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Sotai

(Encyclopedia)Sotai sōˈtāī, sōtāˈī [key], in the Bible, family that returned from the Exile. Ezra 2.55; Neh. 7.57. ...

Elnathan

(Encyclopedia)Elnathan ĕlnāˈthăn [key], in the Bible. 1 Grandfather of Jehoiachin. 2 Leader in Jerusalem in the time of Jehoiakim. 3 Three emissaries of Ezra. ...

Talmon

(Encyclopedia)Talmon tălˈmŏn [key], in the Bible, family of temple doorkeepers. The Talmon in chapter 12 of Nehemiah is probably the same as Telem, a gatekeeper mentioned in Ezra. ...

Lee, David Morris

(Encyclopedia)Lee, David Morris, 1931–, American physicist, b. Rye, N.Y., Ph.D. Yale, 1959. Lee joined the faculty at Cornell in 1959, moving to Texas A&M Univ. in 2009. He was a co-recipient, with Douglas Os...

Ketterle, Wolfgang

(Encyclopedia)Ketterle, Wolfgang, 1957–, German physicist, Ph.D. Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, Garching, Germany, 1986. He has been a professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology since 1990. Kett...

Wieman, Carl Edwin

(Encyclopedia)Wieman, Carl Edwin, 1951–, American physicist, b. Corvallis, Oreg., Ph.D. Stanford, 1977. He was a professor at the Univ. of Colorado from 1984 to 2006. In 2007, he joined the Univ. of British Colum...

Hashum

(Encyclopedia)Hashum hāˈshəm [key], in the Bible. 1 Family that returned with Zerubbabel, several of whom had foreign wives. 2 Companion of Ezra at his reading of the Law. ...

Ebed

(Encyclopedia)Ebed ēˈbĕd [key], in the Bible. 1 Father of Gaal. 2 One who returned with Ezra. ...

Richardson, Robert Coleman

(Encyclopedia)Richardson, Robert Coleman, 1937–2013, American physicist, b. Washington, D.C. Ph.D. Duke Univ., 1966. Richardson was a professor at Cornell from 1968 until his death; he was the university's first ...

Ariel, in the Bible

(Encyclopedia)Ariel āˈrēĕl [key], in the Bible, aide of Ezra. In two other passages AV calls them “lionlike men” (“two ariels of Moab” in RV). Nothing is known of them. Ariel is also used as a symbolic ...