Rebecca : one of the heroines of Sir Walter Scott’s famous novel Ivanhoe.
... will meet no living woman there. Even novelists of genius stop short at the outside: they cannot find their way into the soul. Here Fielding fails us; Scott's women are a mere gallery of wax figures, Rebecca herself being no more than a highly coloured puppet; even in Thackeray the real women are only three or four. But the supreme dramatic genius has found out this secret of femineity. Shakespeare had ...
... Chaldeans". The city is first mentioned in a work dated to around 150 B.C. The Israelite tradition prefers Haran in north-west Mesopotamia as the original land of the Patriarchs. It is from there that Rebecca is brought to wed Isaac. Nothing, therefore, prevents Abraham's departure from being earlier, c. 2085 B.C., and not linked to the fall of Ur. From the Old Testament Sethna turns to the New ...
... Lokenath Brahamachari very often" and had identified him from his photo. 145. These words within brackets were added by Sri Aurobindo. 146. (For the non-biblical reader:) Esau, son of Isaac and Rebecca, elder twin brother of Jacob to whom he sold his birthright for a mess of red pottage. Traditional founder of Edomites. Jacob is the traditional founder of Israel. 147. The following passage within ...
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