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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The study of the history, languages, and cultures of the Semitic peoples.
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- noun The study of the
Semitic languages, cultures and peoples.
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Examples
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If these two populations are unrelated, then either the Semitics were the original inhabitants of the land and the Hurrians arrived and dominated the region, or the
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That same blend are Semitics aka Jews so the bible and Native Indians Xphirience: A New Kind of Meditation
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I have never seen anti-Semitism used to refer to Arabs, Ethiopians, or other Semitics peoples, except by people who are remarking that the term, does in fact, refer to Arabs as well.
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At the age of twenty-two, Trude completed a doctorate in Semitics, archaeology and philosophy.
Personal Information for Trude Weiss-Rosmarin Jewish Women's Archive 2010
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At the age of twenty-two, Trude completed a doctorate in Semitics, archaeology and philosophy.
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Hadassah had its origins in study circles organized by Emma Leon Gottheil, the wife of Richard Gottheil, an ardent Zionist and Columbia University professor of Semitics.
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Or let reality interfere with his Anti-Semitics illusions.
Bishop Will Read Up On Auschwitz, But May Not Recant - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2009
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In 1931, at age twenty-two, she completed her doctorate in Semitics, archaeology and philosophy at the University of Würzburg.
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Most of the earliest professors of Semitics and later of Jewish history acquired their expertise through their study for the rabbinate, a profession closed to women in America until 1972.
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They had no empowering explanation as to why they were losing their farms or what they could do and that became fertile ground (no pun intended) for politics of hatred: Posse Comatatas and some of the precursors to the armed militia, anti-Semitics, racists and all the rest.
Jonathan Tasini: Remembering Paul Wellstone--Our Collective Loss Five Years Ago 2008
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