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    Joseph Ernest Renan (French: [ʒozɛf ɛʁnɛst ʁənɑ̃]; 27 February 1823 – 2 October 1892) was a French Orientalist and Semitic scholar, writing on Semitic...
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    as defined by Ernest Renan's "plébiscite de tous les jours" ('everyday plebiscite') on the willingness to live together, in Renan's 1882 essay "Qu'est-ce...
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  • to: Ary Renan (1857–1900), French painter and activist Emile Renan (1913–2001), American operatic bass-baritone and stage director Ernest Renan (1823–1892)...
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    (French: Qu'est-ce qu'une nation ?) is an 1882 lecture by French historian Ernest Renan (1823–1892) at the Sorbonne, known for the statements that a nation is...
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    Ernest Renan was an armored cruiser built for the French Navy in the first decade of the 20th century. At the outbreak of World War I in August 1914, she...
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    whole to the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites in 1984. The historian Ernest Renan noted that "One can call Tyre a city of ruins, built out of ruins". Today...
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    king of the Parthians who slaughtered the Jews in Babylon. However, Ernest Renan, a 19th-century modern rationalist preterist, interpreted the First Horseman...
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    Mount Airy, and Hurt. The community of Renan was named in the second half of the 19th century after Ernest Renan, French philosopher and theologian. The...
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    nations. According to an essay by the 19th-century French philosopher Ernest Renan, a state has the right to exist when individuals are willing to sacrifice...
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  • Western world over the non-Western world. This concept was espoused by Ernest Renan in La Réforme intellectuelle et morale (1871), whereby imperial stewardship...
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    Deir Kânûn meant: the convent of the rule (canon). In the early 1860s, Ernest Renan noted here a decorated Sarcophagus. In 1875, Victor Guérin found the...
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    towards Jews in particular. Anthropologists of the 19th century such as Ernest Renan readily aligned linguistic groupings with ethnicity and culture, appealing...
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  • involved in the Parisian literary society which included Hippolyte Taine, Ernest Renan, and Gaston Paris. After a brief 6 years married, Darmesteter died on...
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    1968–1969) Tambourit (Saidah, 1977) Magharet Abloun (Aimé Péretié, 1855; Ernest Renan, 1864; Georges Contenau, 1920) Ayaa (William King Eddy, 1887; Osman Hamdi...
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    cultural hegemony upon society. For the Orientalist Ernest Renan and for the rationalist philosopher Ernest Gellner, high culture was conceptually integral...
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  • but as a form of nationalism it is contrasted with ethnic nationalism. Ernest Renan is often thought to be an early civic nationalist. Philosopher Hans Kohn...
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    Barkun 1997, p. 137: Ernest Renan, "Judaism as a Race and as Religion." Delivered on 27 January 1883. The source is Maksymilian Ernest Gumplowicz, Początki...
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  • "Testament d'Adam", composed of some Syrian fragments translated by Ernest Renan. "The Penitence of Adam and Eve" has been published in Latin by Wilhelm...
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    whatever the costs and sacrifices may be. Ernest Renan (October 17, 2010) [1882]. "The Nationalism Project - Ernest Renan Defining the Nation". - Delivered as...
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    usage. As a historiographical category, Averroism was first defined by Ernest Renan in Averroès et l'averroïsme (1852) in the sense of radical or heterodox...
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    centuries, from at least as early as 1808. In the late 19th century, Ernest Renan and other scholars speculated that the Ashkenazi Jews of Europe originated...
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  • common purpose (Ernest Renan's classic description in What is a Nation? (1882) as a voluntary partnership for a common endeavor). Renan argued that factors...
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    5-year-old brother Ernest Renan (he would later become a well known philosopher). After failing to open a girls' school in Tréguier, Renan moved to Paris...
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  • appear in any of the gospels or other historical documents. For example, Ernest Renan used the incident where Jesus rides a donkey during his triumphal entry...
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    Auguste Mariette in Egypt (1850–1854) Victor Langlois in Cilicia (1852) Ernest Renan with the Mission de Phénicie following the 1860 civil conflict in Mount...
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    Tempête as a target. Liberté, Démocratie, Patrie, and the armored cruiser Ernest Renan steamed into the Atlantic for training exercises on 2 June; while at...
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    cancelled by the World Bank in September 2020. Renan, Ernest (1864). Mission de Phénicie dirigée par Ernest Renan: Texte (in French). Impr. impériale. p. 506...
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    Mountains that separate Syria from Cilicia. In the 19th century, when Ernest Renan excavated the ruins of Ḥammon, the modern Umm al-Amad between Tyre and...
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    been previously surveyed by French orientalist and biblical scholar Ernest Renan who noted the presence of remnants of ancient ashlar masonry. The plot...
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    pondering theological and philosophical questions. The French philosopher Ernest Renan wrote a closet drama, Caliban: Suite de La Tempête (Caliban: Sequel to...
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