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    William Whiston (9 December 1667 – 22 August 1752) was an English theologian, historian, natural philosopher, and mathematician, a leading figure in the...
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  • Whiston may refer to: Whiston, Merseyside Whiston, Northamptonshire Whiston, South Staffordshire Whiston, Staffordshire Moorlands Whiston, South Yorkshire...
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    Whiston is a town and civil parish within the Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley in Merseyside, England. Previously recorded within the historic county...
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    the Jews or History of the Destruction of Jerusalem. Translated by William Whiston. Project Gutenberg. Retrieved 19 February 2016. The city was built...
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    A New Theory of the Earth is a book written by William Whiston, in which he presents a description of the divine creation of the Earth and a posited global...
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    that Newton was never known as an Arian during his lifetime, it was William Whiston, an Arian, who first argued that "Sir Isaac Newton was so hearty for...
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    account of Flavius Josephus in Antiquities of the Jews was translated by William Whiston. An account of John the Baptist is found in all extant manuscripts...
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    Translated by William Whiston. Josephus (1737b) [c. 94 AD]. "Chapters XIX–XX". Antiquities of the Jews. Translated by William Whiston. Plutarch (1923)...
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    needed] One of the best known translations of this work was provided by William Whiston in 1737, which has been in print continuously since then. The Loeb...
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    of a near-miss by a comet. The issue was taken up in more detail by William Whiston, a protégé of and popularizer of the theories of Isaac Newton, who...
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  • Genuine Works of Flavius Josephus the Jewish Historian. translated by William Whiston. London. Josephus (1737) [93]. "Antiquities of the Jews". The Genuine...
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    manuscript is widely regarded today as having been a forgery. Historian William Whiston stated in his book A New Theory of the Earth that Noah, who is to be...
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  • Arianism, with which the names of Samuel Clarke, Benjamin Hoadly, William Whiston and Isaac Newton are associated. To quote the Encyclopædia Britannica's...
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    where humans existed alongside now extinct megafauna. Writers such as William Whiston (A New Theory of the Earth, 1696) and Henry Morris (The Genesis Flood...
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    Ebionites. The other popularly proposed connection is that mentioned by William Whiston in his 1794 edition of Josephus, where he notes that we learn from...
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    Lodge's 1602 translation (The Tragic History of the Jews), followed by William Whiston's 1760s translation (The Wars of the Jews). On the Jewish side, Josephus...
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    made by a Canaanite craftsman named Hiram. An explanatory note by William Whiston on paragraph 6 of the same chapter, explains this as agreeing with...
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    Post-Reformation Arians such as William Whiston often held a view of the incarnation in keeping with the personal pre-existence of Christ. Whiston considered the incarnation...
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    of the Destruction of Jerusalem, by Flavius Josephus, translated by William Whiston, Project Gutenberg, Book IV, Chapter 7, paragraph 2. Flavius Josephus...
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    Retrieved 2012-05-02. The Works of Flavius Josephus, Translated by William Whiston [1] HOW CYRUS, KING OF THE PERSIANS, DELIVERED THE JEWS OUT OF BABYLON...
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    was born on 21 November 1976 in Blackpool and is the son of Marj and William Whiston, he still lives in Blackpool. He started ice skating at the age of...
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    Terrae sanctae", 139 Josephus, The Jewish War 7.6.6. (Greek text) William Whiston, the translator of Josephus' works into English, thought that Josephus'...
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    Archived from the original on 18 June 2011. Retrieved 19 June 2011. William Whiston (1998). The Complete Works of Josephus. T. Nelson Publishers. ISBN 978-0785214267...
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    account of Flavius Josephus in Antiquities of the Jews was translated by William Whiston. The liturgical commemoration of the Beheading of St. John the Baptist...
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    96 AD]. "Chapters XVIII". Antiquities of the Jews. Translated by William Whiston. Harvard University Press. Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (1914) [c. AD...
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    Josephus. Antiquities of the Jews. 2.6.1., Perseus Project AJ2.6.1, . William Whiston comments that Simeon was chosen as a pledge for the sons of Israel's...
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  • was first published in a translation of Josephus' works by William Whiston. As Whiston's translation is in the public domain, it appears in many present-day...
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    Josephus, Complete and Unabridged, New Updated Edition (Translated by William Whiston, A.M.; Peabody Massachusetts:Hendrickson Publishers, 1987; Fifth Printing:Jan...
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    the Jews . Translated by Whiston, William – via Wikisource. Maier, Paul L., ed. (1999). "Appendix: Dissertation 6 (by Whiston)". The New Complete Works...
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  • William Whiston. London. Josephus (1737) [75]. "Wars of the Jews". The Genuine Works of Flavius Josephus the Jewish Historian. translated by William Whiston...
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