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	concubine - Holman Bible Dictionary on StudyLight.org
		Having intercourse with the concubine of the ruler was an act of rebellion.
		When David returned to the palace, the ten concubines involved were sent away to live the rest of their lives in isolation (2 Samuel 20:3).
		A concubine, whether purchased (Exodus 21:7-11; Leviticus 25:44-46) or won in battle (Numbers 31:18), was entitled to some legal protection (Exodus 21:7-12; Deuteronomy 21:10-14), but was her husband's property.
	www.studylight.org /dic/hbd/view.cgi?word=Concubine&action=Lookup&search.x=23&search.y=11 (298 words)

	Levite's Concubine
		Concubine is second class wife; good for pleasure and the begetting of children but with no (or limited) inheritance rights.
		The concubine’s death was thus in a sense natural justice; the manner of it perhaps ‘poetic justice’.
		The Levite’s action in cutting up his concubine is extreme but certainly no less extreme than the injury done to her, to him and to the whole polity of Israel.
	www.articles.adsoft.org /levite's_concubine.htm (2985 words)

	China Empire: Chen Concubine's Tomb, Suzhou (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Chen Concubine is one of the concubines in Tang dynasty.
		Anyway Chen Concubine was the one who impressed by the emperor so she’s the one who was very lucky and after she'd got sick the emperor ordered every one to find the best doctor from everywhere to cure his mostly love concubine but after she'd sick for 3 days 3 nights she died finally.
		After the dead of Chen concubine for few years the emperor built the tomb for her, the tomb is in the middle of canal just to recall the good period of time in the past when they sailed along this canal.
	china-empire.blogspot.com /2005/10/chen-concubines-tomb-suzhou.html (443 words)

	Concubine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Concubine(s): A slave-girl or group of slave-girls, mostly prominent in ancient Asian or Middle-Eastern cultures A practice of the prestiged (most often male) rulers of ancient Asian or Middle Eastern cultures where women (usually dispossessed / inconvenienced or slave women) were "acquired" either from other rulers or regions conquered during war.
		Acquiring a concubine in ancient times was also reputedly even a commercial business with "slave merchants" in city slave-markets, who bought and sold concubines for a moderate price (via writ).
		Usually any girls born into the extended family were either arranged to be married-off into other families for reasons of extending or reinforcing political ties, or sold immediately into their own future of forced slavery.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Concubine.html (902 words)

	Concubine
		The term concubine generally signifies relationships where the male is the dominant partner, socially and economically.
		For a man to dream that he is in company with a concubine, forecasts he is in danger of public disgrace, striving to keep from the world his true character and state of business.
		Lilith, as Satan's wife or concubine or shakti, is an irresistible temptress: a kind of mermaid, whose lower body fuses into a serpent.
	www.experiencefestival.com /concubine (907 words)

	Judges 19:2 His concubine played the prostitute against him
		His concubine played the prostitute against him, and went away from him to her father's house to Bethlehem Judah, and was there the space of four months.
		And his concubine became angry with him, and she went away from him to her father's house at Bethlehem in Judah, and was there some four months.
		And his concubine played the harlot against him, and went away from him unto her father's house to Beth-lehem in Judah, and was there the space of four months.
	www.bible.cc /judges/19-2.htm (285 words)

	concubine - Easton's Bible Dictionary
		Concubine: In the Bible denotes a female conjugally united to a man, but in a relation inferior to that of a wife.
		The concubine was a wife of secondary rank.
		There are various laws recorded providing for their protection (Exodus 21:7; Deuteronomy 21:10-14) and setting limits to the relation they sustained to the household to which they belonged (Genesis 21:14; 25:6) They had no authority in the family, nor could they share in the household government.
	bible.christiansunite.com /est.cgi?action=Search&terms=concubine (129 words)

	Financial Review: Concubine, strategist, empress (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Orchid, or Yehonala, was part of the ruling Manchus; the daughter of an obscure official, she managed to become one of the emperor's many concubines - for a short while, his favourite.
		It is amazing that in the second half of the 19th century there still existed in China, behind the walls of Beijing's Forbidden City, a royal family that maintained 3000 concubines and 2000 eunuchs, where wrongdoers were routinely beheaded or flogged to death and, indeed, "sliced" or imprisoned in water up to their necks.
		She conspires against the other major concubines and maintains a careful, cordial relationship with her husband's number-one wife.
	afr.com /cgi-bin/newtextversions.pl?storyid=1065676091776&date=2004/02/20&pagetype=printer§ion=1053801326001&path=/articles/2004/02/19/1077072774975.html (779 words)

	Concubine - Smith's Bible Dictionary on StudyLight.org
		The latter were a supplementary family to the former; their names occur in the patriarchal genealogies, (Genesis 22:24; 1 Chronicles 1:22) and their position and provision would depend on the father’s will.
		A concubine would generally be either (1) a Hebrew girl bought of her father; (2) a Gentile captive taken in war; (3) a foreign slave bought; or (4) a Canaanitish woman, bond or free.
		To seize on royal concubines for his use was probably the intent of Abner’s act, (2 Samuel 3:7) and similarly the request on behalf of Adonijah was construed.
	www.studylight.org /dic/sbd/view.cgi?number=T1055 (229 words)

	Farewell, My Concubine: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In a story with very little concrete detail, the posture of the concubine, fallen, with one hand still on the threshold of the refuge from which she was expelled, is precisely designed to evoke tragic pity.
		If the pathos and horror with which we follow the story of the Levite and his concubine reaches its height with one authorial audience, the other audience in which we participate may be escaping into further detachment, as the joke begins to find an object other than the nameless Levite.
		For one authorial audience, the concubine is a "real" person; and this audience experiences the horror of her death and dismemberment.
	qcpages.qc.edu /ENGLISH/Staff/richter/concubine2000.html (3806 words)

	CONCUBINE :: 2006 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Concubine was founded in October 1998, by Joost Peeters and Jaap Melman.
		On the day Marcel announced he was going to quit the band, Concubine already found a new drummer, Niek van Lin.
		With their explosive live shows Concubine was part of the line-up at the Pinkpop festival 2001 and became second at the final of the “Grote Prijs van NL 2001”.
	www.concubine.nl /band.html (258 words)

	GospelMessage.com - Listings of the word CONCUBINE in the King James Version (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		And Timna was concubine to Eliphaz Esau's son; and she bare to Eliphaz Amalek: these [were] the sons of Adah Esau's wife.
		And her lord rose up in the morning, and opened the doors of the house, and went out to go his way: and, behold, the woman his concubine was fallen down [at] the door of the house, and her hands [were] upon the threshold.
		And Ephah, Caleb's concubine, bare Haran, and Moza, and Gazez: and Haran begat Gazez.
	www.gospelmessage.com /word_concubine.htm (580 words)

	Review: Farewell My Concubine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Farewell My Concubine spans fifty-three years, presenting the lives of two men against the historical backdrop of a country in upheaval.
		In 1924 Beijing, the youthful Douzi and Shitou are brought together under the thumb of the strict master of a small acting troupe.
		In childhood, the refrain of "I am a girl" is drilled into him so that he can effectively assume the role of the concubine in the opera but, as another character observes, the line between reality and acting has become blurred.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/f/farewell_conc.html (802 words)

	THE MYSTERY READER reviews: The Concubine’s Tattoo by Laura Joh Rowland
		The Concubine’s Tattoo is the fourth in a series of historical mysteries featuring the Sano Ichiro, the sosakan, Most Honorable Investigator of Events, Situations, and People, of Shogun Tokugawa Tsunayoshi in late 17th century Japan.
		Lady Harume, the shogun’s current favorite concubine, had carved a tattoo into a hidden area of her body just before she was stricken.
		The murder of one of the shogun’s concubines is a potential threat against the Tokugawa regime.
	www.themysteryreader.com /rowland-concubine.html (581 words)

	purevolume™ \| Concubine
		Over the past few years Concubine has been folded in many ways, but never lost their unique sound.
		With their explosive live shows Concubine was part of the line-up at the Pinkpop fesitval 2001 and became second at the final of the Grote Prijs van NL 2001.
		When they released their first full-lenght album Laughter days critics had nothing else but respect and they tought of Concubine as a potential band.
	www.purevolume.com /concubine (173 words)

	SUMMA THEOLOGICA: Was it ever lawful to have a concubine? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Now to have a concubine is against a precept of the decalogue, namely, "Thou shalt not commit adultery." Therefore it was never lawful.
		For there is no need to excuse Jacob's sons from mortal sin, since they were accused to their father of a most wicked crime (Genesis 37:2), and consented kill Joseph and to sell him.
		In so far as marriage is directed to its principal end, which is the good of the offspring, the union of wife and husband is indissoluble or at least of a lasting nature, as shown above (1), and in regard to this there is no dispensation.
	www.newadvent.org /summa/506505.htm (781 words)

	Concubine's Children (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This book was written by the granddaugther of a concubine, a second wife taken while the first wife was still in the picture.
		The grandfather took a concubine to be his wife in the New World while he worked to make a better living from his At Home family and to elevate his social status in his home community.
		The story tells of the struggles of being a "second family," of the depravation that had to go hand-in-hand with supporting two households, with the shame of having parents who were together for the convenience of sex and income, of the pain of being separated from siblings who were being raised by the first wife.
	www.aaabooksearch.com /Reviews/0140254277 (817 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Concubinage
		Thus Lia and Rachel, the first two spouses of Jacob, had the full social standing of wives, while Bala and Zelpha, both bondwomen, were his concubines, married for the purpose of bearing children for Rachel and Lia (Genesis 30:3, 9, 13).
		The meaning of the term in Roman law, and consequently in early ecclesiastical records and writings, was much the same; a concubine was a quasi-wife, recognized by law if there was no legal wife.
		She was usually of a lower social grade than her husband, and her children, though not considered the equals of those of the legal wife (uxor) were nevertheless termed natural (naturales) to distinguish them from spurious offsprings (spurii).
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/04207a.htm (644 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: Reviews :: Farewell My Concubine (xhtml)
		"Farewell My Concubine" is two films at once: An epic spanning a halfcentury of modern Chinese history, and a melodrama about life backstage at the famed Peking Opera.
		The story is almost unbelievably ambitious, using no less than the entire modern history of China as its backdrop, as the private lives of the characters reflect their changing fortunes: The toast of the nation at one point, they are homeless outcasts at another, and nearly destroyed by their political naivete more than once.
		Gong Li, as the prostitute, is sometimes glamorous, sometimes haggard, and always at the mercy of two men whose work together has defined their individual personalities.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19931029/REVIEWS/310290302/1023 (869 words)

	The Making of A Concubine
		She's a concubine, so her childrens has no right to my throne.
		To her and her family, being a concubine is a great honor, and a prestigious thing.
		In short, we want her to feel welcomed, that we don't feel jealous at all and that we are glad to have her as our husband's concubine.
	www.eunuch.org /Alpha/M/ea_165514The_Maki.htm (2858 words)

	BIG NECK RECORDS - CONCUBINE FORMING REVIEWS
		Buffalo's Concubine Forming use dirty guitars and a robot drumbox for their debut release and believe it or not, it's actually good.
		Concubine Forming are two guitars, a bass and a drum machine.
		Their brand of noise was a tad redundant, but “March of The Robots,” ironically the longest track on the disc was pretty danged good, and the unlisted cover of Billy Squier’s “The Stroke” was good for a laugh.
	www.bigneckrecords.com /oldfiles/concubinereviews.htm (1095 words)

	The Concubine : Book (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The concubine is a story only truly understood by an african who has lived in africa or has had the stories of Afica told to them.
		Elechi Amadi´s "Concubine" is the story of a lovely and kind woman whose husband was taken away from her very suddenly.
		In high school in Nigeria, "The Concubine" was one of those few literature textbooks students from all works of life (myself included), cherished.
	www.yezee.com /an/0435905562.html (663 words)

	Farewell to My Concubine: A Novel : Book (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		"Farewell My Concubine" is one of my favorite movies of all time, and I was looking forward to the novel immensely, but it disappointed on virtually every level.
		The movie, brilliant as it is, plays like a "montage of highlights" and cuts out a lot--as films generally have to do--like what the two heros were doing during the eleven years before they perform one last time.
		The way Dieyi almost fuses with his opera role is unsettling and elegant, albeit melodramatic, and it is written in a way that really evokes a sympathy and affection for the characters´ position.
	www.yezee.com /an/0688120202.html (685 words)

	Lone Pigeon: Concubine Rice: Pitchfork Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		An erstwhile member of the Beta Band who co-wrote some of that band's most accessible material (including the certifiable indie smash "Dry the Rain"), Anderson came down with health problems that resulted in him leaving the group, just before the critical whirlwind swept.
		Concubine Rice, his third full-length release and first with stateside distribution, sounds instantly familiar, like the most idiosyncratic, oddball moments on Beta Band's self-titled disc, but without any of the groove behind it.
		At its strongest, Concubine Rice is a tribute to the great sixties songwriters seen through the lens of an acid trip (or vice versa); at its worst-- and at its most frequent-- the disc wallows in pointless, unfocused, non-sequitur nonsense.
	www.pitchforkmedia.com /record-reviews/l/lone-pigeon/concubine-rice.shtml (581 words)

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		The prince’s life was now full of happiness, and so was the life of the imperial concubine, until the emperor decided to move his palace to Jehol -- many, many miles from Beijing.
		The next day, the servants heard her crying and looked into the well where the voice was coming from, but they would not help her or rescue her -- for fear of their master, the prince.
		When the prince’s temper cooled down the next day, he was told the fate of the imperial concubine, but it was too late to save her.
	www.buybooksontheweb.com /description.asp?ISBN=0-7414-1016-8 (559 words)

	Farewell My Concubine
		While still in training, the effeminate Douzi is chosen to play the transvestite role and the masculine Shitou is chosen to play the royal role in a ritualized play about a king and a concubine.
		The actors are so good at this performance that they become identified with these roles for their entire careers; through World War II, through the takeover by the Communists, through the insanity of the Cultural Revolution, they are known for their famous parts.
		It may not be the easiest movie to stomach, but "Farewell My Concubine" is a film that must be seen by every avid film fan.
	www.virtshops.com /dvds/reviews/B00002RAPT.html (772 words)

	deseretnews.com - Movie review: Farewell My Concubine \| Deseret Morning News Web edition
		Having shared the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival this past spring (with "The Piano"), "Farewell My Concubine" is a stirring, epic Chinese film that covers more than half a century in the flamboyant story of two opera stars and their turbulent relationship.
		Their lives also seem to parallel the ancient opera they most often perform, "Farewell My Concubine," about a king and military hero who is about to lose his kingdom to a rival, though he cares more about the concubine he loves.
		Meanwhile, in the background, the politics and culture of China are changing, especially when the country is invaded by the Japanese in 1937.
	www.deseretnews.com /movies/view/1,1257,565,00.html (426 words)

	Looking Unto Jesus - Was Keturah Abraham's wife or concubine? - Limestone Church of Christ, Kingston, Ontario, Standing ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		I'm interested to know what the questioner believes a concubine is. If I understand correctly what a concubine was, she would be a wife, but of secondary ranking.
		Sarah), the concubine was still considered to be a wife.
		Why would Keturah be referred to as a concubine, since Sarah had already passed on prior to Abraham marrying Keturah (Genesis 23:19).
	www.lookinguntojesus.net /ata20040208.htm (187 words)

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