Benjamin
Benjamin (Hebrew: בִּנְיָמִין, Binyamin Binyāmîn) was the last-born of Jacob's twelve sons, and the second and last son of Rachel in Jewish, Christian and Islamic tradition. He was the founder of the Israelite Tribe of Benjamin. In the Biblical account, unlike Rachel's first son, Joseph, Benjamin was born in Canaan. In the Qur'an, Benjamin is referred to as righteous young child, who remained with Jacob when the older brothers plotted against Joseph.
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... English immigrant to Massachusetts Bay Colony, as follows William Whitney Rice, son of Benjamin Rice (1784–1847), son of Caleb Rice (1755–1809), son of Benjamin Rice (1722–1796), son ...
... Benjamin (Ben) Jennings Caddy (November 1881 - 13 March 1955) was a militant trade unionist who is regarded as the doyen of the trade union movement in South Africa ... Persondata Name Caddy, Benjamin Alternative names Short description Date of birth 1881 Place of birth Date of death 13 March 1955 Place of death ...
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... Killua castle and its surrounding lands were granted around 1667 to Benjamin Chapman, a captain in Cromwell's army, having been confiscated from the Knights Hospitallers of St ... passed to his elder son, William, and on William's death in 1734 to his son Benjamin ... Benjamin died in 1779 and was succeeded by his son Benjamin, who was created a baronet ...
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- (noun): (Old Testament) the youngest and best-loved son of Jacob and Rachel and one of the twelve forebears of the tribes of Israel.
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“Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.”
—Walter Benjamin (1892–1940)
“All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.”
—Walter Benjamin (1892–1940)
“Reminiscences, even extensive ones, do not always amount to an autobiography.... For autobiography has to do with time, with sequence and what makes up the continuous flow of life. Here, I am talking of a space, of moments and discontinuities. For even if months and years appear here, it is in the form they have in the moment of recollection. This strange form—it may be called fleeting or eternal—is in neither case the stuff that life is made of.”
—Walter Benjamin (1892–1940)