Elite religion Major theorists Augustin Calmet Akbar S. Ahmed Talal Asad Joseph Campbell Mary Douglas Émile Durkheim...
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  • (Choba) in chapter 4 or Χωβαι (Chobai) in chapter 15. Both Antoine Augustin Calmet and George Leo Haydock identified this as Hobah, and this identification...
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    to the 18th century, although some claim it to be from the 1450s) Augustin Calmet, Treatise on the Apparitions of Spirits and on Vampires or Revenants...
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    Eternal, followed in October 2011. Del Toro cites writings of Antoine Augustin Calmet, Montague Summers and Bernhardt J. Hurwood among his favourites in...
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  • Maimonides Adi Shankara Thomas Aquinas William of Ockham Early modern Augustin Calmet René Descartes Blaise Pascal Desiderius Erasmus Baruch Spinoza Nicolas...
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    ritual Poles in mythology Lived religion Elite religion Major theorists Augustin Calmet Akbar S. Ahmed Talal Asad Joseph Campbell Mary Douglas Émile Durkheim...
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  • Shaftesbury, English philosopher and politician (d. 1713) 1672 – Antoine Augustin Calmet, French monk and theologian (d. 1757) 1677 – Nicola Fago, Italian composer...
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    the convent of Loudun were part of a case of collective hysteria. Augustin Calmet, among others, compared this case to the pretended possession of Martha...
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    Brewster. pp. 192ff. Augustin Calmet (1832). Dictionary of the Holy Bible by Charles Taylor. Holdsworth and Ball. pp. 604–605. Calmet, Augustin (1832). Dictionary...
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